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Netanyahu fear mongering over Iran to mask Israel’s legitimacy deficit
October 4, 2013 0

Netanyahu fear mongering over Iran to mask Israel’s legitimacy deficit

By News Desk

RT The Israeli Prime Minister may have left his cartoon bomb at home, but his latest appearance at the UN contained no shortage of dubious claims aimed at strangling the nascent US-Iran rapprochement in its cradle. Just three days after the historic phone call between US President Obama and Iranian President Rouhani, hopes for a thaw in relations between the two countries were dashed when Obama confirmed that military options were still on the table during a press conference with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office. In his eloquent address to the General assembly, Rouhani explicitly cited the "military options on the table" position as being an illegal and ineffective contention, prior to explicitly declaring, "peace is within reach." Obama’s unwillingness to deviate from his dominant line comes as no surprise looking back to his excessively uni-polar and exceptionalist address to the general assembly

Boehner Prepared to Cave-In to Obama; Reflections on the Waiting Game
October 3, 2013 0

Boehner Prepared to Cave-In to Obama; Reflections on the Waiting Game

By News Desk

The New York Times has the details in  Boehner Tells Republicans He Won’t Let the Nation Default With a budget deal still elusive and a deadline approaching on raising the debt ceiling, Speaker John A. Boehner has told colleagues that he is determined to prevent a federal default and is willing to pass a measure through a combination of Republican and Democratic votes, according to one House Republican.

Case for Gold vs. the Case for Treasuries; Is Bill Gross Talking His Book or Talking Reality?
October 3, 2013 0

Case for Gold vs. the Case for Treasuries; Is Bill Gross Talking His Book or Talking Reality?

By News Desk

Reuters reports Pimco’s Gross: Low interest rates may persist for decades Bill Gross, manager of The Pimco Total Return Fund, said on Wednesday that the global economy may be facing low policy rates for decades. Gross wrote in his October investment outlook that investors should "bet against" expectations that the federal funds rate – the U.S. Federal Reserve’s benchmark short-term borrowing rate – will rise by one percentage point by late 2015