Archive for July 21st, 2010

By Angelo M. Codevilla Spectator.org As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some... »

by Prieur du Plessis InvestmentPostcards.com Wed 21 Jul 2010 Love him or hate him, 85-year old Richard Russell is the doyen of investment letter writers – having been at it for more than half a century – and his views as expressed in his daily Dow Theory Letters always make for stimulating reading. The... »

By Per Bylund. StrikeTheRoot.com July 21, 2010 Exclusive to STR What is fascinating in this day and age is how the definition of previously well-known concepts mysteriously have changed. I’m not thinking of e.g. the word “defense,” which nowadays seems to have a much broader meaning and includes waging wars, occupying foreign nations, and... »

by Douglas Valentine LewRockwell.com The Washington Post has published a splashy exposé about the mammoth “homeland security” intelligence empire that now burdens the United States, financially and ideologically. As usual, however, there is no real historical context. And that lack of context is part of the story – not just the current dimensions of... »

Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling When investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker broke the story four years ago that a DC-9 (N900SA) “registered to a company which once used as its address the hangar of Huffman Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, Florida Airport which trained both terrorist pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade... »