The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
One of the best SITREPS of the Arab Revolt in Egypt I have read. The author is an Israeli peace activist, a hero of the 1948 War and a former member of the Knesset. Chuck Spinney, The Blaster Blown Opportunities Tsunami in Egypt By URI AVNERY, Counterpunch, 14 February 2011 Until the very last moment, …
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Watchdog Group Files Formal Complaints To Disbar And Prosecute Clarence Thomas For 20 Years Of False Statements, Financial Conflicts Of Interest, And Using His Decisions On The Supreme Court To Enrich His Wife Pressure Building On Department Of Justice To Take Action Washington, D.C.– February 8, 2011, ProtectOurElections.org filed two formal complaints against Justice Clarence …
Tunisia: ‘I have lost my son, but I am proud of what he did’ The mother of the street vendor who set himself on fire, and triggered protests across North Africa, talks to Kim Sengupta The street vendor who set himself alight, sparking an uprising which swept away 23 years of dictatorship in Tunisia and …
Will Egypt Revolutionize Democracy Itself? by Tom Atlee Thomas Friedman suggests that the special strength of Egypt’s youth-led revolutionary movement has been “the fact that it represented every political strain, every segment and class in Egyptian society.” But then he turns around and says that diversity “is also its weakness. It still has no accepted …
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Disagree, but engage: That’s civility On issues ranging from abortion to guns, it is possible for adversaries to find common ground February 10, 2011|By Robert Fersh and Andrew L. Yarrow EXTRACT: These processes are most successful when participants have strong, informed opinions and can make a difference if they reach agreement. This was the case …
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Madison’s Nightmare: How Much Should We Spend for National Insecurity? Chuck Spinney, FEB 3, 2011 The Atlantic (for James Fallows) Read entire reference piece…. Brother Chuck makes three key points: 1. He quotes Madison, as we have, on the importance of public knowledge as the basis for the Republic keeping the government accountable and in …
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The ‘bin Laden’ of marginalisation The real terror eating away at the Arab world is socio-economic marginalisation. Larbi Sadiki 14 Jan 2011 Al-Jazeera From Tunisia and Algeria in the Maghreb to Jordan and Egypt in the Arab east, the real terror that eats at self-worth, sabotages community and communal rites of passage, including marriage, is …
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