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New Russian Government Quickly Moving to Build Anti-U.S. and Western Alliances

Foreign policy is certainly one of the weakest areas of the Bush Administration leadership, and the new Russian government of President Dmitry Medvedev has been taking full advantage of this weakness to aggressively court anti-American, anti-Western and nonaligned states into a number of new treaties and partnerships within just the last few days, while the Bush Administration has completely failed to attempt to warm relations with the new Russian government and head off this new movement against U.S. influence.

Posted on May 24, 2008 3:15 PM

Hard Times For American Zombies

Job outsourcing is not only a serious threat to the living American worker, but now has even hit the undead. Recently, more and more American film companies are cutting production costs by going overseas to some former Eastern Bloc Communist...

Posted on May 3, 2008 10:30 AM

The Iraq War & The Collapse Of Empire America

In 1991, the old Soviet Union collapsed after overextending it's military in the Afghanistan quagmire, rampant military spending coming at the expense of social spending, and serious inflation that had destroyed the average Russian consumer's buying power. Today, under the leadership of the Bush Administration all signs are that the United States may well be on the way to joining the same scrap heap of history, and is well on the road to the eventual collapse as a major world empire.

Posted on March 20, 2008 2:00 PM

America's Greatest Growth Industry

Forget all the declines in most American industries as one American industry is enjoying the very best of boom times; prison spending. Corrections spending is now a larger share of the general fund budgets than education spending in four U.S....

Posted on March 2, 2008 9:00 AM

Current Critical Megatrends

Wizbang Blue's Paul Hooson takes a look in his crystal ball at the megatrends that may be triggered by the recent spike in oil prices, the economic downturn in the U.S., China's accelerating inflation rate, the war in Iraq and the prospect of war in Iran, Kosovo's independence and Fidel Castro's resignation.

Posted on February 20, 2008 9:51 AM

Wacky GOP Economics Offer Little To Struggling Detroit Workers

Today, as voters go to polls in Michigan, empty campaign promises to find solutions to the high unemployment rate problem in Detroit ring out from GOP candidates Romney and McCain. Romney continues to oppose the high fuel economy standards of...

Posted on January 15, 2008 4:30 PM

The Economic Pearl Harbor

Few Americans really understand that the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was the end result of the order by President Franklin Roosevelt that cut off American metal exports to Japan required to fuel their war...

Posted on December 7, 2007 2:00 PM

The Chrysler Axe Massacre

Posted on November 3, 2007 4:00 PM

The Bad Old Days Of Labor Negotiations In The American Automobile Business

While the labor negotiations between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers unfortunately ended up in a strike, it is important to note that these labor negotiations have been entirely peaceful compared to the bad old days of American automobile...

Posted on September 26, 2007 7:00 AM

Iraq's Communist Party Becomes A Fading Influence

Like so many world Communist and Socialist organizations since the downfall of the old Soviet Union, Iraq's small Communist Party has seen its power dramatically decline in more recent years. But this small party was once an influential leftist force...

Posted on July 13, 2007 9:00 AM

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