Category: Social Issues
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
US Super-rich Get Five Times More Income Than in 1995 / Politics / Social Issues
By: Global_Research
Andre Damon writes: The incomes of the very rich in the US grew phenomenally between 1992 and 2007, while their tax rates plummeted, according to recently uncovered IRS statistics.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Geographic Determinism , The Question of Questions / Politics / Social Issues
By: Robert_Singer
Can Jared Diamond’s definition of “Geographic Determinism” answer "Yali's 'Cargo' Question": Why "they" are so rich and "we" are so poor?
Geographic Determinism: The shape and location of continents, flora, fauna, microbes, water, climate, topography determine history:
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Capitalism Cut Adrift / Politics / Social Issues
By: William_Bowles
Have we really been brainwashed?
There has been much talk expended over the years on the degree to which the media—and hence culture—is central to maintaining the capitalist system. Leading the charge have been Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, so much so that they now more resemble sainted objects than social/political analysts, but then this is nothing new for the left, who unfortunately for the most part are happy to let others do the thinking for them.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Governments Controlling the Ability of People and Organizations to Access the Internet / Politics / Social Issues
By: Bob_Chapman
Under the guise of “protecting Americans” and choosing itself in so-called “national security,” the current Obama administration wants to be able to control the ability of people and organizations to access the Internet.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Making an Immortal Body of Truth / Politics / Social Issues
By: Richard_C_Cook
As the world slides closer daily to what the Shivapuri Baba described as a 6,000-year societal catastrophe, it is certainly curious to observe how those who fancy themselves the rulers of mankind continue to attempt to gather all power, authority, and wealth into their hands.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Disaster Capitalism Comes to Haiti to Make a Profit / Politics / Social Issues
By: Global_Research
Benjamin Dangl writes: US corporations, private mercenaries, Washington and the International Monetary Fund are using the crisis in Haiti to make a profit, promote unpopular neoliberal policies, and extend military and economic control over the Haitian people.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
How To Beat Cancer / Politics / Social Issues
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: How Bill Beat Cancer
"Hey, Bill, it's GREAT to see you," I said. "How's it going?"
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Why Is The Haiti Disaster Response So Screwed Up: Is The Another Katrina Relief Effort In The Making? / Politics / Social Issues
By: Danny_Schechter
Every disaster plan is built to some degree around the idea of triage—deciding who can and cannot be saved. The worst cases are often separated and allowed to perish so that others who are considered more survivable can be treated.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Haiti Earthquake Survivors Dying as Aid Struggles to Reach Them / Politics / Social Issues
By: Submissions
The distribution of humanitarian supplies to Haiti is being hampered by infrastructure damage, blocked roads and severed communication lines. Reports are that those who survived Tuesday’s massive earthquake are now dying in huge numbers, and clean water, food and medical supplies are desperately needed. Dead bodies lie everywhere on the streets, and the Red Cross says it has run out of body bags. Three million more—one third of Haiti’s population—had been hurt or left homeless.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Gold, Guns and the Process of Civilisation / Politics / Social Issues
By: Douglas_French
In his extraordinary book Democracy: The God that Failed, Hans Hermann Hoppe points out that the process of civilization is stopped when government continually violates property rights.
Friday, January 01, 2010
Social Unrest and Global States of Combustibility 2010 / Politics / Social Issues
By: Mac_Slavo
The Economist says that 2010 could be a year the sparks unrest in the Global Tinderbox: “IF THE world appears to have escaped relatively unscathed by social unrest in 2009, despite suffering the worst recession since the 1930s, it might just prove the lull before the storm. Despite a tentative global recovery, for many people around the world economic and social conditions will continue to deteriorate in 2010. An estimated 60m people worldwide will lose their jobs. Poverty rates will continue to rise, with 200m people at risk of joining the ranks of those living on less than $2 a day. But poverty alone does not spark unrest—exaggerated income inequalities, poor governance, lack of social provision and ethnic tensions are all elements of the brew that foments unrest.“
Monday, December 28, 2009
Democracy the Supreme Object of Adoration as a Global Religion / Politics / Social Issues
By: Robert_Higgs
No institution of modern life commands as much veneration as democracy. It comes closer than anything else to being the supreme object of adoration in a global religion. Anyone who denies its righteousness and desirability soon finds himself a pariah. One may get away with denouncing motherhood and apple pie, but not with speaking ill of democracy, which is now the principal icon of political and social life throughout the world. Many people are atheists, but few are antidemocrats.
