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Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
[…] making spending decisions which are not the most materially beneficial or even harmful ) in the way people make economic decisions. For example, people smoke, drink, take drugs and overeat despite knowing they are spending money on that which has deleterious effects on their health. They bet even when they know it is very […]
Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics
[PDF file]: […] return.’116 * Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (South End […]
Mexico missive
[PDF file]: […] for exploitation. Additionally, any ‘wall’ that might be raised along the remaining undefended southern border would play into the hands of the most organised and technically able drugs cartels. By this I mean the gangs that already have tunnels that run underneath the border at multiple urban locations all along the frontier.5 In the […]
The view from the bridge
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Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
Swedish echoes
[PDF file]: […] Fire: My Own Story (London: W. H. Allen, 1989), an account by Captain Simon Hayward, late of Her Majesty’s Life Guards, of being caught up in a drugs bust in the city of Linköping in southern Sweden. In March of 1987 Captain Hayward was arrested when he was found to be driving a car […]