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FOREIGN POLICY


Since the end of World War II, United States' foreign policy can be identified by one word: Counterproductive: producing the very result the action was meant to prevent. The failed military action in Vietnam best represent this ongoing policy.


Often starting with false assumptions and spurious facts, policies produced catastrophes and remained unresolved.The incessant wars for "freedom" turned into killing fields. Wars produced wars and counter-terrorism produced more terrorism.

While trying to structure its own world order, the U.S. remains unaware that it is enabling a new world structure, steered by China and other Asian nations This emerging world structure favors Statism, a mix of government controlled and free enterprise policies; a socio-economic system the U.S. rejects and is indirectly nourishing.

Policies, wars, conflicts, and nations who challenge US exceptionalism are rexamined and discussed. The past remains relevant and serves to predict the future. With it all, a lingering question: Will US foreign policies ever become positive?

The Foreign Policies
Failures of U.S. Foreign Policy - Feb. 2013
(long article)
New Statism-Rise of Corporate States
Politics of Dismemberment
Making others less, makes you more.
Mutual Destruction
U.S., Israel and Iran-trinity of destruction.
The Assassins
Assassins are an alternative army
Making the World Safe for Terrorism
The Politics of Starvation

Economic warfare - a policy that can silently crush an adversary without firing a shot.

Iran
I Ran from Iraq and I Rack up Iran

Policies encourage terrorism.
U.S. Policies Motivates Iran to Go Nuclear Fundamentalist War
Attack Iran and start a Fundamentalist War
US Secret Love for Iran
Deposing Hussein was a gift to Iran.
Driving Mullahs Mad
U.S. tells Iran:"Make war and not peace."

The Arab World in Conflict
The Non-Clash of Civilizations

Misrepresentation of Arab World
Reconciliation of Sunni and Sh'ia

Saudi Power
War Against the Arab World

Bahrain Faces its Faceless Sh'ia

China
A Tale of Two Stimuli

China Rises
China Rises and Rises
Russia
Crushing Vladimir Putin

Media appraisal eflects State Depart. attitude
Gulag Revelations

Turkey
Morsi and Erdogan Coalesce Power

Independent Turkey

The Foreign Wars

Korea
Comprehending North Korea

Bring in the Clowns
Comprehending North Korea's behavior will start softening North Korea's aggressive posture.
Origins of Korean War from Soviet archives
The Tale of Two Koreas
Films explain Korean war
North_Korea_Challenge


Afghanistan
Soviet/Afghan War from Soviet archives
Tragic U.S. Policies in Iraq and Afghanistan
Understanding Pakistan


Libya
NATO Conquers Libya
Misshaping the Middle East

The Libyan example

Earlier articles on Muammar Gadhafii
Gadhafi Faces the West
The Failure of Muammar Al Gathafi
Qadhafi Conversion

The U.S. Bombing of Libya
Part I = Historical From Soviet archives
Part II - A personal Narrative

Iraq
From 2001 to 2011
The Painful Future of Iraq
The Destruction of Iraq
Iraq-False Assumptions, Punishing Choices

War On Iraq
A series of reports examine the Iraq war.
Coming Battle - Iraq's Kurdish Region

Balkans
From Conflagration to Disputation

Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq
Who Destroyed Yugoslavia?

DOMESTIC POLICY



United States domestic policies are often
patchwork to recurring problems. By not recognizing the origin of problems, directions to solutions have been misdirected. The misdirection leads to constant discussion and irresolution of problems.

Early articles describe the stock market manipulations leading to eventual decline and the lack of resolution of social security problems

These preliminaries lead to examination of the later economic crisis, predicted in some articles and made obvious in others.

The Paulson and Geithner attempts to rescue the economy are analyzed.The credit oriented cause of the economic crisis recalls that Ronald Reagan's policies started the government and trade deficits.

The U.S. is headed towards one of two solutions -War cometh before the fall or the Socialization of America.

Still to be recognized - Government deficits are not the problem, the current account deficit is the principal problem.

Confusion About Taxes and Deficits - The Policy makers are confused about the functioning of a system they try to improve.g
Was Keynes More Than a Little Wrong?
An opinion, only an opinion
Rescuing Free Enterprise
Relief measures for assuring continuance of the economic system are being exhausted.
Government Debt is not the Problem
Government deficits result from current account deficits.
The Economic Sinkhole
U.S. policies create consistent high unemployment and stagflation.
How to Create an Economic Downfall
Congressional debate engineered an economic downfall.
Herbert Hoover and New Depression
Hoover's Depression policies deserve study in the economic downturn.
Can Economic Stimulus Plan Succeed?
Private industry has not provided for U.S. recovery and reinvestment.
Govt Debt - Resolving Economic Crisis
What is the significance of the debt?
Can Obama Plan Revive U.S. Economy?

