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The Central Bank; Silent Partner in the Bloodletting
By Mike Whitney
A nation's economy is a reflection pool. The face that looks
back from the water; is the face of the culture and the
prevailing ethos. It's no different with America. The
stewards of the US economic system—Paulson and
Bernanke—are inextricably linked to a political/military
establishment which has been thoroughly marinated in
a culture of violence and corruption. Continue
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An Odd Week, Indeed Piano Wire Puppeteers
By Sean Penn
Didn’t Senator Clinton just vote in essence to give
President Bush the power to bomb Iran? If he had
done it last week, would that have made her right?
I mean, if she knew then what she knows now? Or
am I getting that backward? Golly, I’m confused.
Continue
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Unfit To Serve "You, Mr.. Bush, are a bald-faced liar."
8 Minute Video - Keith Olbermann
A Special Comment about the President’s cataclysmic
deception about Iran. Click to view
AND TEXT AND/OR VIDEO:
Video: Keith Olbermann "Neocon Job"
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Scott Horton Interviews Scott Ritter
Scott Ritter: Cheney’s Iran Policy Still Stands
A must listen : Scott Ritter, former U.S. Marine and
UN weapons inspector, discusses the new Iran NIE,
his admiration for Ron Paul and the need of the
American people to destroy the careers of their
warmonger representatives. Click to listen
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Rep. Ron Paul: Remarks on Violent Radicalization &
Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, HR 1955 :
Legislation such as this demands heavy-handed
governmental action against American citizens
where no crime has been committed. It is yet
another attack on our Constitutionally-protected
civil liberties. It is my sincere hope that we will
reject such approaches to security, which will fail
at their stated goal at a great cost to our way of life.
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The Planned Collapse of USA
By Peter Chamberlin.
We risk blowing the world apart, to avoid watching
America slowly choke on its own excesses. - The
government has known for decades that America
is on a countdown to self-destruction. Among the
elite it is common knowledge that our "global economy"
must one day collapse from its own dead weight. Continue
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When Is Bush Going to Come Clean?
By Paul Craig Roberts
Members of the right-wing Israeli government have
denounced the NIE finding as contrary to Israel’s
interests. Former Bush regime official John Bolton
accused America’s intelligence agencies with conspiring
to discredit President Bush with politicized intelligence.
Continue
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Cindy Sheehan: NIEs: Waste of Time?
By Cindy Sheehan
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims that BushCo
has known at the highest levels about this intelligence
for over a year, but they have all been beating their
evil drums of war against Iran, nevertheless. Continue
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QUOTE:
Bob Herbert: Spies Like You and Me
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QUOTE:
Patricia J. Williams: The Audacity of Oprah
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The Terror Within
By Angie Riedel
There is more terror here at home than there is anywhere
else in the industrial so-called civilized world.
Continue
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Bombed If You Do, Bombed If You Don't
By Ron Paul
The latest National Intelligence Estimate has been
greeted by a mixture of relief and alarm. As I have
been saying all along, Iran indeed poses no quantifiable
imminent nuclear threat to us or her neighbors. It is
with much alarm, however, that we see the administration
continue to ratchet up the war rhetoric as if nothing
has changed. Continue
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Will Liberty Succumb to Federalist Society Ideology?
By Paul Craig Roberts
The US Supreme Court has taken up the issue whether
the executive branch can detain people indefinitely
merely by declaring them to be suspected terrorists or
illegal enemy combatants. Continue
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Dershowitz on Waterboarding
A blatant expansion of state power
By Mike Whitney
An article by Dershowitz appeared on op-ed page
of the Wall Street Journal on Novemeber 7, 2007,
titled “Democrats and Waterboarding”. In that article
Dershowitz makes a spirited defense of waterboarding,
going so far as to say that (he believes) the Democrats
“will lose the presidential race if it defines itself as soft
on terror.” Continue
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The coming recession: Not an accident :
The downward slide triggered by belated recognition
of the subprime mortgage fiasco has a long way to
go – and it's going. Recession is certain, and, despite
the entire chorus of economists, bankers and government
officials to the contrary, a depression such as that
of the 1930s is possible.
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QUOTE:
Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert:
Morgan Stanley has issued a full recession alert for the
US economy, warning of a sharp slowdown in business
investment and a "perfect storm" for consumers as
the housing slump spreads.
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Fed Fails To Satisfy Wall Street:
In an attempt to stave off a U.S. recession, the Federal
Reserve cut interest rates to 4.25% Tuesday. Investors,
looking for an even bigger cut, dumped American stocks.
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White House, Press Spinning Iran’s Centrifuges
By Ray McGovern
Those who know about the centrifuges used to refine
uranium tell me they must spin at an almost unrivaled
velocity—almost unrivaled, because Bush administration
statements are being spun at equivalent speed by
White House and corporate media spiders. Without
Spinmeister Karl Rove and former spokesman Tony
Snow, it is amateur hour at the White House. Continue
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Trust is Dead
By Phil Hoskins
This experiment in government we like to call democracy
depends upon a certain level of trust, not only of
government and elected officials, but maybe more
importantly among the people themselves. After many
years under attack, we can now declare trust dead.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Paul Krugman: Henry Paulson's Priorities
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QUOTE:
Joshua Holland: The American Dream Is Aliveand Well ... in Finland!
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FUTURE IMPERFECT, PART III
BY TED RALL
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QUOTE:
A TYPICAL SCENE AT A THAI ROADSIDE VENDOR'S
STALL AS SHE TRIES TO SELL PRODUCE TO TOURISTS
& LOCALS ALIKE ON THE SHOULDER OF A MAIN
HIGHWAY.BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
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A WORLD OF INCIDENTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS:
TRULY AMAZING...! AND IT'S UPDATED EVERY
360SECONDS, I'VE BEEN TOLD. A REALLY PLEASANT
TREAT AND INTELLECTUAL JOURNEY.
TRY IT, YOU MIGHT LIKE IT.
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Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated
Daily
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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
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