Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Hamid Karzai And Hillary Clinton Engineering The Afghan War For Democracy / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Danny_Schechter
Oh, Hamid, Oh Hillary: How your worlds converge and diverge.
The Secretary of State was shuttling between Washington where peace in the Middle East remains elusive to New York to where the poobahs and her protégés at the Council on Foreign Relations welcomed her as the second coming.
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Thursday, September 09, 2010
Socialism as a Reaction to State Corruption / Politics / Social Issues
By: MISES
Anders Mikkelsen writes: Ambrose Bierce defined politics as a "strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." In the past many famous thinkers have noticed contemporary and historical examples of state corruption matching this definition, and these examples in turn were the inspiration for many a socialist thought.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
The Path to 9-11, CIA Builds a Credible Enemy For America / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Michel_Chossudovsky
This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America's "War on Terrorism", Global Research, 2005
"The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings....The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..", (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Obama Stimulus More About Politics Than Jobs / Politics / US Politics
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday (Wednesday) finished unveiling of a $350 billion stimulus package that the White House hopes will assuage the fears of troubled homeowners and create jobs. But with midterm elections looming and Congressional Democrats expected to sustain heavy losses, it's unlikely the plan will even get passed - much less generate any meaningful economic growth.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Genetically Engineered Forests, Altering the Chemistry of the Atmosphere and Hydrosphere / Politics / Climate Change
By: Global_Research
Rady Ananda writes: Imagine our declining pollinators – bees, moths, butterflies and bats – coming upon thousands of acres of toxic trees, genetically engineered so that every cell in the tree exudes pesticide, from crown to root. Imagine a world without pollinators. Without seed dispersers. Without soil microbes.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
9/11, Al-Qeada and the 9-Year War / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: STRATFOR
It has now been nine years since al Qaeda attacked the United States. It has been nine years in which the primary focus of the United States has been on the Islamic world. In addition to a massive investment in homeland security, the United States has engaged in two multi-year, multi-divisional wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, inserted forces in other countries in smaller operations and conducted a global covert campaign against al Qaeda and other radical jihadist groups.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Al-Qaeda and the Anglo-American Terror Network / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Andrew_G_Marshall
The End of the Cold War and Strategy for the New World Order
With the end of the Cold War a new strategy had to be determined to manage the global system. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, declarations of a “New World Order” sprang forward, focusing on the United States as the single world superpower. This presented a great many challenges as well as opportunities for the worlds most powerful hegemon.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Eurozone Banks Are Still Wobbly / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Mike_Whitney
The EU banking system is in big trouble. That's why European Central Bank (ECB) head Jean-Claude Trichet continues to purchase government bonds and provide "unlimited funds" for underwater banks. It's an effort to prevent a financial system meltdown that could plunge the eurozone back into recession.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Successful Government Economic Policies? For Whom? / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week, in the wake of another uptick in the official unemployment rate, the administration continued to claim that their economic policies were working, just not fast enough. This administration inherited an unemployment rate of 7.7% and promised a peak of no higher than 8% if their policies were followed. Not only does the administration have a funny way of ending a war, but now they claim their economic policies are successful. For whom, I wonder?
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Sustainable Tax Policy: Expensing Investments / Politics / Taxes
By: Axel_Merk
In what the Wall Street Journal hails as “one of his most dramatic gestures to business,” President Obama is proposing companies be allowed to write off 100% of their new investment in plant and equipment through 2011. Democrats are lukewarm to the idea as it doesn’t “stimulate demand”; Republicans are shooting down the idea, too. Few seem to realize is that allowing businesses to expense their investments may be the single most effective policy tool available to promote sustainable economic growth.
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
The Poor and Socialism vs Capitalism / Politics / Social Issues
By: MISES
Kel Kelly writes: Socialists commonly cite the existence of the poor as a reason for socialism, and they claim that their concern for the poor shows compassion and morality. Since the topic of poverty is a key battleground in the war of socialism versus capitalism, it is relevant to examine what poverty is, how much of it exists in the United States, and how we can truly eliminate it.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Israel Prepares to Attack Iran With WMD's, Could Trigger World War III / Politics / Middle East
By: Michel_Chossudovsky
The stockpiling and deployment of advanced weapons systems directed against Iran started in the immediate wake of the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq. From the outset, these war plans were led by the US, in liaison with NATO and Israel. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration identified Iran and Syria as the next stage of “the road map to war”. US military sources intimated that an aerial attack on Iran could involve a large scale deployment comparable to the US "shock and awe" bombing raids on Iraq in March 2003:
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Obama's Middle East Peace Talks Are A Circus to Distract / Politics / US Politics
By: Shamus_Cooke
What a joke. President Obama surely knows there is zero chance that his Middle East peace talks will succeed, even with the deck stacked in his favor. All of the main actors are on the U.S. payroll: Israel, Egypt, and Jordan get billions in foreign aide, while the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has proven a pliable puppet for the U.S. as he is disdained by his own people.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Middle East Peace Talks Another Fraud / Politics / Middle East
By: LewRockwell
Eric Margolis writes: On 2 Sept, 2001, in a newspaper article, I wrote: "America’s strategic and economic interests in the Mideast and Muslim world are being threatened by the agony in Palestine, which inevitably invites terrorist attacks against US citizens and property."
The 9/11 attacks came nine days later.
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Bankster's Cheer When Fraud Charges Are Dropped Again / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Danny_Schechter
Ben Affleck’s next movie, the Town, is set in Charlestown Mass, known for the battle of Bunker Hill and dubbed in the past by tabloid TV as “hell’s half acre” for all the crimes that take place there. The film, a cops and robbers tale, focuses on a gang that robs banks with extreme violence. Its ads refer to Charlestown as national capitol of bank robberies.
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
The Great Collapse of the Carbon Trading Chicago Climate Exchange / Politics / Climate Change
By: Submissions
Patrick Henningsen writes: Plagued by a free fall in carbon emissions prices and the perennial failure of Washington to pass any binding Cap and Trade Bill, it seems that the Chicago Climate Exchange is on its last leg, announcing that it will be scaling back its operations.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Labour Day 2010, Economic Austerity, Public Services and the Labour Movement / Politics / Social Issues
By: Global_Research
Greg Albo and Bryan Evans write: This Labour Day, like the last two, is dominated by the ongoing global economic crisis. Since 2008 Canada's workers, working families, and the communities in which we make our lives, have endured a period of deep economic insecurity the likes of which we have not seen since the Great Depression. The crisis began in the financial sector, amongst bankers, brokers, lawyers, and financial engineers of all sorts when the credit bubbles supporting the casino economy of derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps and other financial instruments began to deflate.
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.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Dynamics of Poverty, the Destitute Index / Politics / Social Issues
By: Mike_Shedlock
In response to Reflections on the "Recovery" reader "Thomas" has an interesting question regarding U6 unemployment that I would like to share.
Thomas writes ...