Graceful Decline: The End of Pax Americana
Bankrupt Empire
By Doug Bandow
The FDIC shut down a record 140 banks last year and is running low on cash. Last year the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation figured its fund was running a $34 billion deficit. Federal pensions are underfunded by $1 trillion. State and local retirement funds are short about $3 trillion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25262.htm
Graceful Decline: The End of Pax Americana
By Christopher Layne
The epoch of American dominance is drawing to a close, and international politics is entering a period of transition: no longer unipolar but not yet fully multipolar. President Barack Obama's November 2009 trip to China provided both substantive and emblematic evidence of the shift.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25263.htm
'Too Fat' for Empire?
Military Generals Target School Lunches
By Mary Clare Jalonick
A new report being released Tuesday says more than 9 million young adults, or 27 percent of all Americans ages 17 to 24, are too overweight to join the military.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25270.htm
Americans Down on Federal Government
By Steven Thomma
Just 22 percent say they trust the government almost always or most of the time, among the lowest in a half century of polling.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25266.htm
The death of the American Century: The dream is dying
It was this: a belief that the world has a special love for Americans, for our earnest innocence and gawky immediacy, for our willingness to share the obvious truth and light of democracy with people still struggling in the darkness of history, for our random energy, syncopated music and lopsided, baseball-playing grins.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041903936.html
From Information Clearing House
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Schooling Generations in American Exceptionalism
Dallas Darling, Truthout: "'One of the most important aspects of citizenship is to acquire the concept of American Exceptionalism, or the idea that the "United States" and its people differ from other nations ...'(1) It was with these words and this concept: American exceptionalism, that objective five (citizenship requirements) of Texas' social studies curriculum was revised. And if the ultraconservative Texas State Board of Education Review Committee, which consists mostly of wealthy politicians and prominent business leaders, has its way, teaching American exceptionalism to millions of students might just accomplish George Orwell's 1946 axiom: 'From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.'"
http://www.truthout.org/schooling-generations-american-exceptionalism58722
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=exceptionalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pax+Americana
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+Century
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FDIC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+pension
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=retirement
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Doug+Bandow
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Layne
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mary+Clare+Jalonick
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Thomma
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dallas+Darling
By Doug Bandow
The FDIC shut down a record 140 banks last year and is running low on cash. Last year the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation figured its fund was running a $34 billion deficit. Federal pensions are underfunded by $1 trillion. State and local retirement funds are short about $3 trillion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25262.htm
Graceful Decline: The End of Pax Americana
By Christopher Layne
The epoch of American dominance is drawing to a close, and international politics is entering a period of transition: no longer unipolar but not yet fully multipolar. President Barack Obama's November 2009 trip to China provided both substantive and emblematic evidence of the shift.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25263.htm
'Too Fat' for Empire?
Military Generals Target School Lunches
By Mary Clare Jalonick
A new report being released Tuesday says more than 9 million young adults, or 27 percent of all Americans ages 17 to 24, are too overweight to join the military.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25270.htm
Americans Down on Federal Government
By Steven Thomma
Just 22 percent say they trust the government almost always or most of the time, among the lowest in a half century of polling.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25266.htm
The death of the American Century: The dream is dying
It was this: a belief that the world has a special love for Americans, for our earnest innocence and gawky immediacy, for our willingness to share the obvious truth and light of democracy with people still struggling in the darkness of history, for our random energy, syncopated music and lopsided, baseball-playing grins.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041903936.html
From Information Clearing House
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Schooling Generations in American Exceptionalism
Dallas Darling, Truthout: "'One of the most important aspects of citizenship is to acquire the concept of American Exceptionalism, or the idea that the "United States" and its people differ from other nations ...'(1) It was with these words and this concept: American exceptionalism, that objective five (citizenship requirements) of Texas' social studies curriculum was revised. And if the ultraconservative Texas State Board of Education Review Committee, which consists mostly of wealthy politicians and prominent business leaders, has its way, teaching American exceptionalism to millions of students might just accomplish George Orwell's 1946 axiom: 'From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.'"
http://www.truthout.org/schooling-generations-american-exceptionalism58722
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=exceptionalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pax+Americana
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+Century
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FDIC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+pension
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=retirement
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Doug+Bandow
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Layne
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mary+Clare+Jalonick
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Thomma
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dallas+Darling
rudkla - 21. Apr, 06:06
