Author Archives: George Washington

About George Washington

George Washington is the head writer at Washington’s Blog. A busy professional and former adjunct professor, George’s insatiable curiousity causes him to write on a wide variety of topics, including economics, finance, the environment and politics. For further details, ask Keith Alexander… http://www.washingtonsblog.com

Guest Post: “The Financial Industry Has Become So Politically Powerful That It Is Able To Inhibit the Normal Process of Justice And Law Enforcement”

… And the American press …

Guest Post: You Know Those Obnoxious Posters Who Almost Seem Like Alter Egos Of The Same Person? They Actually Might Be …

Government and big business are creating multiple fake online identities as part of their propaganda efforts …

Guest Post: The Faulty Economic Development Model Behind America’s Support for Dictators (Instead of Democracies)

American leaders have wrongly assumed that dictatorships are better for emerging economies …

Guest Post: Rumsfeld Lies About Iraq and the War on Terror … Again

Former Sec Def falsely claims that everyone thought there were WMDs, and that he didn’t use 9/11 as a justification to attack Iraq …

Guest Post: Meanwhile, Back In the OTHER Gulf

The Middle East is in the news a lot … rightfully so.

But – unfortunately – there are still many newsworthy occurrences back in the other Gulf … the Gulf of Mexico.

Guest Post: Busted . . . Pro-Mubarak Thugs Are Police Officers

This is just like when the British police attacked the non-violent protesters led by Gandhi, or the police in towns in the South of the United States attacked the peaceful protesters led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Guest Post: America Might Be a More Gilded Cage than Egypt … But It Still Looks Like a Cage

There’s no comparison between the Land of the Free and Egypt … or is there?

Guest Post: Former Director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center Says That American Policy in the Middle East is Failing Because the U.S. Doesn’t Believe in Democracy

And no … allowing democracy in the Middle East will not increase terrorism.

Guest Post: Israeli, Saudi and American Leaders Say Arabs Are Not Ready for Democracy

The War on Terror was supposed to be about bringing democracy to the Middle East, among other things … wasn’t it?

Guest Post: Is the Egyptian Government Using Agents Provocateur to Justify a Crack Down On the Protesters?

Multiple reports are coming in which make that claim.

Guest Post: Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen

Stunning numbers …

Guest Post: America’s Middle Eastern Puppet Regimes Are Falling Like Dominoes

Hopefully, moderate governments – who serve their people – will replace the deposed regimes.

Guest Post: Robert Shiller Argues That Rising Inequality In The US Was A Major Cause Of The Recent Crisis, And Little Is Being Done To Address It

Robert Shiller joins the growing list of economists saying that inequality causes financial crises.

Guest Post: “The Vast Majority Of This Contraction Of Credit Availability To American Industry Has Been By The Larger Banks”

Unused lines of credit commitments of banks to U.S. business have declined from $92 billion in December 2007 to just $24 billion as of September 2010.