2009 Trade Deficit Reduction Masks Serious US Competitiveness Deficiencies
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Originally Published on American Economic Alert
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Alan Tonelson
The details of the final 2009 trade figures hold two important lessons for both supporters and many opponents of current U.S. trade policies. The first: However critically important trade deficit reduction is, it’s just as important to do it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
RIGHTS: U.S. Criticised over Soaring Housing Costs
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Armin Rosen
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 5 (IPS) – On Friday, the richest and most powerful country on earth was the subject of a damning report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The United States rarely finds itself brought before HRC, and issues of U.S. domestic policy [...]
US-TURKEY: Armenian Genocide Vote Threatens Ties at Key Moment
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Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 5 (IPS) – Thursday’s vote by a Congressional committee condemning the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as ”genocide” is almost certain to complicate U.S. ties with Turkey, a long-time strategic ally and increasingly influential player in the Middle East [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Does Latin America
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by COHA Research Associates Evgenij Haperskij and Kaycie Rupp
• Argentina squeezed in at the last minute • Why Guatemala? • Brazil phase is rough • Secretary of State Clinton and her Assistant Secretary, [...]
Obama Rewards Another Outsourcer
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Originally Published on American Economic Alert
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President Obama’s decision to put Honeywell Chairman David M. Cote on the new bipartisan commission to reduce America’s debts and deficits is like putting Tiger Woods on a national commission to promote marital fidelity. And here’s why this unflattering comparison [...]
LATIN AMERICA-US: Clinton Attempts Damage Control
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Mario Osava *
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 4 (IPS) – The dialogue of the deaf on Iran’s nuclear programme that took place in the capital of Brazil highlights the hurdles faced by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her attempt at forging warmer ties during her tour [...]
It’s the Trade Deficit, Stupid!
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by Peter Morici, Ph.D.
Since the Democrat’s debacle in Massachusetts, President Obama has been campaigning.
In the State of the Union address, his new budget presentation, and other staged events for the faithful where they gather for hope, the President has the [...]
Domestic Manufacturers Urge Obama to Back Up Tougher China Talk With Immediate Currency-Manipulation Bill Push
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Kevin L. Kearns and Alan Tonelson
WASHINGTON, February 4 – The 1,900-member U.S. Business and Industry Council today urged President Obama to back up his tougher, post-Massachusetts, China trade rhetoric at yesterday’s meeting with Senate Democrats by demanding quick Congressional passage [...]
MIGRATION-US: Haitians Welcome TPS Status
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By Ron Howell*
NEW YORK, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – Throughout the New York region, but especially in Brooklyn and Queens, there is measured relief that the U.S. is finally addressing a longstanding issue: that of thousands of Haitians who have been living and – in so many cases [...]
MIDEAST: U.S. Policy in Gaza Remains Unchanged
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Charles Fromm and Ellen Massey
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (IPS) – One year ago Thursday, the last Israeli tanks were lumbering out of the Gaza Strip, ending the 22-day Gaza War and leaving in their wake a decimated landscape and population.
A year later, the humanitarian and security situation in [...]
GATES’ VISIT TO DELHI: STRATEGIC COURSE-CORRECTION
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B.RAMAN
The contours of the strategic course correction in its relations with India, Pakistan and China, which the administration of President Barack Obama has undertaken since it assumed office a year ago, became evident once again during the just-concluded two-day visit of Dr.Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, to New Delhi [...]
U.S. – led World Community Fails, Palestinians on Brink of Explosion
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By Nicola Nasser*
“In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope,” Palestinian Christian leaders, representing churches and church-related organizations, meeting in Bethlehem on December 11, concluded in their 13-page document titled “Kairos Palestine – 2009: A Moment of Truth,” enlisting Christians worldwide in proactive efforts to [...]
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
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – The existence of a “God gap” which is said to diminish American [...]
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