Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, July 28, 2014
The Mass Psychology Of Decline / Politics / Social Issues
By: Andrew_McKillop
The Decline Paradigm
Possibly unknown to some persons, the fear and theory of decline is the single most important long-running feature of modern western culture. From at latest the 1870s, it haunts western elites. We can legitimately call it mass paranoia of the elites.
The counterpart obsession is finding remedies to limit or reverse the decline. To be sure, the elite fear of decline is a “secret paradigm”, only rarely admitted at the microphone, and only mentioned when so-called remedies are being floated and touted. Keeping this mass paranoia of the elites a mostly “secret doctrine” is also advantageous to them because, when needed, they can declare that decline is now a national emergency needing “shock therapy” to reverse the decline they previously denied.
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Monday, July 28, 2014
Will the US Destroy the World? - Don’t Expect to Live Much Longer / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
European governments and the Western media have put the world at risk by enabling Washington’s propaganda and aggression against Russia.
Washington has succeeded in using transparent lies to demonize Russia as a dangerous aggressive country led by a new Hitler or a new Stalin, just as Washington succeeded in demonizing Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Qaddafi in Libya, Assad in Syria, Chavez in Venezuela, and, of course, Iran.
Monday, July 28, 2014
The Israeli Tail Keeps Wagging the US Dog / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Eric Margolis writes: NEW YORK – In 1956, Britain and France were convinced that Egypt’s charismatic nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was threatening what was left of their Mideast and African colonial empires. London branded Nasser, “Hitler on the Nile.”
So the British and French governments secretly enlisted Israel to invade and annex Egypt’s Sinai. British and French troops were to seize the Canal Zone in a supposed “peacekeeping mission,” march on Cairo, and install a puppet government there. Israel would keep the entire Sinai Peninsula.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Ron Paul - End Torture, Shut Down The CIA! / Politics / Intelligence Agencies
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Remember back in April, 2007, when then-CIA director George Tenet appeared on 60 Minutes, angrily telling the program host, "we don't torture people"? Remember a few months later, in October, President George W. Bush saying, "this government does not torture people"? We knew then it was not true because we had already seen the photos of Iraqis tortured at Abu Ghraib prison four years earlier.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014
US Government Complicit in Israeli War Crimes Against Humanity / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Paul Findley writes: A section of the barrier — erected by Israeli officials to prevent the passage of Palestinians — with graffiti using President John F. Kennedy’s famous quote when facing the Berlin Wall, “Ich bin ein Berliner.” (Photo credit: Marc Venezia)
Virtually the entire U.S. news media and almost every national politician bends to the desires of Israel’s government regardless of its behavior, a reality that enables the persecution and even slaughter of Palestinians.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014
What It Means - Paradigm Collapse And Culture Crisis / Politics / Social Issues
By: Andrew_McKillop
Is Society Erasable or Deletable?
Trying to compare human thought with computers is not easy. Even larger difficulties face us when we try defining “social memory” before comparing its use, modification, or deletion with computer hardware devices and software programming techniques. One of the largest hurdles is that society is an abstract concept and has no formal or single physical representation.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Israel's War on Children, Exterminating the Palestinians Future - C4News / Politics / Israel
By: Videos
Israel's war on Gaza death toll has now passed 1,000 of mostly women and children effectively sealed into a prison camp, no where to flee from the relentless bombardment as Jon Snow recounts the scene in Gaza's al-Shifa hospital, where doctors struggle to treat adults and children wounded by Israeli attacks.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Guilt By Insinuation - How American Propaganda Works / Politics / Propaganda
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
Why hasn’t Washington joined Russian President Putin in calling for an objective, non-politicized international investigation by experts of the case of the Malaysian jetliner?
The Russian government continues to release facts, including satellite photos showing the presence of Ukrainian Buk anti-aircraft missiles in locations from which the airliner could have been brought down by the missile system and documentation that a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet rapidly approached the Malaysian airliner prior to its downing. The head of the Operations Directorate of Russian military headquarters said at a Moscow press conference today (July 21) that the presence of the Ukrainian military jet is confirmed by the Rostov monitoring center.
