Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, September 06, 2010
The NGO Invastion and Occupation of Afghanistan / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Global_Research
Yves Engler writes: They’re called NGOs — non-governmental organizations — but the description is misleading at best, or an outright lie generated by intelligence agencies at worst.
In fact, almost all development NGOs receive a great deal of their funding from government and in return follow government policies and priorities. While this was always true, it has become easier to see with Stephen Harper’s Conservative Canadian government, which lacks the cleverness and subtlety of the Liberal Party who at least funded some “oppositional” activity to allow NGOs a veneer of independence.
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Monday, September 06, 2010
A Little Rice Wine Spat: Taiwan vs. U.S. and EU / Politics / Global Economy
By: Static_Chaos
Taiwan, (aka The Republic of China, ROC), the tiny island just across the Strait from China-- found itself taking considerable heat from the United States and European Union (EU)—two biggest exporters of alcoholic beverages to the Taiwanese market--over a planned tax cut on its locally brewed rice wine.
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Sunday, September 05, 2010
America's Economic Nightmare Is Just Beginning / Politics / Great Depression II
By: Submissions
David Michael Green writes: In the 1930s, the only thing we had to fear was fear, itself. Today, the main thing we have to fear is us, ourselves.
Looking out over the horizon, I'm starting to wonder just how many shades of dark there are on the pallette. Lately, I get the feeling that we're about to find out.
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Sunday, September 05, 2010
Middle East Conflict Costs Region $12 Trillion Over 20 Years / Politics / Middle East
By: Rick_Rozoff
The Internet has provided the world with, if nothing else, instantaneous access to news and in-depth information previously available only to governments and think tanks. It has also allowed for the exchange of data and analyses between groups and individuals around the globe, in part by making one tongue, English, the language of the World Wide Web. It remains to be seen whether the keystroke is mightier than the sword.
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Afghanistan Banking System Crash, Americans to Bailout Afghanistan's Biggest Bank? / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Washingtons_Blog
As I have repeatedly pointed out, American taxpayers have been bailing out foreign banks for years.
For example, I noted in May: As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Federal Reserve might open up its "swap lines" again to bail out the Europeans:
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Sunday, September 05, 2010
Reconstructing The IPCC / Politics / Climate Change
By: Andrew_McKillop
Propagandist Reconstruction, or PR of news, science data, other persons' views and different
opinions is a long-term stalwart in modern society. From organizing public support for wars, even
when the public itself may be attacked or be subject to economic loss, to ensuring that political
leaders are re-elected, or that women start smoking and the public keeps buying the consumer
products which generate the highest profits, the role of "communication" is primordial. What is
called Public Relations is also and most basically propaganda.
Saturday, September 04, 2010
U.S. Delusional Democracy Favors Corporate, Wealthy and Elitist Interests Over Those of Ordinary Americans / Politics / US Politics
By: Joel_S_Hirschhorn
For years I muttered mentally to myself about the insanity of Americans electing George W. Bush president. Now I go through the same agony about the craziness of the nation electing Barack Obama president. As much as I thought Bush was a manipulated second-rate politician that carried out the terribly destructive policies pushed by Cheney and other conservative corporate shills, now I feel equally angry that so many voters fell for the slick rhetoric and lies of Obama. Disgust produces public thirst for change and Obama was wickedly brilliant at selling change. When voters are so easily victimized what does democracy amount to?
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Saturday, September 04, 2010
Rip-Off By The Federal Reserve / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Liberty writes: The Federal Reserve uses euphemistic smoke and mirrors to obscure their operations. With full knowledge the following is not the way the Fed/government describes the system, allow me to offer a different analysis of their mathematical operation.
Congress can pay for federal expenses with funds collected from taxes, but Congress is never satisfied with this amount. The desire to buy votes/campaign contributions from special interest groups induces congress-critters to spend more, and this is identified as deficit spending. To create this make-believe money requires the assistance of the Federal Reserve.
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Friday, September 03, 2010
Putting an End to Democrats, Liberals, & Progressives...once and for all!!! / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_T_Bucci
Robert Murchen spoke. "I don't speak about Democrats of your country because it is a waste of my time. I don't listen to them any more I do socialist and union leaders in the EU. I will plan for the day they are considered illegal aliens. They live in a fantasy world and are the single greatest obstacle to progress and wealth building." Going further, he believes that the future of America has been decided; it will be "absent the burden of the imbecilic conscience interfering with matters strictly of business."
