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Will the Fed Taper Soon?

Will the Fed taper soon? The New York Times suggests so, reporting that the Federal Reserve is preparing to reduce its bond-buying under its policy of "quantitative easing", a.k.a. money printing. But there's a problem...

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Obama’s Push to Increase the Minimum Wage

Earlier this month, Barack Obama gave a speech in which he vowed to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour from the current $7.25. Which is to say he pledged to outlaw even more jobs despite the persistent high unemployment.

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Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty: Minimum Wages

Paul Krugman's intellectual dishonesty is once again on display when he advocates increasing the federally mandated minimum wage while denying that doing so would exacerbate unemployment. An examination of the argument he presented in his column on December 1 is instructive.

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The Obama Administration’s Manufactured Pretext to Bomb Syria

The great Seymour M. Hersh has an article in the London Review of Books about the Obama administrations efforts to manufacture a pretext to bomb Syria by blaming the Augst 21 chemical weapons attack in Damascus on the Bashar al-Assad regime despite knowing that rebel forces were capable of producing the nerve agent.

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One ‘Good Reason’ to Sign Up for Obamacare: ‘It’s the Law’!

Paul Krugman says that "There are lots of good reasons for the young to sign up" for an Obamacare health insurance plan. Yet he names only one: "it’s the law."

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Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty: Obamacare and Health Care Costs

Paul Krugman's intellectual dishonesty is yet again on display in his column "Obamacare's Secret Success", in which he claims that the so-called Affordable Care Act (ACA) is responsible for the slowdown in the costs of health care.

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Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty: Unemployment Benefits

Paul Krugman’s intellectual dishonesty is evident once again in his latestNew York Timescolumn, where he writes: Six years have passed since the United States economy entered the Great Recession, four and a half since it officially began to recover, but long-term unemployment remains disastrously high. And Republicans have a theory about why this is happening. […]

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US Commitment to Israel’s ‘Security’ Trumps Palestinians’ Rights

In remarks to the press at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry said that "neither peace nor prosperity are possible without security, and the United States will only support a final status agreement that makes both Israelis and Palestinians more secure than they are today." He then proceeded to illustrate how meaningless this rhetorical commitment to Palestinian security was by detailing the U.S.'s commitment to Israel's.

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‘Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business’ Parts I & II – WATCH NOW!

For a limited time only, both parts of the documentary film Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business are available to watch for free online. If you haven't seen them, I highly recommend watching them now or bookmarking this page to watch later. But don't wait too long, because it's only available until December 16.

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US ‘Diplomacy’ in International Relations: Understanding Newspeak

The U.S. mainstream media has a rather strange understanding of what "diplomacy" in international relations means. Under the headline "Obama Signals a Shift From Military Might to Diplomacy", Mark Landler in the New York Times offers two problematic examples that are somehow supposed to support this thesis: Iran and Syria.

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