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
When the US Supports Israel, What Exactly is it Supporting? / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_S_Rozeff
According to the Congressional Budget Office, “Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $121 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance. Almost all U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in the form of military assistance, although in the past Israel also received significant economic assistance.” Other special benefits also flow to the Israeli military. Each year, the U.S. pays for about 20 percent of Israel’s overall military spending, and the total places Israel as the 16th largest military spender in the world. “In 2007, the Bush Administration and the Israeli government agreed to a 10-year, $30 billion military aid package for the period from FY2009 to FY2018.” Obama has renewed that pledge.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Surprise Nuclear Attack On Russia To Liberate Ukraine / Politics / Nuclear Weapons
By: Andrew_McKillop
Don't Be Scared of Nuclear War
Quite fantastically, but printed in black and white in sturdy propaganda outlets like 'Wall Street Journal' we are informed that of course anonymous and unidentified senior US strategists have let 'WSJ' know that nuclear first strike against Russia is possible. It is feasible, in their opinion, and secondly would give total victory to the US and its allies in Europe. Uukraine would be liberated.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Ed Milliband Fears Israel Jewish Fundamentalist Gaza War Massacres Backlash / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
In the wake of the latest periodic barbaric bloodletting of palestinians by Israel that tends to occur every second year resulting in several thousand deaths of mostly women and children with many times more injured, thousands of homes and much of Gaza's infrastructure destroyed all in the name of Jewish fundamentalism for that is what best describes the Zionist ideology of Israel, one of chosen people of God that has its whole basis in myth and superstitions such as talking snakes, magic apples, women cursed to be second class citizens for eternity, and a vindictive spiteful God who punishes the WHOLE of mankind forever just for eating one apple and out this madness emerges the myth of a chosen people of God, the me, me, me, we are special syndrome, lately obsessed with finding genetic proof for a Jewish master race just as Germany of the 1930's had once been engaged in and like wise see non jews as literally sub-human Goyim to slaughter.
Friday, July 25, 2014
USrael - Zionists in Control of America's Goyim Brainwashed Second Coming Slaves / Politics / US Politics
By: Washingtons_Blog
The U.S. Is the Only Country Which Supports Israel No Matter What It Does
Americans – living in a huge country which has never really been invaded, and as the sole superpower – are famous for being out-of-touch with how the rest of the world thinks.
So my fellow Americans will probably be surprised to learn that the U.S. is more or less the only country in the world which has a favorable view of Israel.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
No Road Map For Avoiding The Future / Politics / Social Issues
By: Andrew_McKillop
The Future Beckons – The Future Threatens
Talk about “road maps”, for example the decades-long roadmap for solving the Israel-Palestine conflict reveals several things. These roadmaps lead to nowhere and have lost all credibility. However, one important hidden role of these roadmaps is likely their proven ability to do nothing, waste time, and delay – but not avoid - the future.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Israeli War Machine Concentrating Women and Children into UN Schools Before Killing Them - C4News / Politics / Israel
By: Videos
A representative of Israel's Ministry of Propaganda attempts to divert blame for the bombing of another UN School killing many women and children as reported on by Channel 4 News on the ground in the Gaza concentration camp.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Never Trust Anyone Over 30 / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_T_Bucci
I had reason to rent a vehicle for a day trip to a doctor located some 75 miles from home. I could not help but see a resemblance in the young man taking my application - a college graduate - to journalist Glenn Greenwald. I told him so. He said he didn't know the name. A late fifty-something couple booking a car to Logan airport in Boston didn't know the name either. "Do any of you know the name Edward Snowden?" I asked. They nodded yes.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Israeli Government Paying Jewish Fundamentalist Students to Post Facebook Gaza War Propaganda / Politics / Israel
By: Global_Research
Ali Abunimah writes: The death toll in Gaza as of today, July 25, 2014, reaches 800.
Students at the IDC Herzliya “war room,” focus on posting propaganda justifying Israel’s attack on Gaza on Facebook.
As the death toll from Israel’s savage bombardment of Gaza continues to climb, Israel has once again turned to students to sell the slaughter online.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
An Economic “Nuclear Strike” on Moscow, A “War of Degrees” / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Around 8:30 tonight, I’ll be live on Chinese national TV again, just before the markets open in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
This audience is usually larger than the entire U.S population, and the anchors always give me more time than any other outlet in the world.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
BBC, Western Media Working for Israeli Agenda of Perpetual War to Steal Arab Land / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Global_Research
Media Lens writes: Soon after Malaysian Airlines MH17 crashed near Donetsk, Ukraine on July 18, killing 298 people, the BBC website quickly, and rightly, set up a ‘LIVE’ feed with rolling reports and commentary on the disaster. This was clearly an important and dramatic event involving horrific loss of life with serious political implications. The public would, of course, be searching for the latest news.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
How Government Uses “Efficiency” as an Excuse to Steal / Politics / Government Intervention
By: MISES
Gary Galles writes: Scarcity makes efficiency — getting the most value from given resources —important. The more efficient individuals are, the more they benefit from their actions. That’s why economists are always talking about efficiency.
Unfortunately, some things said to be efficient are not. A major reason is that while efficiency is usually described in terms of mutual benefits, in public policy discussions, economists and governments who employ them actually use an efficiency standard known as “potential compensation.” In a nutshell, this means that the “winners” gain more than the “losers” lose, so that the winner could potentially compensate the loser enough that they would both come out ahead.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
Ukraine: What To Do When Economic Growth Is Gone / Politics / Ukraine Civil War
By: Raul_I_Meijer
“The fact that the coalition has fallen apart, that laws haven’t been voted on, that soldiers can’t be paid, that there is no money to buy rifles, that there is no possibility to fill gas storages. What options do we have now?” This is, as per Bloomberg, what US handpicked handpuppet and – now former – Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk told the Kiev parliament earlier today during a speech in which he announced the resignation of his “government”. Several of his coalition partners, including right wing Svoboda, had left the government not long before.