Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, September 06, 2010
U.S. Labor Day Insanity from Clinton's Secretary of Labor / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
It's Labor Day. The markets are closed. Those working for government, banks, schools etc have the day off. All totaled, 17.3 million citizens do not have a job today nor a job they can return to on Tuesday. Another 8.9 million will not work as many hours as they would like, this week, next week, or the week after that.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Conservatives are Semi-Communists / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
Three of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto (1848) are still universally accepted.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.Read full article... Read full article...5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Saturday, September 04, 2010
U.S. Delusional Democracy Favors Corporate, Wealthy and Elitist Interests Over Those of Ordinary Americans / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
For years I muttered mentally to myself about the insanity of Americans electing George W. Bush president. Now I go through the same agony about the craziness of the nation electing Barack Obama president. As much as I thought Bush was a manipulated second-rate politician that carried out the terribly destructive policies pushed by Cheney and other conservative corporate shills, now I feel equally angry that so many voters fell for the slick rhetoric and lies of Obama. Disgust produces public thirst for change and Obama was wickedly brilliant at selling change. When voters are so easily victimized what does democracy amount to?
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Saturday, September 04, 2010
Rip-Off By The Federal Reserve / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Liberty writes: The Federal Reserve uses euphemistic smoke and mirrors to obscure their operations. With full knowledge the following is not the way the Fed/government describes the system, allow me to offer a different analysis of their mathematical operation.
Congress can pay for federal expenses with funds collected from taxes, but Congress is never satisfied with this amount. The desire to buy votes/campaign contributions from special interest groups induces congress-critters to spend more, and this is identified as deficit spending. To create this make-believe money requires the assistance of the Federal Reserve.
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Friday, September 03, 2010
Putting an End to Democrats, Liberals, & Progressives...once and for all!!! / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_T_Bucci
Robert Murchen spoke. "I don't speak about Democrats of your country because it is a waste of my time. I don't listen to them any more I do socialist and union leaders in the EU. I will plan for the day they are considered illegal aliens. They live in a fantasy world and are the single greatest obstacle to progress and wealth building." Going further, he believes that the future of America has been decided; it will be "absent the burden of the imbecilic conscience interfering with matters strictly of business."
Friday, September 03, 2010
For Labor Day Weekend, When Unemployment Happens To You / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
When your life and your work is as entwined as mine has been—fusing the personal and the political over all these years, it may be stretching things to consider yourself unemployed but that’s what I am as Labor Day approaches.
Most of the media focuses on the big companies that have slashed their work forces (even as they hoard cash.) But small companies are also suffering, cutting back, and closing. They don’t get the subsidies or bailouts or the attention.
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
Obama’s Iraq Speech An Exercise in Cowardice and Deceit / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Bill Van Auken writes: President Barack Obama’s nationally televised speech from the White House Oval Office Tuesday night was an exercise in cowardice and deceit. It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world in its characterization of the criminal war against Iraq. And it was cowardly in its groveling before the American military.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
The State's "Inception" Fails, Massive unemployment and failing industries are the reality. / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Two years ago, the economy was seriously dragged down amidst an amazing banking crisis that spread throughout the world. The illusion created by loose credit — that housing could go up in price forever and we could enjoy permanent prosperity due to monetary expansion — was shattered by events. Reality had dawned. We found ourselves in the midst of an economic depression.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
The GOP's Masterplan: Obstruct, Smear, Lie, Repeat / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
Last Tuesday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the estimated impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (a.k.a.--Obama's $787 billion fiscal stimulus) The report provides conclusive evidence that the stimulus did exactly what it was designed to do and helped to avert another Great Depression. Here's a summary:
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
The Fourth Turning – Economic and Social Skies Over the United States Darkening / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
William Strauss and Neil Howe published The Fourth Turning in 1997. This was before the internet bubble, before the housing bubble, before 9/11, before the two wars in the Middle East, and before the financial collapse of 2008. They made a strong case for their generational theory of history. Everything that has happened since 1997 supports their theory. We are currently in the early stages of the Fourth Turning.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
A Culture of Fear Basis for American Foreign and Domestic Policy / Politics / US Politics
By: J_M_Finegold_Catalan
Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov warned the United States, "We have done the most terrible thing to you that we could possibly have done. We have deprived you of an enemy."
