Just in case you missed it, here’s another version of the U.S. Balance Sheet with INCOME and EXPENSES expressed as the per cent of the Gross Domestic Product. The Reagan and Bush II tax cuts are marked with arrows: With card tricks, Magicians use the term, "sleight of hand": Sleight of hand, also known as […]
In the Reagan Era [tauted by the Project for the New American Century crowd as the golden age], there was a term, "Reaganomics." I call it "the trick." There are two goals: Look like a Conservative who believes in small government and low taxes Build up the Military and the Military Industrial Complex Here’s how […]
I am a retired Psychoanalyst, not a Political Scientist. I’m writing this blog for three reasons. The first is outrage at my television set. For six years, when I watch the news, my blood boils. The second reason is personal. I started to try to write a book and found that it had been so […]
I have personally doubted the worst case scenario – that our dominant motives for the War in Iraq were not National Defense, they were greed – the greed of the Military Industrial Complex and the Energy Industry. In Neoconservatives or Neo Con-Men? The Project: and Neoconservatives or Neo Con-Men? The Decision:, I’ve been discussing why […]
In the previous post, Neoconservatives or Neo Con-Men? The Project:, I was discussing Rebuilding America’s Defenses, the P.N.A.C. White paper from September 2000. There were two arguments in the report. The first is obvious from the title. The panelists argued that Clinton’s cutting the Defense Budget had made America vulnerable to danger from all fronts. […]
In researching around about Stephen Cambone [below], I ran across Rebuilding America’s Defenses on the Project for the New American Century site [he was on the panel that produced that report]. I hadn’t seen it before. It’s from right before Bush got elected and became a blueprint for his foreign policy. This afternoon, I went […]
In 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ended his distinguished career with a speech, now known as the Military Industrial Complex Speech. He had commanded the largest military force ever mustered on the planet, guided our country through the post-war recovery, the Korean War, and negotiated the insanity of the "Cold War." A few highlights from […]
Rebuilding America’s Defenses The program we advocate – one that would provide America with forces to meet the strategic demands of the world’s sole superpower – requires budget levels to be increased to 3.5 to 3.8 percent of the GDP. A couple of months before Bush was elected, the Project for the New American […]
World AIDS Day: Fighting AIDS "includes the ABC approach, encouraging abstinence, being faithful, and using condoms, with abstinence as the only sure way to avoid the sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS," said Bush.
Bush Foreign Policy – How Deep is the Failure? Now is the time for an honest post mortem of Bush foreign policy. Bush foreign policy has failed not just because of incompetence or bad luck in Iraq. The entire intellectual edifice of Bush foreign policy – such as it is – is deeply flawed. […]