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Iraq War Costs

Joe Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist, has just published a review of the true cost of the Iraq war. There is no prize for guessing that the figures he comes up with are vastly different from those publicized by the Bush regime. Remember that when the war began the Administration’s economists gave an original […]

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Gulag Guantanamo

I haven’t commented on Guantanamo for a while so here goes: the United Nations has just condemned the U.S. for keeping the detention camp “Gitmo” open. The U.N. press release is here: Gitmo Press Release. The New York Times has the full report here: The full U.N. report They are absolutely right, of course. Gitmo […]

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The Trade Deficit Swells … Again!

America is getting even more dependent on foreign suppliers for the goods and services that it wants to consume. Here today’s the press release from the government: Latest International Trade in Goods and Services News Release This is all self explanatory, so I won’t dwell on it much, but the petroleum account is worth mentioning. […]

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