For nearly half a century, the elusive threat posed by the Soviet Union formed the basis of American foreign and domestic policy. Much of the United States' political and economic development was in fact a product of the government's exploitation of a supposed Soviet menace. Gerasimov recognized that the fall of communist Russia denied the American government the ability to exploit the fear of Marxism to its own benefit. It was as if the American government had lost its reason for being.
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Monday, August 30, 2010
The Poor Have No Chance of Joining the Rich, the Game is Rigged / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
THE AGE OF MAMMON
"Financiers - like bank robbers - do not create wealth. They merely distribute it. While the mob may idolize holdup men in good times, in the bad times it lynches them. What they will do to the new money men when their blood is up, we wait eagerly to find out." - Mobs, Messiahs and Markets
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Cycling in a Depression, "Guys like me who built America are no longer needed / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
John Mele writes: You want to know who I am? First, I'll tell you who I was.
I joined the Marines when I was 18, went to Vietnam when I was 19, was an 0331 machine gunner, survived a tour of duty in heat and humidity in the mountains of northern South Vietnam near the DMZ. My rear base, the Rockpile, was the most remote base in Vietnam at that time, or so we were told. I survived that war and when I got home I used the GI Bill to get into the Boston Architectural Center, a night school of Architecture. I worked days a few years as a construction laborer and then as an office boy in an architectural office. I got married, was accepted to the University of Oregon and got my BA in architecture in '77, worked, moved a few times (due to recessions), had two beautiful daughters, raised my family, etc.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Gold, Tea Party, Glenn Beck and Covert Operations / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Stathis
Subscribers to the AVA Investment Analytics newsletter might recall a few months ago I criticized a nonpartisan think tank for its sudden departure from meaningful discussions related to America's insidious trade policy. Incidentally, abandonment of the organization's position on the detrimental effects of unfair trade coincided with the appointment of its head figure to a top advisory position in Washington.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Waxman, Waters and Iran, Connect the Dots / Politics / US Politics
By: Katherine_Smith
- July 25 - WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of Army documents related to the war in Afghanistan
- Jul 28 - An out of character vote, by Henry Waxman, an apologist for Bush's wars against the 2010 emergency funding for the Afghanistan
- August 2 - the House Ethics Committee formally brought a case against Congresswoman Maxine Waters, one of America’s most enduring liberal and fierce Anti War politicians
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Iraq War Name Change to "Operation New Dawn" / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Kevin Zeese writes: In the week since the much publicized withdrawal of "combat" troops from Iraq it has become more evident that the Iraq War continues under a new name: "Operation New Dawn."
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Obama’s Delusions on The Economy and Iraq / Politics / US Politics
By: Shamus_Cooke
If you’ve listened to recent speeches the President has given about the economy and the Iraq war, you’d think that two of the biggest social issues facing working Americans are improving. But facts are stubborn things.
Take for example the numbers of jobs lost in the last two months: 221,000 in June, 131,000 in July.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Has Yet Another Fraud Been Perpetrated By BP & The US Government Against We The People?! / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Tom_Termotto
And What They Represent Concerning The Well In Question & BP Narrative
BK Lim has done it again. He presents here an alarming analysis of the events prior to and after the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon on top of the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. We very much appreciate this great revelatory work by BK Lim.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Why the Wars can't be Won / Politics / US Politics
By: John_Kozy
Edmund Burke's statement, "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it" is frequently cited, but in truth, even history's obvious lessons are unrecognized by many who know history very well.
There was a time when every school child could recite the Gettysburg Address from memory, especially its famous peroration: “we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." But that resolution has largely gone unfulfilled. So exactly what did the Civil War accomplish?
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Friday, August 20, 2010
How Could Illegal Immigration Make America Any Worse Than It Already Is? / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Mark R. Crovelli writes: Way back in the 1950’s, one could perhaps be excused for fearing that unhampered "illegal" immigration would lead to a dissolution of the American republic, as throngs of uneducated foreigners with different cultural values overran the existing American population. Indeed, one might have been justified in thinking, as many conservatives in fact did, that the unique "American experiment" depended upon the prevention of an influx of foreigners of the old-world mentality, who did not understand or appreciate individual liberty the way Americans did.