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Analysis 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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