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Last Updated: Jun 25th, 2009 - 00:39:23 |
Analysis
Long on rhetoric, short on memory
By Jim Miles
Having watched the situation in Iran now for
several years through to the current protests by the dissident citizens of the
country unsatisfied with the election results, I remain as perplexed as ever. Not
the perplexity of not understanding what is actually going on as there are
enough news sources available outside the control of western corporate media,
but the perplexity of a world that ignores the larger context and the longer
history of the peoples involved.
Jun 25, 2009, 00:22
Analysis
Ignorance is strength
By Paul Craig Roberts
The American media’s one-sided and
propagandistic coverage of the Iranian election has made an American hero out
of the defeated candidate, Mousavi.
Jun 25, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
Can’t keep a good people down
By Reza Fiyouzat
More than a hundred years ago now, Iranians were
as loudly as now present in the streets demanding constitutional governance,
freedom from random harassment by the state and a legitimate representational
system.
Jun 22, 2009, 00:19
Analysis
Iran faces greater risks than it knows
By Paul Craig Roberts
Stephen Kinzer’s book, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup
and the Roots of Middle East Terror , tells
the story of the overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected leader, Mohammed
Mosaddeq, by the CIA and the British MI6 in 1953. The CIA bribed Iranian
government officials, businessmen, and reporters, and paid Iranians to
demonstrate in the streets.
Jun 19, 2009, 00:22
Analysis
An economic Tsunami bears down on America; China watches and waits
By Michael Payne
This is a tale of two very powerful nations.
One, called the world’s only Superpower, has a very aggressive foreign policy with
a massive network of military installations around this planet. The other, the
world’s skyrocketing economic power, has a low-key foreign policy and no real
military presence except within its borders. America and China, with two
distinctly different philosophies and agendas are on a collision course that
will determine which of them will lead the world in the decades to follow.
Jun 15, 2009, 00:19
Analysis
Bernanke’s next parlor trick
By Mike Whitney
Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke is getting
ready to pull another rabbit out of his hat and he’s hoping no one figures out
what he’s up to. Here’s the scoop; the Fed chief needs to “borrow up to $3.25
trillion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30” (Bloomberg) without triggering a
run on the dollar.
Jun 15, 2009, 00:15
Analysis
Deflation, not inflation, is the real enemy
By Mike Whitney
The Republicans are convinced that
hyperinflation is just around the corner, but don’t bet on it. The real enemy
is deflation, which is why Fed chief Bernanke has taken such extraordinary
steps to pump liquidity into the system.
Jun 12, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
Securitization: The biggest rip-off ever
By Mike Whitney
Is it possible to make hundreds of billions of
dollars in profits on securities that are backed by nothing more than
cyber-entries into a loan book?
Jun 9, 2009, 00:16
Analysis
Obama’s speech in Cairo
By Paul Craig Roberts
What are we to make of Obama’s speech at Cairo
University in Egypt?
Jun 8, 2009, 00:19
Analysis
Economic policymakers have created a perfect storm
By Paul Craig Roberts
Economic news remains focused on banks and
housing, while the threat mounts to the US dollar from massive federal budget
deficits in fiscal years 2009 and 2010.
Jun 5, 2009, 00:22
Analysis
European Parliamentary elections: A farce without the fun of Eurovision
By Chronis Polychroniou
Eurovision, pop’s music biggest kitsch and
extravaganza show, a cultural Chernobyl,
is a wildly popular event and a testimony of the overpowering dominance of low
mass culture in the age of globalization. With its overriding emphasis on the
predominance of effect and standardization, Eurovision represents or reflects
the thoughtlessness or the content of the thought of a mass-consuming society
whose members take a pleasure in meaningless pleasures and seek, either
consciously or unconsciously, to escape from the burden of individual freedom
and social praxis by allowing themselves to be docile and content.
Jun 4, 2009, 00:21
Analysis
The mixed up, muddled up, shook up world of human rights politics
By Reza Fiyouzat
In oppositional politics, there are different
ways of arriving at ‘what is to be done,’ both practically and theoretically.
In the U.S., one frequently practiced method is to watch the mouths of the
imperialists and their ideologues and wait for them to say something or make
some declaration, and then say the exact opposite and call that an anti-imperialist
position; analysis is then retrofitted to justify the position.
Jun 2, 2009, 00:22
Analysis
Mr. Abbas Goes to Washington
By Ali Abunimah
If the Oval Office guest list is an indicator,
President Obama is making good on his commitment to try to revive the long-dead
Arab-Israeli peace process. On May 18, President Obama received Israel’s new
prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu; last Thursday, he met with Mahmoud Abbas,
leader of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.
Jun 2, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
The next leg down is deflation
By Mike Whitney
Collapsing home prices and credit markets
continue to put downward pressure on consumer spending, forcing the Federal
Reserve to take even more radical action to revive the economy.
May 28, 2009, 00:16
Analysis
Obama cannot afford to be indecisive
By Eric
Walberg
The centrepiece of United States President
Barack Obama’s PR campaign to show the world the US is the nice cop was
to end the military tribunals, which he called “an enormous failure”
during last year’s presidential campaign, and close the infamous
Guantanamo prison. This was Obama’s first major “achievement”
upon assuming office.
May 21, 2009, 00:22
Analysis
Credit where credit is due: We’re not out of the woods yet
By Mike Whitney
The financial channels are abuzz with talk of a
recovery, but we’re not out of the woods yet.
May 21, 2009, 00:16
Analysis
‘What Pelosi knew’ is a ‘war on terrorism’ red herring
By Larry Chin
A red herring is a fallacy in which an
irrelevant topic is used to divert attention from the original issue. The furor
over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s knowledge of the Bush/Cheney administration’s
use of torture is the latest Washington noise that conveniently diverts
attention from the illegitimate “war on terrorism” that continues to serve as
the justification for torture, murder and war.
May 20, 2009, 00:19
Analysis
Bringing the threat of war to Russia’s borders is having wide-ranging repercussions
By Eric
Walberg
As Russian troops marched to celebrate the
victory over Nazi Germany 8 May, NATO troops -- 1,300 of them from 10 member
countries and six “partners” -- were beginning their month-long Cooperative
Longbow/Lancer war “games” on Russia’s southern border.
May 18, 2009, 00:19
Analysis
Record shows Hate Crimes Prevention Act will suppress speech
By Paul Craig Roberts
A statute’s words do not tell how the law will
be interpreted and applied.
May 14, 2009, 00:18
Analysis
Letting the ‘too big to fail’ fail and why
By Jerry Mazza
Let me outline Martin D. Weiss’s vigorous market
analysis, The
Next Mammoth Failures, because it identifies the big bad idea at the root
of our current financial vortex: the so-called “too big to fail” corporations,
whether they are banks, car companies, or mega-insurance companies.
May 13, 2009, 00:21
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