Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, August 04, 2014
Three Countries to Emerge from Iraq as We Know it Now! / Politics / Iraq War
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
In the last few weeks the story of Iraq has faded from the headlines to be replaced by the story on the Ukraine, Gaza and on the business front the tumble of the Dow on the New York Stock Exchange.
But right now in the world we are watching many structural changes taking place quietly but completely. One is the shift of wealth and power to the east, the rise of the Yuan and its use in a growing number of global transactions in the place of the U.S. dollar. At the moment Russia is turning its economic head towards China and the developed world doing its best to do so too. And still the east is gaining ground and its share of global cash flow has doubled from 20% to 40% since the beginning of the century. This is set to continue strongly.
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Monday, August 04, 2014
Ron Paul - Why Won't Obama Just Leave Ukraine Alone? / Politics / Ukraine Civil War
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
President Obama announced last week that he was imposing yet another round of sanctions on Russia, this time targeting financial, arms, and energy sectors. The European Union, as it has done each time, quickly followed suit.
These sanctions will not produce the results Washington demands, but they will hurt the economies of the US and EU, as well as Russia.
Monday, August 04, 2014
Flight MH17, Gaza, ISIS - Chaos And Conspiracy Do Not Mix / Politics / Conspiracy Theory
By: Andrew_McKillop
Why We Believe in Conspiracy
Plot theories abound and pullulate, not only on the Internet but also in the glove puppet media, in politics, business, the arts and almost everywhere and anywhere in today's ersatz “global culture”. If its not MH370 then its MH17. If the weather's bad that's because of chemtrail spraying or its because the Chinese burn too much coal. If the weather's good its a freak even and it will not last long. Oil is of course running out but this is planned. Tesla Motor and the solar energy industry did it.
Monday, August 04, 2014
We are America, the Exceptional Empire, Above All Law / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_T_Bucci
The USA does not rule the Universe. It does not rule the world. It certainly will never rule Russia and China. If America wishes to risk planetary destruction by waging a nuclear exchange to attempt any of the above, it will be stopped by other means. No country ever was, is, or ever will be above the laws of God and man.
Sunday, August 03, 2014
Anti-Semitism: The Ultimate Zionist Weapon / Politics / Israel
By: Global_Research
William Hanna writes: Differentiating between Zionism and Judaism requires recognition of certain basic facts. To begin with, Theodor Herzl (the founder of Zionism) was an atheist whose personal awareness of Jewishness appears to have been awakened during the 1894 trial, wrongful conviction, and imprisonment on Devil’s Island of Alfred Dreyfus, a French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent accused of spying for Germany. In his diaries, Herzl makes no secret of his intention to use Jewish suffering as a means of furthering Zionist ideology. His vision for a Jewish state had nothing to do with “ … I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers and they shall possess it” (Jeremiah 30:3). Herzl actually considered various other locations such as Uganda and Argentina for his Zionist state and his view of Zionism and Judaism was more akin to that of Chaim Chassas who in 1943 in the Zionist newspaper, Ha’Arutz, said:
Sunday, August 03, 2014
Something Sinister Going On? The Unanswered Questions of Flight MH17 / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Mike_Whitney
“Recent history has repeatedly proven that nothing said by Washington and its officials should be accepted at face value. No other government in the world has been implicated in so many egregious lies as the United States.” Bill Van Auken, “US lies and hypocrisy on Gaza and Ukraine“, World Socialist Web Site
“Mendaci neque quum vera dicit, creditor.” Cicero (“A liar is not to be believed even when he speaks the truth.”)
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Sunday, August 03, 2014
Ed Miliband Distances Himself from David 'Chamberlain' Cameron on Israel Gaza Terror War / Politics / UK Politics
By: Videos
Ed Miliband who has close personal ties with Israel, now fearful of losing votes at the next general election as a consequence of the slow burn genocide of the Palestinian people as illustrated by the current ongoing War on Gaza is attempting to distance himself from Britain's modern day Chamberlain Prime Minister David Cameron by issuing a string of criticisms of primarily David Cameron and secondly Israel's slaughter of mostly women and children.
Sunday, August 03, 2014
Zionism And The American Dream / Politics / US Politics
By: Andrew_McKillop
Ideology Trumps Rationality
Zionists like to claim there “no limit expansion” doctrine for Israel is on a twin track with the so-called American Dream so we can ask this question. What about the Global Caliphate dream or nightmare of ISISI? Is that also “historically valid”?
