Keith Suter’s Global Insights

The US Government is plunging even more deeply into debt. Here are two short videos which set out graphically the continuing crisis. To try to make sense of a "trillion" dollars, if a person spent a US$1 million per day for every day since Jesus was born, then it would take until about the year 2737 to spend just the first trillion dollars. History of the Debt The US has always had a national debt. The first version was created at the outset of the American war of independence against the British (1776-1783). As soon as the fighting started, the... Full article »

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Tags: America, Debt, Deficit, George Bush, Global Economic Crisis, global economy, National Debt, President Obama, USA

Al Qaeda has vowed "dreadful revenge" on France over suggestions that France may ban the burqa. The burqa is the full-length woman's dress that leaves only a small gap in the facial covering, which is often a mesh net for breathing and seeing where she is going. French MPs have now set up a commission to decide if it should be made illegal for women to hide their faces in public. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has endorsed the move. Al Qaeda's North African network have called on French Muslims to react with "the utmost hostility". They see this as a... Full article »

Tags: Al Qaeda, Burqa, France, Islam, Islamic Women, Koran, muslim, Nicolas Sarkozy, womens rights

President Obama demonstrates his lightening quick reactions when a fly lands on him during an interview with CNBC news reporter John Harwood. See the footage here courtesy msnbc.com   Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy... Full article »

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Tags: America Today, fly swatting, global politics, Karate Kid, MSNBC, President Obama, USA

President Obama is being criticized by the discredited neo-conservatives - who took the US into war in Iraq in 2003 - for not doing enough in Iran. But he has the right policy. Obama knows that the Iranians have a long memory of US intervention in Iran - even if most Americans have long forgotten that history. The overthrow of the Iranian government just over 50 years ago was the first secret operation by the Central Intelligence Agency outside of the Cold War. It was one of the CIA's most successful operations and became one of the standards against which... Full article »

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Tags: CIA, Iran, Iran Elections, Iraq, Mohammed Mossadegh, Obama, Oil, President Obama, Russia, USA