The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
My good friend Marshall Auerbach has one answer — can you “refudiate” it? Which Party Poses the Real Risk to Social Security’s Future? NewDeal2.0.org, Monday, 08/16/2010 – 5:02 pm by Marshall Auerback Hint: it’s not Republicans. Social Security remains one of the greatest achievements of the Democratic Party since its creation 75 years ago. Although Republicans …
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On Aug 9, 2010, Wired carried the below chart of the evolution of Taliban attacks between 2004 and 2009. This chart was constructed from the now notorious Wikileaks data base by Drew Conway, a graduate student at NYU, using the open source statistical analysis program known as “R.” Below these I provide three historical charts, …
Today we have a Pentagon that is spending more money (in inflation adjusted dollars) on defense than at any time since WWII, yet it can not pass the relatively simple audits required by the Chief Financial Officer’s Act of 1990. This law was intended to put teeth into the Accountability and Appropriations clauses of the …
FRIDAY, AUG 6, 2010 12:07 ET What collapsing empire looks like BY GLENN GREENWALD, Salon As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how …
OP-ED COLUMNIST Kiss This War Goodbye By FRANK RICH, New York Times, July 31, 2010 A version of this op-ed appeared in print on August 1, 2010, on page WK8 of the New York edition. IT was on a Sunday morning, June 13, 1971, that The Times published its first installment of the Pentagon Papers. …
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Neocon Nutballs Ramp Up Campaign Bomb Iran? By GARETH PORTER Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed in the Weekly Standard seeking to justify an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House Resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is …
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Below is a good summary of the wikileaks database. It is also a good example of how the secretive conspiratorial mind, trained in the wilderness of mirrors that is the US intelligence establishment, conjures motivations out of the ether. The author builds a an inferential case to insinuate the massive leak of intelligence data …
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