Ted Rall
Ted Rall is the author of the new books "Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?," and "The Anti-American Manifesto." His website is tedrall.com.
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Views Wednesday, December 08, 2010 Cables Reveal Background of Pro-Dictator U.S. Policy NEW YORK--After the Soviet collapse in 1991 U.S. policy toward Central Asia was transparently cynical: support the dictators, screw the people. As the U.S. stood by and watched, corrupt autocrats looted the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Dissidents were jailed, massacred--even boiled. Read more |
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Views Monday, November 22, 2010 Why TSA Molesters Are Striking a Nerve "Don't touch my junk!" Will this be the battle cry of the next American Revolution? If you think about it, it's amazing. Why this? But thinking doesn't have anything to do with it. There's a good reason. Which we'll get to. Read more |
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Views Friday, November 12, 2010 Yes, I Can: Straight Talk on Balancing the Budget The federal budget deficit is like the weather. Everybody talks about it; except for Bill Clinton, no one ever does anything about it. President Obama's bipartisan Fiscal Debt Commission has released a draft report that starts out with a big problem: even talking about reducing spending is insane when you're in the midst of a Depression. The real unemployment is over 20 percent. Creating jobs ought to be the feds' top--perhaps sole--priority. Let the insanity commence. Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 28, 2010 Bank Job: Make Rogue Corporations Pay for Foreclosure Crisis BOSTON--"We know how to prevent foreclosures," Federal Reserve Bank senior economist Paul Willen told The New York Times. "We just need to be prepared to spend the money." Willen "sees two possible solutions: Require banks to modify loans, basically imposing the cost on them; or pay banks to modify loans, imposing the cost on taxpayers." Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 21, 2010 Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now SAN FRANCISCO -- What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so. In one case in Florida, an employee of GMAC Mortgage admitted under oath that he personally forged 10,000 foreclosure affidavits. This low-level schlub is the tip of the tip of a massive iceberg, one of countless "robo-signers" whom voracious banks including GMAC, Bank of America, Citibank and JPMorganChase hired in order to kick American families out of their homes as quickly as possible. Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 10, 2010 How to Save American Capitalism, in 809 Words American capitalism is broken. So is the Democratic-Republican duopoly that supports it. Neither can be fixed. The system is collapsing. A power vacuum is beginning to open. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 05, 2010 The Case for Liberal Apathy: An Overview of the Enthusiasm Gap EUGENE, OREGON--Liberal Democrats are twice as likely as conservative Republicans to stay home this November. Establishmentarian liberals are urging left-of-center voters to ignore the President's failure to deliver--and his refusal to try--on the issues they care about. "The biggest mistake we [Democrats] could make right now," urged Obama last week, "is to let impatience or frustration lead to apathy and indifference--because that guarantees the other side wins." Read more |
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Views Friday, October 01, 2010 Will Americans Act to Prevent Economic and Environmental Collapse? PHILADELPHIA -- I am touring to promote my new book. "The Anti-American Manifesto" lays out America's biggest problems and what we can do to fix them. Before I started out, I knew that Americans were angry. With a real unemployment rate of 20-plus percent and a government that gave $1.4 trillion to banks instead of people in need, how could they not be? Read more |
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Views Monday, September 20, 2010 Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline Still a Dream KARA-TEPE, AFGHANISTAN - There is no pipeline. There probably won't be one. Yet the pipeline-that-will-never-exist is one of the main reasons that hundreds of thousands of Afghans and two thousand American soldiers are dead. Among my goals during my late-summer trip to Afghanistan was to find the construction site for the Trans-Afghanistan oil and gas pipeline (TAP). Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Afghan War Myths SOMEWHERE IN AFGHANISTAN - There's an exception. It is a limited set of circumstances. If the armies of another nation invade your country, there is no need to resort to lies to sell war. The battle is already joined. The threat is palpable. Anyone with a smidgen of patriotism and/or the instinct of self-preservation will rush to enlist. Read more |