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Is the US Repeating Soviet Mistakes in Afghanistan?
Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers: "Twenty years to the day after the last Soviet soldier left Afghanistan, Dastagir Arizad ticked off grievances against President Hamid Karzai and the United States... ...
The Deep Politics of Hollywood
By Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham Each of the dominant Hollywood studios ("the majors") is now a subsidiary of a much larger corporation, and therefore is not so much a separate or independent business,... ...
Welcome to Obama's "New Era of Peace"
22 Pakistanis Reportedly Killed By Christine Smith So much for the peace activists who supported Obama - how deluded could they be? To have expected (or "hoped") for anything different was a daydream. http://informat ionclearinghouse.info/arti cle21952.htm... ...
Waste, fraud in Iraq being repeated in Afghanistan
Las Vegas Review-Journal 02/02/09 Waste and corruption that marred Iraq’s reconstruction will be repeated in Afghanistan unless the U.S. transforms the unwieldy bureaucracy managing tens of billions... ...
Let banks fail, says Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz
The Government should allow every distressed bank to go bankrupt and set up a fresh banking system under temporary state control rather than cripple the country by propping up a corrupt edifice, according... ...
Halliburton Will Settle KBR Suit for $559 Million
Halliburton, the huge oil services company in Houston, said yesterday that it has agreed to pay $559 million to settle corruption charges with the U.S. government linked to its former subsidiary KBR. http://tinyurl.com/b wmx4j From... ...
Wall Street Robber Barons Ride Again
Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "Why rush to throw another $350 billion of taxpayer money at the Wall Street bandits and their political cronies who created the biggest financial mess since the Great Depression?... ...
FDA Scientists Complain to Obama of "Corruption"
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press: "In an unusually blunt letter, a group of federal scientists is complaining to the Obama transition team of widespread managerial misconduct in a division... ...
Stimulus Time: The Fierce Urgency of Now
Mark Weisbrot, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: "Nobody needs to be told that our economy is going down the tubes at a rate unseen for decades. Every week brings new numbers that are setting... ...
Let's Not Conceal the Criminal Dimension of the Financial Crisis
Writing for Le Figaro: "Jean-Francois Gayraud, divisional commissioner of the [French] National Police, and Noel Pons, adviser at the Central Service for the Prevention of Corruption, establish a connection... ...