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• Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping Program

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 519
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Nov. 23, 2009Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill Reveals Private Military Firm Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping ProgramIn an explosive new article in The Nation magazine, investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy ...
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• Rand Paul = neocon

  
  disinter — Authority: 417
  Rand Paul may be Ron Paul’s son, but he is definitely no Ron Paul. A recent press release reveals the truth about this neocon: Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United ...
  1 week ago

• Economic News & Analysis From The Fringe: Lessons from history, thinking outside the box and doing things differently

  
  Hope2012 — Authority: 121
  FDIC to require banks to prepay $45 billion to cover failures  - Washington Post 11/13/09 US monetary system: Robber Baron-era design makes US debt peons forever. You knew that, right?  - Examiner 11/13/09 Nine states suffer Californian fiscal disease  - Financial Times 11/11/09 Arizona, Florida, Illinois, ...
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• Why U.S. occupation cannot transform Afghanistan or Iraq By Sara Flounders

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 519
  Dandelion SaladBy Sara Floundershttp://www.workers.orgNov 15, 2009Just how powerful is the U.S. military today?Why is the largest military machine on the planet unable to defeat the resistance in Afghanistan, in a war that has lasted longer than World War II or Vietnam?Afghanistan ranks among the poorest and most ...
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• Rockers First Advertisement

  
  Rock The Truth — Authority: 133
  It was unavoidable. There is no job (save for this frustration) and no income. I had no choice. Im not expecting big money or anything; to just get by would be enough for me. So here it is, readers. You can decide for yourself whether you like the products or services. You will now "interpret it, thats your ...
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• Palins Coming Out Party, The Spoils of War, Death To Webusers!

  
  Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — Authority: 129
  Paul Krugman Fareed Zakaria Geoffrey Dunn "I don’t begrudge Mr. Obama the banquets and the photo ops; they’re part of his job. But behind the scenes he better be warning the Chinese that they’re playing a dangerous game."  - Paul Krugman "Were going to put together a list of all the people thinking ...
  2 weeks ago

• All this War in Iraq Finally Pays Off

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 514
  News Item: ExxonMobil wins contract to drill for Iraqi oil . Victory!
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• As US Ambassador Casts Doubt on Troop Increase in Afghanistan, New Report Reveals US Indirectly Funding the Taliban

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 519
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Nov. 12, 2009As US Ambassador Casts Doubt on Troop Increase in Afghanistan, New Report Reveals US Indirectly Funding the TalibanIn a last-minute dissent ahead of a critical war cabinet meeting on escalating the Afghan war, US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry has cast doubt on a troop escalation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blackwater Bribed Iraqi Government Officials!

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 519
  Dandelion SaladMoxNewsDotComNovember 10, 2009http://MOXNews.com/November 10, 2009 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show more about “BLACKWATER BRIBED IRAQI GOVERNMENT OF…“, posted with vodpod***Blackwater Said to Approve $1 Million in Iraqi Bribes After Shootings By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISENNYTimes.comNovember 10, ...
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• Blackwaters Scumbaggery... Again...

  
  Monkeyfister — Authority: 129
  Cute! via New York Times WASHINGTON — Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians ...
  2 weeks ago

• War Is A Racket...

  
  Monkeyfister — Authority: 129
  It always will be. Case in point: via Think Progress Senior Bush administration figures including Zalmay Khalilzad, former US ambassador to Baghdad, and Jay Garner, the retired general who led reconstruction efforts immediately after the war, are leading a new business push into Iraq. The two one-time ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tennessee Senators Attempt to Explain Their Vote Against the Working Man

  
  Liberadio(!) — Authority: 468
  Tennessee Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker make an appearance in the Tennessean this morning in which they attempt to explain their vote against an amendment to a Defense Appropriations bill that would let corporate plunderers off the hook for rape. The amendment, introduced by Senator Al Franken, would deny ...
  3 weeks ago

• Afghanistan’s Sham Army by Chris Hedges

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  "The American military has been largely privatized, although Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has still recommended a 40,000-troop increase. The Army’s basic functions have been outsourced to no-bid contractors. What was once done by the military with concern for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Afghanistan’s Sham Army by Chris Hedges

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 519
  by Chris HedgesFeatured WriterDandelion SaladTruthdigNov. 9, 2009Success in Afghanistan is measured in Washington by the ability to create an indigenous army that will battle the Taliban, provide security and stability for Afghan civilians and remain loyal to the puppet government of Hamid Karzai. A similar task ...
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• Twenty Years After End Of The Cold War: Pentagon’s Buildup In Latin America by Rick Rozoff

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 519
  by Rick RozoffFeatured WriterDandelion SaladStop NATOhttp://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/stop-nato/4 November, 2009This year began with Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, visiting Colombia in mid-January and meeting with that nation’s defense minister and top military ...
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• U.K. court says global warming is religion, not science

  
  disinter — Authority: 417
  BBC reports : Essentially what the judgment says is that a belief in man-made climate change and the alleged resulting moral imperative is capable of being a philosophical belief and is therefore protected by the 2003 religion or belief regulations. Cult leader Al Gore appears to agree : “I’ve done a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reuters article cites changes in health care reform bills as evidence activists are prevailing despite insurance industry lobbyists

  
  Audacity — Authority: 112
  For-profit insurance is unique to the U.S. health care system. No other developed country has a profit motive warping the payment of health care, driving up costs. That’s arguably the key reason Americans spend a much higher share income on health care, and why small business owners shoulder a greater share of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• HEBREWNOMICS — Arcadi Gaydamak

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 122
  The rootless cosmopolitan Arcadi Gaydamak — who is originally from Russia but has also lived in Israel, France, and elswehere — is a prominent international Jewish billionaire who made a lot of his money via exploiting the half-collapsed Russian/Eastern European economy after the USSR fell apart, illegal ...
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• HEBREWNOMICS — A New Series

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 122
  In future posts I will be examining the highly exploitative HEBREWNOMIC system which has taken over the USA by exposing Jewish white-collar criminals , Jewish economic terrorists , Jewish economic rapists , Jewish economic vampires , and those Jews who have committed or are still committing economic crimes ...
  4 weeks ago

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