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Counterterrorism and the Totalitarian Temptation

January 10, 2014 1

Reuters   Why officials charged with eliminating the threat will always go too far By Conor Friedersdorf Through no fault of any individual, the logic of counterterrorism verges toward totalitarianism. National-security officials can keep us […]

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Is War With China Inevitable?

December 27, 2013 0

Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market blog, As a general rule, extreme economic decline is almost always followed by extreme international conflict. Sometimes, these disasters can be attributed to the human survival imperative and the […]

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Inside the Saudi 9/11 Coverup

December 18, 2013 0

By Paul Sperry After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors. But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress’ investigative report on […]

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The Rise Of Private Armies As The SHTF

December 11, 2013 1

By Zine Larbaoui (TLB Exec. Dir. Of Media) “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – The Buddha.  The privatization of armies and forces of repression and coercion is […]

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Bread, Circuses & Reality TV

December 10, 2013 0

By: The Burning Platform “What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to […]

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The Abdication of Iran

December 5, 2013 0

While the media applaud the agreement reached between the P5+1 and Iran, Thierry Meyssan, a personal friend of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sees in it an abdication by the new Iranian government. As far as he is […]

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U.S. Prisons Thriving on Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests

November 26, 2013 0

By Nat Hentoff This article appeared on Cato.org on November 20, 2013. A startling scandal in our so-called criminal justice system is largely unnoticed by most Americans because the media in all their forms ignore […]

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