Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Obama Announces Deal to Extend Tax Cuts for the Rich / Politics / US Politics
By: Barry_Grey
President Obama on Monday announced his support for a two-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, capitulating to Republican demands and reversing campaign pledges to end the windfall for families making more than $250,000 a year.
The announcement was made in a brief White House speech, after which Obama took no questions from the press. Extension of the tax cuts for the wealthy, set to expire January 1, has been a central preoccupation of the US corporate-financial elite. For precisely that reason, the cave-in by Obama and the Democratic Party on the issue was virtually assured. The extension will funnel an estimated $70 billion per year into the coffers of the rich.
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Americans Say Goodbye to Benefits… Hello to “Interesting” Times / Politics / US Politics
By: Graham_Summers
Don’t they get it?
It’s truly bizarre to me that the powers that be cannot figure out WHY the average American is growing increasingly disenfranchised with how things are going.
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Bernanke and Republican Lies, Half Truths and 100% Hubris Crucifying the Middle Class / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
I am very disheartened but not at all surprised (given that I predicted it), the complete fiscal irresponsibility of the "compromise" tax proposal by president Obama that Democratic sheep will no doubt approve right along with deficit-hawk deficit-hypocrite Republicans.
Monday, December 06, 2010
Wikileaks and the Worldwide Information and Propaganda War / Politics / US Politics
By: Andrew_G_Marshall
The recent release of the 250,000 Wikileaks documents has provoked unparalleled global interest, both positive, negative, and everywhere in between. One thing that can be said with certainty: Wikileaks is changing things.
There are those who accept what the Wikileaks releases say at face value, largely due to the misrepresentation of the documents by the corporate-controlled news.
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Monday, December 06, 2010
Julian Assange Wikileaks Marketing Genius / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
To understand what WikiLeaks has done, we must understand economic cause and effect. Let us begin with a comparable market: the market for gambling.
Governments have laws against gambling. Why? The justification is moral principles. This reason is less persuasive, once the government sets up state lotteries and also licenses taxable gambling, such as horse racing. The real reason is the governments want to monopolize the vice. They expect greater tax revenues.
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Monday, December 06, 2010
The Fourth Turning Crisis Outcomes, Will Presidential Election 2012 Be As Critical As 1860? / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - Abraham Lincoln
Sunday, December 05, 2010
The Plot to Stop Ron Paul by Elitist Banksers and Congressional Leadership / Politics / US Politics
By: DeepCaster_LLC
With Republican control of the House, Ron Paul, as senior member of the House Financial Services subcommittee that oversees monetary policy, is scheduled to become chairman of that subcommittee .
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Saturday, December 04, 2010
Obama, Congress Negotiate Tax Cuts for the Wealthy / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Patrick Martin writes: The Obama administration has begun closed-door talks with congressional leaders of both parties on the extension of the Bush tax cuts, amid reports that a deal will likely be based on acceptance of the central Republican demand that tax cuts for the wealthy be continued without any income ceiling, either the $250,000 a year proposed by Obama or the $1 million suggested last month by Senate Democrats.
Friday, December 03, 2010
American's Live in Mental Ghettos, People Who Lie to Themselves / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
So many intelligent Americans believe, say and do stupid things. When a large fraction of the population is like this, a nation rots from the inside and succumbs to external forces.
I have always searched for the simplest yet best ways to explain what I see as a multi-decade decline of every aspect of the United States , especially its political system and government. I keep coming back to the inescapable logic that a large fraction of Americans, regardless of their education, economic status and political alignment, must suffer from delusion. This delusion produces denial about hugely important subjects and issues.
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Friday, December 03, 2010
Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Diplomats Hatching Blazingly Stupid Schemes / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
The blazing stupidity of some of the ridiculous schemes hatched by US diplomats is staggering.
Take a look at Wikileaks Docs Reveal Secret Scheme To Wean China Off Of Iranian Oil Supply by Joe Weisenthal at the Business Insider, and I will show you exactly what I mean.
