The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Obama’s Delusion David Bromwich 22 October 2009 Afghanistan is the largest and the most difficult crisis Obama confronts away from home. And here the trap was fashioned largely by himself. He said, all through the presidential campaign, that Iraq was the wrong war but Afghanistan was the right one. It was ‘a war of necessity’, …
The Baseline Scenario What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it Who is Carlos Slim? The US increasingly displays characteristics that we have seen many times in middle-income “emerging markets” – new dimensions of vast inequality, forms of financial instability that benefit the best connected, and consistently easy credit for the …
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Hot Topics AA: Debating the dragon-bear duet 10/13/09 AA: Iran to ‘blow up the heart of Israel’ if attacked 10/09/09 AA: EU should tell Czechs enough is enough 10/13/09 BA: Diplomats Downplay Immediate Hopes on Bosnia Talks 10/09/09 BG: Right-wingers to back GERB’s Fandukova to be mayor of Sofia 10/13/09 GE: Is Georgia Safe From …
Hot Topics AA: Curacao seeks help in case of missing US diplomat 10/12/09 AA: Israeli military links widespread 10/08/09 AR: Argentina downgraded in financial development index 10/08/09 AR: Argentine Senate overwhelmingly approves media law 10/10/09 CL: Chile Acts to Protect Refugees 10/09/09 CO: Colombia Indians Say Talks with Rebels Must Be Public 10/10/09 CO: COLOMBIA: …
Lack of Mid-East peace deepens water crisis By Natalia Antelava, BBC News, Berui, 13 October 2009 For the last two years Iraq, Syria, Jordan and parts of Turkey and Lebanon, have suffered from the devastating effects of the worst drought that the Middle East has experienced in decades. In addition to human suffering, the security …
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Hot Topics AA: Agriculture needs billions of dollars by 2050: UN agency, 10/08/2009 AA: EAC militaries, US command set to stage joint war games, 10/10/2009 AA: Mideast oil exporters’ foreign reserves to rise: IMF, 10/11/2009 AA: Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth, 09/11/2009 AA: Scientists join …
Hot Topics AA: Hamas denies return of Abbas troops to Gaza under Egyptian-brokered deal 10/03/09 AA: Iraq releases Iranian dissidents 10/07/09 AA: Central Asia: Developing Armies Of The Underprivileged? 10/04/09 AA: Engaging the Arab World on the Iran Nuclear Crisis 10/05/09 EG: EGYPT: Cleric calls for ‘Friday of anger’ against Al Aqsa violations 10/06/09 EG: …