Friday, September 03, 2010
For Labor Day Weekend, When Unemployment Happens To You / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
When your life and your work is as entwined as mine has been—fusing the personal and the political over all these years, it may be stretching things to consider yourself unemployed but that’s what I am as Labor Day approaches.
Most of the media focuses on the big companies that have slashed their work forces (even as they hoard cash.) But small companies are also suffering, cutting back, and closing. They don’t get the subsidies or bailouts or the attention.
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
Militancy and the U.S. Drawdown in Afghanistan / Politics / Afghanistan
By: STRATFOR
The drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq has served to shift attention toward Afghanistan, where the United States has been increasing its troop strength in hopes of forming conditions conducive to a political settlement. This is similar to the way it used the 2007 surge in Iraq to help reach a negotiated settlement with the Sunni insurgents that eventually set the stage for withdrawal there. As we’ve discussed elsewhere, the Taliban at this point do not feel the pressure required for them to capitulate or negotiate and therefore continue to follow their strategy of surviving and waiting for the coalition forces to depart so that they can again make a move to assume control over Afghanistan.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Obama’s Iraq Speech An Exercise in Cowardice and Deceit / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Bill Van Auken writes: President Barack Obama’s nationally televised speech from the White House Oval Office Tuesday night was an exercise in cowardice and deceit. It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world in its characterization of the criminal war against Iraq. And it was cowardly in its groveling before the American military.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
The State's "Inception" Fails, Massive unemployment and failing industries are the reality. / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Two years ago, the economy was seriously dragged down amidst an amazing banking crisis that spread throughout the world. The illusion created by loose credit — that housing could go up in price forever and we could enjoy permanent prosperity due to monetary expansion — was shattered by events. Reality had dawned. We found ourselves in the midst of an economic depression.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
The GOP's Masterplan: Obstruct, Smear, Lie, Repeat / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
Last Tuesday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the estimated impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (a.k.a.--Obama's $787 billion fiscal stimulus) The report provides conclusive evidence that the stimulus did exactly what it was designed to do and helped to avert another Great Depression. Here's a summary:
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Australia Politics: Greenies and Democracy or lack of it / Politics / Austrailia
By: Dan_Denning
We see in Australian politics the Greens and Labor have made a deal and that U.S. police have shot an armed man at the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Maryland after he took people inside the building hostage. And we see that in some strange way, the events are not unrelated. Not causally, mind you, but philosophically.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Bernanke Out of Bullets, But Not Bombs / Politics / Central Banks
By: Michael_Pento
Word on the street is that the Fed is now "out of bullets." Many economists fear that in its efforts to spur recovery, the Fed may have already exhausted its array of monetary ammunition and that it has nothing left of significance to fire at the steadily advancing recession. They believe that since interest rates are already near zero and Fed policies have failed to inspire banks to expand commercial and consumer lending (despite ample bank reserves), the tools traditionally employed by the Fed have been rendered impotent.
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
The Fourth Turning – Economic and Social Skies Over the United States Darkening / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
William Strauss and Neil Howe published The Fourth Turning in 1997. This was before the internet bubble, before the housing bubble, before 9/11, before the two wars in the Middle East, and before the financial collapse of 2008. They made a strong case for their generational theory of history. Everything that has happened since 1997 supports their theory. We are currently in the early stages of the Fourth Turning.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
U.S. Taxes Set to Sky Rocket, Protect Your Wealth by Going Global / Politics / Taxes
By: Casey_Research
Chris Wood, Editor, Casey Research write: Here at Casey Research, we really don't enjoy being a buzz-kill. It's just that we think it's more important for investors to be well informed about the reality in which we find ourselves today than it is to be happy-go-lucky all the time.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Bankrupt Finnish Welfare State / Politics / Government Spending
By: MISES
Kaj Grüssner writes: Progressives in America are often keen on promoting the European welfare state as an argument for big government, not least in the healthcare debate. They point to European countries, often the social-democratic Nordic countries, as role models, with their universal healthcare, public school system, generous social-safety net, and all the happy people who live there.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
More Money Printing, More Problems / Politics / Quantitative Easing
By: MISES
CJ Maloney writes: The recent decision by the Federal Reserve to keep its balance sheet stuffed to bursting with whatever the Wall Street banks decide to throw onto it came as no surprise and crushed any hope that the Fed would tone down its policy of quantitative easing (QE) — or credit easing (CE), as Mr. Bernanke prefers to call it. With the US economy stalled despite the trillions of "stimulus" funds larded out to the politically connected, the people who helm the Federal Reserve likely felt they had no other choice. This was too easy to predict; for the past few decades the response of US monetary authorities to any crisis has been the same — print more money.