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Analysis Last Updated: Jun 16th, 2008 - 00:56:12


Analysis
Media reformers: It�s the economy
By Michael Winship

Last weekend�s National Conference on Media Reform in Minneapolis was a freewheeling, articulate, committed gathering of activists, policy wonks and everyday citizens dedicated to the idea that there can be no real democracy without a media democracy -- independent reporting from diverse communities free of the interference and spin of government and big business. Perhaps nowhere else can you witness an FCC commissioner like Michael Copps get a rock star standing ovation worthy of Mick Jagger or hear the words, �Common carrier rules are hot!�

Jun 16, 2008, 00:19

Analysis
The black days of 1948
By Dr. Marwan Asmar

For a long time, Israel sought to perpetuate a myth that it was not their officials who sought to expel the Palestinians out of their country but it was the Arabs who made them leave. This is how Israel justified and today justifies its existence by denying what it has done to others.

Jun 13, 2008, 00:14

Analysis
Why oil prices are so high
By Paul Craig Roberts

How to explain the oil price? Why is it so high? Are we running out? Are supplies disrupted, or is the high price a reflection of oil company greed or OPEC greed? Are Hugo Chavez and the Saudis conspiring against us?

Jun 12, 2008, 00:21

Analysis
Credit Default Swaps the next crisis -- subprime is just a �Vorspeise�
By F. William Engdahl

While attention has been focussed on the relatively tiny US "subprime� home mortgage default crisis as the center of the current financial and credit crisis impacting the Anglo-Saxon banking world, a far larger problem is now coming into focus. Sub-prime or high-risk Collateralized Mortgage Obligations, CMOs as they are called, are only the tip of a colossal iceberg of dodgy credits instruments which are beginning to go sour. The next crisis is already beginning in the $62 trillion market for Credit Default Swaps. You never heard of them? It�s time to take a look, then.

Jun 10, 2008, 00:18

Analysis
A million questions with one answer
By Peter Chamberlin

According to the US State Department, there are approximately a dozen separate anti-Semitic beliefs, the worst of which is the claim that wealthy Jewish-Americans economically control the government, the media, international business or finance.

Jun 10, 2008, 00:12

Analysis
Zionist terror 1946 to 2001
By Jerry Mazza

Why would we think that some portion of the Jewish people would not end as hardened by history as their oppressors? After all, they were a people who had been chased, derided, expelled through the centuries from country to country, only to land in the horrors of Nazi Germany, the camps, the ovens, the first industrial-strength genocide.

Jun 9, 2008, 00:23

Analysis
Heart of darkness: Princess Patricia and a Taliban takeover
By Eric Walberg

News from Afghanistan makes no sense. On the one hand there are upbeat stories like the recent Canadian Operation Rolling Thunder in Pashmul, Kandahar. �I started the operation on a hospital operating table and I�m ending it with everybody coming back safely. I couldn�t be happier,� beamed Major Grubb, leading the 2nd Battalion of the bizarrely named Princess Patricia�s Light Infantry Company.

Jun 6, 2008, 00:18

Analysis
Poisonous plutocracy pushes economic inequality
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

The biggest political issue receiving no attention by the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates is the powerful plutocracy that has captured the government to produce rising economic inequality.

Jun 5, 2008, 00:16

Analysis
In Afghanistan, US opens the door to opium for the masses (second of a two-part series)
By Eric Walberg

While the current occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq look to be part of an ambitious plan of US domination of the Muslim world, both are proving to be a much greater problem than their shadowy planners supposed. And whatever the conspiracy underlying the jigsaw puzzle Afghanistan forms a key piece in, it is certainly not one made in Russia, despite current US attempts to paint Russia, formerly enemy number one, as enemy number two, after the current enemy du jour -- Islam.

Jun 4, 2008, 00:22

Analysis
The US is repeating the Soviets� mistakes in Afghanistan, plus showing remarkable creativity in the horrors department (first of a two-part series)
By Eric Walberg

Twenty years ago last week, the Soviet Union began its withdrawal from Afghanistan, eight and a half years after it was invited by the desperate People�s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), which had degenerated into intra-party squabbling and was beset by Islamic rebels massively financed by the United States. The straw that broke the Soviets� back was when the US began providing Stinger missiles to Osama bin Laden and his friends.

