Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thanksgiving, A Tale of Two Colonies / Politics / US Politics
By: MISES
Gary M. Galles writes: At Thanksgiving, Americans recall their blessings around bountiful meals, with imagery going back to the Pilgrims, especially Plymouth Colony's 1623 Thanksgiving. But little attention is paid to what allows that bounty to be created — capitalism — though Jamestown and Plymouth both illustrate that lesson.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
The Stench of the Police State at U.S. Airports / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Patrick Martin and Joe Kishore write: As tens of millions of Americans travel during the busy Thanksgiving holiday weekend, they will come face to face with the new regime instituted by the federal Transportation Security Administration. More than 70 major airports have installed full-body scanners, where randomly selected passengers are compelled to undergo the electronic equivalent of a strip search. Travelers who decline that scan will be subjected instead to an extremely invasive body search that includes an open-palm patdown of the genital area.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Do You Really Want To Be a Republican or a Democrat? / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_S_Rozeff
My main purpose is this. I want to suggest how most of us can get closer to our heart’s political and social desire. The exceptions are those immoral persons who insist on lording it over other people against their wills, i.e., the authoritarians of any stripe.
I present an imaginary scenario. It is not meant to be a detailed photograph of a new reality. It is to suggest the concept to you as a possible new reality. I am following in the footsteps of Paul Emile de Puydt.
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Peaceful Countries do not Celebrate Thanksgiving / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Elizabeth Young writes: Thanksgiving commemorates the successful harvest and a time the Pilgrims gathered to give thanks, sharing a feast with their Native American neighbors, who had made possible their survival in the New England wilderness.
"Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" written by Henry "Dean" Alford, the gifted Christian leader of the 19th century and distinguished theologian and scholar, is considered to be one of the finest harvest and Thanksgiving hymns in all of the hymnals of Christian singing.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Why the Tea Party is a Sucker for Charlatans, Ignoramuses, and Statists / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
Ellen Brown is a leftist. I have hammered away at this since October 8: 52 original criticisms, followed by 30 responses. Still, her followers could not believe it. They sent me outraged letters. Poor Max Keiser publicly challenged me to defend myself. How did I dare say such things about his favorite anti-FED expert?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
TSA Targets Pretty Women with Hot Bodies / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Karen De Coster writes: The latest backlash against the TSA's new groping procedures is finally reaching a level of furor that is in proportion to the atrocious crimes we have been subjected to since the government's favorite excuse for totalitarianism: 9/11.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
The State is Killing the U.S. Jobs Market / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
The terrible job market has vexed an entire generation. It shows no hope of improving anytime soon. Young people are shut out. College students are taking refuge in matriculation without end. Thirty-somethings are zoning out in their parents' basements and attics. Despair for the future has become a theme of American public life.
Monday, November 22, 2010
U.S. Military War Gaming for Large Scale Economic Breakdown and Civil Unrest / Politics / US Politics
By: Mac_Slavo
The majority of Americans believe that recent government intervention into financial markets, the economy and corporate insolvency has reversed the economic downturn which was described by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as being “on the brink” in 2008. The stimulus, bailouts and unrelenting quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve have thus far been perceived as having averted the further erosion of the U.S. real estate and equities markets. And though the Federal Reserve and economic analysts have recently readjusted their economic growth forecasts downward for the next six months, Americans no longer have to worry about, as Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) said on the house floor in October of 2008, the sky falling, multi-thousand point drops in stock markets and martial law in America.
