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David Isenberg: Private Military Corporations – The Worst of All Evils

PMSC Not Ready for U.N. Prime Time Huffington Post, 11 July 2012 For many years now, private military and security contractor (PMSC) advocates have argued that utilization of PMSC in United Nations peace operations offers an alternative to doing nothing or trying to organize a frequently dysfunctional U.N.-sponsored, often ill-equipped and organized intervention. Indeed, about …

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John Steiner: From Israel, Call for Politics of Heroism versus Hope

Phi Beta Iota:  The full combination of pieces is strongly recommended as  a total read.  The contributing author whose work has been forwarded by Brother John makes a fundamental ethical and intellectual mistake, assuming that there is a significant difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.  Not so.  This is not an either/or choice between …

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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract II

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract II The U.S. Government has been controlled by a two-party tyranny that has always been corrupt, but this corruption went nuclear in the 1990’s when both parties conspired to start borrowing one trillion dollars a year–one third of the federal budget–so as …

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YouTube: (5:40) Robert Steele on Restoring Democracy in the USA in 2012

Outlines the two reasons Steele ran for President (to put all the best non-partisan ideas in one place, at http://www.bigbatusa.org) and to connect with an evaluate all of the other Presidential candidates.  Steele goes on to outline precisely what needs to happen in the way of an Electoral Reform Summit and a non-negotiable national demand …

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Chuck Spinney: Progressives Argue Over Defeating Obama – a Conversation on Email

Most of my liberal friends reluctantly support President Obama’s re-election, because the alternative is so much worse.  Invariably, they invoke the effects of a Romney presidency on judicial appointments, especially those to the Supreme Court (ironically, Obama’s two appointees just voted with the majority to decline to hear the Guantanamo case, if effect, putting another …

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