1.0 link 155684 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-engelhardt/the-ponzi-scheme-presiden_b_155684.html Cross-posted from TomDispatch.com

It may finally be 2009, but in some ways, given these last years, it might as well be 800 BCE.

From the ninth to the seventh centuries BCE, the palace walls of the kings who ruled the Assyrian Empire were decorated with vast stone friezes, filled with enough dead bodies to sate any video-game maker and often depicting -- in almost comic strip-style -- various bloody royal victories and conquests. At least...

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