Reference: The Fraud-Based US Economy

The attached blog,  “Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Is Extending Our Economic Problems,” is a cut-and-paste accumulation of a variety of outlooks. Most are  based on analyses or accumulated wisdom, but some appear based on hunches, ideologies, etc.  Taken together, however, they paint a horrifying picture of the American political economy and our prospects for …

Journal: December Theater of the Absurd

Note:  This Reuters report provides additional relevant information.  A pdf copy of the referenced ICG report can be downloaded from this link: Afghanistan: Exit vs. Engagement Chuck Spinney December 2, 2010 The Unmentioned Question Staying the Course in Afghanistan By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch A report, “Afghanistan: Exit vs. Engagement” released on 28 November 2010 by …

Journal: Death by a Thousand Cuts? Or Deliberate Elite Murder of the USA?

Death by a Thousand Cuts See all those security lines? Just because al Qaeda’s recent attacks haven’t succeeded doesn’t mean the terrorist group’s overall strategy is failing. Foreign Policy BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS | NOVEMBER 23, 2010 “Two Nokia phones, $150 each, two HP printers, $300 each, plus shipping, transportation and other miscellaneous expenses add up …

Journal: Tea Party Manipulated, Idle Angry Minds Being Exploited…

The author of attached article in the Guardian, George Monbiot is a pious Global Warming enthusiast. He probably despises the Koch brothers because they are funding anti-global warming efforts.  But setting the writer’s biases aside, as well as his somewhat condescending tone, his report (which is based primarily on the New Yorker’s brilliant expose of …