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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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Review: The Telescreen – An Empirical and Philosophical Study of the Destruction of Consciousness in America

Jeffrey Grupp 5.0 out of 5 stars You need a brain to read this book; if you have one, the book will scare you,February 17, 2012 I have been keeping in touch with “alternative” sources for some time, ever since I realized in about 1988 that neither the US secret intelligence world nor the US …

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Richard Wright: Mitt Romney Partners with Goldman Sachs

Close Ties to Goldman Enrich Romney’s Public and Private Lives By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, PETER LATTMAN and KEVIN ROOSE New York Times,  January 27, 2012 When Bain Capital sought to raise money in 1989 for a fast-growing office-supply company named Staples, Mitt Romney, Bain’s founder, called upon a trusted business partner: Goldman Sachs, whose bankers led …

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Chuck Spinney: Mike Lofgren on Taxation Reality, Media Ills

How the media enable the Republican tax agenda By Mike Lofgren, Nieman Watchdog, Commentary, January 18, 2012 Mike Lofgren, the former Republican congressional staffer who recently decried the descent of the GOP into lunacy, blames the press for not holding politicians accountable for their budgetary flimflam in the service of the rich. The result: A …

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