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  • FINANCE-US: AIG’s Past Could Return To Haunt
    14 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    With nearly 80 percent of AIG stock the U.S. is in a unique position to investigate the internal operations of a giant corporation with a reputation for using the offshore system for tax evasion.
    By Lucy Komisar*
    NEW YORK, Dec 19 (IPS) - The U.S. will invest 40 billion dollars in American International Group (AIG), and will provide credit lines that could bring federal funding up to 144 billion dollars. It’s the largest subsidy that a U.S. corporation has ever received.
    In exchange, (…)

  • Usurpation -as-Genocide: ’Lawyers and Indians’
    13 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Indian goes into a law office and says,"since my traditional government never agreed by any treaty to be governed by your government, why does your legal system apply your government’s laws to me on my indigenous nation’s unceded national territory?"
    ’’...I have identified the stages by which this judicial abandonment of the truth standard in favour of judicially-backed political opportunism - the big lie - is the basis for the unconstitutional war and genocide upon which the empire of (…)

  • We Poke Along
    12 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    In May of 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7034 establishing the Works Projects Administration. The WPA replaced the Federal Emergency Relief Agency. You see, they didn’t have any cut-and-dried answers, they were in new territory and kept trying things until they got it right. The WPA only existed for eight years, but over the course of its life it employed a total of 8,500,000 people.
    Republicans called it a bastion for (…)

  • Obama’s Team of Reactionaries
    12 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obama’s Team of Reactionaries
    8 December 2008
    In recent weeks, numerous media accounts have referred to President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet selections as a "team of rivals." The reference is to a book of the same name by the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln’s choices for key cabinet posts after his victory in the 1860 election, when he confronted the secession crisis and then the Civil War. The media comparisons between Lincoln’s and Obama’s cabinets are specious, (…)

  • The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
    11 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians
    By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
    guardian Global Research, January 10, 2009
    (from “Tackling America’s Toughest Questions,” now at Amazon.com)
    As long ago as October 19, 2000, the then United Nations Human Rights Commission (now Council) condemned Israel for inflicting “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” upon the Palestinian people, most of whom are Muslims. The reader has a general idea of what a war crime is, (…)

  • The difficulty of being an informed American
    11 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The difficulty of being an informed American
    By Paul Craig Roberts Online Journal Contributing Writer Jan 9, 2009, 00:24
    The American print and TV media have never been very good. These days they are horrible. If a person intends to be informed, he must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites, to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to alternative newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A person who sits in front of Murdoch’s Fox “News” or CNN or who (…)

  • Congressman Kucinich on Floor of Congress - Slams Fed Reserve and Fractional Reserve! (VID)
    10 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
  • Happy Idiot
    9 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    Gee, I wish I could be a happy idiot. Just think, then nothing to worry about except whether Tom Cruise and his wife are going to have another baby or not. Gosh, life would be swell; it makes you wonder why Steinbeck wrote all those depressing stories about poor people. How could anyone sit through Hemingway’s story about an old fisherman and a fish when they could have been reading about who Clark Gable was dating?
    It really makes you wonder about this world, (…)

  • No Victors in the War on Dissent
    8 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Among the wars currently being fought by the American government is one in which there can be no winners. Our prior law enforcement experiences warn us that the “war on terrorism” has spawned an internal “war on dissent” in which everyone loses.
    Author William John Cox’s law enforcement career spanned 40 years, the early part of which was spent as a Los Angeles police officer and which included direct policing of both the riots and terrorist incidents in that city in the late 60’s to (…)

  • Connecting the Dots
    8 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    It seems I can’t even watch TV news anymore, it just makes me too angry, the cluelessness of the government. I voted for change, not a slight alteration but for change. I sit here in this tiny berg of Powder Springs and I ask myself, “Why is it that I can see these things and these highly-paid experts and analysts don’t?”
    I see an economy coming apart at the seams and the politicians of both parties are talking about it as if it’s some (…)