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Analysis Last Updated: Feb 9th, 2010 - 01:43:06


Analysis
A new generation of North American citizens
By Dana Gabriel

The North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) was created in 2002, and is one of many think tanks pushing for closer continental ties.

Feb 9, 2010, 00:21

Analysis
The source of the economic crisis: A Chicago state of mind
By Maidhc Ó Cathail

Worried about the global economic crisis? It’s all in your head, says a leading financial expert.

Feb 8, 2010, 00:22

Analysis
Jobs, jobs, jobs: gone, gone, gone!
By Ben Tanosborn

Here we go again, answering to the mindless, one-issue mentality of America’s Main Street. That Main Street that supposedly represents the consensus of what most Americans think. Or, some might argue, what the media persist the issue to be in the minds of many, if not most, Americans. And since that Republican fellow (Scott Brown) was elected to represent Massachusetts in the US Senate . . . to dare sit on that chair occupied for almost half a century by Ted Kennedy, the issue has become jobs, jobs and nothing but jobs. The lack of them, that is!

Feb 5, 2010, 00:27

Analysis
From Gaza to Lebanon: Beware the iron wall, the coming war
By Ramzy Baroud

The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as shrewd and unpredictable as ever.

Feb 5, 2010, 00:25

Analysis
It’s just not right
By Philip J. Rappa

Ten years into a new century, (a mere 234 years for the U.S. of A.) using history as our guide, we have, in the last 30 years, chosen for president a B-actor, an elitist whose father’s and grandfather’s patriotism was highly suspect, a morally impotent boy/man, a village idiot posing as a regular guy, and now, as we hang by a thread, we wait to see if hope floats.

Feb 4, 2010, 00:30

Analysis
Afghanistan and NATO: Fig leaf summit
By Eric Walberg

London has been the venue of a three-ring Middle East circus over the past month.

Feb 4, 2010, 00:28

Analysis
The crisis is not over
By Paul Craig Roberts

Readers ask if the financial crisis is over, if the recovery is for real and, if not, what are Americans’ prospects. The short answer is that the financial crisis is not over, the recovery is not real, and the U.S. faces a far worse crisis than the financial one.

Feb 4, 2010, 00:26

Analysis
Does Blair’s testimony clarify the motive behind the Iraq war?
By Yamin Zakaria

LONDON -- The ineffectual Chilcot Inquiry was never designed hold Tony Blair to account; rather it appears to have served as a lesson for future prime ministers not to make ‘administrative’ errors like submitting dodgy dossiers. Moreover, it gave Tony Blair an opportunity to present his side of the story in a casual manner.

Feb 2, 2010, 00:23

Analysis
Middle East needs bridges, not walls
By Linda S. Heard

Middle East peace has rarely seemed as remote as it does now. Instead of coming up with solutions, those involved are hurling accusations, erecting fences or throwing up their hands in despair. The longer this dangerous impasse continues the more the cauldron of violence threatens to boil over. None of the parties are immune from criticism, although some are more to blame than others.

Jan 29, 2010, 00:18

Analysis
Rule by the rich
By Paul Craig Roberts

The election of Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate by Democratic voters in Massachusetts sends President Obama a message. Voters perceive that Obama’s administration has morphed into a Bush-Cheney government. Obama has reneged on every promise he made, from ending wars, to closing Gitmo, to providing health care for Americans, to curtailing the domestic police state, to putting the interests of dispossessed Americans ahead of the interests of the rich banksters who robbed Americans of their homes and pensions.

Jan 28, 2010, 00:36

Analysis
Russia, Turkey and the Great Game: Changing teams
By Eric Walberg

For all intents and purposes, Turkey has given up on the European Union, recognising it as a bastion of Islamophobia and captive to US diktat.

Jan 27, 2010, 00:23

Analysis
Blair faces the hot seat
By Linda S. Heard

The world and its wife broadly agree that the Iraq war turned out to be a disaster on multiple fronts. Not only was it cooked up on false pretexts, it robbed the lives of over a million civilians, insurgents and military personnel. It has cost coalition countries up to one trillion dollars. It has also been judged illegal by the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan while a recent Dutch probe found that it had “no basis in international law.”

Jan 27, 2010, 00:21

Analysis
The ‘war on terrorism’ and the countdown to the 2010 Olympics
By Dana Gabriel

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics will be the largest security operation in Canadian history. It will include more than 15,000 Canadian Forces, private security personnel, along with the RCMP and other police agencies. The U.S. will also provide security and support for the Games.

Jan 26, 2010, 00:46

Analysis
The United States of Corporate America: From democracy to plutocracy
By Rodrigue Tremblay

On Tuesday, January 19, the Obama administration got a kick in the pants from Massachusetts voters when they filled former Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat by electing a conservative Republican candidate. The essence of their message was stop dithering and start governing; stop trying to satisfy the bankers and please the editors of Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, and start caring for the ordinary people.

Jan 22, 2010, 00:28

Analysis
The merchants of fear: Israel’s profiting from homeland insecurity
By Maidhc Ó Cathail

In the wake of the weird Christmas Day “underwear bomber” incident on Northwest Flight 253, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, as if on cue, was all over the mainstream media touting whole-body scanners as the answer to America’s airline security problems. Since leaving public office in 2009, Chertoff had co-founded the Chertoff Group, a security and risk-management firm whose clients include a manufacturer of body-imaging screening machines. While some in the media noted this rather commonplace conflict of interest, ignored by all was a far more significant abuse of the American public’s trust.

Jan 22, 2010, 00:24

Analysis
‘Chemical Ali’ is only one culprit
By Linda S. Heard

Saddam Hussein’s look-alike cousin, Iraq’s former Defense Minister Ali Hassan Al-Majid -- better known as ‘Chemical Ali’ -- has been sentenced to death for “crimes against humanity” that he was found to have committed in 1988 against residents of the Iraqi-Kurdish town of Halabja. He has a right of appeal but cannot escape the ultimate punishment. Four times previously he has been similarly sentenced by an Iraqi court on other counts.

Jan 21, 2010, 00:15

Analysis
Ethiopia commits genocide and Eritrea gets sanctioned
By Thomas C. Mountain

ASMARA, Eritrea -- The UN inSecurity Council has done it again in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia has been committing genocide in the Ethiopian Ogaden and in response the UN Security Council, in a closed door meeting, passed sanctions against . . . Eritrea?

Jan 20, 2010, 00:27

Analysis
The truth about Haiti’s suffering
By Finian Cunningham

Even in its hour of utter devastation, Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country, teaches the rest of the world some valuable truths.

Jan 15, 2010, 00:20

Analysis
Image of the beast
By Peter Chamberlin

Up until now, the United States has been able to exert control over most of the earth just by controlling the narrative that reflects popular opinion about the war on terror. Whatever government spokesmen or reporters have said happened on a particular day, was what really happened; it was validated by popular consent.

Jan 14, 2010, 00:33

Analysis
Wall Street awards big bonuses; Obama fails to stem abuse
By Peter Morici

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and other big Wall Street banks are awarding multi-million dollar bonuses to the same financiers who pushed the nation to the brink of financial ruin.

Jan 12, 2010, 00:23


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