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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and Zionist Euphemisms

Moshe Arens offers an instructive example of how Zionists employ euphemisms and other dishonesty to cover up the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

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US Policy Fueling Violence and Oppression in Egypt

US policy towards Egypt is helping to fuel the violence, oppression, and social upheaval that could spiral even more dangerously out of control.

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Why Paul Krugman Doesn’t Understand Bubbles

Under the ironically-titled post “Potential Misunderstandings“,Paul Krugmanprofoundly illustrates why he doesn’t understand bubbles by writing,”If you want to claim that an economy has grown unsustainably above potential, you need to show me the accelerating inflation.” Krugman didn’t see the dot-com bubble for what it was. He thought the economy was just fine. He even wrote […]

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Truth In Media: Vaccine Court and Autism

Ben Swann Truth in Media takes a look at Vaccine Court established by Congress in 1985 and what that court has meant for families of vaccine injured children. Plus, has HHS secretly awarded families of autistic children damages while publicly stating there is no connection between autism and vaccines.

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Krugman Admits the Federal Reserve Causes Bubbles

Following the Fed's announcement that it will reduce its purchases of U.S. bonds and mortgage-backed securities by $10 billion, down to $75 billion per month, Paul Krugman implicitly admitted that the Federal Reserve causes bubbles. He commented on the "worry" that the Fed's inflationary policy of quantitative easing (QE, i.e., money printing) "is feeding speculative bubbles" by replying that "surely that’s a feature of cheap money in general".

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Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty: Wealth Inequality

In his New York Times column earlier this week, Paul Krugman tried to make a case for increasing government spending in order to combat wealth inequality (i.e., wealth redistribution), but some of the premises upon which he constructed his argument illustrate his deep intellectual dishonesty.

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Did the Syrian Islamic Front Capture US Arms?

Last week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. was temporarily suspending "nonlethal" aid to the rebels after the Syrian Islamic Front coalition of jihadist groups raided warehouses where U.S.-supplied materials intended for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were being stored. But the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat provides a different story...

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Big Pharma and ADHD Drugs

The New York Times has a pretty good article on Big Pharma, ADHD, and the drugs prescribed to treat it. Titled "The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder", it begins by telling about Dr. Keith Conners, who points out that 15% of high-school aged kids have been diagnosed with it and that the number of children on medication for it has gone from 600,000 in 1990 to 3,500,000 today. One in seven children are diagnosed with ADHD by the age of 18. “The numbers make it look like an epidemic. Well, i...

‘Heart of the Matter’: Myths About Saturated Fat and Cholesterol

This ABC TV (Australia) documentary discusses the myths that eating saturated fat makes you fat and that cholesterol causes heart disease.

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Noam Chomsky on the Federal Reserve

I have an enormous amount of respect for Noam Chomsky. His analyses of U.S. foreign policy are brilliant, and he has been a huge influence on my own work. But over the years, there are two topics on which I have found him extremely disappointing. One is his unquestioning acceptance of the government's official account of 9/11, and the other is his take on the Federal Reserve.

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