Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Political Attention Deficit Disorder – New Psychiatric Condition Explains George Bush / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. It has been named the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD). It is recommended that the disorder be included in a widely used mental illness manual created and published by the American Psychiatric Association. The current manual was published in 1994; the next edition is to be completed in 2012. The benefit to people of an official classification is coverage by health insurance. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Article V Convention, Are Americans Unready to Boil? / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
The frog-in-boiling water model helps us understand political upheavals: how citizens wake up early enough (or too late) to respond to social and economic oppression. Sometimes the greed and arrogance of Ruling Classes makes them careless and social waters heat too quickly. Sensing doom, alert citizen-frogs escape or revolt. Or they stay complacent and boil. The Bush Administration has turned the heat up on us, explaining why nearly 75 percent of Americans believe their country is on the wrong track and 70 percent think the economy is worsening.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Up and Down the Bush Philosophy / Politics / US Politics
By: Walter_Brasch
Every president has a political philosophy that guides him and, sometimes, the nation.
George W. Bush believes he has divine inspiration to do what he wants to do, when he wants to do it, and to make his subjects adhere to whatever beliefs he holds for the moment. His political philosophy is a chunk of swiss cheese that is being forced down the throats of a lactose-intolerant nation.
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll results vividly show a population incredibly dissatisfied with their nation's political system. In other countries in other times such a depressing level of confidence in government would send a signal to those running the government that a major upheaval is imminent. But not here in the USA. Why?Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Swan Song for the Democrats for Supporting the Iraq War / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
The Democrats did us all a favor by giving Bush his Iraq war-money. After all, the Dems have supported the war from the very beginning. They deserve to be exposed as the phonies they really are.The truth is, no one is surprised by the recent vote. We have one party in America – "the War Party" – the Dems are just a junior partner in that system.
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Friday, June 08, 2007
Open Letter to Congressman Ron Paul / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
You have acknowledged the appropriateness of amending the Constitution. In fact, you introduced legislation for an amendment that would stop giving automatic citizenship to babies born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents. You said: “Our founders knew that unforeseen problems with our system of government would arise, and that's precisely why they gave us a method for amending the Constitution. It's time to rethink birthright citizenship by amending the 14th amendment.”
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
How Will The Media Destroy Ron Paul? / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
We all know the drill by now. Whenever a politician with character and principles throws his hat in the ring the media descends on him like feral hounds on a pork chop. It’ll be no different with Paul. The only difference this time is that we should all be aware of what’s really going on.
Did you see the Republican debates?
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
Ron Paul, Gold and “L'Infamie” / Politics / US Politics
By: Mario_Innecco
William Guy Carr, in his book entitled Pawns in the Game
, describes how the Powers That Be have throughout history tried to discredit people or institutions that have threatened their power. The strategy described by Mr. Carr is called l'infamie which is French for infamy. In Pawns in the Game Carr describes how campaigns of l'infamie were started against Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette during the French revolution and also against Tsar Nicholas II during the Soviet revolution of 1917. Human nature does not alter with the passage of time and with that in mind we have detected the following campaigns of l'infamie. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Delusional President, Insane Iraq War, Finding Hope In A Dismal World / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
For so many, hope is down the drain. Hard to fault them. Abundant evidence shows our insane world sliding down a global cheese grater.Fish are dying in the Great Lakes. Bees have disappeared. Polar ice caps and glaciers worldwide are melting faster than ever. A global pandemic of a drug-resistant strain of TB is coming at us. Much of the U.S. food supply is highly vulnerable because of imports and totally inadequate government scrutiny. Politicians keep lying. Americans keep dying.
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
Is George Bush an Idiot ? / Politics / US Politics
By: John_York
We all have our favourtie bushism's, some say he is stupid, others say he is just inarticulate.
Watch the following 10 minute video clip and then participate in our vote.
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Movie ‘300' supports false basis for ‘war on terror' / Politics / US Politics
By: Adam_Tenney
The new movie “300” is based on a graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics that retells the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states. King Xerxes of the Persian Empire continues the work of his father, King Darius, in trying to expand his empire into Europe and crush the Greeks. King Leonidas, the ruler of Sparta, is forced to muster 300 Spartans to fight off the Persian army that numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Dreaming of Democracy / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
What is this thing called democracy? So easy to talk about, so difficult to make real. Pure democracy is not what our Founders gave us. Who would want a simple majority to control the minority? Instead, America was given a representative democracy within a constitutional republic where laws that protect all people trump majority rule.
