The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Pusillanimity or Hypocrisy or Both Memo to Obama: Three Strikes and You’re Out By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch I believe Obama’s schtick during his campaign for president was to subtly encourage his adversaries to impale themselves of the horns of their own contradictions. This kind of strategy can be particularly effective in the all-important moral …
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The author is Jewish, an Israeli of Iraqi descent. US: The dishonest broker Despite high expectation for Barack Obama, the US president has not convinced Israel to cease settlement construction. Avi Shlaim, Al Jazeera, 21 Oct 2010 12:46 GMT Avi Shlaim is a professor of international relations at the University of Oxford and the author …
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… and destroy the Pentagon’s dream of finding a new peer competitor to replace the Soviet Union. Can you give my son a job? Slavoj Žižek The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor Allen Lane, 302 pp, £25.00, June 2010, ISBN 978 1 84614 173 7 . . . . . . . What we have …
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The Foreclosure Game Tricks and Traps in the Fine Print By RALPH NADER, Counterpunch This time the big banks and mortgage servicing companies, with their long, one-sided fine print contracts, may have outsmarted themselves. The newspaper headlines and the network television news are blazing news of the erupting fraudulent foreclosure process. This long-overdue coverage is …
Economic historians have long recognized that one of the biggest mistakes deepening and prolonging the Great Depression was the establishment of beggar-thy-neighbour policy wars, like trying to protect domestic production by imposing protective tariffs. But these tariffs hurt everyone, because the reduction in world trade depressed demand and production to a greater extent than tariffs …
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Phi Beta Iota: Our newest Contributing Editor, Defense Dog (DefDog), thought to add to Chuck Spinney’s earlier sharing of the Pentagon spagetti charts by adding a touch of colorful salad–such good salad it has even been covered by WIRED Magazine. Read ‘Em All: Pentagon’s 193 Mind-Numbing Cybersecurity Regs NOTE: The version at WIRED is High …
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I asked my good friend Marshall Auerback, an investment advisor and lawyer by training and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, to evaluate Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s claim that TARP has been a stunning success. Geithner made this claim in a 10 October op-ed in the Washington Post, entitled, “Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tackles …
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