On the Verge of Collapse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21
Is There an End in Sight in Afghanistan?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-6
What’s Wrong with Being the World’s Most Peaceful Country?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-1
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Obama is no Superman
AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
06/22/10
As the ecology in the Gulf circles the sticky tar drain of evolution, and countless livelihoods spanning at least four states going down with it, Americans are wondering where their Superman is. The disappointment that President Barack Obama seems stuck in the phone booth, still deciding whether to get his suit on, is nothing new. Those of us hoping for similar action in Afghanistan have been waiting for more than a year. Turns out that Obama doesn’t really do bold and heroic — it’s not his style — and he certainly doesn’t come off as decisive, unless he’s pushed. Where George Bush was ‘the decider,’ Obama seems to lead by committee, and not the kind of committee that gets things done...
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/06/21/obama-is-no-superman/
The Obama administration and its pundit-defenders
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
06/21/10
It really is hard to imagine many things worse, more criminal, than imprisoning people for years whom you know are innocent, while fighting in court to keep them imprisoned. But that’s exactly what the Obama administration is doing. … Of course, none of this is new for the Obama administration; it’s consistent with their course of conduct from the start. I highlight this today only because there is an obvious, concerted effort by a slew of Democratic Beltway pundits over the last month or so to attack the so-called ‘Left’ for daring to express displeasure with the Obama administration, and to demonize those objections as unserious, shrill, irrational, purist and all the other cliches long used by this same cadre of party apparatchiks for the same purpose...
http://tinyurl.com/2dewxz5
How the state causes collapse
New Kind of Mind
by Chris George
06/30/10
The State finances itself initially through the rent (taxes) it demands on its expansive land claim. But the State attracts those who would want to be part of it — who want to live off the production of others — and, despite its barriers to entry, it grows. If it were to not expand its scope while its size grew, people would likely become angry and revolt as a result of its increased tax burden. Therefore, to accommodate its growing size, it must expand its scope of control into other realms of the economy, perhaps by ‘nationalizing’ education or welfare services. In other words, the State removes control of the public goods from the public...
http://tinyurl.com/2flgbay
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Americans Are Barely Hanging on
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north858.html
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Will+Watterson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/north
Is There an End in Sight in Afghanistan?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-6
What’s Wrong with Being the World’s Most Peaceful Country?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-1
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Obama is no Superman
AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
06/22/10
As the ecology in the Gulf circles the sticky tar drain of evolution, and countless livelihoods spanning at least four states going down with it, Americans are wondering where their Superman is. The disappointment that President Barack Obama seems stuck in the phone booth, still deciding whether to get his suit on, is nothing new. Those of us hoping for similar action in Afghanistan have been waiting for more than a year. Turns out that Obama doesn’t really do bold and heroic — it’s not his style — and he certainly doesn’t come off as decisive, unless he’s pushed. Where George Bush was ‘the decider,’ Obama seems to lead by committee, and not the kind of committee that gets things done...
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/06/21/obama-is-no-superman/
The Obama administration and its pundit-defenders
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
06/21/10
It really is hard to imagine many things worse, more criminal, than imprisoning people for years whom you know are innocent, while fighting in court to keep them imprisoned. But that’s exactly what the Obama administration is doing. … Of course, none of this is new for the Obama administration; it’s consistent with their course of conduct from the start. I highlight this today only because there is an obvious, concerted effort by a slew of Democratic Beltway pundits over the last month or so to attack the so-called ‘Left’ for daring to express displeasure with the Obama administration, and to demonize those objections as unserious, shrill, irrational, purist and all the other cliches long used by this same cadre of party apparatchiks for the same purpose...
http://tinyurl.com/2dewxz5
How the state causes collapse
New Kind of Mind
by Chris George
06/30/10
The State finances itself initially through the rent (taxes) it demands on its expansive land claim. But the State attracts those who would want to be part of it — who want to live off the production of others — and, despite its barriers to entry, it grows. If it were to not expand its scope while its size grew, people would likely become angry and revolt as a result of its increased tax burden. Therefore, to accommodate its growing size, it must expand its scope of control into other realms of the economy, perhaps by ‘nationalizing’ education or welfare services. In other words, the State removes control of the public goods from the public...
http://tinyurl.com/2flgbay
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Americans Are Barely Hanging on
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north858.html
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Will+Watterson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/north
rudkla - 22. Jun, 06:14
