Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
U.S. Government Looting Social Security To Wage War / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Sherwood Ross writes:“As long as the $1.2-trillion annual budget for the military-security complex is off limits (to cutting), nothing can be done about the US budget deficit except to renege on obligations to the elderly, confiscate private assets or print enough money to inflate away all debts,” Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Treasury Secretary under President Reagan warns.
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Saturday, April 09, 2011
U.S. Government Survives Shutdown But Economic War Continues / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
The Capitol Hill battlefield is still for the moment as the Easter holidays approach and the combatants get a break from the heated polemics and overnight bargaining sessions. In a last minute deal, milked by both sides for maximum drama and political advantage, the government will not shut down—at least not now—even as its budget has taken a major wack.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
U.S. Government Shutdown 2011, What You Need To Know / Politics / US Politics
By: Chris_Kitze
End of the American Dream writes: Is it actually going to happen? Are we actually going to see "Government Shutdown 2011"? Will the streets of Washington D.C. soon be eerily quiet as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are temporarily sent home? Right now Barack Obama, Harry Reid and John Boehner all say that they want to reach a deal and avoid a government shutdown, but the deadline is coming up fast. The current spending bill that the government is operating under expires at the end of Friday.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Wealth Through Decentralization is What Made America Great / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
The main reason why I have been able to make a lot of money, as well as crank out 50 volumes of books and so many articles that I cannot count them, is that no one told me to do it.
Simple, isn't it? It's called laissez-faire: let us alone.
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Hyped U.S. Unemployment Numbers Despicable Lies, Delusional Economic Recovery / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
The US government lies. Sure looks like most Americans gobble up false and misleading information that is nothing less than political propaganda. Take the highly hyped unemployment number for March, 2011 of 8.8 percent that moved like a tornado through the media and was praised by Democrat politicians and the White House. As if that number is accurate, as if it fairly describes unemployment. It does not. What is called by experts, such as Leo Hindery, as the real unemployment number was actually 17.7 percent, which is remarkably higher. To appreciate that much higher number is to throw a large bucket of cold water on all the political spin on the economic recovery.
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Reasons Why Obama is Worse Than Bush / Politics / US Politics
By: Chris_Kitze
Activist Post writes: George W. Bush was clearly a mentally-challenged puppet of the military/banking/oil elite. The policies put it in place at breakneck speed after 9/11 were provably predetermined by think tanks well in advance. Not that other presidents were any less controlled by this hidden agenda, but there was a noticeable in-your-face quickening of corporate-government tyranny under Bush.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
U.S. Wars of Humanitarianism / Politics / US Politics
By: STRATFOR
There are wars in pursuit of interest. In these wars, nations pursue economic or strategic ends to protect the nation or expand its power. There are also wars of ideology, designed to spread some idea of “the good,” whether this good is religious or secular. The two obviously can be intertwined, such that a war designed to spread an ideology also strengthens the interests of the nation spreading the ideology.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Nuclear Scandal in Japan, The Disgraceful Role of the U.S. Embassy / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers writes: "…Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so…" – Bertrand Russell
Things have calmed down quite a bit concerning the nuclear accident at the Fukushima reactors. While it is going to take more time to completely control the situation, things are not getting worse, and they are much more stable than they were two weeks ago.
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Saturday, April 02, 2011
Class Warfare Scoreboard : Guess Who's Winning? / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
This has gotta be a joke. According to a new report by the BEA, personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased by $69 billion (7 percent), while personal income rose by only $38 billion (3 percent) in February.
So consumers are back to their old ways again, spending more than they earn?
Friday, April 01, 2011
Libya, Another Unconstitutional, Undeclared Illegal Killerthon / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Statement on Libya – Defining U.S. National Security Interests, Before the Foreign Affairs Committee, US House of Representatives, 31 March 2011
The American people have once again been suckered into an unconstitutional, undeclared, illegal, and unwise war. This is not a war in response to an attack on the United States. This is not a war against a regime that has threatened the United States. This is a preventative war. The president never claimed that any large-scale slaughter of civilians was taking place in Libya. Rather, the president has spent close to a billion dollars – so far – bombing a country because its government might at some point harm its civilians.
