Americas

• Global stocks, oil dip, but markets calm down as growth fears ease (Reuters)
• Greece cannot carry migrant burden on its own: PM Tsipras (Reuters)
• New Migrant Crisis Flares in Greece (WSJ)
• Qatar's BeIn Media buys U.S. film studio Miramax (Reuters)
• Nanny who beheaded Russian girl cites revenge for Putin's Syria strikes (Reuters)
• Elliott Management’s wager on Argentinian government bonds has yielded $2.4 billion (WSJ)
• Tesla's Getting More Rivals as VW Scandal Clouds Diesel Outlook (BBG)

Having "nailed it" with the feces-infused water for the Olympics, killed the golden goose of its economy, and unable to crackdown on widespread corruption, Brazil now has a 'great' idea to solve its utterly disastrous Zika epidemic... by zapping millions of male mosquitoes with gamma rays from drones to sterilise them.

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

In my archives there is a column or two that introduces the reader to John Perkins’ important book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

Submitted by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man.com's Pater Tenebrarum),

We are searching for an insight. Each time we think we see it… like the shadow of a ghost in an old photo… it gets away from us. It concerns the real nature of our money system… and what’s wrong with it. Here… we bring new readers more fully into the picture… and try to spot the flaw that has doomed our economy.

The Evil Empire Has The World In A Death Grip

Paul Craig Roberts