''Too Big To Fail Defense Contractors''

From RT.com

Eisenhower: Beware the Military Industrial Complex. Lets add the Bankers, Energy and Health Care Complex

''The Forever Wars of Frederick & Kimberly Kagan''

send the neo-cons to gitmo for crimes against humanity.................From The American Conservative
By Philip Giraldi

''The Beltway power couple who boosted the Iraq invasion insist we stay longer in Afghanistan.''...........continue reading

Steve Lendman: ''Washington and Israel partner in jointly planned imperial wars''

From Steve Lendman Blog

''Walter Pincus reports on national security issues for the Washington Post. He's been at it many years. In late December he'll turn 80.

On November 28, he headlined "US overseeing mysterious construction project in Israel," saying:

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to supervise construction of a five-story underground facility for an Israel Defense Forces complex…."

It's called "Site 911." It'll be built at an Israeli air force base near Tel Aviv. Construction will take two years or longer. Time frames are often extended. Cost is expected to be about $100 million. Before completion, double that amount or more wouldn't surprise.''

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''Permanent War Doctrine''

paid for by the American taxpayer.................From Phantom Report

''Obama II has a brand new type of war in store; welcome the ‘Permanent War Doctrine’. The new ‘permanent war on terror’ has four weapons of choice: the signature weapon is the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the drone aircraft.

Second is direct action undertaken by Special Forces. Third is the transformation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into a paramilitary, tracking and targeting assassination squad and, fourth, is cyber warfare (under the ‘Permanent War Doctrine’ all or most of America’s conventional forces head back home from theatres in Iraq and Afghanistan).''

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''The Secret War Between China and the US for Africa's Oil Riches''

From OilPrice.com
By Zachary Fillingham

''In the struggle to secure energy resources, the great powers consider all states to be fair game. Indeed, this is precisely what characterizes American foreign policy in the modern era. When it comes to economic and geopolitical interests, Washington seldom differentiates between democratic leaders and despots, especially when those interests involve oil. Currently, the stakes are high in the rush to secure oil resources and nowhere is this more evident than in the Sino-American rivalry in Africa. Both states are competing to secure their share of oil supplies in order to quench their addiction to the coveted ‘black gold.’''

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''America Begins Nation-Building at Home (Provided Your Home is the Middle East)''

remember the fiscal cliff...............................From TomDispatch
By Nick Turse

''A billion dollars from the federal government: that kind of money could go a long way toward revitalizing a country’s aging infrastructure.  It could provide housing or better water and sewer systems.  It could enhance a transportation network or develop an urban waterfront.  It could provide local jobs.  It could do any or all of these things.  And, in fact, it did.  It just happened to be in the Middle East, not the United States.

The Pentagon awarded $667.2 million in contracts in 2012, and more than $1 billion during Barack Obama’s first term in office for construction projects in largely autocratic Middle Eastern nations, according to figures provided to TomDispatch by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District (USACE-MED).  More than $178 million in similar funding is already anticipated for 2013.''

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''The Secret War in Yemen''

From ISN Blog

''The Long War Journal estimates that the U.S. has carried out three times as many strikes this year as it has in previous years against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.  The increase of covert UAV activity in Yemen raises many important questions: How are the targets decided? Who authorizes the strikes? Are the strikes legal?''

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Chris Hedges: "War Is Betrayal''

From Boston Review

''We condition the poor and the working class to go to war. We promise them honor, status, glory, and adventure. We promise boys they will become men. We hold these promises up against the dead-end jobs of small-town life, the financial dislocations, credit card debt, bad marriages, lack of health insurance, and dread of unemployment. The military is the call of the Sirens, the enticement that has for generations seduced young Americans working in fast food restaurants or behind the counters of Walmarts to fight and die for war profiteers and elites.''

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''War Revisionism | Gary North''

From Mises.org

''Why Americans Must End America’s Self-Generating Wars''

From VoltaireNet.org

''Drawing on historical precedents, Peter Dale Scott exposes the contradictions and perverse effects of the "war on terror", which adds insecurity to instability and increases the number of terrorists it pretends to be fighting.''

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''Key challenges to Middle East stability''

From Gulf News
By Patrick Seale

''Just as America’s invasion in 2003 was launched on the fraudulent claim that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction, so the US and its allies are now waging an undeclared war against Iran — a war of crippling sanctions, cyber-subversion and assassinations. The alleged aim is to force Iran to give up its development of nuclear weapons — although there is no credible evidence that Iran is doing any such thing. The real aim would seem to be ‘regime change’ in Tehran. A military attack on Iran in the New Year cannot be excluded.''

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Jim Willie: ''US recovery is a fairy tale'' - Part 1

From GoldMoney..................''Subscribe to our newsletter at http://www.goldmoney.com/goldresearch. Episode 64: Jim Willie, statistical analyst and newsletter writer at GoldenJackass.com, talks to GoldMoney's Alasdair Macleod about the economy, the impact of a zero interest rate policy, and flaws in economic statistics.

Willie states that the Federal Reserve's ongoing efforts to debase the US dollar are contributing to a relentless deterioration of the US economy. The Fed is committed to keeping interest rates at zero, and therefore has to continue to intervene in the bond market. As opposed to mainstream economic thought, Willie argues that the extraordinary low interest rates are not stimulating the economy, but rather destroying capital and hindering genuine growth.

