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Analysis Last Updated: Nov 4th, 2009 - 00:39:42


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

Analysis
Will the Corporate Supremes now dance on democracy’s corpse?
By Harvey Wasserman

The Four Courtsmen of the Apocalypse are poised to finally bury American democracy in corporate money. The most powerful institution in human history -- the global corporation -- may soon take definitive possession of our electoral process.

Sep 16, 2009, 00:22

Analysis
The ‘Axis of Evil’ and the ‘Great Satan’
By Deepak Tripathi

Spoken two decades apart, these words sum up the troubled history of the relationship between Iran and the United States. The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, once said, “There are no facts, only interpretations.” His observation holds true about the manner in which Tehran and Washington remain preoccupied with each other.

Sep 11, 2009, 00:19

Analysis
A fresh approach in Afghanistan: An end to war?
By Ramzy Baroud

Left out of the options under consideration in “Obama’s war” is the only one with any chance of success.

Sep 11, 2009, 00:13

Analysis
Taking down a nation: Money, murder and national sovereignty
By Nikki Alexander

If you wanted to destroy the infrastructure that holds our constitutional republic in place, how would you go about that? As with a controlled demolition you would need to dislodge the foundation from the bedrock where it is anchored and weaken the framework that holds the structure together. In practice, you would demolish the laws that support the legal and financial structure. Our constitutional republic would then collapse into its own footprint, meeting no resistance.

Sep 7, 2009, 00:20

Analysis
US audacity of hope falters: Settlement freeze no longer required
By Ramzy Baroud

The US has decided to be ‘flexible’ regarding its once touted call for a total Israeli freeze on the expansion of its occupied territories’ settlements, all illegal under international law.

Sep 4, 2009, 00:19

Analysis
There is no such thing as liberal fascism
By Gary G. Kohls, MD

Recent letters to the Duluth News-Tribune editor have accused earlier letter writers of not knowing their history. The letter writer of August 19 also alluded to a book entitled Liberal Fascism, which is one of the recent American right-wing Rovian/Limbaughesque efforts to distract attention from the legitimate, obvious and overwhelming similarities between the far right-wing politics of the current Republican Party and the far right-wing politics of World II-era Italy and Germany (and Japan, for that matter). That letter-writer needs to go back to the history books himself and learn about the history of European fascism -- which is very good advice for the rest of us as well.

Sep 2, 2009, 00:24

Analysis
Rome falls while the sun shines
By Andrew McKillop

In the 20th century, world population nearly quadrupled from around 1.55 billion to about 6 billion. Nobody in their right mind today claims it could quadruple this century, to about 24 billion. Population boomers are however still at work, most recently the newly victorious Democratic Party of Japan, insisting that restoring or strengthening population growth is vital for the nation and good for everybody. Above all, population growth is claimed as good for ‘classic’ economic growth.

Sep 2, 2009, 00:22

Analysis
Why not crippling sanctions for Israel and the US?
By Paul Craig Roberts

In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week Netanyahu called for “crippling sanctions” against Iran.

Sep 1, 2009, 00:13


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