Monday, December 21, 2009
A New Era for Humanity Has Begun / Politics / Social Issues
By: Richard_C_Cook
A new era for the human race has clearly begun. When I compare the state of people’s awareness today with what it was just a few years ago, remarkable changes are taking place.
People are finally waking up to the fact that the world of big money, big media, and big business is taking them absolutely nowhere except into degradation, alienation, and slavery.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Ebeneezer Scrooge Hero Not Villain / Politics / Social Issues
By: Butler_Shaffer
My interest in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol began one Christmas eve when, as a small child, my parents turned on network radio to listen to what, even then, had become a classic Christmas eve festivity: Lionel Barrymore's presentation of the Dickens story.
Radio was a medium that required the imagination to paint scenes far more colorful, and to concoct monsters far scarier, than anything motion pictures or television have ever been able to present. With radio, the listener was the stage designer, costumer, and location director.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Social Credit and Meta-Feudalism / Politics / Social Issues
By: Christopher_Quigley
“Douglas said that we are trying to pass from one type of civilization into another in which the possibilities are such that we cannot imagine.”
“The King is dead long live the King” so goes the feudal aristocratic mantra establishing power continuity. Death and birth are a part of reality and amidst the pain of death the love of life must prevail. Currently many say that American society is dying but in fact it is experiencing a transformation.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Throwing Our Energy at Impossible Dreams / Politics / Social Issues
By: Submissions
P.F. Henshaw writes:
In the haystack of contentious arguments at Copenhagen it seems only the occasional unofficial commentary pointed to the real solvable source of our monumental collision with the limits of the earth. Somehow in the process of growing ever bigger, mankind got "big", and continuing to grow still bigger is optional. Yes, it sort of "happened naturally", and is also natural for us to be a bit confused about the whole turn of events it precipitates, but it is still also definitely our own choice to be doing it too, and we're simply hiding from the problem it creates on the whole.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Show Me the Money / Politics / Social Issues
By: Robert_Singer
We have been conditioned from birth to believe that everything wrong in our society is about Greed: The inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.
However, my research concludes the earth’s environmental damage and pollution was not the result of greed and the unintended consequences of our capitalistic consumer society, but was the goal.
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Why I Hate Doctors / Politics / Social Issues
By: LewRockwell
Burton S. Blumert writes: Burt: "You've been my physician for over 25 years. You can't just dump me like you would a broken heart-lung machine."
Doc: "There's no room for sentiment in medicine, and frankly, your quaint right-wing viewpoints aren't as interesting as they once were. I'm turning your medical records over to young Dr. Kaloofka from my office."
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Monday, November 02, 2009
The Ayn Rand Cult / Politics / Social Issues
By: Murray_N_Rothbard
In the America of the 1970s we are all too familiar with the religious cult, which has been proliferating in the last decade. Characteristic of the cult (from Hare Krishna to the "Moonies" to EST to Scientology to the Manson Family) is the dominance of the guru, or Maximum Leader, who is also the creator and ultimate interpreter of a given creed to which the acolyte must be unswervingly loyal. The major if not the only qualification for membership and advancement in the cult is absolute loyalty to and adoration of the guru, and absolute and unquestioning obedience to his commands.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Social Upheaval, How Close Are We? / Politics / Social Issues
By: Michael_T_Bucci
Many authors who have contributed to The Market Oracle have expressed concern - some overtly and some in passing - about the possibility of social upheavals in the US caused by economic dislocations and what impact these events would have on the markets. How close are we? An excellent synopsis by Mr Andre Damon of the current status of economic conditions extant in the US and the world on the eve of the G20
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