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Friday, April 01, 2011
Are American Workers Just Getting What They Deserve? / Politics / US Politics
By: Ian_Fletcher
If you don’t think American workers are being inexorably scr*wed by our governing establishment’s embrace of “free” trade, stop reading right here. If you do, I have a dark question for you, one that may have occurred to you in private already:Did we bring this whole mess on ourselves?
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
U.S. Government Shut Down, The Next Crisis / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
"Political Language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable"... George Orwell
Forget Libya; the real bombing is not underway there. Pay less attention to Pakistan; the drone attacks there pale in comparison.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Obama Raises American Hypocrisy to a New Level / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
What does the world think? Obama has been using air strikes and drones against civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and probably Somalia. In his March 28 speech, Obama justified his air strikes against Libya on the grounds that the embattled ruler, Gadhafi, was using air strikes to put down a rebellion.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
What Happened to the American Declaration of War? / Politics / US Politics
By: STRATFOR
In my book “The Next Decade,” I spend a good deal of time considering the relation of the American Empire to the American Republic and the threat the empire poses to the republic. If there is a single point where these matters converge, it is in the constitutional requirement that Congress approve wars through a declaration of war and in the abandonment of this requirement since World War II. This is the point where the burdens and interests of the United States as a global empire collide with the principles and rights of the United States as a republic.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Economic Nationalism: Fair or Foul? / Politics / US Politics
By: Ian_Fletcher
Because we have a national government, because Americans care about what happens to their economy, and because it is the national debate on the question that will bring changes or fail to, our trade problems will be fixed in Washington or not at all. As economist Herman Daly of the University of Maryland, best known for his work on ecological economics, puts it, “Free trade makes it very hard to deal with these root causes at a national level, which is the only level at which effective social controls over the economy exist.”Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Dictator Obama's Foolish and Unconstitutional War / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Patrick J. Buchanan writes: "The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
So said constitutional scholar and Senator Barack Obama in December 2007 – the same man who, this weekend, ordered U.S. air and missile strikes on Libya without any authorization from Congress.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
I Was Wrong About President Obama / Politics / US Politics
By: Pravda
Let us call a spade, a spade. Let us call a group of armed marauding thugs, committing acts of terrorism and arson, terrorists and arsonists and let us call those who manipulate the words of others to justify their actions, barefaced liars. President Obama is one of these and how wrong I was to believe that he represented a new America.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 21, 2011
Is it America vs. Poor Nations in Trade? No / Politics / US Politics
By: Ian_Fletcher
Question: is there a fundamental us vs. them dynamic in America’s trade with the developing world? Is a sound trade policy for ourselves ultimately about nothing better than grabbing an economic advantage at the expense of other nations, especially poorer ones?
Some people certainly seem to think so. To them, ending free trade sounds like a mere invitation for America to become a global economic bully boy.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Obama's Serbia-Solution for Libya; "Split the country and steal the oil" / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
The Obama administration never would have launched a war on Libya if they didn't have a puppet-in-waiting ready to take power as soon as the fighting ended. That puppet appears to be Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Gaddafi's former justice minister. Jalil is presently the opposition leader of the Libyan National Transitional Council which oversees the insurgents from Al Bayda. This is not a grassroots movement that embraces the fundamental precepts of democratic government. It's a clatter of rebels armed by the Egyptian military (with US approval) to topple the Gaddafi regime. Jalil has garnered the military support of the so-called "international community" despite the fact that peaceful protesters in Bahrain, Yemen and Saudi Arabia have been kicked to the curb. It's just another example of the UN's selective support for pro-democracy movements.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
More Free Trade Agreements? When NAFTA Failed? / Politics / US Politics
By: Ian_Fletcher
With the Republicans and the Obama administration attempting to rush headlong into a new trade agreements with Korea, and possibly also with Panama and Colombia, it is incumbent on Americans to apply a bit of empiricism. How have our past trade agreements worked out? Above all, how’s the grand-daddy of them all, NAFTA, doing?