The following is a post written by carmengrayson: Peter Baker’s recent disingenuous article in Sunday’s New York Times, “The Final Insult in the Bush-Cheney Marriage,” masquerades as investigative reporting. In fact, it’s little more than strung-together quotations from participants involved to varying degrees in the decade’s destructive foreign policies. The result is a reductionist essay …

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This is a similar question to “Does the fact that the US provided chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein qualify the United States to lecture other people about their ownership and use of the same type of weapons.” There appears to be evidence that the CIA has gotten out of control and has been doing things …

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A new book by Frank Ledwidge, a former military intelligence officer, shows that since 2001 444 British soldiers have died and more than 2,600 have been wounded, in a war that will have cost us at least £40bn by 2020. And to what end? The task was to flush out al-Qa’eda, but Qa’eda has long …

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The wages of British workers fell more in real terms during the economic downturn than ever previously recorded. Ever! The finding, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, could help explain why unemployment has not risen more sharply. (The Week. 15 June 13) Meanwhile, with fewer competitors, the banks are making huge profits once more, but …

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