Military Escalation and Obama's "War on Terrorism"

US Officials “Rediscover” ISI-Taliban Nexus BY Tom Burghardt LONG CONSIDERED THE REALM OF “conspiracy buffs” The New York Times, citing anonymous “American government officials,” have belatedly “discovered” that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI) is aiding the Taliban and al-Qaeda. That ISI operatives were reportedly involved in planning the 9/11 attacks, the ostensible reason for the 2001 U.S. [...]

TOO MUCH: Monitoring excess and inequality / March 30 2009

  THIS WEEK Charities and rich people have emerged, over recent weeks, as somewhat of a hot-button issue. The Obama administration has proposed limiting the tax deductions the wealthy can take on their charitable donations. Rich people shouldn’t get a bigger deduction on a $100 contribution, as the President argued last Tuesday, than average people. People of ample [...]

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