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Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2009 - 00:43:44 |
Analysis
Things could get ugly fast
By Mike Whitney
Things could get ugly fast. With the Democrats
backing-off on a second round of stimulus, the Fed signaling an end to
quantitative easing, and Obama moaning about rising deficits; there’s a good
chance that the stumbling recovery could turn into another sharp plunge.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:18
Analysis
Nuke Gaza
By Jeff Gates
Israeli officials are right to worry. Gazans
too. Yet Americans should worry even more.
Nov 19, 2009, 00:22
Analysis
Today’s ancient warfare: Facts vs. beliefs
By Jeff Gates
In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs
are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception,
false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon.
Nov 18, 2009, 00:19
Analysis
Goldstonewalled! US Congress endorses Israeli war crimes
By Nima Shirazi
On the afternoon of November 3, 2009, the United
States House of Representatives voted in favor of House
Resolution 867 (H.Res.867), an AIPAC-backed bill that urges both President
Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to “oppose unequivocally
any endorsement or further consideration of the “Report of the United Nations
Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict,” referred to commonly as the “Goldstone
Report.”
Nov 16, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
Russia-India-China: The Bush curse
By Eric Walberg
United States President Barack Obama has shown a
flicker of independence in shaping US Eurasian politics.
Nov 13, 2009, 00:26
Analysis
Trade deficit threatens a double-dip recession, economic Armageddon
By Peter Morici
Today, the Commerce Department will report
September international trade in goods and services. The trade deficit -- the amount
imports exceed exports -- is expected to rise to $32.5 billion from $30.7
billion in August.
Nov 13, 2009, 00:18
Analysis
In Jon we trust
By Maidhc Ó Cathail
Appalled
by the Bush administration’s foreign policy, and feeling let down by a
compliant news media, many young Americans turned to Jon Stewart’s The
Daily Show for some critical insight into what had gone so terribly
wrong with their country, as well as some light relief from the horror of it
all.
Nov 12, 2009, 00:22
Analysis
How Israel won the settlement battle again
By Ramzy Baroud
When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband
uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the
occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sharp
stance against Israel’s continued violations of international law. Alas, they
were wrong.
Nov 11, 2009, 00:13
Analysis
Are you ready for the next crisis?
By Paul Craig Roberts
Evidence that the US is a failed state is piling
up faster than I can record it.
Nov 4, 2009, 00:11
Analysis
The rich have stolen the economy
By Paul Craig Roberts
Bloomberg reports
that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s closest aides earned millions of
dollars a year working for Goldman
Sachs, Citigroup and other Wall Street firms. Bloomberg reports that none
of these aides faced Senate confirmation. Yet, they are overseeing the handout
of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to their former employers.
Nov 2, 2009, 00:18
Analysis
President Barack H. Obama, One Year Later: ‘C’ for Effort
By Rodrigue
Tremblay
Barack
H. Obama was a good presidential candidate but, so far, in crucial areas, he
has been a somewhat disappointing president.
Nov 2, 2009, 00:14
Analysis
AfPak: War on two fronts
By Eric Walberg
As
more NATO trucks were being torched in Peshawar last week, a Karachi student
managed to fling his shoe at warmongering US journalist Clifford May during his
address to the Department of International Relations on “Pakistan ’s Role in
Countering the Challenge of Terrorism.”
Oct 16, 2009, 00:17
Analysis
Another war in the works
By Paul Craig Roberts
Does anyone remember all the lies that they were
told by President Bush and the “Main
Stream Media” about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV
media despite the reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to
Iraq, that no such weapons existed.
Sep 30, 2009, 00:24
Analysis
No big news from G20 summit
By Peter Morici
The enhanced status for the G20 and new national
policy audits announced in Pittsburgh are hardly the great progress being
proclaimed by government officials.
Sep 28, 2009, 00:13
Analysis
The great Fed-financed dollar decline and stock market rally of 2009
By Rodrigue Tremblay
The U.S. national debt clock is
clicking and it is fast approaching the $12 trillion mark, all the while the
Fed (less a central bank than the banks’ Bank) is printing new money like crazy
and lending it to its client banks at close to zero interest rates (i.e., at
negative interest rates). What is wrong with this picture? It simply means that
most Americans are losing big at this game, but a handful of mega-banks and
their affiliates are raking in tremendous amounts of money in easily made
profits.
Sep 25, 2009, 00:18
Analysis
The economy is a lie, too
By Paul Craig Roberts
Americans cannot get any truth out of their
government about anything, the economy included. Americans are being driven
into the ground economically, with one million school children now
homeless, while Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
announces that the recession is over.
Sep 23, 2009, 00:16
Analysis
Regulate bank pay
By Peter Morici
Wall Street greed and irresponsibility have
nearly destroyed the U.S. economy. Big bonuses for bankers encourage reckless
risk taking and were a principal cause of the credit crisis and Great
Recession.
Sep 22, 2009, 00:23
Analysis
Why propaganda trumps truth
By Paul Craig Roberts
An article in the journal, Sociological
Inquiry, [“There Must Be a Reason”: Osama,
Saddam, and Inferred Justification, Vol. 79, No. 2. (2009), pp. 142-162. [PDF]
casts light on the effectiveness of propaganda. Researchers examined why big
lies succeed where little lies fail. Governments can get away with mass
deceptions, but politicians cannot get away with sexual affairs.
Sep 21, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
Post-bubble malaise
By Mike Whitney
We keep hearing that “The worst is behind us,”
but the spin doesn’t square with the facts.
Sep 17, 2009, 00:31
Analysis
Euro peace: The sounds of silence
By Eric Walberg
After being the playground for 20th century
militarism, after finally uniting with no enemies in sight, you think that
Europe would be the world’s bulwark for peace. But a continent that rejected
the US war in Vietnam is in thrall to US militarism as never before.
Sep 17, 2009, 00:29
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