Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Big Business Fights Against Unionisation, Employee Free Choice Act / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
Big business has launched a no-holds-barred propaganda blitz against the Employee Free Choice Act. Their goal is to scare people into believing that if the bill passes it will trigger higher unemployment and a deeper recession. According to opponents, there's even the threat of creeping socialism. The truth, of course, is far less dramatic. The Employee Free Choice Act or so called "card check" simply makes it easier for unions to organize. Here's a short summary of the bill posted on the Change To Win web site: Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Destruction of the Government in Three Easy Steps / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Joe Brewer writes: In eight short years, conservatives have effectively bankrupted many state governments and left the fed in shambles. And now citizens have to "make tough decisions" and share the suffering equally across the land (unless of course, you're part of that lucky 1% who co-opted the functions of government to serve their own ends... they'll be cozy with their offshore bank accounts, golden parachutes, and permanent tax holidays). Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Geithner Yet Another Incompetent U.S. Treasury Appointment / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
It's clear to everyone that Treasury Secretary Geithner is in over his head and has no idea what he is doing. He should be fired. Instead the administration wants to give him help.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 16, 2009
Obama Battling Against the Forces of Casino Capitalism / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Ralph Nader writes: Indicators of avoidance are what come to mind while absorbing the various rescue, recovery, stimulus and guarantee programs coming out of the Obama Administration to slow and reverse a splintering and shattering economy. If the Obamites do not act now when the political time is ripest, to put into motion forces of deterrence and prevention, the casino capitalists of tomorrow will again be able to de-stabilize our economy. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 16, 2009
The FDIC Depositor Insurance: as Rock Solid as Social Security / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_Pento
We all should be painfully aware by now that there is nothing held inside the Social Security and Medicare trust funds but a bunch of IOUs. Monies collected from payroll taxes are treated as general revenues and used in the “unified budget.” But how many of us are aware that the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund works in a similar fashion?Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 16, 2009
America's Next Revolution, the People Seize Control of Economic Resources / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
My email exchange with Dr. Bede Vincent Curley
Mike Whitney: I have been beating the same dead horse for three or four years now and many people are getting tired of the endless iterations of collapsing markets, rising unemployment and growing pessimism. What's needed is a vision of the future and a concrete plan of action, but I don't have one. So, tell me, what is to be done?
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Friday, March 13, 2009
The Militarization and Annexation of North America / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Lendman
The title refers to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), also known as the North American Union - formerly launched at a March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas meeting attended by George Bush, Mexico's President Vincente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. It's for a tri-national agreement, below the radar, for greater economic, political, and security integration with secret business and government working groups devising binding policies with no public knowledge or legislative debate. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, February 27, 2009
America's Two Party Political System / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
David Michael Green writes: The Republican party in America faces two grave problems today. One is Barack Obama, probably the most skilled and era-appropriate politician in a generation or more. And that, after he's already through all of one whole month in office. The other problem threatening the very life of the Republican Party today is the Republican Party.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Washington Master Thieves Lecturing Wall Street Apprentice Thieves / Politics / US Politics
By: Oxbury_Research
The Thieves' Guild: What do I think of when I think of our nation's capital - Washington D.C.? The word thieves quickly comes to mind. It doesn't matter the political party. Both political parties are filled with scoundrels. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Obama's War on Terror / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Lendman
The language is softened and deceptive. The strategy and tactics are not. The "war on terror" continues. Promised change is talk, not policy. Just look at Obama's "war cabinet," discussed in an earlier article. It assures: -- the "strongest military on the planet" by outspending all other countries combined;
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Financial Crisis Ends America's Second Gilded Age? / Politics / US Politics
By: Oxbury_Research
Mark Twain called the late nineteenth century the “Gilded Age”. In fact, Mark Twain wrote a novel called “The Gilded Age” ridiculing Washington D.C. and many of the leading figures of the day. Mark Twain thought that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. Many people believe that there are many similarities between that era and our current era. It seems to me to be another instance of history “rhyming”. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Transcript of Obama's Speech in Elkhart Indian / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
President Obama gave a speech on the economy before an audience in a packed gym at Concord High School in Elkhart Indiana Monday evening.MSNBC offers President Obama In Elkhart: Video Of Speech Here is a transcript of the speech.
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Republicans Put Party Before Interests of the Nation / Politics / US Politics
By: Walter_Brasch
Every House Republican and 11 Democrats voted against President Barack Obama's $819 billion stimulus package. It still passed by a vote of 244 to 188. There are enough votes in the Senate to pass the bill, but the obstructionist Republican minority, still nursing the wounds inflicted by the public in the November election, can block it by endless political manoeuvring and a filibuster. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Goodbye President Bush, History will Remember You For.. / Politics / US Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
What will be George Bush's greatest legacy in decades to come ?
Sept 11th - "There's no doubt in my mind, not one doubt in my mind, that we will fail." Oct 01
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Bush Attempts to Take Credit For a Recovery That Has Yet to Happen / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
Nominations are being accepted for the most galling statement of the week. Here is my nomination: White House Sees 'Strong' Econ Recovery Early In Obama Admin .
The Bush administration said the U.S. economy should emerge from its slump in the second half of the year - an optimistic forecast released days before President-elect Barack Obama inherits a recession and mammoth budget deficit.
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Orwell's 2009- United States Big Brother is Watching / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Democrats Attacks on Obama Presidency have Already Begun / Politics / US Politics
By: Walter_Brasch
Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) flexed their muscles, shook their rattles, and told President-elect Barack Obama not to tread upon them. "I don't believe in the executive power trumping everything," Reid, the Senate's majority leader, told the political newspaper, The Hill. He said he believed "in our Constitution, three separate but equal branches of government." For emphasis, he warned, "If Obama steps over the bounds, I will tell him. . . . I do not work for Barack Obama, I work with him."Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Important Economic and Political Transitions During 2009 / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
As another year draws to a close, there are some important transitions ahead of us. Not just transitions to a new administration, but also economically, politically and culturally. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 22, 2008
The Death of Deep Throat and the Crisis of Journalism / Politics / US Politics
By: STRATFOR
Mark Felt died last week at the age of 95. For those who don't recognize that name, Felt was the “Deep Throat” of Watergate fame . It was Felt who provided Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post with a flow of leaks about what had happened, how it happened and where to look for further corroboration on the break-in, the cover-up, and the financing of wrongdoing in the Nixon administration. Woodward and Bernstein's exposé of Watergate has been seen as a high point of journalism, and their unwillingness to reveal Felt's identity until he revealed it himself three years ago has been seen as symbolic of the moral rectitude demanded of journalists. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 22, 2008
U.S. Government's Own Madoff Style Ponzi Scheme Fraud / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Billions of dollars were recently lost in the collapse of Bernie Madoff's self-described Ponzi scheme, in which too-good-to-be-true returns on investments were not really returns at all, but the funds of defrauded new investors. The pyramid scheme collapsed dramatically when too many clients called in their accounts, and not enough new victims could be found to support these withdrawals. Bernie Madoff was running a blatant fraud operation. Fraud is already illegal, and he will be facing criminal consequences, which is as it should be, and should act as an appropriate deterrent to potential future criminals. But it seems every time someone breaks the law, politicians and pundits decide we need more laws, even though lack of laws was not the problem.Read full article... Read full article...