The Impotence of the Federal Reserve

Putin, too, also seems to suspect his regime s impotence.

Nationalism is often fed by a sense of impotence.

Israel s lightning victory recalls Hegel s dictum about the impotence of the winners.

Contemplating such options, the world may be forced to admit its impotence.

Such a spectacular success only serves to highlight the impotence of the West s Arab allies.

Russia provides conclusive evidence of the impotence of authoritarian violence and disregard for the rule of law.

But everywhere in the Arab world, without exception, reformists have been jailed, killed, or reduced to political impotence.

You ll notice the limp cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and impotence the headline is, Impotent it s not emphysema.

Europe s disunity and impotence underline this image of a West that has partially lost touch with geo political realities.

The 1967 war, however, represented an ominous watershed. Israel s lightning victory 160 recalls Hegel s dictum about the impotence of the winners.

I am frustrated by the impotence of my government in Mumbai and Delhi, tone deaf to the anguish of my fellow citizens.

It is not confidence that dominates Davos 2008, but rather a sense of impotence, if not bewilderment, at the world s growing complexity.

You cannot proclaim your impotence in the face of empty state coffers after pushing through useless and costly tax breaks for the richest.

For many around the world who suffer under oppressive regimes, such a credo would sound like a prescription for sainthood or for impotence.

CAIRO Arab intellectuals and policymakers have often accused Europe of using financial generosity to cover up its political impotence over the Arab Israeli conflict.

Journalist Sunity Maharaj said it extraordinarily well In our impotence, we resort to the standard weapons of the disempowered character assassination and personal humiliation.

Likewise, the failure of Chechnya, Biafra, Tibet, or the Kurdish areas of the Middle East to reach independent statehood is attributable entirely to their military impotence.

In other parts of the continent, parts of the plant are used to cure skin diseases, malaria, impotence, epilepsy, and are also used as an aphrodisiac.

Nationalism is often fed by a sense of impotence. When citizens feel disempowered by an authoritarian government, the next best thing is to feel empowered by national prowess.

But, by continuing to build settlements on Palestinian land, the Israeli government has undermined the authority of Abbas and his Fatah government almost to the point of impotence.

NEW HAVEN North Korea s launch of a long range missile in mid December was followed by a flurry of global condemnation that was almost comical in its predictability and impotence.

So, despite the Iraq war and the seeming impotence of world institutions, the beginning of the twenty first century could well bring faster global improvement in political ethics than at any time in the past.

One of the most effective anti smoking ads was done by the Department of Health Services, showing that nicotine, which constricts your arteries, can cause a heart attack or a stroke, but it also causes impotence.

Referring to the Helsinki Watch report entitled Cleaning Operations Excluding Roma in Greece , she enquired about the seeming impotence of the Greek judicial system to discipline police officers for abuses of members of the Roma community.

An existing border dispute was used as a pretext to launch a swift invasion (one that caught Nehru s India by surprise), inflict a humiliating defeat, and then stage a seemingly magnanimous unilateral withdrawal designed to highlight India s impotence.

The introduction of perhaps the first pharmacologically effective remedy for impotence, sildenafil (trade name Viagra), in the 1990s caused a wave of public attention, propelled in part by the news worthiness of stories about it and heavy advertising.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that humans would rather will nothingness than not will anything at all. The leaden despair of lifelessness, impotence, and hopelessness is vastly less appealing than intensity even if that intensity is found in violence, death, and destruction.

For many around the world who suffer under oppressive regimes, such a credo would sound like a prescription for sainthood or for impotence. Mute suffering is fine as a moral principle, but only Gandhi could use it to bring about meaningful change.

Europe s inability to help resolve the Arab Israeli conflict does not stem from its positions on the core issues, which are only microscopically different from those held by the United States. Its impotence stems, instead, from its attitude toward the Jewish state.

A new policy is needed not only in order to halt America s drift into impotence as it tries to prevent Iraq from spiraling into full scale civil war, but also because the map of power in the Middle East has changed dramatically.

Drug companies spend far more money on advertising and marketing than they do on research, far more on research for lifestyle drugs (for conditions like impotence and hair loss) than for lifesaving drugs, and almost no money on diseases that afflict hundreds of millions of poor people, such as malaria.

We demand the immediate release of the five Cuban anti terrorist fighters being held in imperial maximum security jails, the victims of the hatred and impotence of the failed enemies of the Cuban nation, despite the fact that the Atlanta Court of Appeals overturned the fraudulent ruling by which they were unjustly sentenced.

Six years ago, I wrote an essay called The Porn Myth, which pointed out that therapists and sexual counselors were anecdotally connecting the rise in pornography consumption among young men with an increase in impotence and premature ejaculation among the same population. These were healthy young men who had no organic or psychological pathology that would disrupt normal sexual function.