The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
New options from the nomenklatura listed below is a silly oxymoron. Chuck Pentagon Openings Give Obama New Options By THOM SHANKER 7 November WASHINGTON — With critical decisions ahead on the war in Afghanistan, President Obama is about to receive an unusual opportunity to reshape the Pentagon’s leadership, naming a new defense secretary as well as several …
New $600B Fed Stimulus Fuels Fears of US Currency War The Federal Reserve will pump $600 billion more into the US economy and keep interest rates at historical low levels. The short-term impact of the Fed’s move, known as quantitative easing, has been a jump in stock prices across the globe. Many nations, however, have …
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In my last Counterpunch essay, “How Obama’s Initial Personnel Decisions Hardwired the Wipeout” I organized my argument around verbiage describing how Obama “fatal move” to the middle,” leaving the misleading impression that his connection to the middle occurred after the election. This was sloppy wording and in retrospect it is clear to me that impression …
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How Obama’s Initial Personnel Decisions Hardwired the Wipeout Democratic Debacle By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch November 3, 2010 In trying to understand why the Democrats just crashed and burned, I think the first layer in peeling the onion takes the form of an admission to two crucial mistakes made by Obama before he took office. …
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Lawrence Goodwyn: The Great Predicament Facing Obama An interview with legendary historian Lawrence Goodwyn on Obama, the larger currents in our political life, and the possibility of a rebirth in our democratic culture. AlterNet / By Jan Frel and Lawrence Goodwyn October 30, 2010 What happened to the dream of Barack Obama’s transformational politics? There’s …
Mikhail Gorbachev, who has been neutralized by the succession of Russian rulers, especially Putin) has just advised President Obama to get out of Afghanistan. Jonathan Steele suggests here (also attached below) that Obama ought to heed that advice, because Obama is in a similar albeit somewhat worse position than Gorbachev was in 1985-6. Analogies are dangerous, because …
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Pusillanimity or Hypocrisy or Both Memo to Obama: Three Strikes and You’re Out By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch I believe Obama’s schtick during his campaign for president was to subtly encourage his adversaries to impale themselves of the horns of their own contradictions. This kind of strategy can be particularly effective in the all-important moral …
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