Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
On The Road To Copenhagen and A Global Food Crisis / Politics / Food Crisis
By: Robert_Palmer
Does the following analysis sound familiar?
“A weakening U.S. dollar is putting upward pressure on oil prices. The shock produced chaos in the West. In the United States, the retail price of a gallon of gasoline rose 50%, consumption dropped by 6.1% from September to February. Underscoring the interdependence of the world societies and economies, oil-importing nations in the noncommunist industrial world saw sudden inflation and economic recession. The energy crisis led to greater interest in renewable energy and spurred research in solar power and wind power as well as increased interest in mass transit.”
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Yemen, Behind Al-Qaeda Scenarios, a Geopolitical Oil Chokepoint to Eurasia / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: F_William_Engdahl
On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he was “suspected” of having been trained in Yemen for his terror mission. What the world has been subjected to since is the emergence of a new target for the US ‘War on Terror,’ namely a desolate state on the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen. A closer look at the background suggests the Pentagon and US intelligence have a hidden agenda in Yemen.
Monday, January 04, 2010
Bernanke Blames Congress for Financial Crisis / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Mike_Shedlock
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is back at it again, pointing the crisis finger at everyone but himself. To be sure there are plenty of congressional clowns deserving of a Babe Ruth style "big point", but the biggest point belongs straight at himself.
Monday, January 04, 2010
Demise of The United States of America, An American Tragedy / Politics / US Politics
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
The demise of a nation is often at the hands of others; and, whereas the usual suspects are its enemies, allies and friends cannot be ruled out.
The 20th century will be remembered as the century when America became a world power. World Wars I and II would decimate the then great powers of the world, e.g. England, Germany, Russia, France, Japan, etc., leaving the US as the last nation standing—the world’s sole superpower.
Monday, January 04, 2010
Change in The Old Order Impact on Financial Markets and Gold / Politics / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Howard_Katz
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfills himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.” Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Death Of Arthur.”
“The Death of Arthur” takes place in the 6th century A.D., but Tennyson wrote it in the late 19th century, and the idea he expresses is a 19th century idea. It is the theme for this first article of 2010 because evidence is coming in that, in the US today, the old order is changing. If this proves correct for the US, then similar implications may apply for the remainder of the world.
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Monday, January 04, 2010
Financial Reforms Are Being Watered Down As Bank Bailouts Are Up / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Danny_Schechter
New York, January 4th: It’s a new week, a new year, and some, erroneously believe a new decade. What’s not new is the stranglehold the banks have on our economy quietly stashing more billions for more bonuses while still restricting the flow of credit. Bad loans have been supplanted by no loans.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Political Christmas Election Messages From Gordon Brown and David Cameron / Politics / UK General Election
By: John_York
Gordon Brown getting progressively depressed, David Cameron the second rate substitute for Tony Blair
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Sunday, January 03, 2010
The Future of the United States, Systemic Fraud, Corruption and Financial Instability / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Craig Harris writes: As we close out 2009 and look forward into 2010 and beyond, this has been a year of near financial catastrophe and monumental change, none of which benefited America or ordinary Americans. Late in 2008 and throughout 2009, events have happened in the US which would have been labeled unfathomable just a few short years ago, and yet already these monumental changes are expected to be filed into the memory hole and Americans are expected to believe nothing has changed.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
U.S. Citizens Healthcare Reform Lucky Escape from Making Britain's NHS Mistake / Politics / NHS
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The proposed healthcare bill appears to ensure that Americans have managed to retain their free market based health care system that will now be subsidised by the Federal Government. Whilst a far from perfect system of health care, however what has been prevented is the U.S. making the same mistake of creating their own version of the NHS, where 70p of every extra £1 spent on it disappears down the NHS spending black hole that now seriously risks bankrupting Britain.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Gold, Guns and the Process of Civilisation / Politics / Social Issues
By: Douglas_French
In his extraordinary book Democracy: The God that Failed, Hans Hermann Hoppe points out that the process of civilization is stopped when government continually violates property rights.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
United States to Wage War Throughout the World 2010 / Politics / US Politics
By: Rick_Rozoff
January 1 will usher in the last year of the first decade of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States conducting war in the Greater Middle East.
