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"Politics is the art of the possible" - Otto von Bismarck
Glenn Greenwald: An Interview with The Art of the Possible
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an anti-AOTP book: The Predator State by Galbraith Jr.
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Pour Your Misery Down on Me
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Who would Hayek vote for if he were alive today?
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The new National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan is, apparently, too grim to release. The Bush administration are falling back upon their usual penchant for secrecy, saying that it isn’t policy to release NIE’s - but others have been released, or at least their summaries, since that decision was taken so no-one is buying it. (more…)
The phrase “Ugly American” had its beginning in the book by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, in which the character of a Burmese journalist is given the line: (more…)
Is being won by the Russians for America’s military provisioners:
Philip Giraldi hears from his sources that Ron Suskind’s "revelation that the White House ordered the preparation of a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda and also to attempts made to obtain yellowcake uranium is correct but that a number of details are wrong." Tim F. at Balloon Juice thinks Suskind got played. If Giraldi is correct, the details Suskind got wrong are pretty major in terms of journalistic practice, and some of them (cream-colored stationery?) should have set off his bullshit detector. The combination of Giraldi and Tim sounds plausible to me.
Richard Posner writes:
Expanded drilling in U.S. territory (including our territorial waters) will reduce both U.S. dependence on foreign oil and the wealth of foreign oil-producing countries, many of which are hostile or potentially hostile to the United States. These are important benefits.
A friend of mine tweets, “this is simply untrue…Dependence would not be reduced in any meaningful sense.” He’s correct of course, but there’s more wrong with this claim than just the factual inaccuracy of the idea that offshore drilling can meaningfully reduce our dependence on foreign oil. (more…)
As John of Dymaxion World snarked, “the state of Israel is insufficiently pro-Israel.