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Charles Derber and Yale Magrass, Truthout: Obama may have failed to nail him for calling nearly half the nation parasites, and Romney may have beaten a hasty retreat from the beans he spilled in a private moment among rich friends, but Americans should heed the core truth it revealed.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12012-romneys-47-percent-blunder-reveals-the-hidden-heart-of-his-agenda



They Have It So Good

Frank Joyce, AlterNet: By portraying us as lazy moochers dependent on ''government,'' they deflect attention from the reality that we are utterly dependent on them ... but the super-rich know that capitalism has never met the needs of all the people all the time. It never will.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12026-why-the-obscenely-wealthy-whine-when-they-have-it-so-good



Romney s $2-Trillion Defense Increase Won t Buy More Defense, Just More Waste

Dina Rasor, Truthout: Mitt Romney hopes to raise the defense budget by $2 trillion in order to purchase more Cold War-style weapons that have no relevance to our modern security threats.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12042-romneys-$2-trillion-defense-increase-wont-buy-more-defense-just-more-waste

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Romney s pretty little war speech

Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

10/09/12

Romney is fond of invoking Ronald Reagan and Harry Truman and now George Marshall as though their 20th century foreign policy legacies could lend his own cobbled-together worldview some indomitable burnish. But he seems loath to even utter the name of the American President his views are most like, George W. Bush. But that is exactly the president who came to mind Monday when Romney gave what was billed as a major foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI)...

http://tinyurl.com/8keqp9f


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Crony Capitalism American Style
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