Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class
James Petras The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25… more »
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Private Contractors Making a Killing off the Drug War
By Cyril Mychalejko As tens of thousands of corpses continue to pile up as a result of the US-led "War on Drugs" in Latin America, private contractors are benefiting from lucrative federal counternarcotics contracts amounting to billions of dollars,… more »
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Military Commissions Will Try 9/11 Suspects
by Stephen Lendman On April 4, New York Times writer Charlie Savage headlined, "In a Reversal, Military Trials for 9/11 Cases," saying: After months of indecision, the Obama administration "will prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) and four other… more »
Ivory Coast and Bretton Woods: Soros’s spectre
A man, a plan -- a new Ivory Coast. Eric Walberg looks at the rationale behind the Western intervention Few around the world watching the drama unfolding in Ivory Coast rout for the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, who to his credit held reasonably… more »
A Hawk Reappraises the Afghan War
Bing West's "The Wrong War" By BRIAN M. DOWNING Bing West, a marine veteran and assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, has written extensively on American soldiers in various wars from the Vietnam War, in which he served, to… more »
Things the President Left Out of His Big Speech
Michael Collins I just read the presidents big speech tonight and it struck me. There were some key lines left out of the speech. You may have had the same response. For the sake of clarity and fairness, I've tried to reconstruct the missing lines. I'm… more »
Tags: afghanistan, congress, depression, iraq, middle class, obama, recession, speech, war, war crime, white house
The Maxine Waters Investigation: What is Iran Doing in this Picture?
By Katherine Smith PhD The timing of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee, which on August 2, 2010 formally brought a case against Congresswoman Maxine Waters, one of America’s most enduring liberal and fierce Anti War politicians, and the… more »
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Gone but not forgotten -- the bin Laden revival tour
Dead man walking, with assistance "I think now, frankly, he is dead for the reason he is a ... kidney patient," Gen. Pervez Musharraf said on Friday in an interview with CNN. Musharraf said Pakistan knew bin Laden took two dialysis machines into… more »
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