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Analysis Last Updated: May 5th, 2008 - 00:42:47


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Gorbachev number two: Dmitry Medvedev; the West should get ready for a new transition period in Russia
By Andreas Umland

The majority of Russian and Western observers see the man who will become the new president of the Russian Federation this month as an only relatively liberal figure, if not as a faceless opportunist.

May 5, 2008, 00:21

Analysis
Perhaps 60 percent of today’s oil price is pure speculation
By F. William Engdahl

The price of crude oil today is not made according to any traditional relation of supply to demand. It’s controlled by an elaborate financial market system as well as by the four major Anglo-American oil companies. As much as 60 percent of today’s crude oil price is pure speculation driven by large trader banks and hedge funds. It has nothing to do with the convenient myths of Peak Oil. It has to do with control of oil and its price. How?

May 5, 2008, 00:19

Analysis
Anthony Julius and a journey to the dark Zionist world
By Gilad Atzmon

Anthony Julius is a prominent British lawyer and academic, best known for his actions on behalf of academic Nazi hunter Deborah Lipstadt. It was Julius who perpetrated the destruction of history revisionist David Irving’s career.

Apr 30, 2008, 00:16

Analysis
Global famine? Blame the Fed
By Mike Whitney

The stakes couldn't be higher for Ben Bernanke. If the Fed chief decides to lower rates at the end of April, he could be condemning millions of people to a death by starvation.

Apr 29, 2008, 00:19

Analysis
Yinon's prophecy: Is the US waging Israel's wars?
By Linda S. Heard

Many throughout the Muslim world and beyond are asking this question: What are the real reasons behind the US invasion of Iraq and its wish to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran?

Apr 29, 2008, 00:15

Analysis
Elusive peace: 60 years of pain and suffering
By Louay Safi

George W. Bush, who proposed the boldest peace initiative of any American president to solve the Palestine issue, managed to deliver only the most meager results during his two-term presidency.

Apr 28, 2008, 00:18

Analysis
Europe’s roots in social justice: The European Idea
By Gaither Stewart

ROME -- For the first time since Mussolinian Fascism outlawed them early last century there will be no Socialists and Communists in the new Italian Parliament elected in general elections in mid-April. The “radical Left” was swept out of Italy’s parliamentary life by the devastating victory of the Right, led by the populist Silvio Berlusconi.

Apr 25, 2008, 00:19

Analysis
Memo to Bernanke: Enough with the rate cuts, already!
By Mike Whitney

Last week's stock market blowout added more than 4 per cent to the Dow Jones Industrials, but it had no affect on Libor rates. Libor rose steadily from Tuesday through Friday signaling more troubles in the banking system.

Apr 24, 2008, 00:20

Analysis
Financial collapse will end the Iraq occupation, but it won't come at a time of Washington's choosing
By Mike Whitney

The US Military has won every battle it has fought in Iraq, but it has lost the war. Wars are won politically, not militarily.

Apr 18, 2008, 00:16

Analysis
Watching and waiting: al-Sadr's strategy to defeat the occupation
By Nicolas J S Davies

On the morning of March 19, on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, I stood with a small group of protesters outside U.S. Southern Command Headquarters in Miami. A reporter asked me whether I felt frustrated.

Apr 16, 2008, 00:20

Analysis
American hegemony is not guaranteed
By Paul Craig Roberts

Exactly as the British press predicted, last week’s congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Green Zone administrator Ryan Crocker set the propaganda stage for a Bush regime attack on Iran.

Apr 16, 2008, 00:14

Analysis
Want to save the US economy? Spread the wealth and give workers a pay raise
By Mike Whitney

A specter is haunting Wall Street -- the specter of insolvency. One major player, Bear Stearns, has already gone under, and by the looks of it, another may be on the way. It's getting ugly out there. The so-called TED spread -- which measures the willingness of banks to lend to each other -- has begun to widen ominously, suggesting that the money markets believe another body will be floating to the surface any day now.

Apr 16, 2008, 00:12

Analysis
When the Fed goes into the investment business
By Rodrigue Tremblay

In 1989, the U.S. government created the Resolution Trust Corp., in effect nationalizing many savings and loans banks that were in financial difficulties. Similarly, on February 16, 2008, the British government nationalized the Northern Rock bank and rescued this bank with about £55 billion ($107 billion) in public loans and guarantees.

Apr 14, 2008, 00:12

Analysis
Is the CIA behind the China-bashing Olympics protests?
By Larry Chin

Around the world, Beijing’s hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games has become the target of unprecedented, well-orchestrated and extremely hostile mass protests.

Apr 11, 2008, 00:28

Analysis
NATO moved eastward, upping the ante yet again with Russia
By Eric Walberg

The big news at the recent NATO meeting in Romania is that Croatia and Albania are now happy members of the family of peace-loving nations conducting a brutal war in Afghanistan. The bad news is that Ukraine, Georgia and Macedonia didn’t get the green light, with Russian and Greek revanchism the culprit -- clearly a great setback to the cause of world peace.

Apr 11, 2008, 00:24

Analysis
The fading American economy
By Paul Craig Roberts

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy lost 80,000 private sector jobs in March, half of which were in manufacturing. Today 13,643,000 Americans are employed in manufacturing, of which 9,849,000 are production workers.

Apr 10, 2008, 00:14

Analysis
Bernanke and Paulson turn to G-7 for ideas to stem global financial meltdown
By Mike Whitney

In a recent interview with the New York Times, former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O' Neill, was asked how the problems with subprime mortgages could lead to a financial crisis of global proportions. O' Neill said, “If you have 10 bottles of water, and one bottle has poison in it, and you don't know which one, you probably won’t drink out of any of the 10 bottles; that’s basically what we’ve got here.”

Apr 9, 2008, 00:17

Analysis
Brzezinski’s unconvincing antiwar posturing
By Larry Chin

Neoliberal elite Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the leading architects of the "war on terrorism” across the Middle East and the Eurasian subcontinent (and whose book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives laid the groundwork for 9/11) has adopted a politically expedient wolf-in-sheep’s clothing role.

Apr 2, 2008, 00:59

Analysis
Arabs divide; Israel rules
By Linda S. Heard

As the Damascus Arab League Summit has illustrated, the principle of Arab unity has rarely been as fragile. For the people of this region, this is a tragedy. The more Arabs are divided on crucial issues affecting their lives, the more unprotected and powerless ordinary people feel. For in the world of geopolitics small is definitely not beautiful.

Apr 2, 2008, 00:57

Analysis
Paulson's fixit plan for the financial markets: Less regulation, more power to the Fed
By Mike Whitney

It is being billed as a “massive shakeup of US financial market regulation,” but don't be deceived. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's proposals for broad market reform are neither “timely” nor “thoughtful” [Reuters]. In fact, its all just more of the same free market “we can police ourselves” mumbo jumbo that got us into this mess in the first place.

Apr 2, 2008, 00:55


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