Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
BP and Bhopal, U.S. Double Standards / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Bill Quigley and Alex Tuscano writes: When President Barak Obama went after BP and demanded a $20 billion dollar fund be set up for victims of the Gulf oil spill, the people of India were furious. They saw a US double standard. The US demonstrated it values human life within the US more than the lives of the people of India.
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
G20, Colossus and The Forbin Project / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_S_Rozeff
The G20 Toronto Summit declaration reminds me of nothing so much as a science-fiction movie made in 1970 called Colossus: The Forbin Project.
The United States builds an impregnable computer system to control its nuclear weapons. As soon as it is activated, it senses a similar Russian system and demands a link – or else it will detonate a nuclear warhead. Once it gains this link, the two computers exchange information. The combination takes over control. It cannot be disconnected without unleashing nuclear catastrophe.
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
Donkey of the Month: Lady Gaga, President Obama, BP's Tony Hayward or New York Governor (David A Paterson) / Politics / US Politics
By: JD_Rosendahl
Welcome to my monthly rant about people acting like bad little boys and girls in, or reported as such, in the month of June 2010. The month was a busy month of men and women acting strange, outrageous, insane and just plain stupid. There were several candidates on the bubble who didn't make the elite eight, but somehow, I expect they will take another run at "Donkey of the Month" in the near future. Here are my elite eight candidates:
Thursday, July 01, 2010
The Economy Is Sinking, Confidence Is Down Along With The Stock Market. Is A Depression Coming? / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
The FBI arrests 1200 Americans for mortgage fraud in the largest crackdown of its kind in history. There is no media focus on the companies that securitized and insured their toxic loans. This white-collar crime sweep is, at best, a one-day story with most of the reports carried by local outlets.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
War on Journalism / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
John Pilger, award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. He began his career in journalism nearly half a century ago and has written close to a dozen books and made over fifty documentaries. He lives in London but is in the United States working on a forthcoming documentary about what he calls "the war on the media." It’s called The War You Don’t See.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Why Petraeus Won't Salvage The Afghan War / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Gareth Porter writes: As Gen. David Petraeus prepares for his next command, his supporters are hoping he can rescue a failing war for the second time in just a few years. But both the dire state of the war effort in Afghanistan and his approach to taking command in Iraq in early 2007 suggest that Petraeus will not try to replicate an apparent -- and temporary -- success that he knows was at least in part the result of fortuitous circumstances in Iraq. Instead he will maneuver to avoid having to go down with what increasingly appears to be a failed counterinsurgency war.
Monday, June 28, 2010
The U.S. Military Can Waste Money Too / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
This past week various news events once again made it abundantly clear that our foreign policy is an abject failure. Unfortunately, in spite of this the administration is determined to stay on this destructive course, despite any past promises to change it. For Afghanistan especially, if ever there was an opportunity to admit shortcomings and change strategies along with leaders, this past week was it.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
"I Don't Talk To Republicans!" and a little about PR, media, propaganda and the digital Skinner Box / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_T_Bucci
A long time resident here confided, "I don't talk to Republicans!" In this all-white Northern New England town, this excludes many people and the obvious question becomes 'why not'? "I once owned an advertising business in Manhattan," she explained slowly, "they call it a boutique if your gross is under $100M, and I exchanged this business, my co-op, my Smith Barney account, Lexus and American Express card for a cat, a collection of hand-me-down furniture and a free trip to the supermarket once a week, if my monthly food stamp allowance isn't drained." What happened? I asked.
