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by Justin Raimondo

11/18/09

While our factories have long since moved abroad, where wages are lower and regulation is lax, and our crippled industries are in Dr. Obama’s economic intensive care unit, on life support and awaiting last rites, America’s number-one export — representing, by far, our single largest capital investment — is our overseas military presence. What Chalmers Johnson referred to as our ‘empire of bases’ is the framework of an international economic system in which the division of labor is roughly as follows: while Asia is the factory of the world, South America the farmland, and Europe increasingly a theme park/museum, the U.S. role is that of world gendarme...

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Die große Zahl der Bankenpleiten in den USA hat Einlagensicherungsbehörde an den Rand einer Pleite gebracht.

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Stephen Sackur Interviews Noam Chomsky

When he published his first political critique 40 years ago, he was fired up by the war in Vietnam. Today he is still raging against America's malign influence and calls the war in Afghanistan 'immoral'.

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Hawkish Hillary Pro-Surge And Anti-Savvy Majority, Again

By Robert S. Becker

For years, common wisdom, expert and amateur, was sure the U.S. would elect a woman before any dark-skinned, or demonstrably ethnic minority, took the White House.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23998.htm



Obama's China Junket

"We're Opening Doors for Wall Street and Nothing More"

By Mike Whitney

Geithner and Co. see the US economy languishing in a low-grade Depression for the foreseeable future, therefore, Wall Street must progressively move its base-of-operations eastward.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23999.htm

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When hope meets reality

The American Prospect
by Paul Waldman

11/17/09

‘We campaign in poetry. But when we’re elected we’re forced to govern in prose,’ said Mario Cuomo, then-governor of New York, in a 1985 speech. ‘And when we govern — as distinguished from when we campaign — we come to understand the difference between a speech and a statute.’ … The man then hailed as the Democratic Party’s greatest orator knew what he was talking about. And there is no doubt that the party’s current lead orator, Barack Obama, has understood this truth all along. But those swept up in the oratory still seem to need occasional reminding of this reality. As health-care reform teeters between success and failure, the economy limps along, and more and more Americans wonder what we’re doing in Afghanistan, the prose of governing is more than a little unsettling for some...

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Challenging Our Thinking About Military Service And War

By Paul Rockwell

Moral courage - "requires the bearer to walk away from the warm embrace of comradeship and denounce the myth of war as a fraud, to name it as an enterprise of death and immorality, to condemn himself, and those around him, as killers. It requires the bearer to become an outcast."

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God, the Army, and PTSD

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?

By Tara McKelvey

The trauma of war seems to be especially acute for men and women whose faith in a benevolent God is challenged by the carnage they have witnessed.

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The Degradation of America's Military is Taking a Toll

By Digital Journal

Because America's military is morally bankrupt, soldiers and their families have become expendable.

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U.S. Army Underreporting Suicides, Says GI Advocacy Group

By Dahr Jamail

"I see the ugly," Luther told IPS. "I see soldiers beating their wives and trying to kill themselves all the time, and most folks don't want to look at this, including the military."

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The Real Story Of The Terrorist "Mad Doctor Hasan"

By Jeff Gates

When Army Major Nidal Hasan killed U.S. troops on the nation's largest military base, was this evidence of "militant Islam"? Or did this military psychiatrist snap under pressure while treating returning vets on a base averaging ten suicides a month? Is there an undisclosed agenda behind those seeking to portray this act as the work of "Islamo fascists"?

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Welcome home, hold your tongue

CounterPunch
by Bruce Patterson

01/07/10

2,600 years ago the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote, ‘Victory in war is a funeral procession.’ As a young boy in Vietnam, I won my victory and I shuffled in the procession. Beginning in the spring of 1968 I spent three months in various military hospitals and during that time I saw a ghoul’s gallery of the hide­ously wounded. I saw the psychological impacts of physical mutilation and how phony the distinction is between the two. If you wish to experience not just ‘trauma’ but real pain and suffering, whack your thumb with a roofer’s hammer. Smash you[r] thumb and see how that affects your psychological well-being. Now imagine taking three machine gun rounds through the belly and surviving. Imagine getting your jaw and nose blown off and surviving. When you’re young and looking forward to a lifetime of pain, disability and poverty, wearing your battlefield Badges of Honor doesn’t feel like such a privilege. Almost inevitably, PTSD is the result...

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Mr. President: Time to Quit Fibbing and Spinning
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Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change
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For Obama It's One (Term) if by War, Two if by Peace
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The Pledge of Allegiance is un-American
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Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative.

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "As former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin launches her national book tour, a former consultant questions more specifics from her record as governor. Palin, the former running mate to Sen. John McCain during the 2008 presidential elections, continues to claim that she effectively protected Alaska's environment, but a National Academies peer review panel has blasted her oil and gas risk assessment plan, calling her environmental credentials into question."

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Not So Funny After All!

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I've been writing roughly once a week for months now about the insane circus that is today's Republican Party, mostly to make fun of them. It's difficult to do otherwise; how does one write seriously about people like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and GOP Chairman Michael Steele? Try it sometime: failure is all but guaranteed ... The problem, however, is that people like Palin stopped being funny a while ago."

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Jon Letman, Truthout: "How old is old enough for students to be approached by military recruiters? High school? Junior high? Fourth grade? How about ten weeks into kindergarten? Last week at the dinner table, my five-year-old son announced blithely, 'Soldiers came to school today.' He then added, 'They only kill bad people. They don't kill good people.'"

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Beginning With the Children: To Teach Peace

Eleanor J. Bader, On the Issues Magazine: "It is the third week of classes at P.S. 130, The Parkside School in Brooklyn, New York. A group of fourth graders sits on the floor, watching five others - a mix of nine- and 10-year-olds from other classes in the school - take seats in front of the room."

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