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Entries by Tom Engelhardt from 10/2011

Is the National Security Complex Too Big to Fail?

| Posted 10.20.2011 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Tarp, Iraw War, Bailout, TARP Money, Occupy Wall Street, AIG Bailout, National-Security-Complex, Too Big to Fail, Intelligence Community, State Department, Politics News

Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars -- the only difference being that the bailout there didn't involve just three payouts. More than eight years after the Bush administration invaded that country, the bailout is, unbelievably enough, still going.

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OWS at Valley Forge

| Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics
Read More: Activism, Cost of Higher Education, Occupy Wall Street, Vietnam Protests, College Debt, #Occupywallstreet, Vietnam Activism, Cost of Education, Cost of College, Politics News

Once the Arab Spring broke loose, people began asking me why this country was still so quiet. I would always point out that no one ever expects or predicts such events. Nothing like this happens until it happens, and only then do you try to make sense of it retrospectively.

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