Beginning with the October 7, 2001 missile and bomb attacks on Afghanistan, American combat operations abroad have not ceased for a year, a month, a week or a day in the 21st century.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
How to Protest Against the Big Bailed Out Bankster Run Banks / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Gary_North
The Huffington Post has come up with a nice little protest movement. Let's pull our money out of the bailed-out banks and put it in local banks that lend to locals. Who are the locals? People just like us.
This makes sense economically. If you ever want a loan, get it from your own banker. If it's a local bank, you will be treated well.
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Friday, January 01, 2010
Social Unrest and Global States of Combustibility 2010 / Politics / Social Issues
By: Mac_Slavo
The Economist says that 2010 could be a year the sparks unrest in the Global Tinderbox: “IF THE world appears to have escaped relatively unscathed by social unrest in 2009, despite suffering the worst recession since the 1930s, it might just prove the lull before the storm. Despite a tentative global recovery, for many people around the world economic and social conditions will continue to deteriorate in 2010. An estimated 60m people worldwide will lose their jobs. Poverty rates will continue to rise, with 200m people at risk of joining the ranks of those living on less than $2 a day. But poverty alone does not spark unrest—exaggerated income inequalities, poor governance, lack of social provision and ethnic tensions are all elements of the brew that foments unrest.“
Thursday, December 31, 2009
The Peak Oil Lie, Petroleum is Plentiful / Politics / Crude Oil
By: George_Giles
As the first decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close it is worth reviewing topics that may impact every man, woman and child. The disastrous Bush Administration pulled the legs out from under the baby boomers retirement with his inability to veto any spending bill. He has even crippled the future of the unborn. Lil’ Bush launched a global war on an adjective (terrorism) without any strategic objective. Previous wars had nouns as the subject. Social spending increased as well, not to mention the subversion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Obama HAS taken up right where Lil’ Bush left off.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
U.S. China Steel Tariffs Show Protectionism On The Rise / Politics / Global Economy
By: Mike_Shedlock
Price of steel is going up. Is that a good thing? For who? Please consider U.S. Trade Panel Rules for Domestic Steelmakers Against Chinese Imports.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Financial Reform Just Camouflage for Wall Street’s Latest Power Play / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Anti-Wall Street sentiment makes for a good cover, but behind the scenes and rhetoric, legislators are working with the country's largest financial firms to fashion a new system that concentrates even more risk and reward at fewer banks.
And what's more, the underlying socialization of the system will guarantee the success of excess with the full faith and credit of taxpayers.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
U.S. Thinking the Art of Military Planning / Politics / US Politics
By: OilPrice_Com
It is often assumed that what preoccupies military planners is their attempts to define the shape of future warfare so that they can adequately prepare equipment and doctrine ideal to meet the threat. Evidence, however, shows that what most occupies their attention is how to adapt existing force structures and systems to react to emerging conditions.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Understanding the Global Warming Hoax / Politics / Climate Change
By: James_P_Hogan
Science is concerned with objective reality: the way things are, that lie beyond the power of human desires or action to change. The purpose is to discover what's true, which means accepting that the answers will remain what they are regardless of how passionately we might wish them to be otherwise or how many others we might persuade to share our convictions. Preconceptions are discarded as far as is humanly possible. Facts alone determine what is believed, and whether the consequences are considered socially, politically, ethically, or otherwise good or bad falls where it may. Science of itself has no judgment to pass on such aspects.
Monday, December 28, 2009
U.S. Democrats Subverting Iranian Peoples Revolution / Politics / Iran
By: Shamus_Cooke
On Sunday in Iran, mass protests were drowned in blood by government authorities; at least ten reportedly have been killed with hundreds injured. The events have been given ample coverage in the U.S. media, with the intention of further demonizing Iran’s repressive government. Absent in the American media are the deeper implications of the protests, which, to anyone paying close attention, constitute a powerful revolutionary movement.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Democracy the Supreme Object of Adoration as a Global Religion / Politics / Social Issues
By: Robert_Higgs
No institution of modern life commands as much veneration as democracy. It comes closer than anything else to being the supreme object of adoration in a global religion. Anyone who denies its righteousness and desirability soon finds himself a pariah. One may get away with denouncing motherhood and apple pie, but not with speaking ill of democracy, which is now the principal icon of political and social life throughout the world. Many people are atheists, but few are antidemocrats.