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CounterPunch: The Ten Big Lies of Traditional Western Politics

The Ten Big Lies of Traditional Western Politics Erik Molvar is a wildlife biologist and is the Laramie, Wyoming-based Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project, a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting and restoring watersheds and wildlife on western public lands. List only, click above to read full article. Industrial oil and gas drilling is compatible …

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Hamid Dabashi: An American and an Arab Walk Into a Saudi Consulate….One (Thomas Friedman) Come Out Smiling and Writes About Saudi Reforms, the Other (Jamal Khashoggi) is Tortured, Dismembered, and Never Seen Again. What Can We Learn from This?

An American and an Arab journalist walk into a Saudi Consulate On Thomas Friedman, ‘his friend’ Jamal Khashoggi, and our duty to expose the malicious ignorance of imperial messengers. Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. The New York Times is the barometer of the health and sickness …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Excitement at Oracle — Amazon Effect

After reportedly butting heads with Larry Ellison, Oracle’s top cloud executive is leaving the company Kurian’s departure comes just weeks after Oracle announced he was taking a break from his position overseeing Oracle’s cloud efforts, and after Bloomberg reported that a conflict with Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer, and person whose opinion seems …

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Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror. “From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated …

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Paper Tiger: China is Bluffing on Tariffs, Time to Invite Others to Bid UPDATE 1 Graphics Added

Alert Reader based in China and heavily invested in Chinese manufacturing brokerage reports that Trump tariffs are exactly what has been needed to bring the Chinese to the table so as to correct the imbalance that may have been fair 30 years ago but is grossly unfair to US companies and workers now. He reports …

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NYT Editors: The Catholic Church’s Unholy Stain UPDATE: Robert Steele Letter to Editor

The Catholic Church’s Unholy Stain It’s long past time for penitence and promises on clerical pedophilia. Pope Francis must act. The latest barrage of revelations and developments — including a gut-wrenching report by a grand jury in Pennsylvania detailing seven decades of sexual abuse of at least 1,000 children, and probably thousands more, by more …

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