We can forget the short-lived American foreign policy doctrine that Israel must be defended because, for a period of time, it controlled several major transport routes for oil from the Arabian peninsula to America and its allies in Europe. The “oil handle” for US aid of all kinds to Israel was short-lived but support to Israel is a cornerstone of foreign policy, and Congress is at this moment rushing to vote about $225 million to strengthen Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system.
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Sunday, August 03, 2014
The Hannibal Directive - Israel Kills Its Own Soldier Hadar Goldin / Politics / Israel
By: Videos
Channel 4 News once more caught Israel in the act of apparently killing its own captured / MIA soldier in Gaza, when just minutes after a 72 hour cease fire come into effect Israel carpet bombed the Rafa city area where the soldier had gone missing, effectively seeking to kill EVERYTHING in the area, men, women, children and even their own missing soldier, resulting in over 100 deaths as Israel initiated what is known as the Hannibal Directive in the event of an Israeli soldier going missing in action, as managing propaganda is of primary importance to the Israeli zionist state.
Saturday, August 02, 2014
Flood And The Desert – The Heroic Water Crisis Clash / Politics / Environmental Issues
By: Andrew_McKillop
Oh California
As you read this California's lakes, rivers and streams are steadily dwindling to nothing. Across the SW USA underground aquifers are relentlessly draining dry and by 2025 Lake Mead has a 50% probability of becoming totally dry. About 80% of all rivers in China are so polluted they can support no aquatic life at all. Due to a lack of water, Saudi Arabia has given up on trying to grow irrigated wheat and will be 100% dependent again on wheat imports by 2016. Elsewhere in the Middle East, the flow of water to the Jordan river, Tigris and Euphrates is down to less than 5% of historic averages. The Dead Sea is shrinking so fast that huge sinkholes proliferate daily, able to swallow roads, buildings and any imprudent person. In central Asia the Aral Sea, one of the world's biggest lakes outside the US-Canadian Great Lakes continues to shrink leaving rusted hulks of ships a dozen kilometres from the retreating waters.
Saturday, August 02, 2014
Israel Determined to Exterminate the Real Jews of Palestine, The ONE State Final Solution / Politics / Israel
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Channel 4 News continues to give a unique unbiased window into not just the daily carnage in Gaza of 100+ killed per day of mostly women and children but also the 1930's Germany style madness that has gripped the people of Israel as the nation blindly engages in its own version of the final solution against those deemed to be sub-human, all this on the basis of religious myths of ancient events that never happened that coalesce around the myth of "the chosen people by God" and a "promised land" that the jewish fundamentalist state sees as permission to exterminate non jews living in Palestine.
Friday, August 01, 2014
Flagrant Rush To War In The Ukraine Crisis / Politics / Ukraine Civil War
By: Andrew_McKillop
Rush to War – Fog of War
Fog of war is used by many war historians to describe what drove Europe into World War I and destroyed a century of rising European wealth and colonial power. There were no fixed and set, clearly identifiable triggers and thresholds. Claims that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo was the sole trigger or at least the main driver, or that the Lusitania ship-sinking incident was the sole driver of the USA's very late entry to this war are easy to qualify or invalidate. There was a fog of war that had been building for at least a decade, some historians say.
Friday, August 01, 2014
What Russian Sanctions Mean for Your Money / Politics / Financial Markets 2014
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: Vladimir Putin had a chance to back down from his aggression in the Ukraine after Russian separatists shot down a Malaysian passenger jet.
Unfortunately, he didn't.
With no answer to the charge that the Malaysian jet would not have been shot down but for the course of events he set in motion, Mr. Putin has also shown no indication that he plans to change course.
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Friday, August 01, 2014
The West's Reckless Rush Towards War with Russia / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Dr_Martenson
We're taking big risks for unclear reasons
For reasons that have no rational explanations at this time, the US and Europe have embarked on a concerted program to demonize Putin, ostracize Russia, and bring the world as close to a major conflict as it's been since the Cold War, a time hardly memorable to many in the current crop of our elected officials.
Within hours of the MH-17 plane crash, the United States pinned the blame on Russia generally, and Putin particularly. The anti-Putin propaganda (and if there were a stronger term I'd use it) has been relentless and almost comically over-the-top (see image above, and those below).
