The $6 trillion figure included in the Harvard report does not begin to make a full accounting for these wars. It assesses only the impact on the US economy.…
“If the courts fail us, a gulag state will be cemented into place.” Ha! Obama’s Justice Department will be fighting Mr. Hedges’ NDAA lawsuit tooth and nail.…
The American media has seized on the term “fiscal cliff” and promoted it to suggest that enormously popular measures ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy or cutting military spending—are threatening, even dangerous.…
The fiscal cliff has become the latest mantra of the political and media establishment. The aim is to foster a crisis atmosphere to force through measures long desired by the ruling class that would otherwise be impossible to impose.…