The Military-Industrial Complex: It’s Much Later Than You Th
July 31, 2008, 4:53 am
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Since 1961, there has been too little serious study of, or discussion of, the origins of the military-industrial complex, how it has changed over time, how governmental secrecy has hidden it from oversight by members of Congress or attentive citizens, and how it degrades our constitutional structure of checks and balances.

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FBI Admits It Has No Hard Evidence Against Bin Laden for 911
July 31, 2008, 4:11 am
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Osama Bin Laden is not wanted for 911 on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. On June 5/06 The Muckraker Report contacted FBI headquarters to learn why the FBI doesn’t want Bin Laden for 911. Rex Tomb, the FBI’s Chief of Investigative Publicity, admitted the FBI “has no hard evidence” against Bin Laden connecting him to 911. Where is the media on this?

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Joe Klein vs. the Chickenhawk Neo-cons And Klein Wins
July 31, 2008, 3:35 am
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Last month I wrote about how the right-wing fake-friends of Israel in American Jewry were coming after Joe Klein — a member of the Tribe — for saying something that all of us DC Jews acknowledge to be true, which is that a bunch of our neocon co-religionists, out of ignorance or mendacity, seek to steer American policy in the direction of a …

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The Sixth Extinction Is Underway
July 30, 2008, 3:03 pm
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More than a decade ago, scientists claimed that humans were demonstrating a capacity to force a global catastrophe that would lead to a shift in climate, an intolerable destruction of natural habitats, and an extinction event that could eliminate 50% of all living species by the middle of the 21st century. Now those predictions are coming true.

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10 signs that the End of Democracy is near
July 30, 2008, 1:56 am
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Don’t worry. This won’t hurt a bit. It’s called “Continuity of Government” and ensures the survival of the U.S. in the case of a crisis. Now all we need is a crisis…

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Setting Our Sites Much Higher Than Obama
July 30, 2008, 1:27 am
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Among progressives, there are basically two categories of Barack Obama supporters.
The first consists of those who-for a variety of reasons, and coming from a variety of perspectives-deeply believe in his message of “change” and “progress.”

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Iraq War Explained By Noam Chomsky (Full video)
July 30, 2008, 12:04 am
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Noam Chomsky tells how bin Laden is “winning” and how America is destroying democracy around the world. Watch it, and face the truth.

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Broken Glass Everywhere
July 29, 2008, 3:00 pm
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Many in the media and elsewhere still fall prey to the broken window fallacy and fail to realize that obvious economic truth that “destroying resources makes societies poorer, not richer.”

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Caterpillar Fashion: Terrorism by Bulldozer Begun by IDF
July 29, 2008, 2:16 pm
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The bulldozer as a destructive and even lethal weapon was not invented by the Palestinians. They are merely imitating an Israeli “fashion” that is as old as the state, or at least as old as the occupation.

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B. Fein & Jane Hamsher; Impeachment, War on terror, FISA
July 29, 2008, 8:10 am
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An hour long discussion between constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein and Jane Hamsher on the Bush administration and the Democrats in Congress who have responded very weakly. Interesting question: do we need a second revolution?? (Madison quoted on “liberty” during a time of war…)

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