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McChrystal Doesnt Get It - Does Obama? »
Posted by: hyperbola 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
There is a curious phenomenon taking place in the American media at the moment: the lionization of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the American military commander in ...
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Why Not Cut Military Spending? »
Posted by: hyperbola 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
While it is shocking for anyone on television to admit that the military costs money, the public knows it. And when the public sees the ...
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Antiwar Radio: Scott Horton Interviews Noam Chomsky »
Posted by: populist 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Noam Chomsky, author of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, discusses the roots of U.S. imperialism, the often overlooked opportunity costs ...
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Obama and The Evil Empire »
Posted by: hyperbola 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of ...
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Victory at Last! »
Posted by: hyperbola 3 weeks, 2 days ago in Political Opinion
It’s been a long time coming, but finally American war commanders have effectively marshaled their forces, netcentrically outmaneuvering and outflanking the enemy. They have ...
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Home of the Barricaded, Land of the Fraid »
Posted by: hyperbola 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
There are few statistics as stunning as the following simple, single number: The United States spends two times more on its military than all the ...
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Obama Gathering a Flock of Hawks to Oversee U.S. Foreign Policy »
Posted by: hyperbola 11 months ago in Political News
The majority of people appointed to key foreign policy positions by Obama, like those in comparable positions in the Bush administration, appear to be more ...
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Ron Paul on CNN - 08/28 »
Posted by: Stringcheese 1 year, 4 months ago in News
Ron Paul discusses the Fed and US imperialism.
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U.S. Dependence On Afghan Warlords »
Posted by: hyperbola 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll ...
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Dick Cheney: We tortured to justify war »
Posted by: hyperbola 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking ...
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Did the US Learn Anything in Iraq? »
Posted by: hyperbola 10 months ago in Political News
President Obama is likely to announce in the coming days that he will withdraw all US combat troops from Iraq by August 2010. Many of ...
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Chiquita, Latin America, Honduras and Military Coups »
Posted by: hyperbola 5 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya two weeks ago there might have been a sigh of relief in the ...
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America Owned by Its Army »
Posted by: hyperbola 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress. The nation now confronts a ...
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Why the Afghan Surge Will Fail »
Posted by: hyperbola 1 month, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Before the Obama administration buys into General Stanley McChrystal's escalation strategy, it might spend some time examining the August 12 battle of Dananeh, a ...
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Obama - The Placebo President »
Posted by: hyperbola 5 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Many times during the Bush/Cheney co-presidency of illegalities, I would hear remarks from any number of friends. The comments were like these:
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