The future of President Obama's recovery plan is predictable.
The Economic Crisis -
Part 1-Does thinking drive recovery?
Is the administration only "patching up" a broken structure?
Part 2- Thoughts to incomplete analyses
Is Roosevelt era approach a model for resolving the present downturn?
Part 3- Towards a Solution
Public realizes it has been deprived to make others rich and famous.
Tulips of Stone (2004)
Global Debt Saturation - A Human Reckoning by Nigel H Maund
War Cometh Before a Fall
Declining economy and powerful military are incentives to war..
The Challenge of the New Statism

Adam Smith's name is not loudly spoken in world's central banks.
Economic Predictions (2008)
Graphs chart direction of U.S. economy and predict economic crisis.
The Tax Deception
Legislators argue the role of taxes in the economy; without facts, knowledge or conviction. Deficit-Stop Deflation or Initiate Inflation
Will deficit spending stimulate hyper-inflation?
Taming Deflation
War mobilization as an economic solution
How Ronald Reagan Sank America

To be part of global prosperity, Reagan started the credit and deficit increases..
Trade Balance and Limits of Paulson Plan

Preventing banking system nationalization but not economic catastrophe
Stimulating a US Bankruptcy
Paulson hoped green paper would resolve the U.S. economic problems.
Beyond Bailout

U.S. is forced to guarantee GM obligations w/o assured of GM' s survival.
The Great Bailout
Did the Paulson plan fulfill its intentions or worsen what it wanted to correct?

Health is a Socio-Economic Problem
A vital aspect of the health discussion
A National Pension Plan - Revisited

A National Pension Plan can provide suitable finances for retirees.
The Socialization of America (2005)
Several trends didn't favor the U.S. economy.
Social Security
Social Security's Path to Survival (2005)
A Solution in Search of a Problem
The Social Security Debacle (2005)
Preferable to integrate retirement community desires into those of all society.
Social Security or Other Problem? (2004)
Problem or Consequence?
Social Security Debate (2002)
No solutions-just debates
Can Private Invest save Social Sec? (1999)
Social Security must be viewed in entirety and not solely by retirement fund.

Stock Market or Shock Market? (2000)
Illegal schemes forecasted the dot-com bubble and fall of U.S. stock market.
The U.S. Stock Market (2000)
The skewing of American Life


MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

While the world community debates a two- state or one-state solution for the Middle East crisis, Israel proceeds with its unilateral solution - one-state - a Jewish state.
Clearly described is the evolution of Israel's strategy and the maddening "peace process."

An original Zionism, rejected by the Jewish people seemed outmoded by World War I and became revived by the Balfour Declaration and establishment of the British Mandate.


President Truman reacted too late to the 1948 recognition of Israel. Incessant wars, conducted from pleas of defense and security needs while geared to enlarge Israel and subdue the Palestinians, have led to either completely vanquishing the Palestinians or a resolution by The Course of History.


The Jewish people are caught in a maelstrom that could evolve in its decline and massive destruction to much of the entire world.

Israel and the Jewish People
Israel Reaches out to Jews for a Rescue
An Israel that cares should be cognizant of its responsibilities to the Jews.
The New Sicarii
Zealots continue to destroy Jewish people.
Does Israel Represent Jewish People?

Revealing The Real Israel
Israel False Assumptions

Deconstructing the Israel Narrative
The Wasting of the West Bank
An excursion is a trip to disbelief.
The Self-Destruction of Israel

Vanquishing the Palestinians
The Israel Separation Barrier

Sharon-The start of Intifada 2
Tank Man and Rachel Corrie
Death of activist Rachel Corrie recalls a Chinese citizen stance before a tank squadron moving from Tiananmen Square.
The Face of Israel 
Ashkelon Speaks-Story of the ME crisis
The New Puritans
Is Israel the new Puritans?
The 1948 Recognition of Israel
Recognition was not as seemed.
The Only Exit from Gaza is by Death

The Wars
Israel's Wars

From 1948 to 2012, Israel has fought wars.
The Missile Wars- Videos Tell the Story

