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How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate “Killing Machine“
Gen. Stanley McChrystal describes his strategy going forward in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced he will increase the US troop presence by 30,000 beginning in early 2010. (Photo: …
The Terrible Post-9/11 Truth: Our Government’s Been Hijacked
Democracy has been commandeered by a self-interested gang. About a year after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, I visited Oklahoma City and went to …
Wages of Fear: Lockdowns and the IMF on Occupied Wall Street
I walked around lower Manhattan for a long time last Friday looking for the #OccupyWallStreet protests. It was an experiment: Had Mayor Bloomberg and the forces of “security” hidden …
The Corporate Takeover of the 2012 Presidential Election
The unregulated energy hucksters behind the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago created an array of dummy financial funds to evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise …
Beyond Troy Davis: How Race Colors Death Row “Justice“
The state of Georgia ignored a mountain of evidence and killed Troy Davis on Wednesday night. But the movement that grew out of the effort to save his life …
The West and the Rest in a One-Model-Fits-All World
More than 10 years ago, before 9/11, Goldman Sachs was predicting that the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) would make the world economy’s top ten — but not …
Mahmoud Abbas, the Jackie Robinson of Palestine
Upon his return from New York, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority is welcomed home by a crowd of cheering Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah, …
Why Don’t the Deficit Hawks Want to Tax Wall Street?
Wall Street, New York City. (Photo: Manu_H) The intensity with which the country's leading deficit hawks continue to ignore financial speculation taxes (FST) is getting ever more …
Rethinking the TSA: No Longer Accepting Police Repression in Exchange for Safety
TSA conducting random spot checks at the gates in Fort Lauderdale. (Photo: steuben) Google “TSA stupidity” and you will find that almost one and a half million …
Rick Perry, Pay-for-Play Jailer
Governor Rick Perry of Texas at a book signing at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Given what we know about Gov. …