Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
AlterNet: The Case That Wars Fuel U.S. Economic Booms
by Mark Ames; ``What if our wealth is a consequence of our ability to plunder the world's wealth, often by default thanks to our competitors' suicidal behavior?''
war Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
Truthdig - A Choice Between Peace and Peril
by Chris Hedges; ``Netanyahus assumption of power in Israel sets the stage for a huge campaign by the Israeli government, and its well-oiled lobby groups in Washington, to push us into a war with Iran''
Sun 2008-10-26 00:00 EDT
Joe Bageant: Moving to the Center of Elite Consensus
by "the masked political consultant"; ``what "Moving to the Center," means is: moving towards power and money''; ``What voters are expected to believe is that after a 30-year class war against the bottom 90% of income earners, the source of their troubles are black rappers and inner city fathers and not criminality on Wall Street or a corrupt political system.''; 2008-08-27
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
Angry Bear: Class War; Appropriateness of the Wealthy's strategy
``the Wealthy are irrational in their strategy in fighting the War of Class and are in fact losing the war for everyone.''
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
The Newer Deal: The Path to a Democratic Supermajority | The New America Foundation
The Newer Deal: The Path to a Democratic Supermajority, by Michael Lind (Salon, 2008-08-15) | The New America Foundation; ``Social conservatives, having lost the culture war, should be offered not only a truce but also an opportunity to join a broad economic campaign for a middle-class America, as many of them did between 1932 and 1968. When pro-choicers and pro-lifers unite in cheering the public investment and living wage planks at the convention of the neo-Roosevelt party, we will know that the political era that began in 1968 is truly and finally over.''
Democratic supermajority; New America Foundation; Newer Deal; path.
Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment
Bagehot's Rule and the Cost of Being "Technically Insolvent"; "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were given open-ended government guarantees through January 2009. This open-endedness is a big mistake, because the potential costs are being as vastly understated as the pre-war estimates of the Iraq invasion."
Mon 2008-07-14 00:00 EDT
Salon.com | Jesse Helms is not dead
by Micheal Lind; "contemporary America looks more and more like the South between the world wars that Jesse Helms wanted to preserve"
com; Dead; Jesse Helms; Salon.
Wed 2008-07-09 00:00 EDT
Tomgram: Chris Hedges, War and Occupation, American-style
Collateral Damage: What It Really Means When America Goes to War, by Chris Hedges; "The war in Iraq is now primarily about murder."
Thu 2008-07-03 00:00 EDT
The Necessary War by William S. Lind
The Necessary War, by William S. Lind; reviews Pat Buchanan's "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unecessary War"; demolishing Churchill; "n both World Wars, the U.S. came out a winner because it left most of the fighting to others." "Debunking comic-book history and replacing it with the real thing is vital if America is to avoid the dual trap of cultural Marxism and Brave New World."
Fri 2008-06-13 00:00 EDT
The REAL reasons for high gas prices | The Economic Populist
oil bubble attributed to fundamentals, falling dollar, Iraqi war
Thu 2008-06-05 00:00 EDT
Tomgram: Chris Hedges, War and Occupation, American-style
Collateral Damage: What It Really Means When America Goes to War, by Chris Hedges