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2012/06/10

Chuck Spinney: Drones — Of Idiots, By Idiots, For Idiots + Meta-RECAP

Attached is a really first rate assessment of the real benefits and costs of the American infatuation with drone warfare. The writer, Patrick Cockburn, is one of the very best reporters now covering the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. Chuck Spinney Cap Ferat, France America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda World View: …

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2012/06/052012/06/05

Paul Craig Roberts: Collapse at Hand – and ONE THING an Honest Government Could Do To Make It All Right

Collapse At Hand Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and quantitative easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt every year …

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2012/06/042012/06/04

John Steiner: Joseph Stiglitz on 1% Problem and 1% Solution

The 1 Percent’s Problem Why won’t America’s 1 percent—such as the six Walmart heirs, whose wealth equals that of the entire bottom 30 percent—be a bit more . . . selfish? As the widening financial divide cripples the U.S. economy, even those at the top will pay a steep price. By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Vanity …

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2012/06/042012/06/04

Mini-Me: JFK Assassination Cover-Up Unravels Further + RECAP

Huh? Photographic Evidence of Bullet Hole in JFK Limousine Windshield ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ by Douglas P. Horne LouRockwell.com, June 4, 2012 In 2009, I believed I had discovered new evidence in the JFK assassination never reported by anyone else: convincing photography of the through-and-through bullet hole in the windshield of the JFK limousine that …

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2012/05/262012/05/26

David Swanson: Lies and Consequences Across 15 Wars

Lies and Consequences in Our Past 15 Wars By David Swanson “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their peoples in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was their object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame …

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2012/05/24

Koko: Canadian Tar Sands Up Close and Personal

Koko sad. The Canadian Oil Sand Mines Refused Us Access, So We Rented This Plane To See What They Were Up To Robert Johnson Business Insider, 18 May 2012 When reaching out to Alberta oil sands companies before a trip to Canada last month, I thought all of them mined oil the same way — …

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2012/05/21

Paul Craig Roberts: Recovery or Collapse? I’m Betting Collapse

Recovery or Collapse? Bet on Collapse May 20, 2012 The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of Europe, like the police, no longer serves a useful social purpose. In the US the police have proven themselves to be a greater threat to public safety than private sector criminals. I just googled “police brutality” …

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