I suppose we really ought to have a US primaries thread
Most of what we’re seeing in the MSM is just presidential horse-race reporting, of course. Why don’t we see if we can do better?
ACLU statement on Obama’s signing of NDAA
“Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today.”
More foreign policy: US Marines and tripwires
There’s been lots of discussion of what the de-facto basing of up to 2,500 US Marines at a training area in the Northern Territory means. There’s been blather about Guam, Okinawa and Chinese missile strike capability, for instance. Perhaps the [...]
Foreign policy week: Uranium sales to India
It seems like this is foreign policy week – or, perhaps we’ll call it “fall into line with the USA” week.
Occupy Australia and the Antipodean “bubble”
After the Occupy Melbourne event was forcibly (and it appears, disproportionately violently) cleared by the Victorian Police at the instance of Melbourne Mayor Robert Doyle, Dr_Tad has been reflecting at Left Flank on some of the criticism of the actions [...]
#Occupy X and Australia’s 99%
#Occupy X has come to Australia. The various actions in a number of capital cities don’t seem to have the drawing power that #Occupy Wall Street and its various viral spinoffs in the United States have, but that’s no particular [...]
Police violence against the #occupywallstreet protest
The protests have been, by almost all accounts, peaceful, even if the protestors didn’t have a permit. The NYPD is nonetheless making mass arrests, using mace, and manhandling protestors. That kind of disproportionate response should scare all of us
US poverty surge continues
John Quiggin in his Australian Financial Review column last week told us that 1% of the US population now commands 25% of all income in the United States. He also said the many Republicans want to allow the payroll tax [...]
A crisis of political economy
President Barack Obama recently told members of Congress and the public: If we don’t come to an agreement, we could lose our country’s triple-A credit rating, not because we didn’t have the capacity to pay our bills – we do [...]
Power shifts East?
Political and military power lags behind economic power, but the bill falls due. This could be the way the hegemon ends, not with a bang but with a Tea Party.
“A sugar-coated Satan sandwich”
The US debt ceiling bill is a triumph for the Tea Party. It represents the victory of the wealthiest 1% over the rest of the citizenry.
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