Tuesday, February 19, 2008

A PROFOUND AND STIRRING ESSAY BY MANUEL VALENZUELA, AND IT HURTS, LET ME TELL YAH: THE TRUTH THAT IS...

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Crusade of Surge and Siege

Homeland Born and Bred

By Manuel Valenzuela

What patriots used to call the United States of
America, now named, simply, and appropriately,
Amerika, a place where corporations enjoy more
rights and protections than the People, where
corporations – through their products and
policies – help kill hundreds of thousands of
human beings every year in the name of profit
over people. Continue

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Paying Insurgents Not to Fight

By Paul Craig Roberts

It is impossible to keep up with all the Bush regime’s
lies. There are simply too many. Among the recent
crop, one of the biggest is that the “surge” is working.
Continue

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Time to Retire America's Failed Cuba Policy

By Sarah Stephens

Fidel Castro has announced his retirement. He will be
replaced in a peaceful succession, without the violent
upheaval that U.S. policy makers have been predicting
since the 1960s. Continue

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Slouching Towards Petroeurostan

By Pepe Escobar

It was a discreet, almost hush hush affair, but after
almost three years of stalling and endless delays, it
finally happened. Now more than ever, it may also
signal a true geoeconomic earthquake – way beyond
a potentially shattering blow to US dollar hegemony.
Continue

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What Do We Stand For?

By Paul Craig Roberts

Do we Americans have any honor, any humanity,
any integrity, any awareness of the crimes our
government is committing in our name? Do we
have a moral conscience? Continue

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The Dumbing Of America

Call Me a Snob, but Really, We're a Nation of Dunces

By Susan Jacoby

This is the last subject that any candidate would
dare raise on the long and winding road to the
White House. It is almost impossible to talk about
the manner in which public ignorance contributes
to grave national problems without being labeled
an "elitist," one of the most powerful pejoratives
that can be applied to anyone aspiring to high office.
Continue

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"The Dirty Little Secret Everyone In Washington Knows."

10 Minute Video

David Walker, comptroller general of the U.S.,
totaled up our government's income, liabilities and
uture obligations. He concluded the numbers don't
add up. Continue

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Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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