the real american flag Strange, isn’t it, that the system supposedly representing the apex of human development — even the end of history — has no place for ethics or morality. Perhaps this…
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Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in U.S. History Global health care giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) agreed to plead guilty and to pay $3 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from…
The US frequently refuses extradition requests where, unlike with Snowden, it involves serious crimes and there is an extradition treaty President Obama today canceled a long-scheduled summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in part because the US president is upset that Russia defied his personal directive to hand over Edward Snowden despite the lack of an extradition treaty between the two nations. That means that US media outlets will spend the next 24 hours or so channeling the government’s views (excuse the redundancy) by denouncing the Russian evil of refusing extradition. When doing so, very few, if any, establishment media accounts will mention any of these cases:
Conservative Militarism and History Do a billion YouTube hits justify a war that left four million dead? A Conservative minister thinks so. At a Quebec City celebration of the 70th anniversary of World War II’s…
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen received Israel’s president Shimon Peres at NATO headquarters in Brussels on March 7. The order of the day: to enhance military cooperation between Israel and the Atlantic Alliance focusing…
It’s been five years since a few academics and journalists began to dig up evidence that something was wrong with the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, or LIBOR (pronounced appropriately as “lie-bore.”) The data that curious researchers were…
Introduction Democracy, a form of representative government where regional segments of a population choose their leaders, has been generally defined as “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. But this is all…
It’s 2025 and an American “triple canopy” of advanced surveillance and armed drones fills the heavens from the …www.motherjones.com It’s 2025 and an American “triple canopy” of advanced surveillance and armed drones fills the…
When people forget history, mystery repeats itself. History tells us that Nepal had developed a sophisticated democratic system over two thousand years before Aristotle’s Greece; the mystery is that ethnic identity federalists are still groping…
Subject: Re: [GA general] Wall Street Journal articles on Diaoyu Tai To: Editor, The Wall Street Journal, Date: 9/17/12 wsj.ltrs@wsj.com From: Peter Stanek, PhD., President (2008-2012) Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WW II in Asia Subject:…