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Category Archives: Political Economy

War profiteering in Iraq: the private Pentagone contractors

NB. The spelling of PentaGONE is deliberate … Ismael Hossein-Zadeh provides a most important reminder that war is a racket. An academic economist and an Iranian-born Kurd who has been … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Judeo-Christian Extremist Militants Hiding Nukes in USA

Neocon terrorist cells have been waging a global war of terror and error for the past 6 years; laying waste to entire countries; rolling back civil liberties, ravaging their own … Continue reading

10 January, 2007 · 4 Comments

Guns and butter: Costs of war and empire

Update, March 2008: On the costs of the Iraq War and the Bush Administration, see also Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes’s new book excerpted in Vanity Fair: The … Continue reading

9 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Israeli folly and More Olbermanns Please

Yep, coming after Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article last April, the Sunday Times (London) has reported that the Likudniks plan to strike Iran (subsequently and unsurprisingly denied) and we also … Continue reading

8 January, 2007 · 5 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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