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2012/07/062012/07/06

John Steiner: From Israel, Call for Politics of Heroism versus Hope

Phi Beta Iota: The full combination of pieces is strongly recommended as a total read. The contributing author whose work has been forwarded by Brother John makes a fundamental ethical and intellectual mistake, assuming that there is a significant difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. Not so. This is not an either/or choice between …

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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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2012/03/252012/03/25

#OWS Rolling Update + US Revolution RECAP

CORRUPTION is the common enemy, both in government and in the private sector. ELECTORAL REFORM is the singular demand. COALITION CABINET is the method. INTEGRITY is the core value. COMMONWEALTH RESTORED is the outcome. Occupy Revolution OccupyWallStreet (Home Site) Original Electoral Reform Documents (Updated) We the People Reform Coalition 25 March 2012 Penn Badgley …

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2012/03/252012/03/25

Marcus Aurelius: CIA Counter-Terror Drone Boss – Cognitive Dissonance in Spades + RECAP

Tough to only have a hammer when you really need a fly swatter. Washington Post March 25, 2012 Pg. 1 The CIA’s Enigmatic Al-Qaeda Hunter Convert to Islam has led spy agency’s renewed assault on terror group By Greg Miller For every cloud of smoke that follows a CIA drone strike in Pakistan, dozens of …

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2012/03/24

DefDog: Delusions of Power – Absolute Corruption of US Power

Corruption infects our world in many forms: material and moral, visible and invisible, direct and indirect. But the underlying motive behind all things corrupt is a strong opportunistic instinct to benefit oneself at the cost of others by allurement or deception. No wonder politics has fallen so much into disrepute. The aphorism of the nineteenth-century …

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2012/02/22

Chuck Spinney: Iran, Israel, US Congress, 22 March…

My buddy Mike Lofgren launches another one. Iran and the Shape of Things to Come Mike Lofgren, Huffington Post, Posted: 02/21/2012 7:05 pm Cet animal est tres mechant; quand on l’attaque, il se defend. (This animal is very wicked; when you attack it, it defends itself) – French proverb It is hard not to think …

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2012/02/20

John Pilger: The War on Democracy Comes Home

Recommended by Paul Craig Roberts, Institute for Political Economy John Pilger describes the reality hidden behind the cloak of anglo-american “democracy.” Phi Beta Iota: This describes the crime against humanity, the atrocity, of cleansing the population of the islands now known as Diego Garcia. If We the People do not hold our government accountable, then …

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