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Top Revolutionary Guard commanders assassinated

US Joins Ranks of Failed States | Foreign Policy Journal

If this is not "run by clans", I don't know what is...


Run by clans? What does that even mean? :roll:

Bio of author from the piece.

Paul Craig Roberts
Hon. Paul Craig Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Virginia, the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College. Dr. Roberts has held numerous academic appointments, including Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University. Dr. Roberts served in the Congressional Staff in the House and Senate and was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury by President Ronald Reagan. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1987. Dr. Roberts is author of 'Alienation and the Soviet Economy' and 'The Supply-Side Revolution'. He is coauthor with Matthew Stephenson of 'Marx’s Theory of Exchange, Alienation, and Crisis'. He is coauthor with Karen LaFollette Araujo of 'Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy and The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America'. He is coauthor with Lawrence Stratton of 'The New Color Line and The Tyranny of Good Intentions'. His latest book, 'How The Economy Was Lost', will be published by CounterPunch in October 2009. Dr. Roberts is a columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles.


j-mac
 
Run by clans? What does that even mean? :roll:

Bio of author from the piece.

j-mac

If you put such great emphasis on the biography of a person, here something you didn't mention in your quote:

"Paul Craig Roberts is an economist. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States. He was Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." Roberts has been a critic of both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Are you calling him incompetent, stupid or biased?

Examine what is said, not who speaks” (Arabian proverb)
 
If you put such great emphasis on the biography of a person, here something you didn't mention in your quote:

"Paul Craig Roberts is an economist. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States. He was Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." Roberts has been a critic of both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Are you calling him incompetent, stupid or biased?

Examine what is said, not who speaks” (Arabian proverb)



Um, No Ms. Reactionary.....I asked you what you were saying, then I posted the bio of Roberts from the article you provided....So I left it out? Really? Gawd, get real please....:roll:


j-mac
 
Ever wondered why the burning of your flag is such a popular pastime around the world? In fact, wherever your country puts its "liberating" boot people develop a hobby of flag burning? Maybe they don't want to be "liberated"?

Probably because the luntics that burn our flags cannot really respond in any other way without getting their asses handed to them.
 
I hope we're not involved.

I'm getting sick and tired of the United States being the driving force behind coups, resistance groups and nation-building exercises that ultimately blow up in our faces.

TED,
Reminding you all that the Unites States is directly responsible for the state of Iran's government, which used to be the kind of democracy we claim we love.

You might get a kick out of this then. ( I know its not Iran but still an interesting tidbit.)


Afghan president's brother on CIA payroll
An influential brother of the embattled Afghan President has reportedly been receiving regular payments from CIA agents since the US invasion of the country in 2001.

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been paying Ahmed Wali Karzai, a suspected drug trafficker, for a variety of services, reports the prominent US daily, The New York Times, in its Wednesday edition.

Based on the report, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade and has fielded recruits for an Afghan paramilitary force operating at the CIA's direction in and around his home city of Kandahar.
 
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