Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
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?
Friday, December 25, 2009
The Economic Crisis Ends 2009, the Political Crisis Begins 2010 / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Shamus_Cooke
First Iceland, then Ireland, now Greece. Much of Europe is mired in inescapable debt and bankrupt nations, the result of crashing banks, bank bailouts, and soaring unemployment. The U.S. and U.K. watch from a distance, knowing their turn is next.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Selling You with Baseball Legends and the Buffett Name / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Stathis
I come across silly articles everyday by guys with no idea what they are doing. Their goal is to sell ads and subscriptions to their newsletter, or to get you to hand them your money so they can send it to some "money manager."
The most common and effective tactic is to use Warren Buffet's name in the title of these pieces because the herd mentality thinks that what Buffett does or likes actually matters to individual investors.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
Faber Says Watch US vs. China Great Powers Game Play During 2010 / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: LewRockwell
Dr Faber, in the September issue of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report you said that the future will be a total disaster with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it. Three months later do you still stand by that assessment or did you underestimate the power of the governments to shore up the global economy?
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Obama's Role in the Militarization of Mexico, Interview with Laura Carlsen / Politics / Mexico
By: Mike_Whitney
"Militarization is not the way to deal with Mexico's political crisis." Laura Carlsen
Mike Whitney--- Will you explain what Plan Mexico is and how it relates to the North American Free Trade Agreement? (NAFTA)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Global Warming and Human Cooling / Politics / Climate Change
By: Pravda
Scholars of UFRJ, USP, UNICAMP, and Embrapa (Brazil) sent a warning: if the conditions of the current economic model continue, by the end of this century the Amazon will suffer a 40% loss of forest cover in the area south-southeast-east, which will turn into savannah. The Amazon River will reduce its flow up to 30%, the Parana River by 53% and the Sao Francisco River will wane 70%.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Another Natural Gas War Between Russia and E.U. In 2010 / Politics / Natural Gas
By: Pravda
Russia and the European Union signed a memorandum on the mechanism of early warning in the energy sphere. The document was signed by Russian Minister of Energy Sergei Shmatko and European Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. This is the way for the EU and Russia to prepare for possible winter issues with the transit of gas through Ukraine. The document is expected to be discussed by the heads of the two parties at the RF-EU Summit to be held in Stockholm on November 18.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Intellectually Bankrupt Mainstream Press Awards Bernanke Person of the Year / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Bernanke in large part the architect of the financial crisis has now been awarded the prize of "Person of the Year" by Time Magazine. The award amounts to the icing on the cake for what has transpired over the past 12 months that has witnessed academic clueless economists in the mainstream press flailing in all directions in an attempt to be all things to all people.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Bernanke, Time’s Person of the Year Drives the Debt Crisis Spiral / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Claus_Vogt
Fed President Ben Bernanke has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2009. However, in looking back at former People of the Year it becomes crystal clear that this title doesn’t necessarily mean that the honored person has done something good for the world …