Another Reason Not to Go to War So Often
by Charles V. Peña
By now, everyone has either seen or knows about the video of U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that “the conduct depicted in the footage is utterly deplorable.” According to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the actions of the Marines in the video are “absolutely inconsistent with American values and the standards we expect from our military personnel.” Not surprisingly, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is none too pleased: “This act by American soldiers is completely inhumane and condemnable in the strongest possible terms.”
The hypocrisy of America's Cuba policy
By Roland Martin
In Cuba, a man checks his motorcycle in front of political billboards that allude to the US embargo on Cuba
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Roland Martin notes Cuba has come up as issue in Florida GOP primary race
- The candidates have looked silly defending America's failed Cuba policy, he says
- Martin says only Ron Paul has the right idea about Cuba
Editor's note: Roland S. Martin
is a syndicated columnist and author of "The First: President Barack
Obama's Road to the White House." He is a commentator for the TV One
cable network and host/managing editor of its Sunday morning news show,
"Washington Watch with Roland Martin."
(CNN) -- For more than 50 years, the United States
has had an embargo against the island of Cuba, all because we supposedly
hate communism and believe the nation 90 miles from our borders should
institute democracy.Zionist Master Plan for Global Dictatorship
Before the American Mercury
magazine came into its present ownership, it was owned and controlled
by a noted patriot by the name of Russell Maguire. He was a man of
wealth and intelligent business initiative.
He became alarmed over what he knew to be Zionism’s Master Plan for World Power. A documented research manuscript came into his hands and he had the courage to publish it.
The Real Deal About World Peace
What’s the Real Deal? How do we bring Real Peace to our world? The answer to that question is actually easy. The real
question is this: Are you prepared to hear an answer that is so simple,
so prolifically accessible to all, so do-able, that it is resting right
at your fingertips this very moment?It’s simple, it is profound, you will immediately feel the resonance of it’s Truth begin to loosen constraints within you. And here it is:
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this week’s chat with Bob Chapman of The International Forecaster we
discuss the Sarkozy lame-duck financial tax, the German EU takeover
ploy, ratings agency pay-for-play and much more.
How the Media Manipulates the World into War James Corbett
As the drums of war begin to beat once again in Iran, Syria, the South China Sea, and other potential hotspots and flashpoints around the globe, concerned citizens are asking how a world so sick of bloodshed and a population so tired of conflict could be led to this spot once again.
Why Ron Paul is Unlikely to Become President Jeff Thomas
There’s an old saying: “Be careful what you wish for — it might come true.”Many Americans who have lost faith in the American electoral system have turned to an “alternative” presidential candidate, Ron Paul. In fact, many are calling him that last hope for constitutional democracy. He has run for president before, but this time, it’s very different.
On a visit to the US in the spring of 2008, I found that everyone was buzzing with the upcoming November Presidential election. They were speculating on the outcome and what that might mean for their futures.
By 2010, many of those who threw their bonnets over the windmill for Mr. Obama were already dissatisfied that he was turning out to be a mistake in the extreme, and now they were buzzing about the November 2010 election. At that time, the Tea Party had grown to prominence, and many Americans were betting their futures on the outcome of the election and what that might mean for their futures.
The Collapse of the Euro and the EU is Imminent Doug Casey interviewed by Louis James
L:
So Doug, a lot of readers are concerned about what’s going on in
Europe. Is this the beginning of the proverbial “it?” Or can the
Eurozone be saved?Doug: In brief, the answers are “yes,” then “no” — and a “good riddance” to both the Eurozone and the euro. But most people think the old order should be maintained at almost any cost. That would include George Soros, who recently penned an article called “Does the Euro Have a Future?”
Outrageous! The Government Is Giving Out Free Cell Phones And Free Cell Phone Minutes To Welfare Recipients
Did
you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and
free cell phone minutes to welfare recipients? It may be hard to
believe, but it is true. Right now, there are companies that are
running advertisements specifically targeted at low income Americans
informing them of the fact that all they have to do is sign up and they
can get a free cell phone and hundreds of free cell phone minutes every
single month and it will all be paid for by the federal government.
Some have referred to this as "The Obama Phone", but that is not exactly
accurate. The outrageous federal programs that are paying for this
were initiated before Barack Obama entered the White House. But the
fact that welfare recipients have been receiving free cell phones and
free cell phone minutes under both the Bush and Obama administrations
has been confirmed as being true by Snopes.
All of this is paid for by "the federal Universal Service Fund". That
is one of those annoying little taxes that you may have noticed on your
phone bill. So what is essentially happening is the federal government
is taking money from all of us so that they can provide free cell phone
service for welfare recipients every single month.16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Americans Dependent On The Government Is At An All-Time High
A
higher percentage of the American population is receiving government
benefits than ever before. Yes, there have always been poor people that
have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that
the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all-time
high? Every night on the evening news we are told that the economy is improving, and Barack Obama is endlessly giving speeches
about the "economic recovery" that is supposedly underway. But that is
not the reality on the ground for those on the bottom rungs of the
income ladder in America. People are really hurting out there, and the
number of Americans that are turning to the government for financial
assistance just continues to increase. Yes, we should always have a
"safety net", but right now our "safety net" is becoming massively
overloaded as millions more Americans jump on to it every single year.
What all of these impoverished Americans really need are jobs, but the
U.S. Congress and the past several administrations have been
systematically killing job growth in America. So unfortunately the
number of poor Americans is going to continue to rise, and that is
really bad news for a nation that is already drowning in debt.If The Economy Is Improving….
