The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CounterPunch Diary The Fall of Obama By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Counterpunch The man who seized the White House by fomenting a mood of irrational expectation is now facing the bitter price exacted by reality. The reality is that there can be no “good” American president. It’s an impossible hand to play. Obama is close to being …
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James Wilson (Author) 43 of 46 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Guide To Government Bureaucracy, January 1, 2002 By Tansu Demir (Springfield, IL) – See all my review This book is really a “comprehensive” (in the literal meaning of the word), clearly written, richly supported by concrete cases …
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As the end game begins for NATO and the US in Afghanistan, and as the potential mineral wealth of that unhappy land is revealed, one confronts despair when contemplating the fate of the Afghans. With the Taliban poised to move once more into the coming power vacuum and exploit a resurgent drug trade as well …
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Concise, Relevant, Documents New Knowledge, Respects Work of Others July 6, 2010 George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton This book is a solid five, and one of those instances when brevity adds value. While I was concerned to see no discussion of “true cost” economics and the book is overly fawning on Goldman Sachs (written before …
William R. Polk recently sent out the attached letter to his distribution list. It is a very comprehensive and I believe important review of Afghanistan. I urge you to take the time to read it. Appended to the end are a series of notes he used in the construction of his letter. Polk know …
Author Robert Bryce 92 of 93 people found the following review helpful: Nutrition Action for Energy Appetites, April 16, 2010 By Jon Boone (Oakland, MD USA) – See all my reviews With Power Hungry, energy journalist and Austin apiarist Robert Bryce marshals lots of accurate numbers in context to make plain how modern culture exacts …
Posted on May 11, 2010 By William Pfaff The obituaries written of the European currency, the euro, have demonstrated divergences in national and cultural temperaments, the European funereal and laden with gloom about the future, but unyielding, and the American and British cheerfully and self-satisfiedly shoveling earth onto a casket of euros already six feet …
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