British forces clearing and paving the way for the U.S. Marines and their Afghan partners to enter the city and claim it for the Afghan government. This is expected to be the largest show of international and Afghan force working together in order to shape, clear, hold and build. But the challenges are abundant and…
Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s book, “On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System”, attempts to explain why he should be praised and not buried.The question is whether his book should be classified as fact or fiction. I won’t be reading it, but found the leaked excerpts that…
The Chinese Decade The Tiger is coming to the surface. The New decade has already come in the West, and in China we are again in this no man’s land between the Solar and the Lunar New Year, between the Bull and the Tiger. It is time to look back and see where we stand….
February 3rd, 2010 07:41 AM ET KABUL, Afghanistan – The next key U.S. military operation in Afghanistan will focus on Marjah, the last major Taliban stronghold in Helmand province, a Marine commander said Wednesday. Col. George Amland, the deputy commander of Task Force Leatherneck, gave no timeframe for its start. Marjah, with a population of up…
The most provocative of all of the charts which I have been studying in the last six months suggests the fall is inevitable. All of the government maneuvers will fail because delinquent first mortgages are now equal in number to three times a balanced for-sale inventory (Please see above “Delinquent Mortgages: Will They Overwhelm Supply?”)….
A groundbreaking investigative program, which looks at the use and abuse of power. ,,,,developing Program PEOPLE AND POWER Taking on the Banks The opportunity for reform of the US financial system is probably greater now than at any time since the Great Depression. But a year after the economic meltdown, temperatures are rising in the…
Beijing, China — Challenge China’s position on Taiwan and watch China go ballistic. When the United States last week announced plans to sell advanced weapons to Taiwan, China fired back with vitriolic anger. It’s a “crude interference in China’s domestic affairs,” said He Yafei, vice minister of foreign affairs. It could “lead to repercussions that…