Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
U.S. Defense Secretary Gates is Wrong, Never Fight a Land War in Asia / Politics / US Politics
By: STRATFOR
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking at West Point, said last week that “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined.” In saying this, Gates was repeating a dictum laid down by Douglas MacArthur after the Korean War, who urged the United States to avoid land wars in Asia.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
America's Total Surveillance Society / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Lendman
In 2003, an ACLU report warned that "Big Brother" no longer is fiction, America having advanced to where total surveillance is now possible. Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program said:"Given the capabilities of today's technology, the only thing protecting us from a full-fledged surveillance society are the legal and political institutions we have inherited as Americans. Unfortunately, the September 11 attacks have led some to embrace the fallacy that weakening the Constitution will strengthen America."
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Bankers Using Divide and Conquer Strategies in America to Deflect Blame / Politics / US Politics
By: David_DeGraw
The global bankers, who caused our economic crisis, are attempting to deflect blame and divide the American public by escalating attacks on public-sector workers. The battle in Wisconsin, which is spreading across the entire nation, should be viewed in a global economic context. Do not let the obsolete Republican vs. Democrat charade confuse you. Even if you believe Unions have been corrupted, in this case you have to go with the strategy: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Friday, February 25, 2011
Yes We Can! (Fix Our Trade Mess) / Politics / US Politics
By: Ian_Fletcher
The fashionable despair of America fixing its trade mess is a mistake.For example, the standard objection to taking a stick to America's trade imbalance by levying a tariff is that our trading partners would just shrug it off by increasing subsidies to their exporters. (They do something similar to this already: China, for example, is constantly adjusting its export subsidies to protect its positions in foreign markets.) This would, supposedly, force us into an endless game of matching these moves on a country-by-country, industry-by-industry, and even product-by-product basis.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Arab Autocracies and US Inflation / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_Pento
Civil revolt is currently spreading across the Arab world. What began in Tunisia has now metastasized into Bahrain, Egypt and Libya. Though two dictators have been ousted, the chances that these regimes will fundamentally transform from autocracy to a system of free markets and property rights are also up in the air. An important question is whether or not Saudi Arabia will eventually get into the mix; and, if so, whether the current struggle in Libya would morph into a proxy war between Saudi Arabia (Sunni Muslims) and Iran (Shiite Muslims). It remains to be seen whether the new regime in Egypt-whatever form it ends up to be - will allow Iran to use the Suez Canal to parade warships across the Mediterranean Sea and into Syria. If so, what would Israel's reaction to such a perceived provocation be?Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The Obama Administration's Clueless Trade Diplomacy / Politics / US Politics
By: Ian_Fletcher
Obama clearly doesn't get it yet on trade agreements.Despite the fact that every major American trade agreement since NAFTA has worsened America's trade balance, he actually seems to think he can improve America's export performance by going for more, starting with a free-trade agreement with South Korea.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
American Manufacturing Slowly Rotting Away: How Industries Die / Politics / US Politics
By: Ian_Fletcher
I wrote in a previous article about why America's manufacturing sector, despite record output, is actually in very deep trouble: record output doesn't prove the sector healthy when we are running a huge trade deficit in manufactured goods, i.e. consuming more goods than we produce and plugging the gap with asset sales and debt.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Wall Street Capitalism: A Love Affair / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
BATR writes: What once was a mercantile world has become a global playpen for moving hot money to squeeze out the highest return on investment. Replacing nation states with international capital is now sport. Undermining the sovereignty of countries by an elite club of financial manipulators is the purpose for the grand game.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Did US-backed NGOs Help to Topple Mubarak / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
Mike Whitney----Do we know whether foreign agents or US-backed NGOs participated in the demonstrations in Tahrir Square? Could they have played a part in toppling Mubarak?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Google's Revolution Factory 2.0 / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Tony Cartalucci writes: In 2008, the Alliance of Youth Movements held its inaugural summit in New York City. Attending this summit was a combination of State Department staff, Council on Foreign Relations members, former National Security staff, Department of Homeland Security advisers, and a myriad of representatives from American corporations and mass media organizations including AT&T, Google, Facebook, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and MTV.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Revolution Handbook for Americans / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
As recently presented, there is global respect for and use of the classic and brilliant work by Gene Sharp “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” It is credited for empowering many actions around the world to overthrow dictatorships, including recent actions in the Mideast . My thesis is that his ideas, strategies and tactics, a handbook for revolution, can and should be applied to the US where there is a form of corporate dictatorship operating.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
The Logic of Outsourcing / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
Recently, I wrote an article on why every business that has an in-house staff of video production specialists should shut down the department. I argued that it would be far better to encourage the staffers to create their own video production company. Then the business can let the newly created company bid on projects.
