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  • The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: $3 Trillion
    3 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: $3 Trillion
    By Thomas R. Stauffer
    Conflicts in the Middle East have been very costly to the U.S., as well as to the rest of the world. An estimate of the total cost to the U.S. alone of instability and conflict in the region?which emanates from the core, Israeli-Palestinian conflict?amounts to close to $3 trillion, measured in 2002 dollars...
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  • Where Bush’s Arrogance Has Taken US
    3 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Where Bush’s Arrogance Has Taken US
    By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted August 23, 2006.
    An illegal war, a long list of eroded rights, and a country run by and for the benefit of corporate campaign donors — all courtesy of the imperial presidency.
    During his gubernatorial days in Texas, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into his political soul. In hindsight, it should’ve been loudly broadcast all across our land so people could’ve (…)

  • The negative return economy: a discourse on America’s black budget
    3 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The negative return economy: a discourse on America’s black budget
    "The American corporate insider has the lowest cost of capital on the planet. When you can combine US Treasury securities with fiat currency with organized crime profits and leverage that in the stock market, then you can in essence make money for free...." — Catherine Austin Fitts
    By Chris Sanders and Catherine Austin Fitts *(Also published World Affairs, Journal of International Issues )
    Keep the people frightened Of (…)

  • America now is Germany then: Analogies
    3 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    America now is Germany then: Analogies
    The German people of the late 1930s imagined themselves to be brave. They saw themselves as the heroic Germans depicted by the Wagnerian Operas, the descendants of the fierce Germanic warriors who had hunted wild boar with nothing but spears and who had defeated three of Rome’s mightiest legions in the Tuetenberg Forest.
    But in truth, by the 1930s, the German people had become civilized and tamed, culturally obsessed with fine details in both (…)

  • Senators put secret hold on anti-corruption bill - Call for action
    3 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (cross-posted with permission from Daily Kos diarist Deep Harm_
    Several senators reportedly are using "secret holds" to block passage of anti-corruption legislation that activists, concerned citizens and more enlightened members of Congress have been working for eight years to pass into law. The identities of the stonewallers are uncertain, but suspects include eight Republicans and the Senate Minority Leader (names provided below the fold.
    A bipartisan group of Senate offices has agreed (…)

  • The American Republic broadcast of State of the Union Address
    2 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The official youtube broadcast of the American Republic State of the Union Address and the release of the American Republic policy platform will be announced after the elections of November 4, 2008.
    This no doubt will be an historic event, ushering in a new era of government for America. Americans will finally after 200 years be able to make an honest choice based on true and honest promise. Resolve will be the order of business for America of its differences, ignorance, prejudices and (…)

  • Grand Theft America by Stephen Lendman
    2 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.globalresearch.ca
    Grand Theft America Financial Crime of the Century
    The crime of the century. The greatest one ever. Author Danny Schechter calls it "Plunder." The title of his important new book on the subprime and overall financial crisis. Economist Michael Hudson and others refer to a kleptocracy. A Ponzi scheme writ large. Maybe an out-of-control Andromeda Strain. An economic one. Deadly. Unrecallable. Science fiction now real life. Potentially catastrophic. World (…)

  • Short-selling:A major cause of market volatility by Martin Khor
    2 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research September 30, 2008 Business Daily Africa 2008-09-29
    September 29, 2008: Among the financial methods that have been used to dangerous effect in the current global financial crisis has been “short selling”, a favourite and routine practice of speculators to make quick profits by targeting vulnerable companies and institutions.
    It is ironic that the huge Wall Street investment banks as well as commercial banks such as HBOS were among the victims of the speculators who used (…)

  • Video: 9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon
    2 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Video: 9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon
    HERE IS THE VIDEO OF RUMSFELD ANNOUNCING THE MISSING TRILLIONS ON SEPT. 10, 2001 (IF ANYONE WANTS TO SEE OR SAVE IT : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4G...)

  • The World You’ll Come to Know
    1 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    I was talking to my son yesterday about the economy and politics in general. He’s twenty-three, self-employed, and ambitious. Even as a child he was ambitious. “Dad,” he’d say, “can I borrow the lawnmower?” Then he’d come back at sundown with $150.00. He never cared for cartoons, video games, or school but his one weakness was the Three Stooges, the originals with Curly not Shemp. He was a purist and Shemp was no Curly, just as Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy.
    But as we (…)