The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Patrick Seale is one of the finest and most experienced writers now reporting on the Middle East Averting Civil War in Syria by Patrick Seale Agence Global, 22 Nov 2011 Syria is heading for a bloody sectarian civil war. The mutual kidnappings, torture, beheadings and displacement of populations taking place between the Sunni and Alawi …
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An excellent critique of the Libyan adventure. CS Who said Gaddafi had to go? Hugh Roberts London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 22 · 17 November 2011 So Gaddafi is dead and Nato has fought a war in North Africa for the first time since the FLN defeated France in 1962. The Arab world’s …
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The Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis Back Again by Immanuel Wallerstein It always amazes me how the world’s politicians and media spend most of their energy debating geopolitical prospects that are not going to happen, while ignoring major developments that are happening. Here is a list of the most important coming non-events that we have been loudly debating …
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NOVEMBER 14, 2011 Only Washington Remains Clueless The Passing of the Postwar Era by ANDREW BACEVICH, Counterpunch This article was originally published by TomDispatch. In every aspect of human existence, change is a constant. Yet change that actually matters occurs only rarely. Even then, except in retrospect, genuinely transformative change is difficult to identify. By …
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Below is an informative historical vignette describing one of the 19th Century root systems underpinning the ideology that shaped the emergence of winner take all political economy over the last 30 years. Note particularly the central role of private debt played in the rise of oligarchy and the concomitant impoverishment of the masses. Koch Family …
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We Need the Money and we Need It Now [email] he Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) is in panic city over what promises to be cosmetic cutbacks in the growth of the defense budget. The courtiers in Versailles on the Potomac, like the obedient editors of the Washington Post, are dutifully pumping out …
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Good summary of the American sickness. One Nation, Gone Awry William Pfaff – truthdig – 02/11/11 The theme of most political and social commentary is that things are more complicated than you think. For once, I wish to write that things are simpler than you think. This concerns two matters at the core of the …
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