Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, January 09, 2017
Will Obama's 'Good War' in Afghanistan Continue? / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week, as the mainstream media continued to obsess over the CIA's evidence-free claim that the Russians hacked the presidential election, President Obama quietly sent 300 US Marines back into Afghanistan's Helmand Province. This is the first time in three years that the US military has been sent into that conflict zone, and it represents a final failure of Obama's Afghanistan policy. The outgoing president promised that by the end of his second term, the US military would only be present in small numbers and only on embassy duty. But more than 8,000 US troops will remain in Afghanistan as he leaves office.
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Monday, January 09, 2017
PM Theresa May Fears Donald Trump Will Grab Her by the P#ssy When they Meet / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
In a candid interview with Sky news British Prime Minister Theresa May in addition to covering the usual hot topics of BrExit and the NHS, was asked by Sophy Ridge on her thoughts about meeting Donald Trump given that it is on the record that he likes to grab women by the P#ssy.
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Sunday, January 08, 2017
Will Donald Trump Defy Expectations and Be a Peace President? / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Lendman
It’s hardly likely given America’s rage for endless wars, gorging on them. Neocons infesting Washington demand them.
Enemies are invented to accommodate them. War profiteers depend on them. The indifferent public does nothing to demand they stop.
Yet what US leader in memory said getting along with Russia “is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only ‘stupid’ people, or fools, would think that it is bad!” If Trump follows through on this rhetoric, imagine the possibilities for change.
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Sunday, January 08, 2017
The Trump Reset War With China: 2. The Putin Doctrine / Politics / US Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Trump's US election win amounts to a pressing of the RESET button on that which has passed for at least the past 40 years. Which demands a reappraisal of virtually everything to ascertain not just the impact of Trump but the trend reversal / rebellion underway amongst Western populations against the ruling elites that will impact on the mega-trend drivers of financial market trends for many years if not decades to come.
Sunday, January 08, 2017
Obama Has 14 Days To Start World War III / Politics / WW3
By: Jeff_Berwick
Barack O’Bomber was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize before he even became President. And he hasn’t had one day of peace in his eight years.
And, he now has 14 days left and appears to be trying to foment World War III with his remaining opportunity.
Long ago O’Bomber accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t do anything to either justify or deserve it. More recently he’s actually done a lot to repudiate it.
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Saturday, January 07, 2017
The World Is Entering a “Localism” Era / Politics / Social Issues
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : Against all odds, we made it through 2016.
I think future historians will call last year the, “Year of Shattered Concepts.” Obvious truths proved false, and unstoppable trends stopped.
Globalization is a prime example.
The idea that free trade and technology would merge the planet into one Giant Happy Global Economy is mortally wounded. The incoming Trump administration may well deliver the coup de grâce.
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Friday, January 06, 2017
The Fourth-Generation War / Politics / US Politics
By: David_Galland
Dear Paraders,
Welcome to 2017. As with every new year, or any stretch of 365 days into the future, we can expect surprises. Some good and some bad.
Of course, we can’t know the future. Therefore, we are left to our expectations and, I suppose, aspirations. For example, I await the arrival of President Trump with high hopes and an almost silly level of anticipation.
Oh, how I hope he continues deriding the political class so firmly attached to the carotid artery of the American people. Derision is all they deserve, and Trump does derision particularly well.
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Friday, January 06, 2017
Russia Looks for an Exit in Syria / Politics / Syria
By: STRATFOR
Forecast
- Despite the shared cause of supporting Damascus, Moscow and Tehran will continue to differ in their commitment to the conflict.
- As Russia concocts an exit strategy, its relations with Iran will steadily sour.
- The divergences between the countries will exacerbate the differences among Syria's loyalist forces.
Friday, January 06, 2017
Philippines Regime Change 2017, the Year of Living Dangerously / Politics / Asian Economies
By: Dan_Steinbock
As President Duterte is rebalancing the Philippines’ economic and strategic policies, Washington is preparing plans for regime change. What the country needs is economic development, says Dan Steinbock – not Cold War.
After the election triumph of President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines has initiated a series of economic reforms to accelerate development, decentralise governance and a tough but controversial struggle against corruption and drugs.
Friday, January 06, 2017
President Trump Understands the NSA, CIA... LIE, America's Intelligence Agencies Crime Syndicate! / Politics / Intelligence Agencies
By: Nadeem_Walayat
A gullible and as Mitt Romney likes to say 'not very smart' President Obama fell for more lies and deceit spewing out of so called US intelligence agencies, the NSA, CIA and more than dozen others all conjuring another dodgy dossier out of cyber space on Russian hacking of the US election to get Trump elected so as to fit their own agenda, one of TOTAL SURVEILLANCE for the goal for TOTAL CONTROL, TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! Something that President Trump is clearly aware of given his own experience during the election campaign and clearly as the intelligence reports bring into question the legitimacy of his own Presidency.