Standing between majority-won elections and government power are elected representatives: writing, overseeing and implementing laws. But when you can no longer trust the elected representatives what happens to American democracy? It becomes an oxymoron.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
The United States of Apathy - Less than half of eligible voters, vote in US Elections / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
American: So you mean that if you Australians don't vote, you get a fine?Australian: Yeah, and when you Americans don't vote you get George W. Bush.
As surely as politicians lie, citizen apathy produces democracy atrophy. Much more than a right – in a democracy voting is an irrevocable civic duty. No mental gymnastics can help you jump over this ugly reality: Voter turnout over all American elections averages markedly less than half of eligible voters. This disgrace must be fixed.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Operation FALCON - The USA is turning into a Police State / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
On 29th June, 1934, Chancellor Adolph Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel (SS), arrived at Wiesse, where he personally arrested the leader of the Strum Abteilung (SA), Ernnst Roehm. During the next 24 hours 200 other senior SA officers were arrested on the way to Wiesse. Many were shot as soon as they were captured but Hitler decided to pardon Roehm because of his past service to the movement. However, after much pressure from Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler, Hitler agreed that Roehm should die. At first Hitler insisted that Roehm should be allowed to commit suicide but, when he refused, Roehm was shot by two SS men. (Spartacus.schoolnet.co)
Monday, February 26, 2007
Barack Hussein Obama - The Democratic Messiah? / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
What a wonderful political distraction is Senator Barack Hussein Obama. Perhaps a good part of his attractiveness is that he is in so many ways the complete opposite of George W. Bush. Yet, what amazes me is how our bipartisan obstacle to true political competition continually creates illusions of change and reform. Thus it keeps a grip on Americans' hope for the future, and preempts public support for more profound political change. Is Obama just another example of how our corrupt political system ingeniously creates candidates to keep hope alive? Is the self-professed progressive Obama the real thing? Is he something other than a conventional politician? I have read many of his speeches and other statements. I applaud his upbeat rhetoric, but few policy details are given. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, February 23, 2007
Economic Inequality in the USA Reaches New Extremes / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
Rising American economic inequality has received attention by Senator Jim Webb, presidential candidate John Edwards, CNN’s maverick Lou Dobbs, and others. The middle class has not shared in rising national prosperity, because the nation’s wealth has been siphoned off to the richest Americans. Some elites are nervous. They have attacked what are pejoratively called “neopopulists” – people who say the middle class is under siege.
Surprisingly, the attack and economic propaganda have come from the relatively unknown Third Way group that is associated with the Democratic Leadership Council. Why would self-proclaimed progressives and centrists put out a report that says the whole economic inequality story is bogus?
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
The Axis of Evil shrinks by one, North Korea, will Iran be next ? / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
The Bush foreign policy is predicated on one simple axiom: “We will stop the world's most dangerous men from getting their hands on the world's most dangerous weapons”. By that standard, Bush's dealings with North Korea havebeen a wretched failure. After 6 years of fruitless saber rattling and belligerence, the North detonated a nuclear bomb in early October and put region on notice that there's a new member in the nuclear weapons club.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
State of the Union Address by a weak lame duck President Bush / Politics / US Politics
By: John_York
President George W Bush is shortly to deliver his 7th State of the Union address, now ranked 43rd out of 43 presidents by some 415 historians.
Key points that President Bush will cover -
1. Recognition of Global Warming
Year after year George Bush has dismissed global warming as an issue, Could the texan oil man now finally be changing his spots and going green ?
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Hillary Clinton declares intention to run for the Presidency on the day with highest US killed in Iraq in 2 years / Politics / US Politics
By: John_York
Hillary Rodham Clinton declared on her website her intention to run for the Presidency in 2008, with the message "I'm In".
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Nancy Pelosi opens 110th Congress as the balance of power shifts to the Democrats / Politics / US Politics
By: John_York
Nancy Pelosi became the first female
House speaker, and third inline to the Presidency after Dick Cheney. In the chamber of the House, its new speaker, Representative Nancy Pelosi, beamed and clapped as she listened as members elected her by voice vote.
She said: 'Today we make history. Today we change the direction of our country.'
'This is an historic moment - for the Congress, and for the women of this country. It is a moment for which we have waited more than 200 years,' Ms Pelosi said in prepared remarks. 'Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights.'
'For our daughters and granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling,' she said.