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Last Updated: Oct 30th, 2006 - 02:18:15 |
Analysis
The U.S. housing bust: Excess investment and its discontents
By Seth Sandronsky
The sale prices of existing homes in the Midwest and
Northeast are falling as over-all sales across the country are declining, according
to the U.S. National Association of Realtors. In the West, home sales are also
down but sale prices remain roughly the same.
Oct 17, 2006, 00:35
Analysis
Headwinds for the US economy
By Rodrigue Tremblay
In 2004, it was revealed that Saudi Prince Bandar had
promised President George W. Bush that Saudi Arabia would increase oil
production and lower
oil prices in the months before the 2004 presidential election --
to ensure that the U.S. economy was strong on election day. This was exposed in
Washington journalist Bob Woodward's 2004 book �Plan of
Attack.."
Oct 16, 2006, 00:21
Analysis
A subtle kind of fascism
By John Chuckman
The word fascism
is used a lot, often pejoratively. The image that immediately comes to mind is
Mussolini in a steel helmet, hands on hips, head tipped back, jaw thrust out.
It is an image that influenced other fascists. Young Hitler was a great
admirer.
Oct 12, 2006, 00:54
Analysis
Removing Hamas: Brinkmanship tactics or coup d'�tat
By Nicola Nasser
Within the context of
a U.S.-Israeli determined campaign to remove the elected Islamic Resistance
Movement from power, the best of the Palestinian mainstream anti-occupation
activists of Fatah and Hamas are being polarized into a deadlocked divide that
is already threatening an historic national unity with a looming civil war, as
a result of either risky brinkmanship tactics or what Hamas says is a coup d'�tat.
Oct 6, 2006, 00:49
Analysis
Accelerating the collapse of Iraq
By Abbas J. Ali
Before the invasion
of Iraq in March 2003, the neoconservatives thought that incapacitating Iraqi�s
social and political institutions would facilitate the termination of Iraq�s
cultural and national identity. It was
believed that this would ease occupation and ensure the total submission to the
neoconservative�s design for Iraq and the entire Middle East.
Oct 3, 2006, 01:33
Analysis
A political culture of lies and war
By Rodrigue Tremblay
As a principle, a
democratic government should not rely on misinformation, half-truths and
outright lies in order to defend its public policies. Indeed, public affairs
should be discussed in the open and policies judged on their merit. To do
otherwise is to betray the necessary trust a responsible government must have
with the citizens. But everybody knows that politicians do lie, and the more
they get away with it, the more they resort to this subterfuge.
Oct 2, 2006, 00:39
Analysis
The Zarqawi affair, part 9 of 15
By B. J. Sabri
How did the United Nations, imperialist media,
and Zionist academia react to the attack against the U.N. headquarters in
Baghdad?
Sep 22, 2006, 01:55
Analysis
Iran: the media, the empires, and the destruction of democracy
By Luciana Bohne
Wolf Blitzer was
astonished by the claim made by Retired Air Force General Sam Gardiner that the
US has been conducting
military operations in Iran for 18 months. "The evidence is
overwhelming," said the general, to which Blitzer responded by suggesting
that this may be a US propaganda campaign to intimidate Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmedinejad.
Sep 22, 2006, 01:53
Analysis
Hugo Chavez and the sulfuric odor of �devil� Bush
By Larry Chin
In an address at the United Nations, Venezuelan
president Hugo Chavez delivered a sober, scathing and articulate denunciation
of
the Bush administration and its foreign policy, and a dead-on accurate
depiction of George W. Bush�s psychopathology.
Sep 22, 2006, 01:42
Analysis
The surprising end of the New American Century
By Mike Whitney
The Iranian mullahs
have one advantage over the Bush administration if war breaks out. They know
what Bush plans to do. They know that he intends to bomb numerous targets which
are unrelated to the nuclear facilities, and they know that his ultimate goal
is �regime change.� This fits into America�s larger region-wide schema of
crushing indigenous resistance movements (Hamas and Hezbollah), redrawing the
map of the Middle East, and integrating the oil of the Caspian Basin into the
US-controlled economic system.
