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: Austerity and Runaway Inequality Lead to Violence And Instability

A new study shows that austerity leads to violence and instability

Guest Post: Obama Is Implementing Plans For War Throughout the Middle East Created 10 Years Ago by the Neocons

The Neocons decided to force regime change in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Lebanon 10 years ago … or more. Obama is implementing their plan.

Guest Post: Fukushima Radiation Highest Ever, Exceeding Capacity of Measuring Device … Fuel Likely Leaking Out Of Containment Vessel

Things are – literally – heating up again at Fukushima …

Guest Post: Obama Still Wall Street’s Honey … Raises More (As Both Raw Amount And Percentage) From Wall Street Than In 2008

He works hard for the money …

Guest Post: Adam Smith Would Neither Recognize Nor Approve Of Our Financial, Monetary, Economic Or Legal Systems

The “father” of free market capitalism would not approve …

“Moody’s Places AAA Ratings Of 177 U.S. Public Finance Issuers On Review For Possible Downgrade Due To Review Of U.S. Government’s AAA Rating”

Given that Moody’s and Standard & Poor both say that they’ll likely downgrade U.S. credit even if a debt ceiling deal is reached, it’s looking dire for some states, universities, institutions and bond issues.

Guest Post: Pentagon Seeks to Manipulate Social Media for Propaganda Purposes

The Pentagon is busy “conducting propaganda campaigns on social media”.

Guest Post: The Founding Fathers Tried to Warn Us About the Threat From a Two-Party System

They tried to warn us, but we didn’t listen.

Guest Post: Lifeforms Can Clean Up Radiation … Naturally

When BP spilled huge quantities of oil into the Gulf, the company and the government ignored natural ways to help clean up the mess, and instead dumped toxic dispersants into the Gulf which actually made things worse.

Likewise – believe it or not – there may be natural ways to help clean up radiation from Fukushima and elsewhere, and to reduce human and animal exposure to radioactive elements.

Guest Post: Fukushima Cover Up Unravels

The cover up unravels in Japan … and England.

Guest Post: Bernanke Is Either Not Very Bright or Not Very Honest. He Admits He Doesn’t Know Why We Have a Weak Economy … But He’s the One Who Weakened It

Bernanke said today: ” We don’t have a precise read on why this slower pace of growth is persisting.” Actually, it’s pretty obvious why the economy is so weak …

Guest Post: Global Nuclear Update

Updates from the U.S., Egypt and Japan.

Guest Post: America Is Being Raped … Just Like Greece and Other Countries

Greece is thinking of selling some islands. Austria is thinking of selling mountains to pay off their national debt. Cities throughout the U.S. are thinking of privatizing their parking meters.

What’s going on?

Guest Post: The Giant Banks Are ALREADY State-Sponsored … So Why Not Create Public Banks to at Least Share the Gains, Help Out Main Street, and Grow Our Local Economies?

We pretend that it’s a question of free market capitalism versus government involvement in banking … but we’ve ALREADY got state-sponsored banks.

Guest Post: Are Nuclear Reactions Still Occurring at Fukushima?

There are indications that – to this day – nuclear reactions are still occurring.