An attentive LRC reader has alerted me that in David Talbot’s new book, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, the author alludes to the groundbreaking Rolling Stone article, “The Hughes-Nixon-Lansky Connection: The Secret Alliances of the CIA From WWII to Watergate,” by Howard Kohn, in discussing CIA covert funding of American domestic political campaigns. (My copy is slated to arrive early next week from Amazon and I can’t wait to delve into it.) Younger LRC readers need to be critically aware of what they undoubtedly consider “ancient history” in shaping the world in which … Continue reading

I wonder whether Americans realize just how closely the United States is coming to resemble a country of the Third World, not just in its corruption and attributes of a police state, but in the incompetence of governmental bureaucracies. Federal agencies don’t work. They are rotted by affirmative action. The bureaucrats are inattentive, unaccountable,  anonymous, can’t be fired, and get paid whether they do their jobs or not. Congress is not interested. A few examples, from my experience or that of people I know, mostly involving veterans, but typical. Nightmare the First: Incompetence at State A few weeks ago my wife and I, … Continue reading

Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in“legitimating the environmental injustices of war,” a harrowing new scholarly report concludes. “During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the US Department of Defense burned the majority of its solid waste in open-air pits or trenches, producing large amounts of potentially hazardous emissions,” noted Eric Bonds, assistant professor of sociology at University of Mary Washington, in his investigation, published in the journal Environmental Politics. “It is well known that the uncontrolled burning of plastics, … Continue reading

For many it is a guilty pleasure, an indulgence saved for the weekend. But, rather than feel bad about securing yourself a couple of hours shut eye during the day, a team of scientists are suggesting regular daytime naps might actually boost your health. Their research reveals that memories associated with a reward are preferentially reinforced by sleep. Even a short nap after a period of learning is beneficial. Lead researcher, Dr Kinga Igloi from the University of Geneva, said: ‘Rewards may act as a kind of tag, sealing information in the brain during learning. ‘During sleep, that information is … Continue reading

There is no quality more fleeting than modernity and nothing staler than an analysis of a past crisis that was written at the time it was happening. The problem with our present economic crisis is that it has been going on since 2007 (or is it 2006 or 2008, one tends to gets a little muddled in one’s chronology), so that it has become less a crisis than a way of life. No doubt at some point in this crisis national income per head declined by 5 percent from its peak, but before that it must have risen 5 percent … Continue reading

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The situation is suddenly very ripe for President Obama’s immediate removal from office.  In that same context, with her Benghazi testimony scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 22 before the House Select Committee, it is also to be expected that Hillary Clinton will soon be dumped as well.
 
Over the weekend, President Obama was stung by four devastating attacks on his crimes in office.  Most dramatically, new details continue to emerge from the Drone Papers, the leaked documents that show that President Obama, from his earliest days in office, was in charge of a global assassination program, run out of the White House Situation Room, in which thousands of people were targeted for assassination in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, under Obama’s drone-kill program.  An estimated 90 percent of the victims of this mass murder program were not even on the target lists, personally signed by Obama. They were, however, immediately classified as terrorists and enemy combatants to cover up the magnitude of the Obama crimes.
 
The Drone Papers were only first made public on Thursday, but already, Amnesty International has demanded a thorough Congressional investigation.  More to the point, Lyndon LaRouche demanded over the weekend that Obama be immediately removed from office, either through impeachment or the invoking of the 25th Amendment—and then put on trial before a criminal court for mass murder.
 
On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine published a lengthy reprise of Seymour Hersh’s May 2015 expose of the fraud behind the Obama White House account of the murder of Osama bin Laden in 2011.  Obama, then-White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan, and others in the Obama inner circle, blatantly lied about the circumstances surrounding the killing of bin Laden, all to boost Obama’s re-election prospects at the expense of the truth.  Obama and his team fabricated an elaborate Hollywood-style fable about the raid in Abbottabod, Pakistan, touting the CIA’s sleuth work, when the key information all came from a Pakistani officer who walked in with the precise location of the Al Qaeda leader—in return for the $25 million reward. The White House, typically, covered up the role of the Saudis, who paid for years for bin Laden’s safe keeping under the watchful eye of Pakistan’s ISI.  The New York Times Magazine, while not fully corroborating the Hersh account, gave the first prominent American media coverage of the real story.
 
The highly-respected international organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) escalated their campaign against Obama by issuing new charges and new evidence over the weekend that the US willfully bombed their hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and then sent in heavy vehicles to plow over the evidence.  An unnamed Pentagon source confirmed that MSF had “done everything right,” in documenting the location of the hospital so it was placed on an off limits list, made up of hospitals, schools and mosques that were never to be attacked, even if there was evidence of Al Qaeda or Taliban fighters in the immediate vicinity.  This was another Obama mass kill operation, and it may be relevant that the bombing in Kunduz came at a point that MSF vowed to fight to defeat Obama’s signature Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, because it would deny life-saving generic drugs to half a billion poor people around the world.
 
With the Hillary Clinton testimony coming up, ABC News on Sunday morning aired a documentary expose of Obama, Clinton, Victoria Nuland and Ben Rhodes, for lying to the American people and covering up the Al Qaeda assault on the US compound in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, where US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other American officials were killed.  The ABC broadcast mirrored Lyndon LaRouche and Jeffrey Steinberg’s Dec. 2012 National Press Club briefing, proving that Obama and Clinton knew, as the attacks were underway, that it was a premeditated, heavily armed Al Qaeda attack, conducted by the AQIM affiliated Ansar al-Sharia terrorist group.  Nuland, Obama, Clinton and Rhodes, along with Susan Rice, were all implicated in the ABC story in the crafting of the lies about the Benghazi attack, knowing full well that the attack had nothing to do with any “spontaneous demonstrations” about the slandering of the Prophet Mohammed.
 
The second part of the same ABC broadcast featured an interview with former Rep. Peter Hoekstra, who chaired the House Intelligence Committee, and charged that Obama had betrayed Libyan leader Qadaffi, who had become a leading ally in the war against Islamist terrorists, and that the Obama Administration had trained and armed the very terrorists who had carried out the 9/11/12 Benghazi slaughter.
 
The Drone Papers alone constitute a clear criminal bill of indictment against Obama that goes far beyond the “high crimes and misdemeanors” standard for impeachment.  Obama’s immediate removal from office is now the sanity test for the US Congress.
 
There is an opportunity, this week, to dump Obama and begin the process of restoring the United States to proper Constitutional rule, something that has been steadily eroded over the past 15 years of Bush and Obama.  There is nothing more important to be acted upon, starting right now.

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I don’t comment frequently on the state of financial markets these days, but the following article from Bloomberg really grabbed my attention. It relates to interest coverage ratios across corporate America, and quite frankly, I was stunned to see how badly balance

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