The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Obama Fails in Middle East Robert Dreyfuss on 11/06/2009 Chuck Spinney Sends….. The announcement by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he will not run for reelection is the exclamation point on the utter collapse of the Obama adminstration’s Middle East policy. Launched to great expectations — the appointment of George Mitchell, Obama’s Cairo declaration that …
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Shades of Abu Ghraib by Alistair Horne National Interest 10.27.2009 THE GRISLY subject of torture is back with us again, with fresh allegations of CIA misconduct. It is a subject which first came to occupy my thoughts when I was writing a book on the Algerian War, A Savage War of Peace, back in the …
A new online computer game attempts to capitalize on the current strain of right-wing paranoia and activism, embodied by Glenn Beck’s televised blustering and the Tea Party protests, by allowing players to inhabit a world of the near-future that represents a conservative nightmare. The game, called “2011: Obama Coup Fails,” is hosted by a website …
In my opinion, it is now almost certain that Afghanistan will wreck the presidency of Barack Obama. As I feared, Mr. Obama has allowed the US military and its allies in the Democratic wing and Republican wing of the national-security apparat (there is no real difference between these wings) to ensnare him in the wreckage …
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Johann Hari: The three fallacies that have driven the war in Afghanistan Case for escalating the war is based on premises that turn to dust on inspection Johann Hari Independent Wednesday, 21 October 2009 Is Barack Obama about to drive his Presidency into a bloody ditch strewn with corpses? The President is expected any day …
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Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty Revised formula puts number of poor people at 47.4 million — 7 million more than official rate A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government’s official figure. …
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Obama’s Delusion David Bromwich 22 October 2009 Afghanistan is the largest and the most difficult crisis Obama confronts away from home. And here the trap was fashioned largely by himself. He said, all through the presidential campaign, that Iraq was the wrong war but Afghanistan was the right one. It was ‘a war of necessity’, …
