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(Decay of Constitutional Democracy)

Most recently, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have claimed the inherent right of an American president to summarily execute anyone anywhere in the world, American citizen or not, whom White House advisors have privately decided was a bad person.

Does China's rise necessarily imply America's decline? Not at all: human economic progress is not a zero-sum game.

China's Rise, America's Fall

Which superpower is more threatened by its extractive elites?

April 17, 2012

But does the Chinese giant have feet of clay?

...[McCain] had instead served as one of the leading figures in a monumental act of national treachery, our media took no notice.

Once I clicked that link, I encountered a very different John McCain.

The author of that remarkable 8,000-word exposé- McCain and the POW cover-up published on The Nation Institute's website- was Sidney Shanberg one of America's foremost Vietnam War journalists.

Was Rambo Right?

Hundreds of POW may have been left to die in Vietnam, abandoned by their government - and our media

May 25, 2010

The Life and Legacy of Lt. Gen. William Odom

While other top brass played press agents for administration's war, William Odom told the truth about Iraq, though few listened
September 8, 2008

Preface

For decades, I have closely read The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and one or two major newspapers every morning. (...) Their biases in certain areas had always been apparent to me. But I was confident that by comparing and contrasting the claims of these different publications and applying some common sense, I could obtain a reasonably accurate version of reality. I WAS MISTAKEN.