US-CHINA: Trade War Heats Up
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Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (IPS) – Relations between Beijing and Washington have been far from smooth since the beginning of the year.
But a new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate is adding to existing tensions by attacking China’s trade practices and proposing legislation which would push the [...]
MIDEAST: Israel-U.S. Tensions Continue to Percolate
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Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) – Despite assurances by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday that the United States and Israel share a ”close, unshakeable bond”, the week-old crisis between the two allies continued to percolate here Tuesday.
Washington cancelled a planned trip to the region by its [...]
POLITICS: Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon
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Pratap Chatterjee*
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) – Mike Furlong, a top Pentagon official, is alleged to have run a covert network of contractors to supply information for drone strikes and assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the U.S. government.
The contract built upon his decade-long experience in running propaganda [...]
MIDEAST: U.S.-Israeli Tensions Escalating Quickly
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Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) – The crisis touched off by last week’s announcement of Israel’s plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem during a high-profile visit by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden appears to be escalating rapidly.
Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to [...]
POLITICS: Policy Battle over Afghan Peace Talks Intensifies
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Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) – The struggle within the Barack Obama administration over Afghanistan policy entered a new phase when the president suggested at a meeting of his ”war cabinet” Friday that it might be time to start negotiations with the Taliban, according to a [...]
When the US Becomes Greece: Drivel From the Deficit Hawks
Monday 15 March 2010
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy
Read the original article on Truthout.org
by: Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
The headlines about Greece’s financial problems have provided a great backdrop to renewed attacks from the deficit hawks on Social Security and Medicare. Never mind that none of it [...]
MIDEAST: An Unlikely Collision Takes Place
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Mar 15, 2010 (IPS) – In the middle of last week, it seemed that the old cliché about the light at the end of the dark Middle East tunnel was being confirmed: the U.S. had successfully cajoled both Israel and [...]
US-ISRAEL: Tiff or Tipping Point?
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Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (IPS) – ”Condemn” is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S. politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however objectionable, by Israel.
So it was no surprise that close observers of U.S. Middle East policy sat [...]
Perfidy In The Shadow Of Highly Touted Friendship
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By Ernest Corea
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – Senator George Mitchell, the Obama Administration’s special envoy for the Middle East, is expected somehow to keep the planned Palestinian-Israeli “proximity talks” process alive, despite the Government of Israel’s attempt to pull the plug on it.
Whatever [...]
HEALTH: U.S. AIDS Fund Flat-Lining, Groups Complain
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Sananda Sahoo
WASHINGTON, Mar 12 (IPS) – The debate between those who favour investment in AIDS treatment and those who favour investment in its prevention came to the forefront Thursday at a U.S House of Representatives hearing on U.S. investments in HIV/AIDS in Africa.
International health organisations working to [...]
Single payer fight moves to states
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Swanson: Obama pushes out Kucinich single payer amendment that enables states single payer health care.
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ENVIRONMENT: Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists
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Stephen Leahy* – Tierramérica
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 9 (IPS) – Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the U.S. government against global warming, experts warn.
U.S. Senator James Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma and climate change denier, in late [...]
U.S. Diplomacy Urged To Tandem With Faith
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“Diplomats trained in my era were taught not to invite trouble. And no subject seemed more inherently treacherous than religion.” – Madeleine Albright
By Ernest Corea
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WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – The existence of a “God gap” which is said to diminish American [...]
POLITICS: Fiction of Marja as City Was U.S. Information War
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By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS) – For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea [...]
Do higher wages cause inflation?
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March 7, 2010
Economist Robert Pollin discusses the relationship between real wages and inflation. He points out the stagnation of real wages coupled by gains in productivity in the United States.
Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His [...]
MIDEAST: Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare
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Mel Frykberg
JERSUSALEM, Mar 14 (IPS) – Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50.
Outside the walled Old City, and in several West Bank villages, clashes were reported between [...]
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