The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
My friend Jeff Madrick, and old fashioned liberal democrat in the best sense of the term, has penned a pithy analysis of the anti-empirical madness now dominating the contemporary American political economy. Jeff concludes that the Right ignores its track record, particularly regarding the clear economic effects of tax cuts, and is rarely challenged on …
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Headlines Only: Rashard Mendenhall fired by Champion over Osama bin Laden tweets Bin Laden, two others didn’t fire on SEALs: sources Captured wife relives bin Laden’s life in mansion Crashed Copter Sparks Concern About Secrets Military interrogators: Waterboarding didn’t yield tips that led to bin Laden Osama bin Laden death: Intelligence reveals US rail threat …
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I of II: Seth Goden: The [Public] Realization is Now II of II: The [public] opportunity is here At the same time that our economic engines are faltering, something else is happening. Like all revolutions, it happens in fits and starts, without perfection, but it’s clearly happening. The mass market is being replaced by multiple …
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Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, Essay on Convergence versus Divergence Violence
LEAKS A “SERIOUS PROBLEM” FOR DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE Unauthorized disclosures of classified information are among “the major challenges” facing defense intelligence, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers told Congress last month. Mr. Vickers is awaiting Senate confirmation to be the new USD(I), a post that was last held by James R. Clapper, who …
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In a 13 February 2011 op-ed column [also attached below], George Will, a self-proclaimed conservative, who by definition must favor adherence to the Accountability and Appropriations Clauses of the Constitution, not to mention the rule of law (for example, the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990), announced that he has discovered the Pentagon’s bookkeeping shambles! …
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Below are three separate contributions: Spinney on Sprey; Sprey on Boeing; and Seattle Times on Boeing. CHUCK SPINNEY SOUNDS OFF President Obama says that restoring America’s competitiveness is one of his top priorities. Yet under his watch, deindustrialization, financialization, and globalization continue without interruption. Many advocates of defense spending argue that spinoffs from the Pentagon’s …
