The $400 billion, 40 year oil and gas deal between China and Russia is a response to the new cold war pressure and sanctions on Russia, says economist Michael Hudson
Om sjukförsäkringsreformen nu går igenom, även i dess svaga form[....], kan republikanerna hamna(r) i långvarig politisk maktlöshet och deras aktivister förvandlas till partiets extremistproblem. "Sjukförsäkring är nyckeln till USA:s politiska framtid", P
Murray: CIA used Uzbek torture to create false intelligence; support for regime continues Craig Murray is a British political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan and current Rector of the University of Dundee. The Real News Network
Feffer 23.12. jämför Obama med Nixon. Å ena sidan START, vapenkontroll och (eventuellt) nedrustning. Å andra sidan krig och imperialism. "This bifocal view of Richard Nixon reveals one of the great paradoxes of the U.S. peace movement. Peace activists div
By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Apr 23, 2010 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading T
June, 2010. "Is it unimaginable that the Tea Parties might turn in that direction? Perhaps not, though much depends on the extent to which the Republican Party and people like Sarah Palin are able to co-opt the movement. If they do, the revolt will fizzle
Aug 2009 article by Elaine Grossman, final para: "Without clear direction from Obama, now president, "we essentially signal [to the world] that the president's nuclear elimination pledge is just another ultimate goal and not different from what any other
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Middle Eastern Affairs Colin Kahl and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Michael Corbin presented the administration plan for what they called a "transition from a military to civilian re
CO2-raportti 18.10.2010 "Hallinnon ydinvoimapolitiikan epäjohdonmukaisuuden syistä on esitetty erilaisia väitteitä. The Economistin mukaan tietyt tahot epäilevät, että Obaman ydinvoimamyönteisyyden tarkoituksena oli voittaa republikaanit uuden ilmastolain
Björn Elmbrant: "När politiken alltså knappast kan lindra krisen alls, kom ändå amerikanska riksbanken, Federal Reserve, igår kväll till undsättning med ett gigantisk stimulanspaket för den amerikanska ekonomin. Riksbanken ska under ett år köpa upp statsp
Wallerstein:" The United States today is, I would say, one of the least stable political entities in the world-system... there is a major drop in the belief in the United States, and its president, by traditional U.S. allies abroad, and by the president's Commentary No. 345, Jan. 15, 2013"The Structural Crisis: Middle-Run Imponderables": "Nuclear weapons are essentially defensive weapons and therefore reduce, not increase, the likelihood of interstate wars."
March, 2009 | AMY GOODMAN interviews Bernie Sanders on credit default swaps, glass-steagall, etc. "Gensler worked to exempt credit default swaps from regulation, which led to the collapse of A.I.G. and has resulted in our massive bailout. " "what Barack
AP 14 Feb WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is weighing options for sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons, The Associated Press has learned. "The notion of a 300-weapon arsenal is featured prominently in a paper written for the Pentagon by a RAND National Defense Project Institute analyst last October, in the early stages of the administration's review of nuclear requirements. The author, Paul K. Davis, wrote that he was not advocating any particular course of action but sought to provide an analytic guide for how policymakers could think about the implications of various levels of nuclear reductions. Davis wrote that an arsenal of 300 weapons might be considered adequate for deterrence purposes if that force level was part of a treaty with sound anti-cheating provisions; if the U.S. deployed additional non-nuclear weapons with global reach, and if the U.S. had "hypothetically excellent," if limited, defenses against long- and medium-range nuclear missiles."
Hans M Kristensen: "In addition to modernizing the warheads and the production complex, the Obama administration has also pledged to spend “well over 100 billion dollars” on modernizing some of the missiles, submarines and bombers designed to deliver the warheads."
Ken Zinn, Political Director of National Nurses United: "...we have support. I will just note that President Obama, who thus far has not come out in support of this Robin Hood tax, two days ago called Mitt Romney the reverse Robin Hood (which is an interesting appropriation of the language of our campaign), called him Romney Hood. And that's funny. Of course, it's true, but it's also not enough. We need the president to actually be Robin Hood himself, not just accuse his opponent of being the reverse Robin Hood. And he needs to come out and support this tax, because it's not only good policy, it's good politics as well.
Wilkerson on the nomination of Chuck Hagel as Secr of Defense and Hohn Kerry as Secr of State: "We've got a lot of work to do in this country, rebuilding infrastructure, addressing climate change, coming up with alternative energy sources, and leading the world, more or less, in this effort, so at the same time we restore our economic power while we're leading the world in a way that will be sustainable to the end of this century."
This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn’s new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, with special thanks to his publisher, OR Books. The first section is a new introduction written for TomDispatch "The Underrated Saudi Connection " (underrubrik) "The “war on terror” has failed because it did not target the jihadi movement as a whole and, above all, was not aimed at Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the two countries that fostered jihadism as a creed and a movement. The U.S. did not do so because these countries were important American allies whom it did not want to offend. Saudi Arabia is an enormous market for American arms, and the Saudis have cultivated, and on occasion purchased, influential members of the American political establishment. Pakistan is a nuclear power with a population of 180 million and a military with close links to the Pentagon."
Det er ventet at kl. 15.00 norsk tid vil den amerikanske presidenten Barack Obama gå på talerstolen i Berlin og snakke om kutt i atomvåpen. Det melder nyhetsbyrået Reuters onsdag morgen.
"The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye to the c
Gråansiktena James Jones och Tom Daschle förbereder angrepp på Iran. När de väl har satt igång hangarfartygen kommer Obama att tala i teven igen, förutspår Mikael Nyberg.