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Thursday, December 02, 2010
Wikileaks Reveals a Government Caught Up in the Mendacity of Lies / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
The reaction to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange tells us all we need to know about the total corruption of our “modern” world, which in fact is a throwback to the Dark Ages.
Some member of the United States government released to WikiLeaks the documents that are now controversial. The documents are controversial, because they are official US documents and show all too clearly that the US government is a duplicitous entity whose raison d’etre is to control every other government.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Will Rand Paul Lead a Tea Party Revolution from Washington, D.C.? / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Merrill
The national Tea Party movement had an amazing, if bumpy, first effort in electoral politics.
As many as five new US Senators are considered tea partiers. As many as twenty new Republican US Representatives are aligned with the Tea Party. This group of new congress-people is a diverse lot though when it comes to formulating public policy.
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
What Threat is China to the U.S.? / Politics / US Politics
By: Kel_Kelly
This topic needs no introduction. We hear discussions in the national media weekly about the possible threat an economically resurgent China poses to the United States — and even to other countries. So how concerned should we really be about China's economic and military might? Answer: China's economic development itself is not in any way harmful to us; ultimately, the only threats that exist as a result of its success come from potential actions taken by politicians as a response to its development. In a world of free trade and political isolationism, China could not possibly be a danger.
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
WikiLeaks and National Insecurity / Politics / US Politics
By: William_Anderson
An overused term in this age of the overwhelming state is "national security," and I always am amazed at how people who think clearly on other subjects fall all over themselves when someone manages to breach the secrecy of government agencies. Not surprisingly, when this flimsy "security" line actually is crossed, the typical response is to try to kill the messenger.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
WikiLeaks, Major U.S. Bank Flagrant Violations, Gold and Silver / Politics / US Politics
By: Midas_Letter
I’ve always occupied the emotional frequencies ranging between disgusted and outraged when it comes to WikiLeaks. Regardless of your stance on governments and sovereign interference, putting the lives of human beings at risk by exposing their participation in intelligence programs is aiding and abetting in murder. The psychotic fundamentalists that perpetuate the bulk of the violent crimes on its own and foreign citizens need not be encouraged by the provision of a list of fresh targets by idealistic or simply amoral grandstanders desperate for attention.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Wikileaks: Will the Truth Make Us Free? / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Ron Holland writes: "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" ~ John 8:32
Although these leaks are a first step toward controlling Washington foreign policy, they do show how incremental actions providing open information can counter the Anglo-American foreign and domestic policies which have brought the world right to the edge of another Middle East war.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
U.S. Foreign Policy Conspiracies Exposed by Wikileaks / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
David Walsh writes: The batch of 250,000 US classified documents released by WikiLeaks to several news outlets, some of whose content was made public Sunday, sheds new light on the sordid nature of American imperialist intrigue and conspiracy around the globe.
The WSWS will analyze the documents more thoroughly in a subsequent article, but “highlights” published by the Guardian and the New York Timesare revealing.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
U.S. Empire Built on a Foundation of Lies / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
“Every single empire, in its official discourse, has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort.” – Edward SaidRead full article... Read full article...
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Wikileaks Revelations Show U.S. and its Allies Covertly Discussing Military Attacks and Actions Against Iran / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
The latest massive Wikileaks revelations released Sunday show how the US and its allies have been covertly discussing military attacks and covert actions against Iran. If history is any judge, this doesn’t always work out the way Washington wants as Danny Schechter recounts in this report on a recent visit to the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, known locally then as a “spy nest.”
Friday, November 26, 2010
Can U.S. Afford Political Gridlock Already? / Politics / US Politics
By: Sy_Harding
With the near collapse of the financial system in 2008, the Bush Administration, with the Republican party in control of both houses of Congress, took aggressive, unprecedented action. The government was not grid-locked. Decisive action was possible and was taken.