Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Back in the U.S.S.A. / Politics / US Politics
By: Peter_Schiff
Harry Browne, the former Libertarian Party candidate for president, used to say: "the government is great at breaking your leg, handing you a crutch, and saying 'You see, without me you couldn't walk.'" That maxim is clearly illustrated by the financial industry regulatory reforms proposed this week by the Obama Administration.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Fear Has Made Every American a Suspect / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
The power of irrational fear in the US is extraordinary. It ranks up there with the Israel Lobby, the military/security complex, and the financial gangsters. Indeed, fear might be the most powerful force in America.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Obama Becomes America's Gorbachev / Politics / US Politics
By: Pravda
History may repeat itself two or three times or even reach the point, which Francis Fukuyama described as the end of history. The US historian of Japanese origin introduced the notion during the time when there were two dominating superpowers in the world – the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Wall Street Ends Hope for Homeowners Via Congress / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Shamus Cooke writes: As if the bank bailouts weren’t proof enough that Wall Street owned Congress. History will likely show that these bailouts involved the largest transfer of wealth ever — from the working class to that small group of billionaires who own the corporations.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
The End of the American Century / Politics / US Politics
By: David_Vaughn
Ever had roasted pig cooked slowly over an open pit?
Fun to watch that baby smoke and burn! Pictures of barbeque ribs, fresh pork sausage, and those luscious heavily loaded pork sandwiches. Of course there remains the tea, beans, and home made fresh cut Idaho fries. That’s a real depiction of the American lifestyle, huh? Freedom to stuff our stomachs and enjoy our time off as we please.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Frankenstein Corporations Avoiding Liability / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Ralph Nader writes: Once upon a time early in the 19th century, corporations came into existence by state legislatures approving charters, which were granted for a limited period of time and for limited purposes. These corporations - producing textiles and other products in New England - raised capital in part because their investors had limited liability. That meant they could not lose any more than their investment if things went wrong.
Monday, June 01, 2009
Panarchism, Liberty of the Governed from Government / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Michael S. Rozeff writes: Panarchism is a new political philosophy that builds upon and extends the core concept of consent of the governed, which goes back primarily to John Locke. Consent of the governed is a concept that permeated revolutionary America. It appears in Article 6 of the Virginia Bill of Rights. It appears in the Essex Result. Benjamin Franklin wrote "In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns." The Declaration of Independence asserts that "Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Capitalism and the Internet, the Market as Router / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Thomas M. Schmidt wries: The Internet, that glorious interconnection of separate networks, grew out of the ARPAnet, a network designed to remain operable in the case of a nuclear war. Traditional networks maintained a fixed central hub through which traffic might be directed; loss of these central hubs would lead to the collapse of the network. In contrast, internet protocols were designed with the notion of dynamically-built data paths, with specialized machines called routers finding connections to get data from place A to place B. In brief, the Internet was designed to route around failure; if the direct route from New York to Boston were blocked, a router might send data through Chicago and Denver first, with decisions on the route taken being made in a largely decentralized fashion.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Can America be Fixed? / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
John Kozy writes: “Washington tends to enforce a foolish consistency. If you are someone of some prominence whose views are known publicly, then everything you have ever said in the past tends to be projected forward and everything you say today is projected backward. Any discrepancy potentially brings charges of flip-flopping or hypocrisy or selling-out or whatever. Certainly, these charges are valid in many cases, but the simple possibility that circumstances have changed or that experience or new evidence has caused one to change one’s mind seems never to be seriously entertained. The result is to force people to stick with positions they know are wrong because they less fear being foolishly consistent than being attacked for flip-flopping.” (Bruce Barlett),
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Depth of Corruption of Theft of Public Money by Members of Parliament / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
John Pilger writes: The theft of public money by Members of Parliament, including government ministers, has given Britons a rare glimpse inside the tent of power and privilege. It is rare because not one political reporter or commentator, those who fill tombstones of column inches and dominate broadcast journalism, revealed a shred of this scandal. It was left to a public relations man to sell the "leak." Why?
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
U.S. Goverment, Public Finance, Gold, Bonds, Trends and Economy / Politics / US Politics
By: Michal_Matovcik
Government:
George Washington: “[Government] has no more right to put their hands into my pockets, without my consent, than I have to put my hands into yours…”
Monday, May 25, 2009
Good and Bad Government / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Michael Rozeff writes: Aggression is the act of attacking, invading, or injuring a peaceful or innocent person. Peaceful or innocent behavior is non-aggressive behavior. (Peaceful behavior does not exclude defensive behavior, which may include actions to repel aggression.)
Human government is the means of coordinating interpersonal human action.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
America's Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Andrew Hughes writes: Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry - After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the "Great Black Hope" in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world consciousness turned uncritically to what was presented as a new era for peace, change and trust in Government.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Who Is Barack Obama? / Politics / US Politics
By: Richard_C_Cook
Omna Last writes: In 2008 Barak Obama appeared from the wings, front-stage in the midst of the American melodramatic psycho-drama. He was half-Negro and half-white. A near majority of white Americans were so fed up with the ruling white-man-machine, they were willing to vote in a half-black man as president.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
General Motors Next On Obama’s Chopping Block / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Shamus Cooke writes: The greatest single attack on American workers since the Great Depression - The alarm bells should be ringing day and night about what’s being prepared at General Motors — the ripple effects could produce tidal waves.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Watching Barack Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
America has lost her soul, and so has her president.
A despairing country elected a president who promised change. Americans arrived from every state to witness in bitter cold Obama’s swearing in ceremony. The mall was packed in a way that it has never been for any other president.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Rumblings about the Impossibility of Closing Guantanamo / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Eric Walberg writes: Pornography, feminisation of the enemy? Confused over what Obama’s view on Guantanamo and the backlog of torture images from Abu Ghraib? Join the club.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
U.S. Social Security Trust Fund Running Out Faster than Expected / Politics / US Politics
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: We got lots of disturbing news from Washington last week. But the latest updates on Social Security and Medicare really got my blood boiling.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
American's Did Not Vote For This Obama / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
Anyone who has ever wasted good money on a clunker only to drop the transmission 15 minutes after leaving the car-lot, knows the feeling. It's like a swift-kick in the groin followed by weeks of fist-pounding rage. It's called buyer's remorse; "Gawd, I wish I hadn't bought that piece of dogshite!"
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Mealy Mouthed MP's Blasted Over Expenses Abuse on Historic BBC Question Time / Politics / US Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
If MP's were in any doubt as to the outrage amongst the British public then last nights BBC Question Time programme should bring home the serious situation which threatens literal rebellion amongst the British voters away from the three main parties in favour of the fringe parties such as the Greens, UKIP and the BNP.