The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
2011: A Brave New Dystopia truthdig, Posted on Dec 27, 2010 By Chris Hedges The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive …
Published on Thursday, December 23, 2010 by In These Times The ‘Repo-Demo’ Party’s Three Phase Austerity Plan for America Get ready for more of the same failed “job creation” policies, enacted by an increasingly unified political eilte by Jack Rasmus The Bush tax cuts are now extended. What cost $3.4 trillion over the past decade, …
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How Can the Economy Recover? DECEMBER 23, 2010 Jeff Madrick Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro FT Press, 266 pp., $26.99 Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis by Anatole Kaletsky …
My good friend Robert Bryce, author of the must-read Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future just launched this little torpedo. A Wind Power Boonedoggle T. Boone Pickens badly misjudged the supply and price of natural gas. By ROBERT BRYCE, Wall Street Journal, 22 December 2010 After 30 …
History is repeating itself in Afghanistan One hears again and again Afghans say that the Taliban may not be liked but that the US is distrusted, even hated Patrick Cockburn – The Independent 18/12/10 During the mid-1960s, America’s goal during a crucial stage in the Vietnam war was to defeat the enemy militarily. But it …
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Weekend Edition December 17 – 19, 2010 The Myth of Liberal Intervention and the Arrogance of Ignorance Obama’s March to Folly By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney12172010.html In a recent opinion piece, “Kosovo and the Myth of Liberal Intervention,” Neil Clark in the Guardian on 15 December gave the reader a good summary of the …
Readers on this list who have served in the military should really watch this summary of how get a good officer efficiency report (aka officer proficiency report, etc.). Air Force Promotion Review Above is a YouTube Video 3:13. The 47 comments are themselves worthy of attention.
