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Daily Briefing—10th June 2010
Posted: 10 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Argentina, Bank of America, banking, BP, Brazil, campaign contributions, Charles Schumer, Chicago, Chicago Police, corporate personhood, Customs and Border Patrol, Der Spiegel, diamonds, economic sanctions, eminent domain, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza blockade, Great Lakes, Gulags, Gulf oil spill, gun control, Iran, Jeremy Scahill, Jim Lobe, journalism, JPMorgan Chase, labor unions, Marja, media, mortgage crisis, national debt, neoconservatives, NY Times, Palestine-Israel, Pentagon, Russia, SCOTUS, Stalin, Stephen Walt, terrorism, Treasury Department, Turkey, UN Security Council, UNSC, USSR, Wall Street, Wells Fargo, WSJ, Zimbabwe
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Weekend Briefing—4th-5th June 2010
Posted: 5 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, Anene Ejikeme, Bagram Air Base, BP, BP Gulf oil spill, corporate personhood, Dahr Jamail, David Uhlmann, DEA, DPRK, Egypt, financial crisis, Free Gaza Movement, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gulf oil spill, Gustavo Cadevila, illegal immigration, indefinite detention, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Issandr El Amrani, Japan, Jeremy Scahill, JSOC, KBR, law, limited liability, military industrial complex, MJ Rosenberg, MV Rachel Corrie, Naoto Kan, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Noah Shachtman, North Korea, Obama Administration, oil spills, Pat Buchanan, PTSD, Recep Erdgoan, South Korea, Thomas Knapp, Turkey, Wall Street, Washington lobbyists, West Africa, Will Grigg
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Taxpayers on the Hook for Gulf Oil Spill and Greece Bailout
Posted: 4 May 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Annie Lowrey, anti-Statism, BP, Cassandra LaRussa, corporate personhood, corporatism, economy, EU, Ezra Klein, Greece bailout, Gulf oil spill, Gus Lubin, Henry Blodget, IMF, inflation, John Border, liability, libertarian, limited liability, Newspeak, Obama Administration, regulation, Tom Zeller, US, Washington lobbyists
Separate issues display the trickle-up nature of statism.
Daily Briefing–31st March 2010
Posted: 31 March 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Alex Jones, AllanNairn, Arctic Conference, Argentina, banking, black widows, Bush Administration, Chechnya, corporate personhood, corporatism, drug war, fascism, FOX News, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Hamid Karzai, healthcare, human rights, Hutaree, ICC, immigration, Indonesia, intellectual property, international law, Iran, Iraq War, Israel, JC Penney, Karl Rove, Kenya, law, Linux, military aid, militias, Moqtada al-Sadr, mutual funds, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Pentagon, progressives, Robert Dreyfuss, Russia, SCOTUS, SEI, Somalia, terrorism, truancy courts, UK, unemployment, Unix, US, Wal-Mart, War, war crimies, War on Terror, West Bank, Zionism
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I Pledge Allegiance to the… GO TEAM AMERICA CAPITALIST JESUS!
Posted: 13 March 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, banking, capitalism, Constitution, corporate personhood, corporations, corporatism, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, David Bradley, economy, education, fascism, free markets, human rights, international law, John Marshall, law, libertarian, liberty, market-anarchism, Mitt Romney, Newspeak, odious debt, public schools, Republican, Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad, state capitalism, Texas, Texas Board of Education, US
The Texas Board of Education votes to infuse more loyalism into the indoctrination of the youth.
Chomsky’s Lectern: The Elite-Manufactured Sectarian America (Video)
Posted: 9 November 2009 by Noam Chomsky in Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: 2008 election, activism, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, antiwar activism, bailout, banking, Bush Administration, corporate personhood, corporatism, deregulation, economy, fascism, Geirge Bush, Great Recession, healthcare reform, human rights, immigration, incarceration, India, internet media, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, ISAF, Israel, Kerala, law, Malalai Joya, media, Middle East, Newspeak, NPT, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, peak oil, politics, population control, prison population, Reagan Administration, sociology, talk radio, tea party movement, terrorism, Tony Blair, UN, UN Security Council, US, Vietnam War, War, War on Terror
Prof. Chomsky discusses: e-media; the hypocritically selective nuclear hysteria; “sensibility” and “tragedy” within the ‘tea party movement’; cynical scapegoating, the natural inclinations of the human species; the business propaganda against government by those who embrace government; a world without war or a world without people; the evolution of the antiwar movement; the immoral elite debate on the Afghanistan occupation, campaign funding predicting policy; and the manufactured sectarian America.
Part One (9:56):
Murder, Child Prostitution, Arms Smuggling on the American Dime in the Name of God Continues Under Obama
Posted: 7 August 2009 by Little Alex in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, arms smuggling, Bagram, Beau Phillips, Blackwater, Brad Elmer, Bush Administration, Carol Confers, child prostitution, corporate personhood, corporate privilege, corporations, corporatism, Eric Holder, Erik Prince, fascism, Gary Jackson, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, human rights, Iraq, Iraq War, Jeremy Scahill, Keith Olbermann, law, libertarian, Luke Doak, Middle East, military industrial complex, murder, Newspeak, Obama, obstruction of justice, Prince Companies, religion, State Department, T.S. Ellis, US, War, Xe
Jeremy Scahill, leading journalist on Blackwater, broke the story at The Nation of two Blackwater employees’ sworn statements, under the penalty of perjury, alleging the founder of Blackwater — now known as “Xe” (pronounced “zee”) — committed some of the highest of high crimes as the Bush Administration’s private mercenary firm in the Middle East.
An analysis of the affidavits filed by John Doe #1 [.pdf] and John Doe #2 [.pdf]. (h/t: Democracy Now!)
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