Thursday, January 05, 2017
Attempted Coup Against Trump Continues / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Lendman
Thursday, January 05, 2017
You’re Being Lied to! / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Stephen_Lendman
Believe nothing at face value from government at all levels and scoundrel media sources.
On all issues mattering most, especially geopolitical ones, they systematically lie - fake news substituting for truth-telling, information important to know suppressed.
Media scoundrels operate as virtual press agents for wealth, power and privileged interests - willfully deceiving readers and viewers to keep them uninformed on what’s going on, feeding them worthless rubbish, fiction, not facts.
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Thursday, January 05, 2017
There’s No Such Thing as Europe Anymore / Politics / European Union
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : The European Union’s founders envisioned an “ever-closer union” that gradually eliminated national distinctions. It didn’t happen, and geopolitical expert George Friedman of Geopolitical Futures says the opposite is now taking shape. “Europe” doesn’t really exist in any meaningful way.
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Thursday, January 05, 2017
Raising Questions About Politics and the Mass Media / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Walter_Brasch
It’s the first week of January and the election returns are starting to trickle in. It’s not for the rich Democratic white Hillary Clinton who captured the popular vote, nor for the rich Republican white Donald Trump who captured the electoral college and became the next president. This vote came from the campaigns of Clinton and Trump, and the beneficiaries were the TV media in select markets.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Low Oil Prices Will Make Russia More Aggressive in 2017 / Politics / Russia
By: John_Mauldin
BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN : Russia has had a hard time since the collapse of global oil prices which began in August 2014. This will continue in 2017. The Russian people are starting to feel the effects of prolonged low oil prices. This was bound to happen. And this will shape Moscow's foreign policy in the year to come.
Russia’s money problems start with the economy’s structure. The country’s budget depends on income from oil exports. Low oil prices have had huge effects. And the country hasn’t even recovered from the 2008 decline.
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Stratfor 2017 Annual Global Forecast / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
The convulsions to come in 2017 are the political manifestations of much deeper forces in play. In much of the developed world, the trend of aging demographics and declining productivity is layered with technological innovation and the labor displacement that comes with it. China's economic slowdown and its ongoing evolution compound this dynamic. At the same time the world is trying to cope with reduced Chinese demand after decades of record growth, China is also slowly but surely moving its own economy up the value chain to produce and assemble many of the inputs it once imported, with the intent of increasingly selling to itself. All these forces combined will have a dramatic and enduring impact on the global economy and ultimately on the shape of the international system for decades to come.
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Understanding America's Global Role in the Age of Trump / Politics / US Politics
By: STRATFOR
By Rodger Baker : The New Year, of course, is a time when many reflect on the past and look toward the future. The past provides potential lessons and cautions for those who would seek to find tomorrow's solutions in yesterday's actions. In his 1994 book Diplomacy, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote: "The study of history offers no manual of instructions that can be applied automatically; history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations. But each generation must determine for itself which circumstances are in fact comparable."
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Old Woman In Sweden Becomes The Latest Victim of the War on Cash / Politics / War on Cash
By: Jeff_Berwick
It has been a common practice for people to keep cash stowed away in lock boxes or under mattresses in their homes, but now, even something as logical and important as keeping a cash stash for a rainy day can make you a suspected criminal.
Ethel Hülst, a 91 year old Swedish woman, unfortunately got to experience the ruthlessness of her country’s central bank first hand which may have contributed to her death.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2017
CIA Planning Rogue President Donald Trump Assassination? Elites "Manchurian Candidate" Plan B / Politics / Intelligence Agencies
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The establishment elite still reeling from the failure of any of their bought and paid for candidates that populate both the Democratic and Republican parties to make it into the White house for the first time since perhaps JFK, are increasingly looking to the likes of the CIA to begin implementing the elite's PLAN B as President Elect Donald Trump takes office and starts to diverge from the elites interests. For instance it is is not in the elite's military industrial complexes' interests for the US to be friendly towards Russia, despite the fact that Russia literally poses a near zero economic or military threat to US global power. However, the operating system of US Military and Economic Global Power is such that it does not matter if a nations is a friend or foe, all are fair game, where the king of cyber warefare is the United States that can literally shut any nation down within hours, given that the so called free internet is a US military delivery system for malware infection for total access and control. So to imagine that the US full spectrum global empire assembled over the past 100 years will allow a Rouge President to disrupt it's activities is delusional.
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Trump's Self-Inflicted Policy Failures / Politics / US Politics
By: BATR
Even the most avid and enthusiastic Trump supporter needs to be critical of their most hopeful America First president. For a dose of reality and objective conviction, who better to rely on than Pat Buchanan? His article, Israel First or America First concludes with the fateful warning for President –Elect Trump. “Having America publicly reassert herself as Israel’s best friend, with "no daylight" between us, could have us ending up as Israel’s only friend – and Israel as our only friend in the Middle East. Bibi’s Israel First policy must one day collide with America First.”