January, 2012 // Posts published in January, 2012
Oil Corporations & US Gov’t to Wield Power in Future Oily Iraq
Iraq is projected to become an oil giant of as much geopolitical influence as Saudi Arabia. And the U.S. government and its corporations are at the center center of that trend. Ben Van Heuvelen has a piece at Foreign Policy describing Iraq’s burgeoning “extractive industry” and how they’re on track to become a “swing producer” ...
‘If we kill them, they were al Qaeda…’
I wrote today about Obama’s denial that a “huge number of civilian casualties” are resulting from the drone war in Pakistan. There is plenty of evidence of high numbers of civilian casualties from the drone strikes, and I write about and link to much of it in the piece, but I also left something out ...
Clapper’s Claptrap: Beware of Attacks From Weak, Isolated, Impoverished, Militarily Surrounded Iran
In prepared remarks to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper reviewed “global threats to the United States.” He covered a number of things, one of which was the alleged Iranian plot to kill a Saudi Ambassador in Washington, DC back in October. New York Times: Mr. Clapper also addressed possible threats ...
Gold Commission II
Lewis Lehrman, a member of the 1981 Gold Commission who coauthored the Commission’s Minority Report with Ron Paul is calling on Romney and Santorum to join Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich in calling for a restoration of sound Constitutional money.
Mises Daily: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
“Currency Wars” by Doug French It is not just rockets and bombs that are fired; war is raged on the economic front, with currency manipulation as the primary weapon. It is this brutal economic warfare that is the subject of James R...
“Food Stamps: An Economic Stimulus!”
Wes Moore: “Mr. Secretary, good morning. Many people don’t know that actually food stamps fall under the Department of Agriculture. And a report was just released that nearly 1 in 7 Americans now are currently on food stamps. What strategies — what’s being done right now and being done going forward that is really addressing poverty and the poor within the country and bringing some alleviation to those kinds of numbers?” Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: “Well, obviously, it’s putting people to work, which is why we’re going to propose some interesting things during the course of the forum this ...
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