Doesn't Anyone Understand the "D" word anymore?
by Steve Osborn
When I was a young man, there were diplomats in every government. Some were even statesmen. Their job was to figure out how to avoid war. They talked together, worked out compromises, sometimes brought in third parties to help keep the peace. We had just gone through two world wars, which killed off two generations of youth, destroyed countless artifacts and cities, and squandered most of the wealth of the world on killing machines.
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The Fed -- Jekyll Island Monster
by Stephen Neitzke
In November 1910, seven wealthy men left the Northeastern US on trains to do some duckhunting on an island off Brunswick, Georgia. They carried all their duckhunting gear in plain sight, so that any snooping reporter could see that they were going duckhunting. And reporters really snooped in those days. The Reform Era muckrakers were still at their 1890s-1912 peak, producing exposés that still startled everybody. On arrival, the duckhunters moved into a posh resort owned by JP Morgan -- on Jekyll Island..
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Brute Force Doesn't Solve Conflicts
by Harry Browne
Forcible retaliation never "teaches a lesson" because the people whose behavior you're trying to change aren't the ones who get hurt by the retaliation. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya to teach Muammar al- Qaddafi that he shouldn't promote terrorism. A year later, a Pan Am plane crashed over Scotland. Our government is convinced the crash was caused by Libyan terrorists who apparently skipped school the day the retaliation lesson was taught. In fact, I can't think of a single case in which our government retaliated for terrorist acts and actually put a stop to them..
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How the Federal Reserve Runs the US
by Stephen Lendman
Years ago I read William Greider's excellent book published in 1987 on how the US Federal Reserve System works. It was detailed and explicit and makes wonderful and informative reading, except for the solution he suggests to a huge problem. His was far too timid. This article proposes a much different one. Greider called his book Secrets of the Temple with a sub-title: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. A better sub-title might have been how the Fed (and other key central bankers) runs the world. This article attempts to summarize what it does, how it does it, for whose benefit and at whose expense. For those who don't know, prepare for some stunning information and commentary.
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Inconvenient truths: Chaldea, Phoenicia. will Syria and Persia be next?
by Ben Tanosborn
It's not just "global warming" that has been appropriately dubbed as an inconvenient truth; there are many other inconvenient truths as well. Some of them, readily accepted by much of the world, have only found their way to invisibility or denial in these United States. Among the latter is America's lack of cooperation in the resolution once-and-for-all of the many issues that bring about crises and clashes between Israel and the people of Palestine.
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