The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
16 May 2011 BAHRAIN: How radical are Bahrain’s Shia? EGYPT: Could Egypt’s revolution become mirage in the desert? IRAN-BAHRAIN: Iranian ships carrying aid to Bahrain turned back in Persian Gulf IRAN-SYRIA: ‘Nakba’ clashes: Iran, Syria trying to turn Arab Spring fury into attacks on Israel? ISRAEL: The Arab Revolution is knocking at Israel’s door LEBANON-SYRIA: …
The future of the library What is a public library for? First, how we got here: Before Gutenberg, a book cost about as much as a small house. As a result, only kings and bishops could afford to own a book of their own. This naturally led to the creation of shared books, of libraries …
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Ideological Underpinnings of the “Great Society” By Robert Higgs Campaign for Liberty, 05/10/11 [The Freeman (March 2011). An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Steven Ng, is available for download.] The surge of federal economic interventions that occurred during Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency — the much-ballyhooed Great Society, whose centerpiece was the War …
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Protesters could have learned something at lecture By Jennifer McErlean Published 12:01 a.m., Saturday, May 7, 2011 Deborah Austin-Ford (letter, April 9) asks what Martin Luther King‘s family would think of the choice of Van Jones as the annual King lecturer at Siena College. While the family’s opinion would be of interest, we could turn to …
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Do read through to the end…Joe Bageant died at the end of March, this year. Joe Bageant recently spoke at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University at Lexington, and the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, where he was invited to speak on American consciousness and what he dubbed “The American Hologram,” …
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This is a vital search, exactly on point. 21st Century public administration must be about design. The machine search results are disappointing. Here are a few thoughts and some links from the human in the loop. 1. Public Administration is not Public Management. The administrator should be a civil servant in the fullest sense of …
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My friend Jeff Madrick, and old fashioned liberal democrat in the best sense of the term, has penned a pithy analysis of the anti-empirical madness now dominating the contemporary American political economy. Jeff concludes that the Right ignores its track record, particularly regarding the clear economic effects of tax cuts, and is rarely challenged on …
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