Category: Politics
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Elites Explain Why Class Warfare is Good for Productivity
On September 12, 2023, Tim Gurner, the owner of Gurner Group, addressed a crowd at the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit: I think the problem that we’ve had is that people decided they didn’t really want to work so much any more through COVID and that has had a massive issue on productivity… They have…
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Downing Street Memo – Fixing the Facts on Iraq!
United Kingdom, Matthew Rycroft, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Minutes of Discussion, S 195/02, July 23, 2002 SOURCE: Printed in The Sunday Times, May 1, 2005 These notes offer insight into the attitude of the Bush administration toward regime change, the UN route, and propaganda efforts. The document contains the now-notorious statement in…
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The Battle for Iran – CIA History
The CIA routinely prepares histories of important operations for use by future operatives. Let’s take a quick look at the CIA’s The Battle for Iran, author’s name excised, undated (c. mid-1970s) Though no date is given, judging from citations in the footnotes The Battle for Iran was written in or after 1974. It is marked “Administrative –…
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Jimmy Carter Admits to U.S. Willful Destruction of North Korea
Here’s an interesting admission by a former President of the United States Jimmy Carter on North Korea: “And the North Koreans have suffered because the United States have done everything we possible could to destroy the economy of North Korea, we have done everything we possibly could to boost the economy of South Korea, and…
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NSC-124: US Objectives in Southeast Asia
Hi! Here’s an interesting document from the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, East Asia and the Pacific, Volume XII, Part 1. NSC-124 – Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary, Top Secret, Washington, June 25, 1952 Statement of Policy by the National Security Council on United States Objectives and Courses…
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NSC-48: US Post-War Policy in Asia
Hi. Here’s another interesting document from the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East and AustraAsia, Volume VII, Part 2. NSC-48 – The Position of the United States With Respect to Asia A Report to the President by the National Security Council, Top Secret, NSC 48/2Washington, December 30, 1949. Conclusions: Our basic…
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Nayirah – U.S. Propaganda in the First Invasion of Iraq
We all know that the U.S. lied to the world in 2003 about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in addition to some bogus Saddam Hussein/Al-Qaeda link to justify their invasion of that country. But did you know that the U.S. also lied to the world for their first invasion of Iraq in 1991? Because, you…