Politics

Yesterday news broke that John Boehner, the Republican Leader in the House of Representatives, believes that Congress should raise the retirement age to 70 and cut Social Security so that we can finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s right: Boehner told a reporter that he thinks we should cut Social Security to...
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thenation.com William Greider In setting up his National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Barack Obama is again playing coy in public, but his intentions are widely understood among Washington insiders. The president intends to offer Social Security as a sacrificial lamb to entice conservative deficit hawks into a grand bipartisan compromise in which...
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Some employers frown upon workers taking political stances. congress.org By Ambreen Ali Jason Levin set out to crash the Tea Party movement, but he ended up hurting his own career. After the Oregon schoolteacher created a website suggesting that liberals infiltrate tea parties to make them appear outlandish, letters poured in from irate parents...
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Washington, D.C., May 11, 2010 – Today, the U.S. Senate voted 62 to 37 against an amendment to allow greater transparency at the Federal Reserve. This amendment was introduced to counter a weaker amendment that would have required only a one time audit just of Fed emergency programs. The new amendment was similar to...
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Asia Times Mar 18, 2010 By Peter J Brown For the first time in well over a decade, China has limited rising spending on defense to a less than double-digit increase. In early March, Beijing announced that the 2010 defense budget would total approximately 532 billion yuan (US$78 billion), with the 7.5% increase representing...
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The New York Times February 25, 2010 By ANDREW JACOBS BEIJING — A top Chinese military official reaffirmed China’s resolve to punish the United States over its decision to sell weapons to Taiwan and suggested on Thursday that there would be even greater consequences should Washington fulfill a longstanding request by Taiwan for advanced...
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Reuters Chris Buckley BEIJING Credit: Reuters/Joe Chan Members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force Aviation stand at attention during a training session at the 60th National Day Parade Village in the outskirts of Beijing, September 15, 2009. REUTERS/Joe Chan BEIJING (Reuters) – Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country...
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Tehran News February 6, 2010 By Arab News It is not easy to understand why China is apparently prepared to confront the United States at this time on the two issues — arms for Taiwan and Obama’s plans to meet with exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama. Washington has been selling armaments to Taiwan...
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Reuters Feb 4, 2010 Chris Buckley – Analysis BEIJING BEIJING (Reuters) – “Ride on a tiger and it’s hard to climb down,” goes a Chinese saying that is proving apt for Beijing’s quarrels with Washington this year, when swollen ambitions at home are driving China on a harder tack abroad. Barack Obama  |  China ...
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amtrak.com Feb 3, 2010 By Chris Buckley and Doug Palmer BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama still plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said on Tuesday, despite China’s warning that such a meeting would hurt ties already strained by U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan. Digging in on two points of...
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