Monday, November 22, 2010
TSA Treats Air Travelers as Criminal Suspects / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
The growing revolt against invasive TSA practices is encouraging to Americans who are fed up with federal government encroachment in their lives. In the case of air travelers, this encroachment is quite literally physical. But a deep-seated libertarian impulse still exists within the American people, and opposition to the new TSA full body scanner and groping searches is gathering momentum.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
From One Corrupt Congressman to Another / Politics / US Politics
By: Ashvin_Pandurangi
"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain." -William James
The House Ethics Committee has just voted to confirm there is "clear and convincing" evidence that Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has violated at least eleven different Congressional ethics rules. His violations include failing to pay taxes on his property in the Dominican Republic, illegally transforming a rent-controlled residential apartment into a campaign office and using his status as head of the Ways and Means Committee to secure funds for his public policy center.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
America Surrenders, The Collective Will is Broken / Politics / US Politics
By: Barry_M_Ferguson
I always wondered what it would feel like. A collective will is broken. A great people are humbled. Concessions are made. The symbolic white flag is raised. Surrender is offered. Control is conceded. Power is transferred. A new era begins. ‘America’ surrenders. It is not a good feeling.
Friday, November 19, 2010
The American Way of Life, As Things Fell Apart, Nobody Paid Much Attention / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
The American way of life – which is now virtually synonymous with suburbia – can run only on reliable supplies of dependably cheap oil and gas. Even mild to moderate deviations in either price or supply will crush our economy and make the logistics of daily life impossible. – Jim Kunstler - The Long Emergency
Friday, November 19, 2010
Don't Fly Until the TSA is Abolished / Politics / US Politics
By: Lewrockwell
Becky Akers writes: Wow, but the fur – and clothing, and screeners’ hands – are flying at airports, aren’t they? Yee haw! Christmas came early this year for those of us who hate the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), who have prayed for nine long years that the good Lord would smite it from the face of the earth, who can’t wait to take to the skies again once LaWanda and her porno-scanners roast in Hell.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Ron Paul Decries TSA Abuses Enough is Enough! / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Congressman Ron Paul decries TSA abuses on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
The Tea Party Moron Complex, Anti-intellectualism its Rallying Cry / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Matt Taibbi writes: If American politics made any sense at all, we wouldn’t have two giant political parties of roughly equal size perpetually fighting over the same 5–10 percent swatch of undecided voters, blues versus reds. Instead, the parties should be broken down into haves and have-nots -- a couple of obnoxious bankers on the Upper East Side running for office against 280 million pissed-off credit card and mortgage customers.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Financial End Times, Ruling on the Behalf of Wall Streets Super Rich / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_Hudson
Now that President Obama is almost celebrating his bipartisan willingness to renew the tax cuts for the super-rich enacted under George Bush ten years ago, it is time for Democrats to ask themselves how strongly they are willing to oppose an administration that looks like Bush-Cheney III. Is this what they expected by Mr. Obama’s promise to rise above partisan politics – by ruling on behalf of Wall Street, now that it is the major campaign backer of both parties?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The World Shorts the U.S. Dollar / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
A remarkable confluence of recent events has brought unprecedented but very welcome attention to both U.S. monetary policy and the global political economy in general.
First, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke recently announced that the Fed would embark upon another round of monetary easing by purchasing $600 billion worth of U.S. Treasury debt. This amounts to an admission that markets have run out of patience with our profligacy, and therefore our own central bank literally must serve as the buyer of last resort for Treasury debt.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Fed`s Quantitative Easing Violates the Rule of Law / Politics / US Politics
By: David_DeGraw
The Federal Reserve represents global banking interests who have overstepped their legal authority. Their Quantitative Easing program is an explicit violation of the Constitution. By deliberately devaluing the dollar and causing the price of basic necessities to rise, the Federal Reserve is, as a matter of strategic policy, sacrificing a significant percentage of the US population for the benefit of a few global bankers. In the process, they are also igniting a global currency war that threatens the security of the American people. In clear terms, the Federal Reserve’s actions represent a declaration of war against the people of the United States.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Poverty in America, The Big Picture / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Stathis
In America’s Financial Apocalypse, a book that has been banned by the media, I discussed the many flaws in the calculation of poverty levels within the U.S. First, let’s have a look at some excerpts from the book.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Plagiarism? George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted From Advisers' Books / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Ryan Grim writes: When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn't getting Faulkner. But the book, at least, promises "gripping, never-before-heard detail" about the former president's key decisions, offering to bring readers "aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America's most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq," and other undisclosed and weighty locations.