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Oil for war
The American Conservative by Robert Bryce 03/10/08 Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach. That may have been true for his 19th-century force. But the modern American military runs... ...
Better living through chemical warfare
River Cities' Reader by Garry Reed 03/12/08 Keen-eyed observers of the Mad Scientist wing of the American military research complex have noted that the Pentagon is at it again. With so many billions... ...
Cheap Oil Is Over
According to James Howard Kunstler in Chelsea Green Publishing, "It's compelling to see how NASCAR auto racing has risen to the level of a mania in early 21st century America, as the nation has reached... ...
Bush to Veto Bill Banning Waterboarding
Dan Eggen, writing for The Washington Post, reports: "President Bush today will veto legislation meant to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics and will argue that... ...
McCain: Bush Should Veto Bill That Would Bar Torture
By LIBBY QUAID The legislation bars the CIA from using waterboarding, sensory deprivation or other harsh coercive methods to break a prisoner who refuses to answer questions. Those practices were banned... ...
Killer Credit
Adam Doster, writing for In These Times, says: "In the last quarter century, an unstable financial relationship was forged between Americans - grasping for an increasingly elusive middle-class lifestyle... ...
Get Real, Americans: You have been ripped off
By Mary Pitt Our nation, which spends more for health care than any other only rankS 45th in the quality of care. Those who can afford it have access to the most modern technology and life-saving procedures... ...
Workers of the World Unite
In Mother Jones, Joan Hamilton writes: "There's a crisis in the labor movement: In the past half century, union membership in the United States has dropped from 35 percent to 13 percent of the work force.... ...
U.S. Obsessed With Using Force
By Reason Wafawarova SINCE the United States assumed global leadership from Britain at the end of the Second World War; when it emerged as the biggest beneficiary of the war, a development that saw it... ...
The growth of government in the United States
Foundation for Economic Education by Robert Higgs Big government — we heard a lot about it when Ronald Reagan was first seeking the Presidency. Lately the topic has attracted less attention from politicians,... ...