Truthout
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Juan Cole on the Vulnerability of the Network
There is much that is valuable in Mike Lofgren's explication of vast network of unaccountable governmental and private institutions, which he calls the “Deep State.”
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Andrew Bacevich on Washington’s Tacit Consensus
What words best describe present-day Washington politics? “Tacit consensus,” would be a good start.
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Heidi Boghosian on Mass Surveillance
Mike Lofgren's exceptional essay, “Anatomy of the Deep State,” delivers the roadmap that bewildered Americans need to navigate the past year's glut of news about mass surveillance.
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Danielle Brian on Legalized Corruption
Mike Lofgren shines a light on the secret web of influence-peddling that spreads far and wide beneath the surface of our democracy in his essay on what he calls …
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Thailand and Shinawatra: Errors, Omissions From the Left
People in the Western world are being fed lies about the reasons for the demonstrations in Thailand.
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Zen Over Zinn: Avoiding Unpleasant Truths With David Brooks
Letu2019s cut through Times columnist David Brooks' truth avoidance about the death of the American Dream.
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Tim Wu on the Partisan Sideshow and Silicon Valley
"I think Mike Lofgren is right that much of what the United States does of importance is unseen by the public and has only the most tangential relationship with …
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The Translator
The United States destroyed Iraq. Let an Iraqi be heard.
ODNR The Truth Revealed: Ohio Agency Selected By the State Legislature to Regulate Drilling Actually Promoting Drilling… Not So Surprising to All
“With 90 wells in a 13-square mile residential community, residents in my hometown of Broadview Heights, OH, learned several years ago that the ODNR was not on our side.”
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A New Neocon Push for Syrian War
The neocon agenda of “regime change” in disfavored countries continues unabated with new pressure for a US military intervention in Syria, billed as “humanitarian” and coupled with ridicule for …