Reparations: One Solution to cure America’s $16 Trillion National Debt

By Mickey Walker-March 24, 2013

Here they go again.  The Government is rolling out the people program shredders again to screw Americans.  To make us taxpayers pay for their incompetent borrowing and spending on the most unproductive part of America that pays NO taxes!  If you guessed government, give that lady(or man) a cigar!  I mean, like, who among us has borrowed and spent our Social Security Fund into the toilet?  We don’t have that kind of money.  But the government doesn’t either, one could say.  But Ben Bernanke can just fire up the printing presses at the...

 

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A Tale of Two Lobbies.

By Iris Vander Pluym on 03.24.13

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I recently read a story about the C-130 Hercules transport plane (Lockheed Martin's Herculean Efforts to Profit From Defense Spending: The Epic Story of the C-130, TomDispatch, March 10, 2013).  The author is Jeremiah Goulka, a former RAND Corporation analyst.  It is the story of a powerful industry (the military-industrial complex) 

extracting exactly what it wants from the U.S. taxpayer, as opposed to the other way around.  It puts profit above all else, above even its ostensible purpose: i.e. the nation’s defense.  What stands...

 

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CELEBRATE THE "HISTORICAL REVISIONISTS:" Part 2

By Harry Targ - 02.16.13

The writings of 1960s historians who became known as the “revisionists,” challenged traditional interpretations of the interests, goals, and ideology underpinning United States foreign policy. Historians such as William Appleman Williams, Joyce and Gabriel Kolko, Gar Alperowitz, Lloyd Gardner, Thomas Paterson and others who were discussed in a prior essay, http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/harry-targ-celebrate-historical.html, offered a...

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Washington Doesn't Work? Oh Really?

By STEVEN JONAS MD, MPH – 01.03.13

“Washington Doesn’t Work,” or “Washington Just Doesn’t Work,” or “Washington: the Gridlock has to be Broken,” or some such. One hears it on the media all the time, both reactionary and liberal: Fox”News”Channel, Joe Scarborough, Ed Schultz, and certainly on CNN. “We’ve got to fix ‘Washington.’ ” But is it really true that “Washington doesn’t work” and that it “Has to be fixed?” Well, it all depends. It all depends who you are and what your interests are. There surely is gridlock in the Congress and between the Congress and the President, most of the time, as demonstrated by what will have...

 

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AFTER HUGO CHAVEZ: What now for Venezuela?

By Michael Faulkner - 03.17.13

Hugo Chavez was an extraordinary phenomenon. To describe him as a phenomenon is not merely hyperbolic. Certainly he was, to use a much over-used phrase, charismatic. But he was more than that. His ability to move millions of mainly poor people – “los pobres de la tierra” – to a passion of loyalty and adoration was quite phenomenal. It was as though he had pulled a lever to unleash an immense wave of popular enthusiasm which he then began to shape into a great social movement to claim the birthright of the dispossessed.

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Surrender to Extremism

By Loren Adams – 03.17.13

To solve problems, one must first seek to find the root cause and then deal with it openly, firmly, and with resolve. The primary reason conflict lingers for years is because established leaders refuse — or are incapacitated due to ideology or lobbyist-induced incentive — to recognize sources of contention. Politicians know where their bread is buttered – corporate interests – and thus obey their masters.

However, the primary reason the source remains unrecognized is due to extremist views held by those in charge — stemming from mind-sets of religion, race, politics, or economic...

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