World-News

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch: ''At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy s decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries devastated, with casualties still mounting from the long-term effects of drenching South Vietnam with some of the most lethal carcinogens known, undertaken to destroy ground cover and food crops.''

http://www.truth-out.org/losing-world-american-decline-perspective-part-1/1329233978



Alan Simpson: The Washington Elite s Attack Dog

Dean Baker, Truthout: ''Alan Simpson, the foul-mouthed former senator, has been back in the news again. He once again launched an obscenity-laden diatribe against those who oppose his plans to cut Social Security and Medicare. Unfortunately, the focus of the media attention has been on the senator s use of obscenities.... The real issue is the senator s open contempt for the portion of the population that is either dependent now on Social Security or Medicare or will be in the future.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9568-alan-simpson-the-washington-elites-attack-dog

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The downward spiral continues

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

02/14/12

The United States is in a downward spiral, and it just keeps getting worse and worse, both on the welfare-state side of things and, of course, the warfare-state side of things. If you want to see what the dole society does to people, look at Greece...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-02-14.asp



Debt will destroy this country from within

Freedom Politics
by David N. Bass

02/13/12

Cut federal debt or the United States will cease to exist as a superpower, that was the message Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson had for a packed house at Duke University s Page Auditorium. Bowles and Simpson, co-chairs of a congressional committee created through a 2010 executive order of President Barack Obama to address the nation s fiscal hurdles, spread the blame evenly between the major political parties for the country s $15 trillion debt during their Page Auditorium appearance in January...

http://tinyurl.com/6ommvb8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The ''war'' dissected
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/the-holocaust-in-southeast-asia.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=executive+order
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vietnam
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greece
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=superpower
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=decline
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Alan+Simpson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=welfare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=social+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=medicare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warfare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chomsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dean+Baker
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