The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Intelligence for the 99 Percent David Isenberg Huffington Post, 27 June 2012 As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about the three Ds (Death, Doom, and Destruction) of international geopolitics I often ponder the way policymakers get their information. Admittedly, there are all sorts of ways to get information but for people in …
At a time when pressures to punish Iran with more sanctions or perhaps even war (I still consider the latter unlikely), it might pay to try to understand things from the Iranian point view. Attached below is an excellent essay in the London Review of Books analyzing Iran’s recent history. It puts the CIA/MI6 overthrow …
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The Occupy National Gathering is a nationally coordinated event which will take place from June 30th to July 4th in Philadelphia. The Occupy movement will convene the Occupy National Gathering in the vicinity of Philadelphia’s Independence Mall for a week of direct actions, movement building and the creation of a vision for a democratic future. The National …
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Most of my liberal friends reluctantly support President Obama’s re-election, because the alternative is so much worse. Invariably, they invoke the effects of a Romney presidency on judicial appointments, especially those to the Supreme Court (ironically, Obama’s two appointees just voted with the majority to decline to hear the Guantanamo case, if effect, putting another …
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Stephen Goldstein (Author) 5 Stars, often hilarious June 15, 2012 By David Swanson The Florida Sun Sentinel has for many years been rather unique, as a corporate newspaper with a regular columnist who’s actually good, and I don’t mean just good for the context, but actually worth reading even if the masses of South Florida …
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The Spread of Sacrifice Zones By David Swanson Chris Hedge’s and Joe Sacco’s new book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, is a treasure. Hedges wrote the plain text. Sacco produced the text-heavy cartoon sections and other illustrations, which even I — not a big fan of cartoon books — found to enrich this book …
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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 …
