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Journal: Amazing Combat Medical Statistics Portend Unknowable Long Term Costs

The Pentagon likes to refer to combat euphemistically as “kinetic” activity.  This very important report documents the truly impressive advances in battlefield medicine in Afghanistan to cope with the kinetic activity that hurts our troops.  The bottom line:  the ratio of killed to wounded has decreased at an amazing rate, because many troop suffering from …

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Journal: Wikileaks & Israel, Wikileaks & Vatican

Published on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by Reuters WikiLeaks: Israel Aimed to Keep Gaza Economy on Brink of Collapse by Reuters Cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv says Israeli officials wanted Gaza’s economy ‘functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.’ Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would …

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Journal: The Rise and Sell-Out of the Enviro Establishment

Herewith are the first two parts of Jeff St Claire’s important multipart series on the systemic corruption and corporatization of the environmental movement. A Concise History of the Rise and Fall of the Enviro Establishment How Green Became the Color of Money By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR, Counterpunch Part I New Year’s Edition December 31, 2010 …

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Journal: Israel Demands Bribes for Access to Gaza

WikiLeaks: Israel charged bribes for Gaza access By JOSEF FEDERMAN The Associated Press Thursday, January 6, 2011; 7:29 AM JERUSALEM — A U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks on Thursday quoted American officials as saying a key Israeli cargo crossing for goods entering the Gaza Strip was rife with corruption. The June 14, 2006, cable, …

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Journal: Supreme Court OK’s Astroturfed Zombie Army

An Astroturfed Zombie Army The Future of American Democracy? By Werther* ElectronicPolitics, January 2, 2011 EXTRACT:  With the Citizens United Supreme Court decision (certainly one of the ten most consequential rulings in the court’s history), all pretense of restraint is gone. The reader can see just how unrestrained in the January 1 edition of the …

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Journal: What’s Wrong with American defense….

Phi Beta Iota: Notes summarizing the 59 minute video are below the line. ….Watch this!!!!!  My good friend Pierre Sprey interviews Bill Hartung on Book TV about Hartung’s new book, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. The book is a history of the largest military contractor in U.S. history, …

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