Early life experience for 2-year old learning to smoke a cigarette

Hard to believe nowadays that there was a time when parents were so naive and brainwashed by cigarette advertising. [from the recently Google acquired Time Magazine photo archive - thanks to iheartphotograph]

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Somalia, the Third Front Revisited

In Somalia, the Third Front Revisited, Matthew Blood goes behind the piracy hype to examine a familiar debacle along the other “front” in the U.S. war of terror.
Somalia, the Third Front Revisited
By Matthew Blood, December, 01 2008
Somalia today is approaching a cataclysm not seen since the early 1990s, and the U.S. role has added in no [...]

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Neoliberalism and Bottom-Line Morality

In ZMagazine’s Neoliberalism and Bottom-Line Morality: Notes on Greenspan, Rubin, and the Party of Davos (pasted below), Edward S. Herman dissects the hypocrisy and self-serving worldviews of the dominant “business economists.” In particular he looks at the role Alan Greenspan and the Clinton administration played in preparing the ground for the worldwide economic crash we’re [...]

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