Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
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.
Monday, December 28, 2009
A Year on From Financial System Collapse, Something is Not Quite Right / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Submissions
BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal.
Something's not right here. One year after the great collapse of our financial system, Wall Street is back on top while our politicians dither. As for health care reform, you're about to be forced to buy insurance from companies whose stock is soaring, and that's just dandy with the White House.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
U.S. Tax Payers Unlimited Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Losses continue to mount at Fannie and Freddie where Obama has virtually declared no loss is too big for taxpayers to pay.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Weak Russian Military Suggestive of Nuclear First Strike Doctrine / Politics / New Cold War
By: Pravda
In October 2009, Nicolai Patrushev, Russia’s Security Council Secretary, announced that the new military doctrine was on its way. The old one was dated back in 2000 and written even earlier, under Yeltsin. Patrushev named the announcement of Russia’s right for a preventive nuclear strike the key provision of the new doctrine. He kept his word, and this provision does exist in the text of the doctrine approved by the Security Council. The President of Russia is expected to sign the document by the end of the year. Experts believe that the doctrine is fair and properly reflects the current state of affairs.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
U.S. Congress Congress Increases Debt Limit To 24 Quadrillion Dollars / Politics / US Debt
By: Mike_Shedlock
Congress did not really increase the debt ceiling to $24 quadrillion but it may as well have. If every increase is a foregone conclusion, then it is a waste of time debating approvals.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Krugman’s Keynesian Christmas Carol / Politics / Elliott Wave Theory
By: William_Anderson
It is the year 2014 and Tiny Tim is ill, but he does not need the generosity of Ebenezer Scrooge to bring him back to health. No, as Paul Krugman insists, the Cratchits
Read full article... Read full article...have health insurance. Not from their employer: Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t do employee benefits. And just a few years earlier they wouldn’t have been able to buy insurance on their own because Tiny Tim has a pre-existing condition, and, anyway, the premiums would have been out of their reach.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Fragile U.S. Economy Under Increasing Stress from Escalating Afghanistan War / Politics / US Economy
By: Global_Research
Sherwood Ross writes: If Iraq war spending helped plunge the U.S. economy into its worst slump since the Depression, what does President Obama think his escalation of the Afghan war will do it?