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Posted by Joan Russow
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Tuesday, 28 January 2014 09:15 |
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By John Feffer
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175799/In a future update of The Devil's Dictionary, the famed Ambrose Bierce dissection of the linguistic hypocrisies of modern life, a single word will accompany the entry for "Pacific pivot": retreat.
It might seem a strange way to characterize the Obama administration's energetic attempt to reorient its foreign and military policy toward Asia. After all, the president’s team has insisted that the Pacific pivot will be a forceful reassertion of American power in a strategic part of the world and a deliberate reassurance to our allies that we have their backs vis-à-vis China.
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Tuesday, 07 January 2014 06:30 |
Noam Chomsky: The drug war is the latest manifestation of a centuries-old ‘race war’
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, January 6, 2014 12:10 EST
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/06/noam-chomsky-the-drug-war-is-the-latest-manifestation-of-a-centuries-old-race-war/
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