POP QUIZ: How Well Do You Know The US?
By: Charles Rayner Kelly 1) How many US military personnel does the DOD estimate were raped or assaulted in 2010? 0 5 76 113 15,790 2) Democracy supposes who should [...]
Category Archives: Politics
Political Viewpoints
European Electoral Postmortems
By: Stephen Lendman The morning after election Sunday, French and Greek voters have major issues unresolved. Austerity harmed people in both countries. Technocrats remain in charge. Odds remain long for [...]
Choice Not on Ballot in French Election
By: Stephen Lendman France replicates most Western societies. Elections give voters little choice at best. Most often there’s none. Two dominant parties usually compete. In France, there’s three. On April [...]
Chavez in 2012
By: Stephen Lendman After 12 years in office, Chavez remains overwhelmingly favored for reelection in October. Given the alternative, most Venezuelans have a clear choice. Poll numbers predict a sweep. [...]
David Horowitz and the Art of Slander — An Analysis
By: Lawrence Davidson, Ph.D Part I — Slander On 24 April 2012 the New York Times (NYT) lent its editorial page to the propaganda of right- wing Zionist David Horowitz, [...]
Capitalism in the Second Decade of the 21st Century — From the “Golden” to the Dark Ages of Capitalism
By: James Petras, Ph.D Introduction: The economic, political and social outlook for the second decade of the 21st century is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox [...]
A Very Sick Country
By: David Michael Green, Ph.D So. It looks now like the regressive majority on the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, his health care bill. [...]
Liberals and Their Situational Ethics — An Analysis
By: Dr. Lawrence Davidson Part I — Liberal Games On 10 April 2012 the journalist Charles Davis did a guest posting on Glenn Greenwald’s website, Salon. The title of the piece [...]
NAFTA Partners Take Steps to Boost Trilateral Relationship
While bilateral initiatives have dominated North American issues over the last couple of years, the trilateral relationship has suffered. With a series of high-level meetings, the U.S., Canada and Mexico are taking steps to boost the NAFTA partnership. First, the defense ministers met to discuss shared continental security threats. This was followed by a leaders summit which pledged to deepen trade, regulatory, energy and security cooperation. The recent meetings have caused some to once again take notice of the incremental efforts to merge all three countries into a North American Union.
Delusional Milestone — An Analysis
Pastor John Hagee’s Christians United For Israel (CUFI) announced the “registration of their millionth member” on 18 March 2012. This organization, founded in 2006, with the goal of “realizing the political potential of tens of millions of evangelical Americans who support Israel” can also be said to have the goal of destroying, in the name of God no less, the legitimate political aspiration of Palestinian statehood. And, the CUFI now has as much influence with our Republican Congress as does the Jewish Zionist lobby, AIPAC.
