The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Robert Fisk: We’ve been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget ‘Nuclear Iran’ The Ayatollah ordered the entire nuclear project to be closed down because it was the work of the devil Robert Fisk, Independent Wednesday, 25 January 2012 Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in …
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Thanks be to Tony Blair and Bill Clinton for giving us the Kosovo narco statelet — a gift that keeps on giving. Think of the opportunities after achieving the near-term options discussed below: Occitania and Bretagnia, Flemishia and Walloonia, and then to the big game: Schleswigia, Bavaria, Thuringia, Pomerania, Silesia, Prussia and the endless opportunities to …
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How the media enable the Republican tax agenda By Mike Lofgren, Nieman Watchdog, Commentary, January 18, 2012 Mike Lofgren, the former Republican congressional staffer who recently decried the descent of the GOP into lunacy, blames the press for not holding politicians accountable for their budgetary flimflam in the service of the rich. The result: A …
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We Asked For Water, They Gave Us Gasoline Situation All Fracked Up ROBERT HUNZIKER Counterpunch, Weekend Edition 6-8 Jan 2012 According to worldwide energy industry participants, all of the low hanging fruit is gone. Finding new energy sources will henceforth be difficult and expensive… and very dangerous to your health. The unquenchable thirst for energy …
POLITICS The `K Street Clausewitz’ Remembered By CHUCK SPINNEY | December 30, 2011 Mark Thompson’s 27 December posting, “General Newt,” alerted readers of Battleland to Karen Tumulty’s pastiche of mini portraits of Newt Gingrich’s martial prowess. Mark highlighted one the few passages that zeroed in on the insubstantial essence of the K Street Clausewitz. Unable to contain my …
Clintonizing Perpetual War 26 December 2011 In the winter of 2002, a close friend, a liberal staffer on capital hill, asked me if I thought the crazy fulminations of the neocons and the tough-guy rantings of an insecure President [1] could result in a war with Iraq? My answer was something like ‘read the Barbara …
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The core of neoliberalism is a political-economic theory masquerading as a scientifically pure economic theory. The central claim is that efficiency and economic growth is the means to maximize individual welfare, and in so doing, neoliberal policies maximize the collective welfare. In theory, Neoliberalism’s key tenets — the supremacy of the market, globalization of capital …
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