You Tube provides videos, with no censorship, for all to see the 2012 war.
Is Gaza a Test Ground for Israeli Military? Did Israel allow Gaza to fire missiles into southern Israel to test the Iron Dome system? Gaza War
2006 attack on Gaza
A Turning Point In History

The 2nd Lebanon War turned history.
Massacre in Levant
Israel and Hezbollah destroy themselves.
Face to Face With Hezbollah

Surprises at meeting with Hezbollah
The Role of Jerusalem
Why Jerusalem? Israel's Hidden Agenda

Jerusalem and the Peace Process
Political Options for Jerusalem's Future
Jerusalem

Part I: Brief History of Jerusalem
Part II: Heritage Perspectives

Part III: The Hidden Agendas

Palestinian Dilemma
Beyond the Palestinian Crisis
Part I - A larger conflict is now in process

Part II- Trajectory of Middle East Conflict
A Palestinian State Frees All

Resolving the Displaced Persons Problem
Who Speaks for the Palestinians?
Palestinian Nationalism

The Hamas Factor

The "Peace" Initiatives
PEACE WITHOUT PARTNERS
An Israeli "peacenik" comes out of the cold.
Course of History-will resolve the ME crisis
Tangled Course to ME Peace

Turbulent Winds of Annapolis Peace Conf.
A voyage hrough Middle East capitals reveals truths that lack exposure
The Road to Pieces
Understanding forces in the ME violence
Harsh Reality of Middle East Conflict
Israel's Faltering Approach to Peace
Road to Peace-Part I-End of Zionist Dream
The Road to peace-Part II-Negotiations
Evolution of Madness
Peace process or forced treaty?

Critical Evaluation of Israel's Actions
Part I-From Partition to War

Part II-War to Democratic Compromises

A Trajectory to Catastrophe
Part 1-Fate of the Palestinians

Part II-Fate of the Israeli Nation
Part III-Escape from Entrapment

 
POLITICAL

Politics comes first in the United States, and unfortunately misshapes policies. Center driven direction prevents imaginative operations and leads to paralysis. The Neocons and their damage has faded, and given way to a new force, an Unholy Trinity that hopes to reshape America.

Politics
Obama Faces Middle East Critics
Dreams and pursuits that brought Barack into office have tied his initiatives. He can only fulfill dreams and not promises.
The Unholy Trinity
An Unholy Trinity intends to control U.S. foreign and domestic policies
Political Moment-politics and making war
Presidents shape policies to enhance their political moment.
Politics of Patriotism
Clinton's Legacy

Actions
Unilateralism- a road to defeat
Unilateralism is part of America's psyche.
Empowering Terrorism
The Dimming Light of the Neocons

A Tale of Two Reparations
Part I-Reparations Victims of World WarII
P
art II-Reparations for African-Americans

The Immigration Wars
The Call to Activism
Activism is declining force in the U.S.

 
MEDIA

 

The conventional media play an essential role in conditioning the minds and shaping the thoughts and actions of Americans. These roles are described in several articles that challenge accepted dogma.

From the search to freedom, inaccurate reporting of domestic and foreign events to hate in America, a battle for minds shapes the thinking of American people.

The Search for Freedom
Escape From Freedom
A review of Eric Fromm's psychological analysis of freedom.
One Dimensional Man
Marcuse's examination of individuals in an industrial state.

Battle for the Minds
Part I - The Religious Politic

Part I I - The New Atheists

Lamarck Revisited
Inheritance of acquired characteristics gains attention

Tiananmen Legacy
Part I-Tiananmen Diary

The mis-reports of Harrison Salisbury's "Tiananmen Diary."
Part II-Gate Of Heavenly Peace
A PBS video gives a more credible account of the Tiananmen events.
Tiananmen Square Confrontation
Eye witnesses contradict media reports on the Tiananmen incidents.

Challenging the Media
The Media and the Attack on Libya

Media Incompetence
Major media wrote fictional accounts of Iraq war.
Forcibly Challenging the Media
An article gains significance by a one-sided and dubious content.
Organized attacks on Israel's detractors
Criticisms of those who write unfavorably about Israel follow a hostile pattern.
The Film "The Flat" Falls Flat

A highly praised Israeli "documentary" manipulates its audiences.

Darfur
Why Only Darfur

Unraveling of Darfur
War in Darfur

Hate in America
The Agendas of Hate
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The New Agendas of Hate

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