Sep 22, 2006, 01:39
Analysis
The Zarqawi affair, part 8 of 15
By B. J. Sabri
What were the preludes predating the official
appearance of the Zarqawi hoax, and most importantly, was there a
premonitory prelude before all preludes? I shall discuss the premonitory
preludes last -- backtracking is essential to see events in reversed
perspective, thus demonstrating that the U.S. prepared, labored, and executed
those events according to a long-term methodical plan.
Sep 21, 2006, 01:25
Analysis
The wheels may be falling off the imperialists' plan for global hegemony
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) -- As the neocons, the
corporate news media, and the international banking class push the world
towards more military showdowns in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and wherever else they
can provoke a crisis, along with their ultimate goal -- a "Clash of
Civilizations" -- there are some important crosswinds blowing around the
world that may stop them dead in their tracks.
Sep 21, 2006, 01:22
Analysis
The Zarqawi affair, part 7 of 15
By B. J. Sabri
Why does Israel want to partition Iraq? Does Israel
possess the material means to do it? And, where does Zarqawi fit in this plan?
For all practical reasons, Israel (via decision makers loyal to it and to
Zionism inside the American regimes since George H. W. Bush) had, de facto,
partitioned Iraq with the so-called No-Fly Zones (NFZs) on Iraq�s national
airspace after the end of the Gulf War Slaughter in 1991.
Sep 20, 2006, 01:20
Analysis
The Zarqawi affair, part 6 of 15
By B. J. Sabri
To summarize from the
previous part: how was it possible that a small state with no legitimate claims
to exist, no resources, low population count, and above all, surrounded by legitimate
hostile forces, could grow up so rapidly to become a military regional power?
Why did the United States and the West finance and arm Israel? Was that because
of infatuation with Israel as an idea?
Sep 19, 2006, 00:50
Analysis
The Zarqawi affair, part 5 of 15
By B. J. Sabri
What were the
tactical moves undertaken by the United States and Israel to weaken the Shiites
but not to defeat them entirely, since they need them to maneuver through the
persistent failure of the occupation regime despite all ruses that included
election under the directives of Israeli planners?
Sep 18, 2006, 02:30
Analysis
The Zarqawi affair, part 4 of 15
By B. J. Sabri
Can anyone verify that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was alive
between the day the U.S. announced his existence and the day it announced his
death?
Sep 15, 2006, 00:51
Analysis
The Zarqawi affair, part 3 of 15
By B. J. Sabri
Previously, I asked the question: if the specific
conditions of a nation (such as Iraq) impede it from repelling an invasion by a
technologically superior enemy, does this enemy expect that nation to submit to
its order and accept being conquered?
Sep 14, 2006, 00:39
Analysis
The Zarqawi affair, part 2 of 15
By B. J. Sabri
Within the United
States, three forces converged to destabilize the Arab states through wars,
threat of military intervention, and assassination of political figures.
Sep 13, 2006, 02:18
Analysis
The Zarqawi affair, part 1 of 15
By B. J. Sabri
Hoaxes and pretexts
are the tactical tools of the United States and Israel to alter by wars of
aggression the geostrategic, demographic, religious, cultural, and political
realities of the Middle East. The undeclared target is the direct or indirect
colonialist conquest of the region by stages.
Sep 12, 2006, 01:22
Analysis
The Anglo-American empire�s 9/11 atrocity: criminality�s zenith
By Larry Chin
Five years ago, on September 11, 2001, the George W.
Bush administration and its allies and functionaries carried out the
spectacular mass murder of 3,000 US citizens, establishing the pretext to
unleash an unprecedented worldwide rampage of criminality, and a permanent war
of conquest (the manufactured �war on terrorism�) that continues to escalate.
Sep 11, 2006, 00:39
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