Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Living In A Real World House Of Lies: How Do We Foreclose? / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
If you go to the corner of 8th Avenue and 42nd Street near Times Square in Manhattan, just down from the Wax Museum and around the corner from the bus station, and look up, you’ll see an oversized billboard for Showtime’s, fast -paced “House of Lies,” a new cable TV series that is more like a realistic docudrama about the world of hard-charging management consultants.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
A Bitter American Century / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Merrill
Why the United States decided to enter World War I against Germany in 1917, with hindsight, is impossible to fathom from a geopolitical point of view. The US as a nation had no stake in a victory by either side, no stake in the war’s origin. By the time the US entered the war it had already become clear the war would end in a stalemate if the players stayed the same. A stalemated European war would have had little effect on the US, just like the many previous European wars during US history.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Ignore the New CPI™ at Your Peril / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Paul Owen writes: The Corruption Price Index™ (CPI™)
Modern companies and organizations have a great need to quantify the processes and corruption level(s) of our current form of crony capitalist government. The Corruption Price Index™ (CPI™) does this. The CPI™ index will allow for prior planning to prevent poor performance. It will guarantee that you will not make major a faux pas when dealing with economic and legislative issues. Also as individual investors you will begin to understand why most of our major problems will never get fixed and why you must plan for the worst case scenario.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
America, Welcome to the Fourth Reich / Politics / US Politics
By: BATR
American Fascism did not start with World War II. Before Operation Paperclip, the codename under which the US intelligence and military services extricated scientists from Germany, during and after the final stages of the conflict, the annals of internal despotism were well established. With the open door policy for German engineering, the political ideology of state worship was bound to travel across the Atlantic.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Oil, Dollar Hegemony and Islam / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Francis A. Boyle writes: Little has changed in the imperialist tendencies of American foreign policy since the founding of the United States of America in seventeen eighty-nine. The fledgling United States opened the nineteenth century by stealing the continent of North America from the Indians, while in the process ethnically cleansing them and then finally deporting the pitiful few survivors by means of death marches (a la Bataan) to Bantustans, which in America we call reservations, as in instance of America's manifest destiny to rule the world.
Friday, January 13, 2012
The US Lusts To Rule the Globe, The Next War on Washington’s Agenda / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, “Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel and NATO) were initiated in May 2003.”
Washington has deployed missiles directed at Iran in its oil emirate puppet states, Oman and the UAE, and little doubt in the other US puppet states in the Middle East. Washington has beefed up Saudi Arabia’s jet fighter force. Most recently, Washington has deployed 9,000 US troops to Israel to participate in “war games” designed to test the US/Israeli air defense system. As Iran represents no threat unless attacked, Washington’s war preparations signal Washington’s intention to attack Iran.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
2012 – The Year Of Living Dangerously / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
“In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses and further emergencies. The core elements of these scenarios (debt, civic decay, global disorder) will matter more than the details, which the catalyst will juxtapose and connect in some unknowable way. If foreign societies are also entering a Fourth Turning, this could accelerate the chain reaction. At home and abroad, these events will reflect the tearing of the civic fabric at points of extreme vulnerability – problem areas where America will have neglected, denied, or delayed needed action.” – Strauss & Howe - The Fourth Turning - 1997
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The A-Z Of Occupation, Occupy Wall Street / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
Every social movement I have been involved with, or covering, develops invents its own language of liberation, its own alphabet, and its own buzzwords, rhetoric and discourse. Here are some of the key words I heard/retained in covering the Occupy Wall Street movement. I am sure there are many words, phrases, and slogans I overlooked, never heard or forgot. Send your favorites to: dissector@mediachannel.org.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Consumer Credit Advanced in the United States / Politics / US Politics
By: Asha_Bangalore
Consumer credit grew at an annual rate of 10.0% in November, inclusive of strong growth in revolving (+8.5%) and non-revolving credit (+10.7%). This is another metric that is indicative of improving economic conditions in the U.S. economy.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Russia Regime Change, Why Washington Wants ‘Finito’ with Putin / Politics / US Politics
By: F_William_Engdahl
Washington clearly wants ‘finito’ with Russia’s Putin as in basta! or as they said in Egypt last spring, Kefaya--enough!. Hillary Clinton and friends have apparently decided Russia’s prospective next president, Vladimir Putin, is a major obstacle to their plans. Few however understand why. Russia today, in tandem with China and to a significant degree Iran, form the spine, however shaky, of the only effective global axis of resistance to a world dominated by one sole superpower.