Jun 3, 2008, 00:28

Analysis
The great oil swindle: How much did the Fed really know?
By Mike Whitney

The Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating trading in oil futures to determine whether the surge in prices to record levels is the result of manipulation or fraud. They might want to take a look at wheat, rice and corn futures while they're at it.

Jun 3, 2008, 00:26

Analysis
More on the real reason behind high oil prices
By F. William Engdahl

As detailed in an earlier article, a conservative calculation is that at least 60 percent of today�s $128 per barrel price of crude oil comes from unregulated futures speculation by hedge funds, banks and financial groups using the London ICE Futures and New York NYMEX futures exchanges and uncontrolled inter-bank or Over-The-Counter trading to avoid scrutiny.

Jun 3, 2008, 00:24

Analysis
The conservative movement has become the biggest threat to the US Constitution
By Paul Craig Roberts

UC Berkeley tenured law professor John Yoo epitomizes the failure of the conservative movement in America. Known as "the torture professor," Yoo penned the Department of Justice [sic] memos that gave a blank check to sadistic Americans to torture detainees at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

May 20, 2008, 00:22

Analysis
There is more than meets the eye about the world food crisis
By Eric Walberg

Food protests and riots have swept more than 20 countries in the past few months, including Egypt.

May 19, 2008, 00:21

Analysis
There appear to be no winners in Serbia�s recent elections
By Eric Walberg

Sunday�s elections in Serbia are being hailed as a victory for Europe , a defeat for the �ultra-nationalist� Tomislav Nikolic and his Radical Party. But the �For a European Serbia� alliance of President Boris Tadic�s Democratic Party, the G17-Plus and three smaller liberal parties, over the Radical Party, the New Serbia Party and outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica�s Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) does not bode well for anyone, including Europe. This will be another hung parliament.

May 15, 2008, 00:16

Analysis
Abusing Iran prior to and after WW II
By Jerry Mazza

In the din of anti-Iranian agit-prop, with the neocons waving their swords at Iran, oh icon of evil, I remember that oil-smudged page of history, the invasion of Iran by Great Britain and the Soviet Union, following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

May 14, 2008, 00:22

Analysis
Lebanon�s sleeping giant
By Linda S. Heard

Over the last few days, the world has discovered the hand that rocks the cradle in Lebanon. Whether Hezbollah is designated by the US and its allies as a terrorist organization or not, it has shown, without a shadow of a doubt, that it�s in charge.

May 14, 2008, 00:18

Analysis
What to watch in Wednesday's consumer price data
By Peter Morici

Wednesday, the Labor Department will issue April data for the Consumer Price Index. The consensus forecast is for a 0.3 percent increase in the headline number and a 0.2 percent increase in the core index -- the headline number with energy and food prices removed. My published forecasts are 0.5 and 0.2 percent in these two indicators of consumer inflation.

May 13, 2008, 00:09

Analysis
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Lies are truth
By Mary Rizzo

The people on the press staff of the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry are talented science fiction writers. Almost nothing that they write has any bearing on reality, and it seems that they use Orwell�s 1984 as a guidebook for news dispatches. All that they need to do is look at the facts on the ground (terminology that was invented by the Hasbara Committee, more than likely, because it is something different than reality. It has a bit of the sense of imposition of a negative reality that cannot however be challenged by �ordinary� people), and turn them on their heads. War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. That�s exactly how the Israeli PR staff represents reality with their warped mirror.

May 12, 2008, 00:14

Analysis
US terrorism report: Selective data, wrong lessons
By Ramzy Baroud

The data provided in the US State Department's annual terrorism report for 2007 points to some interesting if puzzling conclusions. The much publicised document, made available 30 April via the State Department's website, makes no secret of the fact that Al-Qaeda is back, strong as ever. It also suggests that violence worldwide is nowhere near subsiding, despite President Bush's repeated assurances regarding the success of his "war on terror."

May 12, 2008, 00:12


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