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September 8, 2010

The Gary Null Show – 09/08/10

Powered by Podbean.com Download this episode (right click and save) Today’s guest is Robert Scheer and he has built a reputation as one of the nation’s most honest and insightful political writers. His interviews with past presidents – Nixon, Carter, Regan and Clinton – are well known to many. From 1976 …

David Korten: Bankers, Bookies, and Gamblers

When I studied economics years ago, I recall we were taught that banks serve as financial intermediaries. They take deposits from people in their communities, which they in turn loan to local businesses to invest in productive activities that respond to community needs. The bank absorbs a certain risk in the process, for which it is rewarded with a modest profit. It seems that as a society we have lost sight of the crucial difference between productive investment and gambling, between the banker and the bookie, and between the insurer and the speculator.

Gareth Porter: Biden and the False Iraq War Narrative

In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday , Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq War that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush surge had turned Iraq into a good war after all. That interview serves as a reminder of just how completely the Democratic Party foreign policy elite has adopted that narrative.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the largest and most popular reference site on the Internet. Yet the articles that are pro-health freedom or integrative medicine perspectives are consistently gutted, removed, or vandalized.