The transformational event of our century
rudkla - 5. Jun, 23:34
Monday, 5. June 2006
Saddam: America's Best Enemy
Video
Historical account of the relationship between America and Saddam Hussein. Reveals the complicity of America in Saddam's atrocities. Forty years of secrets, incomprehension and incompetence led to the occupation of Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13512.htm
Historical account of the relationship between America and Saddam Hussein. Reveals the complicity of America in Saddam's atrocities. Forty years of secrets, incomprehension and incompetence led to the occupation of Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13512.htm
rudkla - 5. Jun, 22:43
The Media’s Footprints
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13510.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha
rudkla - 5. Jun, 22:30
Reward for the Hereditary Elite
"People often remark on the perversity of popular support for estate-tax repeal. A majority wants to abolish the tax, even though only the richest 2 percent of households have ever had to pay it. Sabastian Mallaby writes, "Yet this shoot-your-own-foot weirdness is easily explained: Most people just don't know that, under the law's current provisions, a couple can bequeath $4 million without paying a penny to the government."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506P.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506P.shtml
rudkla - 5. Jun, 22:23
The largest foreign US military base built since Vietnam
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506J.shtml
Supporting Our Troops Over a Cliff
"We can't pretend we don't know this is happening. It's happening in broad daylight. We know that 'as the Iraqis stand up, we'll stand down' is fiction, not reality." Frank Rich writes, "We know from the Pentagon's own report to Congress last week that attacks on Americans and Iraqis alike are at their highest since American commanders started keeping count in 2004. We know that even as coalition partners like Italy and South Korea bail out, we are planning an indefinite stay of undefined parameters: the 104-acre embassy complex rising in the Green Zone is the largest in the world, and the Decider himself has said that it's up to "future presidents and future governments of Iraq" to decide our exit strategy.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506L.shtml
Supporting Our Troops Over a Cliff
"We can't pretend we don't know this is happening. It's happening in broad daylight. We know that 'as the Iraqis stand up, we'll stand down' is fiction, not reality." Frank Rich writes, "We know from the Pentagon's own report to Congress last week that attacks on Americans and Iraqis alike are at their highest since American commanders started keeping count in 2004. We know that even as coalition partners like Italy and South Korea bail out, we are planning an indefinite stay of undefined parameters: the 104-acre embassy complex rising in the Green Zone is the largest in the world, and the Decider himself has said that it's up to "future presidents and future governments of Iraq" to decide our exit strategy.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506L.shtml
rudkla - 5. Jun, 22:16
Couch time for America
rudkla - 5. Jun, 19:41
The Governmental Habit Redux
The governmental habit
Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman
06/02/06
In 1977 the late economic historian Jonathan R. T. Hughes published a book called The Governmental Habit (updated in 1991 as The Governmental Habit Redux). It showed how pervasive government intervention in the economy has been since colonial times. The title captures an important phenomenon. People are in the habit of looking to government -- the only agency that may legally wield or threaten force against non-aggressors -- to get what they want. While earlier generations of Americans were hesitant to ask the local, state, or national government to do certain things (although perhaps not as hesitant as we thought), few modern Americans have any such scruples...
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=519
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Terrorism: Made in the U.S.A.
By Sheldon Richman
It's a perilous world, as our so-called leaders love to remind us. And for a change they're right. It is a perilous world. But guess who is most responsible for the peril to Americans? Those very same "leaders" and a long line of predecessors.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25700.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman
06/02/06
In 1977 the late economic historian Jonathan R. T. Hughes published a book called The Governmental Habit (updated in 1991 as The Governmental Habit Redux). It showed how pervasive government intervention in the economy has been since colonial times. The title captures an important phenomenon. People are in the habit of looking to government -- the only agency that may legally wield or threaten force against non-aggressors -- to get what they want. While earlier generations of Americans were hesitant to ask the local, state, or national government to do certain things (although perhaps not as hesitant as we thought), few modern Americans have any such scruples...
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=519
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Terrorism: Made in the U.S.A.
By Sheldon Richman
It's a perilous world, as our so-called leaders love to remind us. And for a change they're right. It is a perilous world. But guess who is most responsible for the peril to Americans? Those very same "leaders" and a long line of predecessors.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25700.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
rudkla - 5. Jun, 18:18
