Month: June 2007

Supreme Court Pays Off

Promoted by Steven D with minor edits to links (not content) Today the U.S. Supreme Court made it crystal clear that it is the court for corporate power and wealth in opposition to free speech. LINK The New York Times’s...

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Amazonia: Through Children’s Eyes

It’s hard to get people excited about Latin America politics–a bit like asking for a brisk discussion of methods of solving differential equations. But please read on–our future may depend on it. So try a...

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The Cross Cultural Experience

is one of the greatest gifts one can have.  First off all removing oneself from American culture and society for a year brings two benefits. You get to see how another government functions, a government which has not been...

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Open Thread

How does this bode for today’s situation? Memo, Kissinger to Nixon, September 18, 1971, folder: Vietnam Elections, box 872, For the President’s Files (Winston Lord)—China Trip/Vietnam, NSCF, NPMP. We recognized from...

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You Want an Underlying Crime?

I was reading up on the Italian case against 26 CIA officers and the German case against 10 CIA officers when I was reminded that Nicoli Pollari, the former head of SISMI is also under indictment. It’s a funny thing. All...

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