Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Al-Qaeda and the Anglo-American Terror Network / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Andrew_G_Marshall
The End of the Cold War and Strategy for the New World Order
With the end of the Cold War a new strategy had to be determined to manage the global system. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, declarations of a “New World Order” sprang forward, focusing on the United States as the single world superpower. This presented a great many challenges as well as opportunities for the worlds most powerful hegemon.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Eurozone Banks Are Still Wobbly / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Mike_Whitney
The EU banking system is in big trouble. That's why European Central Bank (ECB) head Jean-Claude Trichet continues to purchase government bonds and provide "unlimited funds" for underwater banks. It's an effort to prevent a financial system meltdown that could plunge the eurozone back into recession.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Successful Government Economic Policies? For Whom? / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week, in the wake of another uptick in the official unemployment rate, the administration continued to claim that their economic policies were working, just not fast enough. This administration inherited an unemployment rate of 7.7% and promised a peak of no higher than 8% if their policies were followed. Not only does the administration have a funny way of ending a war, but now they claim their economic policies are successful. For whom, I wonder?
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Sustainable Tax Policy: Expensing Investments / Politics / Taxes
By: Axel_Merk
In what the Wall Street Journal hails as “one of his most dramatic gestures to business,” President Obama is proposing companies be allowed to write off 100% of their new investment in plant and equipment through 2011. Democrats are lukewarm to the idea as it doesn’t “stimulate demand”; Republicans are shooting down the idea, too. Few seem to realize is that allowing businesses to expense their investments may be the single most effective policy tool available to promote sustainable economic growth.
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
The Poor and Socialism vs Capitalism / Politics / Social Issues
By: MISES
Kel Kelly writes: Socialists commonly cite the existence of the poor as a reason for socialism, and they claim that their concern for the poor shows compassion and morality. Since the topic of poverty is a key battleground in the war of socialism versus capitalism, it is relevant to examine what poverty is, how much of it exists in the United States, and how we can truly eliminate it.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Israel Prepares to Attack Iran With WMD's, Could Trigger World War III / Politics / Middle East
By: Michel_Chossudovsky
The stockpiling and deployment of advanced weapons systems directed against Iran started in the immediate wake of the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq. From the outset, these war plans were led by the US, in liaison with NATO and Israel. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration identified Iran and Syria as the next stage of “the road map to war”. US military sources intimated that an aerial attack on Iran could involve a large scale deployment comparable to the US "shock and awe" bombing raids on Iraq in March 2003:
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Obama's Middle East Peace Talks Are A Circus to Distract / Politics / US Politics
By: Shamus_Cooke
What a joke. President Obama surely knows there is zero chance that his Middle East peace talks will succeed, even with the deck stacked in his favor. All of the main actors are on the U.S. payroll: Israel, Egypt, and Jordan get billions in foreign aide, while the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has proven a pliable puppet for the U.S. as he is disdained by his own people.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Middle East Peace Talks Another Fraud / Politics / Middle East
By: LewRockwell
Eric Margolis writes: On 2 Sept, 2001, in a newspaper article, I wrote: "America’s strategic and economic interests in the Mideast and Muslim world are being threatened by the agony in Palestine, which inevitably invites terrorist attacks against US citizens and property."
The 9/11 attacks came nine days later.
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Bankster's Cheer When Fraud Charges Are Dropped Again / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Danny_Schechter
Ben Affleck’s next movie, the Town, is set in Charlestown Mass, known for the battle of Bunker Hill and dubbed in the past by tabloid TV as “hell’s half acre” for all the crimes that take place there. The film, a cops and robbers tale, focuses on a gang that robs banks with extreme violence. Its ads refer to Charlestown as national capitol of bank robberies.
Monday, September 06, 2010
U.S. Labor Day Insanity from Clinton's Secretary of Labor / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
It's Labor Day. The markets are closed. Those working for government, banks, schools etc have the day off. All totaled, 17.3 million citizens do not have a job today nor a job they can return to on Tuesday. Another 8.9 million will not work as many hours as they would like, this week, next week, or the week after that.
