Chuck Spinney: Corruption in Congress – The Iron Triangle
Revolving Door Syndrome in the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex The Best Government Money Can Buy by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, COUNTERPUNCH, FEBRUARY 11, 2014 Those of you who think it is incorrect to attach “Congressional” onto the the end of Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) would be well advised to read “Lawmaker holds stock in defense contractor he …
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Review (Guest): Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving Into Liquid War
Pepe Escobar 5 out of 5 stars Tour de Force! By Donald L. Conover Tour de Force! That’s the only way to describe Pepe Escobar’s remarkable achievement with Globalistan: How the Globalized World Is Dissolving into Liquid War. In page after page, Mr. Escobar demonstrates his remarkable erudition gained in a peripatetic career, spanning the …
4th Media: US “Regime Change” Makes US “Great Satan”
US Dirty Modus Operandi in Middle East: “Regime Change” Everywhere It Can The 9/11 incident has polarized global politics into two distinct eras: pre-9/11 period and post-9/11 period with the latter wreaking havoc on the entire world, particularly on the Muslim world. The pre-9/11 era witnessed terrorism, carnage, and mass murder across the globe on …
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David Swanson: War Can Be Ended — And No, the US Civil War Was Not About Slavery and Not Worth the Human and Other Enduring True Costs
War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …
Worth a Look: Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran
Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war with Iran. Challenging the daily clamor of U.S. saber rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should renounce thirty years of failed strategy and engage with Iran—just as Nixon …
SchwartzReport: Stem Cell Break Through Outside US — Is Theocratic Right Shutting Down US Ability to Make Biological Discoveries?
Here is a potentially revolutionary development in gene-based medicine. When I read this I wondered, does the lack of funding, in fact the suppression of gene research, by the Bush Administation — done to placate the Theocratic Right — help explain why the major breakthroughs in this area of medicine are happening outside of the …
