Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
China, The New Bin Laden, Orwell Wrote The Script / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
George Orwell, the pen name by which Eric Blair is known, had the gift of prophecy, or else blind luck. In 1949 in his novel, 1984, he described the Amerika of today and, I fear, also his native Great Britain, which is no longer great and follows Washington, licking the jackboot and submitting to Washington’s hegemony over England and Europe and exhausting itself financially and morally in order to support Amerikan hegemony over the rest of the world.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Why the West Is Attacking Gaddafi / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_S_Rozeff
Outside powers in the West stirred up and blessed the rebellion against Gaddafi. Through NATO and the UN, they are now aiding these same rebels.
They want to get rid of Gaddafi. They want him removed from power. This article explains why they want this.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Appeasers or Cold Warriors: Must America Confront China? / Politics / US Politics
By: Ian_Fletcher
My last article, a review of Eamonn Fingleton’s provocative (but hard to dismiss) book In the Jaws of the Dragon: America’s Fate Under Chinese Hegemony, has drawn enough comment that I feel I should respond.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Bin Laden Death Story Illustrates Americans Are Living In 1984 / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
The White House’s “death of bin Laden” story has come apart at the seams. Will it make any difference that before 48 hours had passed the story had changed so much that it no longer bore any resemblance to President Obama’s Sunday evening broadcast and has lost all credibility?
Monday, May 09, 2011
On the Elimination of Osama bin Laden / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week marked an important milestone in the war on terrorism for our country. Osama bin Laden applauded the 9/11 attacks. Such deliberate killing of innocent lives deserved retaliation. It is good that bin Laden is dead and justice is served. The way in which he was finally captured and killed shows that targeted retribution is far superior to wars of aggression and nation-building. In 2001 I supported giving the president the authority to pursue those responsible for the vicious 9/11 attacks. However, misusing that authority to pursue nation-building and remaking the Middle East was cynical and dangerous, as the past ten years have proven.
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Monday, May 09, 2011
The Perverted Celebration of the Government Death Squads / Politics / US Politics
By: Butler_Shaffer
Michael: My father is no different from any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay Adams: Do you know how naïve you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don’t have men killed.
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Sunday, May 08, 2011
The U.S. is the World's Greatest Purveyor of Violence / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
The greatest threat to Libyan sovereignty and independence is the United States of America. Nothing else comes close.
Gaddafi hasn't been targeted because he's a tyrant, but because he sits on an ocean of petroleum. That's what this is all about, right? If Libya's main source of wealth was car parts or coconuts, there never would have been a war.
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Friday, May 06, 2011
Was Killing Bin Laden a Military or a Media Operation? / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
The tip on bin Laden’s whereabouts came in back in 2010. You have to assume the house was under surveillance. If they thought they “bagged him” they would be watching closely and choosing the right time to deep six the target (I actually wrote this lead paragraph sentence before reading this “Breaking News” from the Washington Post: “CIA had secret outpost in Abbottabad”).
Friday, May 06, 2011
The U.S. Is Editing 'The Killing of Osama' Film / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Jack D. Douglas writes: The first U.S. edited version of "The Killing Of Osama" made it look like one Seal found Osama and his wife in their third floor bedroom, the surprised and unarmed Osama used her as a shield so the Seal shot her first and then him. It did not seem to occur to them that this made the Seal both a coward – or a terrified incompetent – and a war criminal. By the second day they had edited this scene to have the wife rushing at the Seal, presumably scaring him witless, so he shot her and then shot the unarmed old Osama who was either sitting around or standing around doing nothing but, presumably, looking dumb.
Thursday, May 05, 2011
The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden Death News Event / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. Indeed, the new story put out on Tuesday by White House press secretary Jay Carney bears little resemblance to the original Sunday evening story. The fierce firefight did not occur. Osama bin Laden did not hide behind a woman. Indeed, bin Laden, Carney said, “was not armed.”
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead -Again! / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich writes: When Obama announced OBL dead, it was established as a fact - the truth. Where truth is concerned, it clearly matters where you were born - or else the truth does not matter.
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Is the Myth of Osama bin Laden Still Alive? / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Maksim Shevchenko writes: Why has the almost-forgotten Osama bin Laden, the main reason the US has been campaigning in Iraq and Afghanistan for the past 10 years, been killed rather than seized?
Why has this news, with all its vicious detail, overshadowed the reports about daily bombings in Libya and Gaza? What opportunities does the elimination of Bin Laden open up to the US? Political expert, publicist and Russian Civic Chamber member Maksim Shevchenko discusses these questions with RT.
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Why Osama bin Laden Was Killed (Not Caught) And The Evidence Destroyed / Politics / US Politics
By: Andrew_Butter
According to the reports, the death of OBL was preceded by a 40 to 45 minute fire-fight during which three people including the target died (none of the assailants were injured), and the “target” was not armed.
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Trump to China: "Listen You Motherf***ers...." / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Donald Trump delivers an F-bomb laden speech in Las Vegas where he covers everything from Obama's misgivings to the middle east and China. The most shocking moment was undoubtedly his views on how to deal with China's global manufacturing monopoly.
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011
America has Turned Into a Moral Swamp / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
What does the assassination of Osama Bin Laden have in common with Guantanamo Bay?
They're both intended to send a message that the United States has sunk deeper into savagery and abandoned any commitment to conventional norms of behavior. That's the message, and we hear it "loud and clear".
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Bin Laden's Death Announcement Only Fuels the Mythology / Politics / US Politics
By: Patrick_Henningsen
The mythology surrounding America’s public enemy number one took yet another bizarre turn this week as Washington announced that after ten years of searching they have finally located and killed their illusive adversary, Osama bin Laden. Unfortunately for US authorities, however, this latest media event has created far more questions than it has answers.
Monday, May 02, 2011
Bin Laden Is Dead, But Why Didn't We Kill Him 10 Years Ago? / Politics / US Politics
By: Washingtons_Blog
President Obama announced tonight that U.S. special forces killed Osama Bin Laden.
That's great ... but we could have killed him years ago.
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Monday, May 02, 2011
Osama bin Laden’s Second Death / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the gullibility of Americans.
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Sunday, May 01, 2011
Declare Your Independence From the Empire, Foreign and Domestic / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_S_Rozeff
The peoples of the world once looked up to America and Americans. They held them in high respect and esteem. They respected their ideals. They respected their know-how and products.
Now, by its foreign policies of empire and their domestic counterparts, the U.S. government is destroying the dignity of America and Americans. Our morality is falling along with our productivity. Today, there is less and less of which Americans can be proud and there is more and more of which to be ashamed.
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Sunday, May 01, 2011
Why I Hung Up on a New York Times Reporter / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
Yesterday morning, a New York Times Op-Ed writer called me. He wanted to write a piece where I am quoted. I chose not to talk to him.
I asked him straight out: "How did you get my phone number?" He said a staffer had retrieved it. The number is unlisted.
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