Review: Blue Gold–The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

6 Star Plus Foundation Work, August 28, 2010 Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke I read the authors’ more recent Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water yesterday and watched the also more recent Blue Gold: World Water Wars last night, all in the context of raeding 12 …

Review: Legacy of Secrecy–The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination

Smoke Book–False and Fed Documents to Obscure Reality August 4, 2010 Lamar Waldron I spent a good bit of time with this book today, getting more and more irritated as I went through it. Here is my bottom line: this book in its earlier and current version may well be a CIA-facilitated and managed covert …

Reference: Debt, Deficits, & Defense–Sub-Text Bloomberg and Nunn Round Two, 52 Q&A

A new report from the Sustainable Defense Task Force, formed by House Financial Services Committee Chair Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) identifies reductions in Pentagon spending while maintaining strong defense capabilities as the best response to the nation’s mounting fiscal restraints. These options cover the full range of Pentagon expenditures including procurement, R&D, personnel, operations and …

Journal: The Loss of Moral Imagination–Israel AND the USA

Henry Siegman, the author of this article in the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, is a distinguished Jewish American.  He  has written some of the most thoughtful and cogent criticisms of Israel’s occupation policies, prominent among these are Israel’s Lies and The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam, both published in the London Review of Books. Israel’s …