Everywhere
you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is
improving. Barack Obama is endlessly touting the "improvement" in the
economy, the mainstream media is constantly talking about "the economic
recovery" and an increasing number of Americans seem to be buying into
this line of thinking. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 37 percent
of Americans believe that the economy will improve over the next year,
while only 17 percent of Americans believe that it will get worse. But
is the economy actually improving? Not really. At the moment things
are relatively stable. Some economic statistics are improving slightly
and some continue to get even worse. However, it is very important to
keep in mind that one of the biggest reasons why things have stabilized
is because the federal government is pumping more than a trillion
dollars a year into the economy that it does not have.
The Obama administration is engaging in a debt binge unlike anything
America has ever seen before, and yet many economic indicators are still
in decline. So what is going to happen when the federal government
stops injecting gigantic waves of borrowed money into the economy? That
is a frightening thing to think about. The best efforts of our
"leaders" in Washington D.C. are not accomplishing a whole lot. The
Federal Reserve has pushed interest rates as low as they can go and the
federal government is spending unprecedented amounts of money. But even
with the federal government and the Federal Reserve pushing the
accelerator all the way to the floor, the economy is still not improving
much at all. Millions upon millions of Americans out there are
anticipating some sort of a "great economic recovery", and they are
going to be bitterly disappointed.Chávez Plans to Loot $29B in Venezuelan Reserves
AEI Debate Prep: Neutralizing the Iranian threat in Latin America
Iran is using Venezuela as a platform to project its asymmetrical warfare into the Western Hemisphere and to sustain its illicit nuclear program. According to documents of the regime of anti-American radical Hugo Chávez, Iran has laundered about $30 billion through the Venezuelan economy to evade international sanctions.
AEI Debate Prep: Is this the only path to victory in Afghanistan?
That core question should shape any discussion of our strategy in Afghanistan or the resources we devote to executing it. But that question is too often obscured.
Many say that pursuing any kind of “success” in Afghanistan, the supposed “graveyard of empires,” is sheer folly. Others say that is has become irrelevant, and that the death of Osama bin Laden has deprived the war in Afghanistan of continued meaning.
AEI Debate Prep: We need a terrorist detention and interrogation policy
The willingness of so many Republican presidential candidates to speak out in defense of waterboarding is encouraging. But the Bush administration only waterboarded three high-value terrorists out of more than 100 held by the CIA. The problem today is not simply that America is no longer waterboarding the Khalid Skeikh Mohammeds of the world; it is that, outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, we are no longer capturing, detaining, and interrogating the Khalid Sheikh Mohammeds of the world at all.
Counterterrorism in America and the Jose Pimentel case
So who is this Mullah Mohammed Fazl?
Last year, WikiLeaks released a trove of documents it dubbed the “Gitmo Files”
with
assessments of hundreds of Guantanamo detainees—including Fazl.
According to his official record, Fazl is a war criminal who has
massacred thousands of people, has close relationships with al Qaeda and
other terrorist groups, is involved in narcotics trafficking, and is so
senior in the Taliban hierarchy that he once threatened the Taliban’s
supreme leader, Mullah Omar. He is considered to pose a “high risk” to
American forces and our allies if released.Mitt Romney and the future of Gitmo
But the real question is not what did not happen on January 20, 2010 (the date set by Obama for Gitmo’s closure) but rather what will happen with Guantanamo come January 20, 2013, if a new Republican president takes office.
Al Qaeda terror training manual found at Gitmo
The Miami Herald reports this morning:
5 questions for … Erik Brynjolfsson, co-author of Race Against the Machine
Is America suffering from technological stagnation? Is a lack of innovation undermining economic growth and our standard of living? It’s a popular thesis right now, one outlined brilliantly by economist Tyler Cowen in his recent Kindle ebook, The Great Stagnation.
But MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee see things quite differently. In their new Kindle ebook, Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy, they highlight research that shows there’s been technological acceleration rather than stagnation — computers can now drive cars in traffic, translate effectively between human languages, and beat the best human Jeopardy! players.
But human skills have not kept up. And that’s the problem:
How America can have more Seattles and fewer Detroits
How can American cities be more like vibrant Seattle and less
like moribund Detroit? Certainly not by offering them government-backed
green jobs programs. Instead, says Ed Glaeser, unleash the entrepreneurs. And here is how:
The 6 killer apps of Western civilization: Part 1: Competition
Check out this great TED talk,
in which British historian Niall Ferguson explains his answer to the
question of why Western civilization achieved such a clear dominance
over the rest of the world.
The presentation is a summary of Ferguson’s book Civilization: The West and the Rest. I highly recommend reading it; it expands on the points from the TED talk and is thoroughly enjoyable. What I’d like to do here is investigate, one at a time, the state of the six “killer apps” in modern America.
Let’s start with Ferguson’s first “killer app”: competition. Here’s a little more background from the book:
The presentation is a summary of Ferguson’s book Civilization: The West and the Rest. I highly recommend reading it; it expands on the points from the TED talk and is thoroughly enjoyable. What I’d like to do here is investigate, one at a time, the state of the six “killer apps” in modern America.
Let’s start with Ferguson’s first “killer app”: competition. Here’s a little more background from the book:
Four myths about how World War II (and Keynes) saved the U.S. economy
In blogger and economist David Henderson’s fascinating review of A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
by Alexander J. Field, he highlights some interesting findings by the
author about the impact of World War II on the U.S economy, particularly
as it relates to innovation and productivity. Oh, and whether the orgy
of government deficit spending ended the Great Depression:
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