Monday, September 06, 2010
The Great Collapse of the Carbon Trading Chicago Climate Exchange / Politics / Climate Change
By: Submissions
Patrick Henningsen writes: Plagued by a free fall in carbon emissions prices and the perennial failure of Washington to pass any binding Cap and Trade Bill, it seems that the Chicago Climate Exchange is on its last leg, announcing that it will be scaling back its operations.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Labour Day 2010, Economic Austerity, Public Services and the Labour Movement / Politics / Social Issues
By: Global_Research
Greg Albo and Bryan Evans write: This Labour Day, like the last two, is dominated by the ongoing global economic crisis. Since 2008 Canada's workers, working families, and the communities in which we make our lives, have endured a period of deep economic insecurity the likes of which we have not seen since the Great Depression. The crisis began in the financial sector, amongst bankers, brokers, lawyers, and financial engineers of all sorts when the credit bubbles supporting the casino economy of derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps and other financial instruments began to deflate.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Conservatives are Semi-Communists / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
Three of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto (1848) are still universally accepted.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.Read full article... Read full article...5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Dynamics of Poverty, the Destitute Index / Politics / Social Issues
By: Mike_Shedlock
In response to Reflections on the "Recovery" reader "Thomas" has an interesting question regarding U6 unemployment that I would like to share.
Thomas writes ...
Monday, September 06, 2010
Mainstream Media Depression and Deflation Propaganda / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Howard_Katz
Cause and Effect - Fanaticism has been defined as the policy of repeating the same actions while expecting a different result. If that is the case, then we live in a society of fanatics, and it is absolutely essential to know this if one is to succeed in the financial markets.
In mid-September 2008, the New York Times began to scream, in a series of big headlines, that the nation was in a financial crisis. I have studied the American media, and it is absolutely amazing. The overwhelming majority of newspapers will pick up a line of propaganda from the Times and repeat it mindlessly ad infinitum. After 2 weeks of Times propaganda the nation’s media had fallen in line, and in 10 days in early October the DJI fell by 3000 points (as the public read a large number of bearish articles about the financial system).
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Monday, September 06, 2010
The NGO Invastion and Occupation of Afghanistan / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Global_Research
Yves Engler writes: They’re called NGOs — non-governmental organizations — but the description is misleading at best, or an outright lie generated by intelligence agencies at worst.
In fact, almost all development NGOs receive a great deal of their funding from government and in return follow government policies and priorities. While this was always true, it has become easier to see with Stephen Harper’s Conservative Canadian government, which lacks the cleverness and subtlety of the Liberal Party who at least funded some “oppositional” activity to allow NGOs a veneer of independence.
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Monday, September 06, 2010
A Little Rice Wine Spat: Taiwan vs. U.S. and EU / Politics / Global Economy
By: Static_Chaos
Taiwan, (aka The Republic of China, ROC), the tiny island just across the Strait from China-- found itself taking considerable heat from the United States and European Union (EU)—two biggest exporters of alcoholic beverages to the Taiwanese market--over a planned tax cut on its locally brewed rice wine.
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Sunday, September 05, 2010
America's Economic Nightmare Is Just Beginning / Politics / Great Depression II
By: Submissions
David Michael Green writes: In the 1930s, the only thing we had to fear was fear, itself. Today, the main thing we have to fear is us, ourselves.
Looking out over the horizon, I'm starting to wonder just how many shades of dark there are on the pallette. Lately, I get the feeling that we're about to find out.
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Sunday, September 05, 2010
Middle East Conflict Costs Region $12 Trillion Over 20 Years / Politics / Middle East
By: Rick_Rozoff
The Internet has provided the world with, if nothing else, instantaneous access to news and in-depth information previously available only to governments and think tanks. It has also allowed for the exchange of data and analyses between groups and individuals around the globe, in part by making one tongue, English, the language of the World Wide Web. It remains to be seen whether the keystroke is mightier than the sword.
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Afghanistan Banking System Crash, Americans to Bailout Afghanistan's Biggest Bank? / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Washingtons_Blog
As I have repeatedly pointed out, American taxpayers have been bailing out foreign banks for years.
For example, I noted in May: As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Federal Reserve might open up its "swap lines" again to bail out the Europeans:
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