The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A good tour of the world economy by my my friend Marshall Auerback Get Ready for a Global Growth Slowdown Tuesday, 05/3/2011 – 1:31 pm by Marshall Auerback | 9 Comments Governments across the globe are headed for a disaster entirely of their own making. Though capital markets remain strong, the global economic backdrop continues …
Last Saturday’s issue of Barron’s ran a cover story on the deficit and their own take on how to address it. In contrast to the recent recommendations from President Obama and the House Republicans, defense was actually “on the table,” not “at” it. In the absence of any adult thinking on the deficit since the …
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May 2, 2011 Meanwhile, Back in the Homeland Economic Terror Wins the Day: We’re in a Depression By MIKE WHITNEY, Counterpunch On Thursday, Gallup reported that “More than half of Americans say the U.S. economy is in a recession or a depression despite official data that show a moderate recovery…..The April 20-23 Gallup survey… found …
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Fact Check: No evidence presented waterboarding helped find bin Laden Phi Beta Iota: An excellent objective piece that confirms what all of us–and particularly Col Stuart Herrington, USA (Ret)–as well as some of those actually involved in the CIA campaign–have been saying. Waterboarding does not work. It leads to fiction that wastes time and money …
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Excellent food for thought! Bin Laden Is Dead, but What About His Ideas? Uri Avnery, Antiwar.com, May 8, 2011 @ 11:00 pm “Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, lest the Lord see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.” This …
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REFERENCE Obama Takes the Cape Pakistanizing the Libyan War By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch Weekend Edition, April 22 – 24, 2011 . . . . . . In other words, someone has sold Obama on Pakistaning the Libyan War, i.e., pursuing a military strategy of relying on drone attacks to a destroy an adversary hiding in the …
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