Alex Abella

Alex Abella

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Alex Abella is the author of the history of the RAND corporation, Soldiers of Reason, and coauthor, with Scott Gordon, of Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States. He has also been a contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times. Born in Cuba, he lives in Los Angeles. Visit www.alexabella.com.

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Rand and the Bush Tax Rebate

Posted May 12, 2008 | 05:24 PM (EST)

Did you get your tax rebate check yet? You know, the one that President Bush says will reanimate the economy and lift us out of this metastasizing recession? If you did, you can thank the good folks at the Rand Corporation for that money -- just like you could curse...

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Chalabi, RAND and the Iraq War

3 Comments | Posted April 30, 2008 | 05:03 PM (EST)

The following is an excerpt from my book Soldiers of Reason:

Back when neoconservatives ruled Washington (was it really just five years ago?), some conservative observers compared the controversial Iraqi banker-politician Ahmed Chalabi to George Washington. As head of the largest Iraqi exile group, The Iraqi National Congress, he had...

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