Monday, June 28, 2010
The Reality Behind the McChrystal Interview Fall-Out / Politics / US Politics
By: Walter_Brasch
For a few days last week, the harpies of the extreme right assaulted the president of the United States for first considering, and then firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of allied forces in Afghanistan.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, June 25, 2010
Government Insiders Get Ready for the Gulf "Dead Zone" Environmental Disaster / Politics / US Politics
By: OilPrice_Com
Bad news concerning the Gulf oil disaster continues to come from WMR's federal government sources in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Emergency planners are dealing with a prospective "dead zone" within a 200 mile radius from the Deepwater Horizon disaster datum in the Gulf.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Bashing BP For Doing Exactly What Government Led Them to Do / Politics / US Politics
By: Matthew_J_Novak
There has been tremendous criticism in the media of late regarding BP's response to the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the subsequent spilling of millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
An ABC news / Washington Post poll shows that 81 percent of those polled stated they thought unfavorably of the response by BP to the spill. The same poll shows that nearly two-thirds of those responding favor criminal charges against BP and other companies involved in the spill.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The Midterm Elections: No Panacea for the U.S. Economy / Politics / US Politics
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: With many of the primaries past, and the November 2010 midterm elections less than five months away, it is worth taking a look at what policy changes we might expect from the next U.S. Congress. Both the political and economic worlds have changed one hell of a lot since the last elections, in 2008.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Judge Who Overturned Drilling Ban Held Oil Stocks Back in 2008, So What?? / Politics / US Politics
By: Static_Chaos
The ink of the ruling against the offshore drilling moratorium is not even dry yet, the media is already jumping all over that Judge Martin Feldman is "greased with oil investments", says Mr. Christopher Helman, an Associate Editor of Forbes.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Oakland Police Brace for Cuts, Data Shows They are Overworked / Politics / US Politics
By: JD_Rosendahl
Time is counting down, as the City of Oakland has to vote June 24th on potentially cutting some 200 policemen. Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock. The vote is in 2 days, and nothing has been resolved. See the original, Welcome to Oakland-The Model City, the insanity continues.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
GasLand, Too Small To Matter / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
As I watched the documentary GASLAND last night on HBO my blood began to boil. I’m sure my blood pressure went up dramatically during the 1 hour and 40 minute film. After watching our corrupt government decide that the biggest baddest banks on the planet were too big to fail over the last two years and giving my children’s and their children’s money to these behemoth criminal enterprises, I was not surprised to see poor working class Americans treated like dirt by these same corrupt politicians. Big corporations can buy off politicians to ensure profits. The “small people”, as the Chairman of BP likes to call them, are expendable and can be ignored. They are too small to matter.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
U.S. Global War Racket Exposed: Funding Our Enemies / Politics / US Politics
By: David_DeGraw
Building on my Af-Pak War Racket report, a few recent news items help expose the true drivers of current wars around the world.
#1) Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in order to keep the wars raging and the profits rolling in. As former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell explained: “Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the US military machine to turn.”
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Gulf Oil Disaster Will Not Change U.S. Energy Policy / Politics / US Politics
By: Shamus_Cooke
As is typical with U.S. politicians and media, an extremely serious topic has nearly been reduced to absurdity. Once the urgency of the Gulf oil eruption has been fully sterilized, the stage will be set for business as usual politics — with the corporations comfortably in the driver seat.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Pelosi Slams Senate on Jobs, Rants and Raves, but is it Time for Her to go? / Politics / US Politics
By: JD_Rosendahl
The Nancy Pelosi show is getting old. She continues to get it wrong as a spendaholic on programs. Maybe it’s time for her to retire! Her latest: Nancy Pelosi Slams Senate Dithering On Jobs:
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Too Much Government in the Gulf, Preventing Clean Up / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Sadly, the disaster in the Gulf continues this week as BP's efforts at containment keep hitting snags and residents along the coast scramble to clean up and defend their shores and wildlife. Many have criticized the federal government in the past weeks for not doing enough. The reality is there is only so much government can do to help, yet a lot they can do to prolong the problem and misdirect the pain. For example, in the interest of "doing something" the administration has enacted a unilateral ban on offshore drilling. This is counterproductive. I am proud to cosponsor legislation to lift that ban. Why punish other oil companies and their hard-working employees who had nothing to do with this disaster, and who have better safety records?
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Can We “Fix” The Oil And Financial Crisis Before Its Too Late? / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
It seems clear that BP can’t seem to fix the catastrophic gusher the press calls a “leak,” and that President Obama can’t fix the economy because its problems are structural and won’t respond to soaring rhetoric emanating from his bully pulpit.
Meanwhile, most of the world’s people really don’t get the fix we are all in. I take that back; the million Americans who have just lost their benefits probably do. The deficit hawks voted that down without doing anything about the growing deficit of jobs.
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