The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The following is a translation of “buying votes”……Not sure how this will sustain our national defense either……or how much of the money we borrowed and then granted to them in foreign military assistance! Analysis: U.S. fighter sales soar in time for campaign (Reuters) – Booming Middle East purchases of U.S. fighter jets will be a …
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Definition of ‘True Cost Economics’ An economic model that seeks to include the cost of negative externalities into the pricing of goods and services. Supporters of this type of economic system feel products and activities that direct or indirectly cause harmful consequences to living beings and/or the environment should be accordingly taxed to reflect the somewhat hidden costs.
The Real History of ‘Corporate Personhood’: Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You The real history of today’s excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, AlterNet The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement’s Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have …
Two excellent and important articles follow. They address the corrupt nature of America’s general officer corps, and they are examples of journalism and think-tank work at their best. “Corrupt officer corps?” An overstatement? You be the judge. The first article is yet another in USA Today‘s Tom Vandenbrook’s long and continuing series about DOD’s “mentor” program. It …
We Need the Money and we Need It Now [email] he Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) is in panic city over what promises to be cosmetic cutbacks in the growth of the defense budget. The courtiers in Versailles on the Potomac, like the obedient editors of the Washington Post, are dutifully pumping out …
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Osama bin Laden repeatedly said that his strategy for defeating the US and driving it out of the Middle East was to bankrupt the US by suckering it into a string expensive of never ending small wars. Osama may be dead, but the US remains locked in a state of perpetual wars abroad and shrinking …
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Industrialized agriculture, and industrialized corruption in defense. Nobody is serious about creating safe, affordable, sustainable solutions for anything, from agriculture to defense. Antibiotic resistance is a common feature of Cargill Salmonella outbreaks Drew Falkenstein Food Poison Journal, 3 August 2011 Competition for Military Contracts Doesn’t Lower Costs Joshua Foust The Atlantic, 3 August 2011 Phi …
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