Saturday, March 27, 2010

PPPs - Partnership or Plunder?

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by Dexter Whitfield from New Left Project [Britain]. The author lifts the veil from some privatization schemes to reveal the realities of pu...

Jamie Oliver Turns the Spotlight On Our Own Homegrown Heroes

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from Civil Eats.  The series kicks off with Oliver bounding into town like an impudent puppy, tussling with the school cafeteria cooks an...

An Unaccustomed Truth: American Commander Admits Afghan Atrocities

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by Chris Floyd from his blog, Empire Burlesque. He finds in the NY Times a rare and astounding admission by a US General appointed by the No...

U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Opium in Afghan Town

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from the NY Times. Another astounding admission reported by this source--the US military protects the illicit drug industry in Afghanistan (...

Comparing Military Spending

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from the Cato Institute. See the data that this libertarian think tank furnishes regarding military expenditures of the US compared with oth...

Time out (click on cartoon to enlarge)

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CIA report into shoring up Afghan war support in Western Europe

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from WikiLeaks. There is a growing concern among the rulers of The Empire that people in Europe are increasingly in opposition to their coun...

Letters to Jackie, But What About Jack? How to Avoid the Heart of the JFK Assassination

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by Russ Baker from Who, What, Why. One of US's best investigative journalists looks at the way mainstream media manages news connected w...

JPMorgan, Lehman, UBS Named in Bid-Rigging Conspiracy

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from Bloomberg. Is your town, country, and state slashing their budget by cutting back on medical and mental health service to the poor, sch...
Friday, March 26, 2010

'Even War Is Good for Economic Growth'

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an interview with Noreena Hertz from Der Spiegel. It surprised me to see this article posted until I realized that the interviewee was only ...

Congress Launches Investigation Into Gas Drilling Practices

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from Pro Publica.  Two of the largest companies involved in natural gas drilling have acknowledged pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons...

Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile: The Militarization of Natural Disasters

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from Americas Program Report. I got a warning from Norton about this site being unsafe. Well, it is not true. But, if you are still worried ...

Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It

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by Paul Craig Roberts from ICH. This former member of the Washington establishment has discovered what happens when one doesn't follow t...

Time out (click on cartoon to enlarge)

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The Collapse of Journalism/The Journalism of Collapse: New Storytelling and a New Story

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by Robert Jensen from Dissident Voice.  There is considerable attention paid in the United States to the collapse of journalism — both in t...

We need a jailout, not just a bailout

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by Danny Schechter, originally from Media Channel but carried on Creative-i. ...it’s shady business as usual with more businesses going out...

Hundreds of thousands about to lose unemployment benefits

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from The Economic Populist.  There is no stopping it this time. Last month Senator Jim Bunning created a stir with his stand against ex...

The perfect crime

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by Chan Akya from Asia Times Online. The article refers to the rating agencies who have gotten away with "the perfect crime".  And...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

The Pentagon church and the people

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by William J. Astore from Asia Times Online. He makes an excellent point when he writes: When it comes to the United States' military a...

Obama squeezed between Israel and Iran

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online. More political theater in Washington. This "crisis" between Tel Aviv and Washington is a ...