When money has a negative real cost, market participants are forced to hedge -- for instance, by buying commodities. At the same time the housing market is stuck in decline even though official statistics will have you believe otherwise. Bank inventory of foreclosure homes is not clearing and still sitting at 9-11 million homes. Willie emphasises that economic statistics in the US are distorted and that the US has actually been in recession for the last four years -- government unemployment statistics are in his view flawed. He expects the recession to accelerate over the coming months.''

''Rockefeller, Morgan, and War''

From Mises.org
By Murray N. Rothbard

''During the 1930s, the Rockefellers pushed hard for war against Japan, which they saw as competing with them vigorously for oil and rubber resources in Southeast Asia and as endangering the Rockefellers' cherished dreams of a mass "China market" for petroleum products. On the other hand, the Rockefellers took a noninterventionist position in Europe, where they had close financial ties with German firms such as I.G. Farben and Co., and very few close relations with Britain and France.''

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Video from InfoWars....

Time to rewrite the history books..............

''War Revisionism | Gary North''

more proof that the rockefellers/exxon mobil have been running foreign policy in this country since WW1..................

From MisesTV..........''The Carl Davis Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: "The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach". Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 26 October 2012. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.''

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByWW9Va8UIo

''I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier - the first anti-war hit record''

From 'Stop The War Coalition'...........''Released in 1915, I Didn't Raise My Son to be a Soldier, sung here by the Peerless Quartet, was the first commercially successful anti-war record and featured prominently in the American anti-war movement opposing US entry in the first world war. The warmongering ex-president Theodore Roosevelt objected to the song's message of peace and its early feminism: "Foolish people who applaud a song entitled 'I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier' are just the people who would also in their hearts applaud a song entitled 'I Didn't Raise my Girl To Be A Mother."

The song was revived in the 1960s in opposition to the US war in Vietnam.

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''Take These Dollars, or Else!''

From Lew Rockwell

''Simply put, the dollar has for several decades been positioned as the only way for an industrialized country to pay OPEC for oil. No matter who you were, you had to buy American dollars and then send those dollars to OPEC, who would then use the money to buy American debt, or American weapons.

It was the perfect set-up. Greenspan printed worthless dollars, and gave them to people who gave us free gasoline, and free TV sets, and free wicker furniture. The game changed, however, when the Euro was introduced. Now, many oil-producing nations are accepting the Euro instead of the dollar. Saddam loves the Euro.

This new competition from the Euro makes Uncle Sam very angry. So Uncle Sam came up with a plan; he sent a secret message to all the Arabs:

You will only accept American Dollars, or we will kill you.''

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''When will we buy oil in euros?''

From 2003 and The Guardian
 

''The oil-dollar nexus is one of the foundations of the world economy that inevitably filters through to geopolitics. Recycling so-called petrodollars, the proceeds of these high oil prices, has helped the United States run its colossal trade deficits. But the past year has seen the quiet emergence of the 'petroeuro'.

Effectively, the normal standards of economics have not applied to the US, because of the international role of the dollar. Some $3 trillion (£1,880 billion) are in circulation around the world helping the US to run virtually permanent trade deficits. Two-thirds of world trade is dollar-denominated. Two-thirds of central banks' official foreign exchange reserves are also dollar-denominated.''

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F William Engdahl: ''Iraq and the hidden euro-dollar wars''

a must read from 2003...........From Global Research
By F William Engdahl

''Rather than work out areas of agreement with European partners, Washington increasingly sees Euroland as the major strategic threat to American hegemony, especially 'Old Europe' of Germany and France. Just as Britain in decline after 1870 resorted to increasingly desperate imperial wars in South Africa and elsewhere, so the United States is using its military might to try to advance what it no longer can by economic means. Here the dollar is the Achilles heel.

With creation of the Euro over the past five years, an entirely new element has been added to the global system, one which defines what we can call a third phase of the American Century. This phase, in which the latest Iraq war plays a major role, threatens to bring a new, malignant or imperial phase to replace the earlier phases of American hegemony. The neo-conservatives are open about their imperial agenda, while more traditional U.S. policy voices try to deny it. The economic reality faced by the dollar at the start of the new Century, defines this new phase in an ominous way.''

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''How The Petrodollar Trade Works For The U.S. Explained''

From StockTradingMaster......................''http://www.guerillastocktrading.com/lessons/how-the-petrodollar-trade-works-f... Discover why the Federal Reserve can keep increasing the money supply and yet inflation is never a problem. Find out why countries keep buying U.S. debt.''

''Oil, Uranium, Apocalypse''

From Strategic Culture
By Konstantine Gordeev

''Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.) who formerly served as the US military intelligence officer published in the Armed Forces Journal an opinion piece titled “Blood Borders. How a Better Middle East Would Look” which included a hypothetic map of the region with the existing states scissored according to the populations' religion and ethnicity. The paper ignited major controversy which was premised in an assumption that it reflected the US Administration's vision for the region (Fig. 2). Roughly at the same time US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice floated in the discussion of the war between Israel and Lebanon the term “the New Middle East” to designate an alternative to the Greater Middle East [4]. Shortly thereafter, Peters published “Never Quit the Fight”, a treatise which featured the same map accompanied by a number of bold arguments. The book is currently in use in the US Army for for instruction purposes.''

''It is an open secret that neither exporting democracy nor sustaining peace in the Middle East play any roles in Washington's real agenda. The number one unreported aim must be to place the markets in the affected area under the control of international financial groups, number two being to secure the routes for feeding to the West the energy and other resources found massively in the Middle East. The same routes will surely serve as avenues for illicit transit such as drug and human trafficking, with an eye to tilting the demographic balances and undermining the living standards in the countries enjoying a decent socioeconomic climate.''

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