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Israels Final Solution of Turning Gaza Concentration Camp into a Grave Yard / Politics / Israel
By: Videos
Israeli's drunk on the blood of approaching 1,500 dead palestinian civilians, fermented by the religious zeal of a self professed chosen people of God and programmed by state propaganda that even Goebbels would be proud of as Channel 4 news reports on what appears to have been enacted is Israel's own version of the final solution that amounts to turning the Gaza concentration camp into an unlivable graveyard, presenting Gaza's 2 million people with a stark choice either leave or die by either bombardment or starvation as the Jewish fundamentalist state remains in total control of what enters and leaves Gaza.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
US Failure: Unintended Consequence / Politics / US Politics
By: Jim_Willie_CB
The contributors are many as actors in the American Tragedy, to cause the systemic breakdown failed state. Faulty monetary policy, economic policy, and political policy have caused the resulting failure. The primary perpetrators are the central bankers, led by Greenspan and Bernanke. These two men have done more to destroy the USEconomy, the US financial structure, the US currency, than any two men of prominence. To be sure, the Bush, Clinton, and Rubin gang played a huge role in the collapse. Their supporting cast of destructive actors is very long, like the serial bank criminals residing on Wall Street. To be sure, the system itself has played a key role in the harmful factors. The two most apparent harmful resident factors are the strong US labor unions and the influential environmental movement, which together encouraged the vast outsourcing of US industry at first to the Pacific Rim, and then fanning across the developing world. Both workmen compensation and OSHEA regulations interfered with US cost settings, but not as much as USGovt corporate taxes. The textile industry went to India and Pakistan, even Bangladesh. Call centers went to India, Philippines, even Costa Rica. The culprits are too numerous to cite.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Echoes Of The Great War – Only An Echo In The Elite Mind / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Andrew_McKillop
Then and Now
There are plenty of similarities, and vast differences between 1914 and 2014. Just for starters, what is called “public opinion” in western society practically did not exist at all in the run-up to world war in 1914. Today it exists but is heavily mutated and totally unpredictable compared with even 20 years ago.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
The Something For Nothing Society Death Spiral / Politics / Social Issues
By: Ty_Andros
This is part II of IV of Useful Idiots and The Something for Nothing Society. In part I, we covered the beginning of the evolution from a capitalist constitutional republic during Teddy Roosevelt's presidency a century ago into the progressive socialist state we have become today. This transformation has taken over a century and has been implemented in such an incremental manner as to be mostly imperceptible to the public at large. It began with the creation of the Federal Reserve (privately owned central bank owned by multi-century banking families) and UNSOUND money (which transformed money from a place to store your savings and labor and a store of value which moved your savings into the future, into an instrument of confiscation, theft and exploitation of the public). The other element of the road to serfdom was the personal income tax, also implemented at that time. This series is a connect the dots exercise designed to allow you to see the enormity and inevitability of the societal collapse we find ourselves in. Its causes, the system that is in place driving it forward and the reality of our situations, better allow you to see and prepare for its demise, hopefully benefitting from it. It is the greatest opportunity in history but requires a keen understanding of history and Austrian economics which has predicted it all. The history of this collapse of empires is being presented to you in this series.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
The Social Memory Dump, Shredding Society / Politics / Social Issues
By: Andrew_McKillop
Intoxicating “the people” or “the mass” with permanent over-information of the trivial sort can be taken as the Aldous Huxley theory of the breakdown of society – to compare with the George Orwell theory where an all-powerful police state severely limits all information except pure propaganda (see for example http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-30/aldous-huxley-vs-george-orwell). I suggest we in fact have suffered a converging twin track of both “strategies” in western society today, including the ultimate in disinformation which is the suppression of the ability to understand, know, and act in consequence of what we know.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
No More School in Gaza Because All the Children are Dead Chant Israel's Jewish Fundementalists / Politics / Israel
By: Videos
Channel 4 News shows once more shows how far Israel has drifted towards becoming a Neo-Nazi state as illustrated by the fact that over 90% of Israeli's support the War on the Children of Gaza with many Israeli Jewish Fundamentalists drunk on the kool-aid of the assumption of being the self prophessed chosen people of God, can be heard chanting "there is no more school in Gaza because all of the children are dead".