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A major source of the American debt problem
Notable Concerns
- "Not one has taken responsibility for the biggest foreign policy disaster in U.S. history." Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condolezza Rica, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith.
- The crash of September 2008 brought the largest bankruptcies in world history, pushing more than 30 million people into unemployment and bringing many countries to the edge of insolvency. AlJazeera 10/15/11
- GE, America's largest corporation, paid no taxes last year even though it made 5.1 billion dollars profit in the country [and even more outside the country] [source: same as below]
- In 2009 the richest 5% held 63.5% of American wealth; the bottom 80% controlled 12.8%. [source: same as below]
- Between 2000 and 2007 the richest 10% in America benefited from all of the average growth in the period. In the post WW II period the top 10% benefited from only one third of the growth, the bottom 90% benefiting from the rest of the growth. [Economic Policy Institute, cited by Bob Herbert, NYT 3/26/11]
- In 2010 a "premier" investment bank paid each of its 26,000 employees an average of $370,000. [Bill Gross Pimco Investment Outlook Feb, 2011.]
- In 2005, one-quarter of the corporations in America making a trillion dolars in revenue paid no taxes.
- The 833% Medical Insurance Ripoff: Medicare charges 3% for service; the health insurance companies in Missouri charge 25% for services
- The richest 1 percent of Americans have more net worth than the bottom 90 percent.
- The richest 1 percent of Americans receive more income than the bottom 50%. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/dec/10/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-viral-speech-says-top-1$ >
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- Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?
- Carrie Hritz on the Sealing of the Iraqi Museum
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- Destruction of... Honor Code
- Hakim Taniwal Sept 11
- How far have the insurgents fallen
- Liza Baron on the Street in Damascus
- On the Release of the Truth About the Deception of Our Country
- Seventeen ways that Pakistan is conflicted
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- The Industry from Hell
- The sentence against Mr. Kambakhsh: A fundamental issue of human rights
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Recommended Book List
- A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
- Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. [Ahmed Rashid 2008]
- Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy: 2nd Edition
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
- Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
- Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement
- Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms
- Leaderless Jihad
- Military Inc: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
- Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century
- Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
- The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
- Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Renditions Flights
- Understanding Terror Networks
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- Afghanistanica
- AlterNet
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- Global Terrorism Analysis from The Jamestown Foundation
- Hindustan Times
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- Islam in South Asia - Online Articles from Columbia University
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