Chuck Spinney: Benghazi, Libya, Dysfunctional Congress, End of All Checks and Balances

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Hill Letters & Testimony, Officers Call
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Chuck Spinney

The Republican antics in the hearings of the Benghazi Committee in the House or Representatives are a good example illustrating how broken American politics have become.  The clear aim is narrowly political: to embarrass Hillary Clinton (and President Obama) for partisan reasons, while avoiding the roots of the larger Libyan debacle that flowed from the US led intervention.  Accounting for the deeper causes of the Libyan debacle is off limits, because just about everyone’s hands are dirty: Our bombing campaign was supported by the Republican neo-cons and their humanitarian interventionist allies in the Obama White House, as well as a majority of the Republican congressional leadership*  and most Democrats in Congress.  So, the Democrats have tried to present the hearings as yet another anti-Clinton witch hunt for the parallel reason of partisan domestic politics.

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Mongoose: US Government & Monsanto — a Joint Crime Against Humanity

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Health, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government
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WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Government Planned To “Retaliate & Cause Pain” On Countries Refusing GMOs

If information about our food needs to be concealed from the public domain, then something has gone seriously wrong with the food industry.

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Berto Jongman: DEA Secretly Enables Drug Epidemic

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement
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berto smallDEA Secretly OKs Killer Quantities of Oxy and Morphine

The feds could choke off the supply of pills flooding American streets tomorrow. Instead, they let Big Pharma crank out 300 tons of it last year. The federal government is actively fueling a killer drug epidemic behind closed doors.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Tidal Power for 120 Years…

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Sepp Hasslberger

Tidal power is a huge energetic resource that we are hardly using so far. Here is a UK project that promises to get serious about power from the sea.

Poetry in Motion: Power Plant Will Use Ocean Tides to Power 155K Homes

This planned power plant in Wales may look like the Guggenheim Museum but its benefits far outweigh the beauty: it will use the rise and fall of ocean tides to generate enough renewable electricity to power 155,000 homes for 120 years.

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Eagle: Renewables Create Jobs, Heal Planet

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 11 Society
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300 Million Talons…

Renewables Can Create Jobs and Heal the Planet: Report

“The Clean Energy Future represents a pathway away from climate destruction…. Should we let greed and inertia prevent us from taking it?'

The U.S. can reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, while creating half a million jobs a year and lowering energy costs for consumers, simply by limiting use of fossil fuels and allowing the renewables sector continue to grow at its current pace, according to a new report published this week.

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