Monday, January 09, 2012
The Ultimate Consumer Protection / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
This week, partisan games in Washington reached a fevered pitch as Congress acted to prevent recess appointments, yet the administration made them anyway. Congress has been gaveling into session for less than a minute every three days for the express purpose of technically staying in session. The 40 second "pro forma" sessions may strike supporters of the President as obstructionist, but Congress was using its clear constitutional authority and playing by the rules. Frustrated, the President simply disregarded the Constitution, and appointed Richard Cordray as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Board, and Sharon Block, Richard Griffin, and Terence Flynn to the National Labor Relations Board anyway.
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Sunday, January 08, 2012
Who's Worse: The Nazis or the US Government? / Politics / US Politics
By: Jeff_Berwick
The word "nazi" and all of its requisite icons have been so sensationalized that naming your child "Adolf Hitler" results in having your baby taken away by the government... and drawing a swastika is still illegal in many countries, including Germany, Hungary, Poland and Brazil.
Yet, in so many ways, the US Government has surpassed the nazis in evil... the only difference is that they are much, much smarter at how they do it.
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
America in Desperate Need for a Revolution / Politics / US Politics
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
Rampant profiteering by Congress and greedy bankers is forcing us to weigh the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune against honesty and transparency - both of which are being trampled by crony capitalists in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
What's at stake is whether gross criminal activity and reckless disregard for the public will continue to be whitewashed by regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Federal Reserve, courts, and Congress, which encourage half-baked civil fraud charges followed by non-prosecution agreements and nickel-and-dime fines.
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
Getting Out Before the Gates Slam Shut on the U.S. Police State / Politics / US Politics
By: Casey_Research
(Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator) : L: Doug, a lot of readers have been asking for guidance on how to know when it's time to exit center stage and hunker down in some safe place. Few people want to hide from the world in a cabin in the woods while life goes on in the mainstream, but nobody wants to get caught once the gates clang shut on the police state the US is becoming. How do you know when it's time to go?
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Please Daddy-Cool Bomb Iran, Just One More War… And I Need The Money / Politics / US Politics
By: Andrew_Butter
The first really big irony is when “we” were trying to persuade that lunatic Khomeini to stop beating the living daylights out of “our good friend” Saddam Hussein, no matter how much sophisticated ordinance and poison gas we sold him, there were two conditions for the lunatic to stop:
1: Saddam Hussein had to go.
2: There had to be some approximation of democratic elections in Iraq.
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
The American Empire is Over, Brace for an Horrifying Decent / Politics / US Politics
By: Videos
Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"
"We have undergone, I think, in the last few decades a kind of slow motion coup d'état."
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
The Outlook for the New Year, Tyranny in the Forecast / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
This past year has not been a good one for the 99%, and the new year is likely to be even worse. This column deals with the outlook for liberty. The next will deal with the economic outlook.
The outlook for liberty is dismal. Those writers who are critical of Washington’s illegal wars and overthrow of the US Constitution could find themselves in indefinite detainment, because criticism of Washington’s policies can be alleged to be aiding Washington’s enemies, which might include charities that provide aid to bombed Palestinian children and flotillas that attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/24/us-israel-usa-flotilla-idUSTRE75N4A620110624
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Ron Paul: Debt Burden Threatens American Families / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week, as most Americans were celebrating the holidays with family and friends, the Obama Administration announced plans to seek yet another debt ceiling increase in the New Year. While some fiscal conservatives will try to block this increase, their efforts are designed to fail thanks to the procedure set up by the last debt ceiling negotiations. Congress would have to pass a joint resolution opposing the increase, which the president could simply veto. Thus, an additional $1.2 trillion on top of our already unsustainable debt is a foregone conclusion. Our Gross Domestic Product continues to contract and now stands at $14.5 trillion. The debt already far exceeds that and will soon hit the new ceiling of $16.39 trillion.
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Monday, January 02, 2012
Public Service Has Mutated Into Public Disservice / Politics / US Politics
By: Barry_Elias
I would consider running for Congress, because I do not want to be a career politician.
Public service should be analogous to the charitable tithing principle: a portion of one’s income and/or time is dedicated toward others that are less fortunate (e.g., 10 percent).
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Sunday, January 01, 2012
Ron Paul's Political Platform for America: A Critical Assessment / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Lendman
Compared to a rogue's gallery of Republican aspirants, supporters claim Paul looks good by comparison. Look again and think carefully about America in his hands.
True enough, he wants the Federal Reserve abolished. He calls it "dishonest, immoral, unconstitutional," and America's "great(est) threat to....security and prosperity."
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