Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Authoritarian Totalitarianism via the Leviathan National Security State

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A must-read article from former NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake in The Guardian newspaper. Anyone who voted for Obama (or, before that, Geo...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Countervailing point of view

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Not content with scrapping the impartiality of the media, the Murdoch empire is taking on the English langauge : Kelvin MacKenzie, the forme...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Worth Remembering

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As Memorial Day weekend comes to a close in the States, here's someone whose words are both timely and truly worthy of consideration.
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Saturday, February 05, 2011

Is This Man The World's Jolliest Bond Villain...

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... or is he just happy to be speaking to the blondie reporter from CNBC? Whichever it is, his forecasts for things to come seem to belie h...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Dreams For Sale

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A good, if grim, documentary on the impact of the economic crisis and real estate bubble on one US community: Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Part...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Quick! Somebody call Alex Cox!

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There's a great cult film in this somewhere. Or possibly a horrible global tragedy. Take your pick.

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

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Tom Ricks has come up with that rare thing: a proposal that has something for everyone across the US political spectrum.
Monday, November 22, 2010

A Concise Analysis If Ever There Was One

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Bipartisanship Is Just Another Word For The Rich Ganging Up Against The Rest of Us

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Joseph Palermo in the Huffington Post tells it like it is .
Friday, November 19, 2010

Hedge Fund Republic

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The wealth disparities to be found between rich and poor in Latin America's banana republics no longer have anything on the extreme ineq...