The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
… Karl Rove and the repetition of the big lie. March 14, 2010 OP-ED COLUMNIST The New Rove-Cheney Assault on Reality By FRANK RICH, New York Times THE opening salvo, fired on Fox News during Thanksgiving week, aroused little notice: Dana Perino, the former White House press secretary, declared that “we did not have a terrorist …
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This is a dynamite op-ed written jointly by my good friend Marshall Auerback and Rob Parenteau. Chuck Coming to a Country Near You Let a Dozen Latvias Bloom? By MARSHALL AUERBACK and ROB PARENTEAU The article’s bottom line conclusion: It is now time for the rest of us to follow the Lilliputians of Iceland: to …
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Yet another contemptuous snub to US “peace” efforts. Biden ought to tell them to go to hell and turn around and fly home … but he won’t, thus confirming again the our pusilanimous acquiescence to Israeli policies that hurt and humiliate the United States Chuck Israel OKs new settlement work despite slowdown By AMY TEIBEL, …
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Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran by Ray McGovern Phi Beta Iota: We strongly recommend McGovern’s article be read in its entirety. Key points: 1. US has no mutual defense treaty with Israel and no order to the US military to support Israel is Constitutionally valid without a Senate validation. 2. Israel will not …
Why Exactly Are Big Banks Bad? By Simon Johnson, Baseline Scenario, 4 March 2010 Just over 100 years ago, as the nineteenth century drew to a close, big business in America was synonymous with productivity, quality, and success. “Economies of scale” meant that big railroads and big oil companies could move cargo and supply energy cheaper …
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The Obama Administration’s clear-hold-build-leave strategy in Afghanistan is crucially dependent on the Afghan’s central government’s ability to displace the Taliban with clean local governance throughout a rugged country larger than Texas, with a population of 28+ million, where the vast majority of people live in small hamlets and villages. To this end, the combined forces …
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This is a truly spectacular tubesteak in the April Fools Day issue of the American Conservative produced with verve by two writers I am proud to call my friends!!!!!! Chuck Mindless Missiles The Pentagon’s drone budget is on autopilot. BY WINSLOW T. WHEELER AND PIERRE M. SPREY American Conservative, 1 April 2010 Today’s Pentagon is …
