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Mini-Me: An Alternative Favorable View of Putin – A Citizen Challenges US Government and US Media on Simple Truth

Huh? Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould are first class intellects who researched and wrote a truly important book on Afghanistan’s modern political history (Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story), which includes a detailed, inside account of the Carter/Brzezinski administration’s disinformation campaign—prosecuted by our news media—regarding the Afghan government’s invitation of the Soviet military into the country. Characterized …

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Eagle: Charles Hugh Smith on America’s Nine Classes

Summary: 1. Deep State 2. Oligarchs (1%) 3. New Nobility 4. Upper Caste 5. State Nomenklatura (9% with Upper Caste) 6. Middle Class (20%) 7. Working Poor (30%) 8. State Dependents (20%) 9. Mobile Creatives (8%)   America’s Nine Classes: The New Class Hierarchy Eight of the nine classes are hidebound by conventions, neofeudal and …

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Chuck Spinney: Marshall Auerback on Inequality

My friend Marshall Auerback sent the following insightful comment in response to the Jeff Madrick’s “Inequality Is Not the Problem”, which I distributed on 27 April 2014. Recall that Jeff argued why the very real problems in the United States associated with concentration of wealth, growing income inequality, and low rates of social/income mobility should not be …

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Jim Dean: Alexander Orlov on USA Implosion in Middle East — “Going, Going, Gone…”

NEO – USA in Mid East – Going, Going, Gone [Veteran’s Today Editor’s note:  Alexander brings us more analysis from the Russian perspective at this critical time. The US seems to be rolling the dice in a desperate game to create instability on Russia’s border, establish an offensive base in the Ukraine, threaten Russia gas …

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Winslow Wheeler: New F-35 Claims on Cost Highly Questionable

My analysis of the new DOD data on the cost of the F-35 is at the Straus Military Project website at http://www.pogo.org/our-work/straus-military-reform-project/weapons/2014/new-f-35-claim-lower-os-estimate-more-than-offsets-higher-acquisition-cost.html, and it is below. While the media reports on these costs were out last week, there are some critically important elements of the DOD cost reporting that got little or no attention. New …

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Yoda: True Cost Economics Model from Foundation Earth

Toward A True-Cost Economic Model: Cheater Economics, Fair Play, & Long-Term Survival Over the next century communities worldwide will experience an unprecedented shift of weather instability. Extreme weather events are ecological spasms often driving economic spasms and regional collapses. Concerned citizens and opinion leaders need to prepare before these eco-spasms proliferate. Far from being prepared, …

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Chuck Spinney: Toxic Alliance – Neo-Cons and “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) War-mongers

This email continues the theme I introduced with How Obama’s Rhetoric Reinforces America’s Grand Strategic Pathway to Catastrophe. Attached beneath my introduction is an brilliant essay, The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, written by Robert Parry of Consortium News.  Parry describes how propaganda produced by this domestic alliance of convenience among a non-representative minority of unelected influence peddlers …

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