The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I want to put this somewhat intellectual blog posting into perspective. Below is a quote from Matt Taibbi’s new book, Griftopia-Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (Spiegel & Grau, 2 November 2010). Click on the title of the book to read my full review. QUOTE (32): What has taken …
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In my last Counterpunch essay, “How Obama’s Initial Personnel Decisions Hardwired the Wipeout” I organized my argument around verbiage describing how Obama “fatal move” to the middle,” leaving the misleading impression that his connection to the middle occurred after the election. This was sloppy wording and in retrospect it is clear to me that impression …
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Matt Taibbi 6 Star Game Changer….Maybe November 2, 2010 This is an extraordinary book, combining gifted insights and turns of phrase with serious research that has a point worth fighting for: Wall Street led by Goldman Sachs has ripped off the entire US economy, and they still have most people thinking that politics matters. It …
Our Commons Future is Already Here A stirring call to unite the environmental and global justice movement from Maude Barlow By Maude Barlow Maude Barlow gave this stirring plenary speech, full of hope even in the face of ecological disasters, to the Environmental Grantmakers Association annual retreat in Pacific Grove, California. Barlow, a former UN …
… are real, if unappreciated. Chuck Scary New Wage Data David Cay Johnston | Oct. 25, 2010 04:35 AM EDT Now for some really scary breaking news, from the latest payroll tax data. Every 34th wage earner in America in 2008 went all of 2009 without earning a single dollar, new data from the Social …
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Cape Job: Inside the Tea Party’s OODA Loop (III) The two previous blasters on this subject forwarded op-ed’s that in effect described the strategic aim and strategies of the hidden hands that are fomenting right wing rage. The grand strategic aim of these hidden hands is to lock in their vision of a neofascist New …
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Its not like the disaster described below was not foreseeable. Winning the War in Afghanistan at $50 Million per Kill Fun With Arithmetic By NICHOLAS C. ARGUIMBAU CounterPunch 28/10/10 Michael Nasuti of Kabul Press recently published an article in which he calculated that killing each Taliban soldier in Afghanistan costs on average of $50 million …
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