Footing the bill for the empire

April 13 2010 by hijabella in US MILITARY |1 Comment

Dateline: April 12, 2010 Thought for April 15: More than 53 per cent of Your Tax Payment Goes to the Military By Dave Lindorff China’s Marines of the People’s Liberation Army.  We spend approximately 12.5 times what China does, and Russia spends even less than China. But policing the world for the sake of the [...]

Evidence That Iran Is Developing Nukes? Don't Expect Any This Time Around

April 13 2010 by hijabella in IMPERIALISM |2 Comments

Framing Iran for a military assault / By Mark R. Crovelli The members of the political class in the United States and Israel once again feel free to make fantastic and terrifying claims about a Middle Eastern government in order to convince us of the need to invade and kill more people who have not attacked us. This time, however, the political class hasn’t even given us the courtesy of manufacturing a false trail of evidence in order to convince us of their claims. The political classes’ contempt for the American and Israeli citizenry is apparently so overweening this time around that they haven’t even deigned to cook up a few juicy lies about, say, aluminum tubes, to substantiate their allegations of Iran’s intention to develop and use nuclear weapons…

We live now in a gangster state

April 13 2010 by hijabella in CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM |1 Comment

Looting Main Street : How the nation’s biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece By Matt Taibbi April 12, 2010 “Rolling Stone” – – If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works [...]

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