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Saving the rich and losing the economy
by Paul Craig Roberts
Economic policy in the United States and Europe has failed, and people are suffering.
Economic policy failed for three reasons: 1. policymakers focused on enabling offshoring corporations to move middle class jobs, and the consumer demand, tax base, GDP, and careers associated with the jobs, to foreign countries, such as China and India, where labor is inexpensive; 2. policymakers permitted financial deregulation that (…)

An America That’s Never Wrong
Americans won’t like this. Practically everyone else will: Americans simply can never admit they were wrong. “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” –Arthur Schopenhauer by Paul Balles Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. –James Bryce Americans won’t like this. Practically everyone else will: Americans simply can never admit they (…)

America’s Weak Jobs Report by Stephen Lendman
ABC News quoted an unnamed White House spokesperson, saying the November jobs report provides "further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal."
Obama’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Alan Krueger hyped the 0.4% unemployment rate drop to 8.6%, "the lowest (figure) since March 2009." He didn’t explain why. More on that below, including the real unreported employment rate.
The New York Times tried having it both ways. (…)

Israel’s grand hypocrisy Netanyahu slams ‘anti-liberal’ Arab Spring
by Jonathan Cook Global Research, December 1, 2011
As protests raged again across the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, offered his assessment of the Arab Spring last week. It was, he said, an “Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave”, adding that Israel’s Arab neighbours were “moving not forwards, but backwards”. It takes some chutzpah – or, at least, epic (…)

Pentagon Chief: ‘Israel is being isolated’
Posted on December 3, 2011
On December 2, 2011 – US Defense Secretary, Israel-Firster Leon Panetta addressed an annual gathering of the US-Israeli officials and policymakers organized by the Jewish think tank Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. He told the gathering how the current political changes in the Muslim world are going to effect the Zionist entity in the near future and in the long run. Watch video here.
Panetta was (…)

Britain will go bankrupt - learn Chinese and move to China, says investment guru
When asked his advice for a young person growing up in Britain, Jim Rogers, former partner of George Soros and one of the world’s most successful investors, is forthright. "Move to China; learn Chinese."
Mr Rogers warns that Britain will go bankrupt if the Government continues to follow its present policy of attempting to save the banks through subsidy and nationalisation.
He has sold all his sterling (…)

“Muddy Spirituality. Bringing it all back down to earth” by Jon Owen (UNOH, Melbourne 2011) is an inspiring book by an inspiring young Indian Australian who works among the poor and marginalised people of the needy suburbs of Melbourne and Western Sydney. The important message of the book to all people whether theists, atheists or agnostics is effective service to our fellow man through empathy, cohabitation and practical assistance.
I am an agnostic, humanist scientist but I am also a (…)

NATO recently literally shot itself in the foot, imperiling the resupply of International Assistance Forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan by shooting up two Pakistani border posts in a “hot pursuit’ raid.
Given that roughly 100 fuel tanker trucks along with 200 other trucks loaded with NATO supplies cross into Afghanistan each day from Pakistan, Pakistan’s closure of the border has ominous long-term consequences for the logistical resupply of ISAF forces, even as Pentagon officials downplay the (…)

Has the First Amendment expired in your public square? Has your local park prioritized empty vistas over the right to petition your government for a redress of grievances, thereby adding one more grievance to the list?
Here’s a proposal. Pack up all of your grievances in a bag and bring them to where the government responsible is located. Move your protest and yourself and as much of your Occupy community as you can bring with you to Freedom Plaza — http://occupywashingtondc.org — or (…)

Unification of the Tea Party and Occupy movements for a common goal – a Voters’ Rights Amendment – will reestablish the United States as a democratic republic and will restore control of its government to the voters.
Although the corporate and wealthy elite is doing everything in its power, primarily through its mouthpiece – the mainstream media, to convince Occupiers and Tea Partiers that each is an enemy of the other, it is becoming increasingly clear that the two groups have much in (…)