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The USA backed a military coup that ousted the Haitian government in 1991. The US again backed a military coup that ousted the same president, Aristide, in 2004. The president in t…

Ho-hum. The military campaign which lead to these people's deaths was planned by one man. Osama bin Laden, a Saudi plucked from obscurity when the US government began (via ISI) hea…

But the US did "do business" with the Khmer Rouge. The moment the Khmer Rouge fell from power in 1979, the US began fighting for them to keep control of the Cambodian United Nation…

I'm too impatient for negative replies...let me write my own. Let me try to get into the mind of some Phillips Exeter heir who now lives in the Mission and is working for Zynga or …

I have pictures too... 1950 US memo talking about the orders to machine gun Korean civilians https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/No_Gun_R... and some of the dead bo…

I used to work in IT at an investment bank. We got no overtime, and had to work all hours - 9 hours a day, sometimes starting at 7 AM, weekend work, pages in the middle of the nigh…

> Have you ever read anything his law clerks wrote for him while on the court? (fixed)

Harry Shearer did an excellent mini-series three years ago called "Nixon's the One". It's just a verbatim reenactment of conversations from Nixon's tapes ( https://www.youtube.com/…

And people like this wonder why people are flocking to Bernie Sanders and blocking Google buses.. > I am telling you, there is going to be a revolution. There is, and this parasite…

> Israel is threatened by Iran and Iran's leaders have said they would wipe Israel off the map. This was not said, it's just Zionist propaganda. Even the Washington Post says so ( …

> Don't forget that Egypt and Jordan get foreign Aid, 1.5B$ while Israel gets 3B$ What? Egypt got no "foreign aid" until some post-Nasserite forces in Egypt got together and decide…

> only liberal democracy in the middle east What a laugh. A Palestinian in Hebron whose family has been there for thousands of years gets no vote, whereas a Jew from Brooklyn who j…

The language in this is Orwellian. She talks about how new construction is needed and how people are stopping it. Then she points to examples where people are not stopping it, just…

> industrial capacity has been rising that is what "more capital equipment exists" means. Its utilization of 87%+ in the late 1960s to below 77% in 2011 is the problem. > inflation…

Debt is a symptom, not the disease. Excessive debt is a method of not dealing with problems and kicking the can down the road. Of course it makes things ultimately worse, but why d…

When I went into Facebook's bathroom, at eye level over each urinal was posted a weekly newsletter, which talked about changes to their PHP API.

The facts which Wittes gives are way off. He links to "civil suits against the companies who provide service to ISIS and other bad guys". The civil suit is regarding a Jordanian po…

> China has a big us against the world mentality In 2001, George Bush ordered the Air Force to fly along the Chinese border, to purposefully set off China's attack systems. Then, o…

Hugo Chávez has been dead for three years, and the Venezuelan parliament is controlled by right wing parties. Obviously economic problems of today are attributable to someone burie…

The US taxpayer and government funds public research, and the results are given as private profit to publishers. Swartz downloads papers en masse, something he may have had a murky…

USA: Extermination of natives, slavery, company towns and child labor, Jim crow etc. England: English colonialism from Drogheda to Amristar, plus the domestic Peterloo, child labor…

> For examples of the atrocious consequences of "basic income" divorced from free markets, see the Soviet Union, East Germany, Red China What are those atrocious consequences? For …

A startup is a corporation with angels and VCs (who raise money from LPs). Over time, the larger startups go on NASDAQ or the NYSE, and then after time issue dividends. They exprop…

> If you attack economic inequality, you're indiscriminately attacking both the good and bad causes. Graham keeps returning to this point, which is a little silly. His class owns a…

> If you're going to lump together everything even tenuously connected to the military (all of NASA? all of the State Department? all of the Department of Energy?) I very clearly s…