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2013/12/22

Rob Kall: Looking At a Bigger Picture: Criminals and Rogue Organizations Within

Looking At a Bigger Picture: Criminals and Rogue Organizations Within Rob Kall OpEdNews, 22 December 2013 We have big problems that are currently out of control and taking our nation careening towards a future that is dangerously out of control. We have, deeply ensconced within our power infrastructures, institutions, organizations and job categories where there …

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2013/12/22

Ray McGovern: Truman’s True Warning on the CIA

Truman’s True Warning on the CIA Ray McGovern OpEdNews, 22 December 2013 Fifty years ago, exactly one month after John Kennedy was killed, the Washington Post published an op-ed titled “Limit CIA Role to Intelligence.” The first sentence of that op-ed on Dec. 22, 1963, read, “I think it has become necessary to take another …

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2013/12/172013/12/17

Jean Lievens: BIll Moyers on The Great American Class War – Plutocracy versus Democracy + Bill Moyers @ PBI & Democracy @ PBI

Bill Moyers | The Great American Class War: Plutocracy vs. Democracy By Bill Moyers, TomDispatch | Speech Excerpt Thursday, 12 December 2013 09:14 I met Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1987 when I was creating a series for public television called In Search of the Constitution, celebrating the bicentennial of our founding document. By …

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2013/12/15

Tikkun Rabbi Michael Lerner: Obama Suppressing 6,000-Page Report on CIA Torture Adopted by Senate Intelligence Committee

Obama Suppressing 6,000-Page Report on CIA Torture Adopted by Senate Intelligence Committee by: David Harris-Gershon on December 14th, 2013 | 3 Comments » Over a year ago, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to adopt a historic, 6,000-page report which contains “startling details” about CIA misdeeds related to its torture program. The report, which cost $40 …

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2013/12/15

Mini-Me: The Future of Democracy

Huh? The future of democracy By Mark Mazower Financial Times, 25 October 2013 The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present, by David Runciman, Princeton, RRP£19.95/$29.95, 408 pages Nation of Devils: Democratic Leadership and the Problem of Obedience, by Stein Ringen, Yale, RRP£20/$35, 264 pages The Last …

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2013/12/142013/12/14

SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter

We spent over a trillion dollars, killed tens of thousands, including thousands of our own, and destroyed a functioning country. And more than a decade later this is what we have to show for that grievous error. Al Qaeda’s Black Flag Flies Over Iraq COLIN FREEMAN – The Telegraph (U.K.)/Daily Beast Phi Beta Iota: Iraq …

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2013/12/112013/12/11

Mini-Me: Cognitive Dissonance at NSA + NSA High Crimes RECAP + Integrity Remediation

Huh? Do You Trust the Washington Post‘s Sources on Morale at the NSA? Former officials insist that employees are upset because President Obama hasn’t visited to show his support. Conor Friedersdorf Reuters via The Atlantic, Dec 10 2013, 8:20 AM ET A strange Washington Post story gives readers the impression that morale is low at …

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