The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
It is becoming increasingly clear that 1981 was a watershed year in the history of the American political economy. What checks and balances that remained broke down. Deregulation, for example, took off and the bomb of private debt exploded (recall the chart I circulated earlier). The trade deficit skyrocketed after 1981, and deindustrialization, which started …
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The Detritus of Katrina and the Paralysis of Fear: A Metaphor for Contemporary Politics The vast Mississippi Delta in Louisiana is sinking as sea water from the Gulf of Mexico seeps in to destroy its fresh water marshlands. The Army’s Corps of Engineers says it can not protect New Orleans from the inevitable storm surges …
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Hot Topics AA: Counterterrorism at the expense of COIN will doom Afghanistan and Pakistan: US officials 09/24/09 AA: Israel hiding nukes in Golan, Syria claims 09/22/09 AA: Al-Qaida release video message likening Barack Obama to George Bush 09/23/09 AF: Afghan jails are base for al-Qaida and Taliban, says US commander 09/21/09 AF: Afghan warlords will …
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Van Jones is authentic. He was fired as a convenience by the white-half of Barack Obama, the half that is slicker than goose shit on a hot day. The black half of Obama, the authentic half that “would no more renounce Reverend Wright than my own mother,” that half has been bought off and silenced.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, August 31, 2009 By Adam Goldman and Pamela Hess Secret CIA program used Blackwater recruits “The question remains: Why do we need Blackwater?” said Charles Faddis, a former department chief at the CIA’s Counter-terrorism Center who retired in 2008 and was not involved in the secret program. “I remain mystified. This is …
A Lucky Hawk So Far Robert Gates, a success under George Bush, seeks to do even better under Barack Obama Napoleon, it is said, preferred a lucky general to a good one. Sitting in the E-ring of the cavernous Pentagon is a man who has shown himself to be both fortunate and skilful. These days …
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Helpful, Illuminating, and Inspiring, October 12, 2008
