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Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela By Lee Camp/ Truthdig/ February 19, 2019   There are three things I know for sure in this fanciful, sometimes inglorious experience we call life: You will never have a safety pin … Continue reading

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Truth: A Casualty of War

Top 45 Lies in Obama’s Speech at the U.N. By David Swanson/ davidswanson.org/ September 25, 2013 1. President Obama’s opening lines at the U.N. on Tuesday looked down on people who would think to settle disputes with war. Obama was … Continue reading

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The U.S. Is So Unpredictable: Who Could Have Known…?

by Arlen Grossman “Too Big to Fail” Wall Street firms caused a worldwide financial crash, the government bailed them out and didn’t break them up, and yet these  companies continue risky investments and reward their executives with outrageously large salaries … Continue reading

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The Earth’s “High Noon”

BPR Guest Blogger KEYSTONE EXTRA LARGE by Hal Ginsberg/ Dagblog.com/ Jan. 19, 2012 It’s a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If … Continue reading

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BPR Quote of the Day: Iraq War & Oil

‘I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.’ —Alan Greenspan in his memoir, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,  2007.

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