As the United States has de-industrialized over the past several decades, an illusion of prosperity was maintained by rampant consumerism fueled by easy credit and bubble economies. Now U.S. businesses are hoping for another fix from shoppers rushing to the…
Category: Obama Administration
Questions to Ask the Candidates
The New Industry of High-Tech Spying
OWS Shatters the Political Frame
Slanting the Case on Iran’s Nukes
The Trashing of the People’s Library
Israeli Democracy Fades Toward Black
Cracks Open in Iran Nuke Charges
How Israel Out-Foxed US Presidents
No Room for Smugness on Iran
There’s a “Lucy-yanks-the-football-away-from-Charlie-Brown” quality to how Americans are handled each time a new war with a foreign “enemy” is being sold. There’s a slightly varied pitch and the public belatedly learns it’s been conned, as is now happening with Iran, notes ex-U.S. intelligence analyst Elizabeth…