There is no question that this would be better for the business. But would it be better for the now-unemployed staffers? If they are talented, yes. If they are not, yes.
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
U.S. National Debt, Pump It Up / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
Down in the pleasure centre,
hell bent or heaven sent,
listen to the propaganda,
listen to the latest slander.
There's nothing underhand
that she wouldn't understand.
Pump it up until you can feel it.
Pump it up when you don't really need it. Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
Friday, February 18, 2011
Social Security is Not an “Entitlement” Program / Politics / US Politics
By: Chris_Kitze
Marti Oakley writes: A long coveted cut to Social Security and Medicare is going to happen. This will occur for reasons none of the politicians in the District of Criminals will ever speak about publicly. There is far more at stake here than what the District terms an “unfunded liability”. When you hear those in the District speak about this liability, you need to understand what they are really saying. This is an intra-governmental debt, meaning; a debt accrued within the government. It is a liability to the federal government because it is owed to “you” and they have no way of paying it back without taxing you more heavily. You are the “full faith and credit” of the United States corporation. That means government runs up the bills and we pay it.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Where’s the American Outrage Against U.S. Support of Dictatorships? / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Jacob G. Hornberger writes: Once it became clear that Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak was on the way out, U.S. officials quickly shifted gears and took the side of the demonstrators, the people who had suffered for 30 years under the brutal Mubarak dictatorship. U.S. officials even offered their guidance for moving Egypt toward a democratic political system.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Grapes Of Wrath 2011 / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed." - John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Stunning Data: Obama’s First Two Years a Complete Disaster / Politics / US Politics
By: Mac_Slavo
The argument will be that President Obama inherited this crisis, recession, depression or whatever you want to call it. But we didn’t hear any complaints during the 2008 election campaign, so we assume that President Obama wanted the job and had a grasp of what it was he was signing on for.
He got the job based on great marketing and the many promises made to his constituents. Many of them believed they’d receive free gas, free homes, and that they wouldn’t have to work for the American dream - it would simply be handed to them.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Rumsfeld Lies About Iraq and the War on Terror ... Again / Politics / US Politics
By: Washingtons_Blog
ABC News reports today on Diane Sawyer's recent interview with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld claims: Powell -- along with other top Bush administration officials and advisers -- truly believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction at the time of his famous presentation to the United Nations in February 2003.
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Monday, February 07, 2011
America Is Not a Republic, U.S. Constitution Is on Life Support / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
"This is a republic, not a democracy. Let's keep it that way!"
When I was a teenager, that was a popular saying in conservative circles. Conservative circles in 1958 were very few and very far between. The movement lacked slogans. Every fringe movement needs a few slogans. Slogans are like secret handshakes in a club. They identify one's true colors to those in the know.
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Friday, February 04, 2011
American History Is Not What They Say, The Reagan Fraud and After / Politics / US Politics
By: Jeff_Riggenbach
Like most Republican politicians since the early 1930s, Ronald Reagan always portrayed himself throughout his political career as a champion of limited government, individual rights, and free enterprise — the classical-liberal values, which, of course, he absurdly described as "conservative." But, like almost all Republican politicians since the early 1930s, he seemed to forget all about these values once he got into office and assumed the reins of power. Consider, as a case in point, Reagan's eight years (1966–1974) as governor of California. As Murray Rothbard noted in 1980,