Is a constitutional amendment or a real third-party candidate the silver bullet that Americans need next year, asks Eric Walberg
American
voters now have a clear view of who they can vote for next year, with
Barack Obama as the Democrats' certain candidate and Mitt Romney as the
Republicans'. Both candidates offer much the same prescriptions for the
multiple crises facing their country -- more war and military spending,
lower taxes (certainly no big hike for the rich), more bank bailouts,
trickle-down economics for the unemployed and the disintegrating
environment.
Europe, Canada and US,
American crisis politics
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Britain, France, US: ‘And the winner is ...’
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In the lifestyle sweepstakes, the answer is “none of the above”, concludes Eric Walberg
The economic and social experiments in the past three decades by British governments from left to right have left the plucky Brits reeling, as this summer's unprecedented bread and ipod riots showed all too conclusively. For a year now, fiscal austerity and financial chaos have sent Britain’s economy into a nasty cycle of low growth and rising unemployment.
But unlike Greece, which was forced into recession by misguided EU taskmasters, Britain has inflicted this on itself. Austerity was a deliberate choice by Prime Minister David Cameron’s ruling coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Britain’s jobless numbers are the highest in more than 15 years, with unemployment 8.1 per cent, as the government continues to slash public-sector jobs -- more than 100,000 have been lost in recent months.
Wall St: ‘Needed -- a new old economic primer’
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
The gathering momentum of protest in the US is charting new old territory. It is time to reflect on how we got here, says Eric Walberg
The current crisis of capitalism is textbook Marx. Greedy capitalists, craven politicians, scheming bankers, dispossessed masses. It is also textbook Lenin. Imperial wars awakening the masses to revolt – though the days of Lenin’s competing empires are over. Rather, we are all one big happy family, with the exception of a few blaggards who will soon be “wiped off the map” to misquote a particularly blag blaggard.
Stop! Children, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s goin’ down.
US envoys from Hell
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
The choice of US ambassadors to Central Asia and the Middle East gives one pause for thought, says Eric Walberg
Behind Norway’s Kristallnacht
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
The massacre in peaceful Oslo was a replay of this earlier horror in reverse – no longer the Jews as victims but as the inspiration of terror against non-Jews – as Israel extends its wars not only to Greek ports and French airports but to Norwegian children’s camps, complete with rabbinical blessings for the murderers, notes Eric Walberg
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