The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Millionaires Control 39% of the World’s Wealth By Robert Frank Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2011 Last year was another good year for millionaires – though their pace of growth is slowing. According to a new report by Boston Consulting Group out today, the number of millionaire households in the world grew by 12.2% in …
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U.S. arms makers said to be bleeding secrets to cyber foes By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON | Tue May 31, 2011 (Reuters) – Top Pentagon contractors have been bleeding secrets for years as a result of penetrations of their computer networks, current and former national security officials say. Read full article…. Phi Beta Iota: This is …
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31 May 2011: BBC Link corrected. Dear friends, The personal is political. This is true in so many ways. I am part of my culture and social systems, and they are part of me, embedded in me. They shape how I think and act, how I respond, what I think is right and possible — …
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NIGHTMARE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE by Stephen Vincent Benet That was the second year of the Third World War, The one between Us and Them. Well, we’ve gotten used. We don’t talk much about it, queerly enough. There was all sorts of talk the first years after the Peace, A million theories, a million wild suppositions, …
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Washington’s war on Chavez By Stephen Lendman, Tehran Times, May 30, 2011 Since George W. Bush took office in January 2001, efforts to oust Hugo Chavez failed three times. . . . . . . Nonetheless, disruptive activities continue, including malicious propaganda, CIA subversion, funding opposition forces, sanctions, and militarizing the region, notably in Colombia …
The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System by Prof. Peter Dale Scott Centre for Research on Globalization, 29 April 2011 EXTRACT: As Ellen Brown has pointed out, first Iraq and then Libya decided to challenge the petrodollar system and stop selling all their oil for dollars, shortly before each country …
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BRICS’ open revolt against European grip on IMF Narayan Lakshman The Hindu, 26 May 2011 Paris: The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Directors from the BRICS economies have openly revolted against the prospect of the Fund’s Managing Director role reverting to a European, deepening the woes of an organisation that was recently rocked to its very …
