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  • Re: Are Madoff and his frauding cohearts Financial Terrorists?

    I wanted to revive this thread for the sake of confronting the dire consequences of the global financial crises. Americans, in my opinion, lack the ETHICAL standards to adequately tackle the gravity of the financial crisis CAUSED BY AMERICANS. How many folks know somebody who has lost perhaps millions, and they are just average folks: working ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on February 2, 2009

  • The Executive and National Policy

    Very interesting article... I have long felt that the American model of tripartite system with a strong executive lacks the accountability built in to a parliamentary system ''of variable geography'', which is to say, a system where a ''prime minister''/head of government defends a particular point of view among colleagues. After a while this ...
    Posted to Politics by prgill on January 31, 2009

  • The American Game in South Asia

    The American public's comprehension of India's place in the world as well as India's place itself has been one of the cases of American superficiality and arrogance overlooking and underestimating. But while the American public has been either looking past India to the Middle East or China and Japan, the American foreign policy and military ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on December 14, 2008

  • Straight Talk About Israel

    Mr Rosner does really invoke TRUTH regarding Israeli US relations. Instead, he calls for downplaying them. Why? Might it be that Rosner does not want the truth about Israeli US relations to be revealed? After 1948, Israel was an modern independent nation with its own foreign policy agenda which included expansion and inclusion of the ancient ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on October 10, 2008

  • Israeli Fearmongering for Selfish Interests

    Apparent fearmongering to excite American sympathy and increased American 'aid' to Israel. This is a classic tactic: gain sympathetic action in support of Israel because of: 1)the Holocaust; or 2)Israel's a democracy; 3)The barbarian darkies are threatening to storm the gates of Westerners (Israelis) in the Holyland; 4)look, the barbarian Muslims ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on February 16, 2008