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22. I looked around that website. What is it you find "indelicate" there?...

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Sun Aug 19, 2012, 10:31 AM

Aug 2012

Just asking. Maybe I missed something.

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The West Has Just Become A Giant Banana Republic [View all] xchrom Aug 2012 OP

banking information was a significant part of the issue spike91nz Aug 2012 #1

This is one of the most important posts I've seen to explain why Pres. Obama truth2power Aug 2012 #10

+1000 HooptieWagon Aug 2012 #24

I have pointed this out several times also over the past few days. There sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #26

Thanks, Sabrina. Sometimes I can't keep up. But I remember now about truth2power Aug 2012 #27

Good post. If you remember, Assange had said that Wikileaks would be publishing leaked info sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #29

Your sidebar story prompts me to post one. :) The ebay powerseller message board is Doremus Aug 2012 #30

That person should read "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII" truth2power Aug 2012 #31

That's the truth. Doremus Aug 2012 #32

I forgot about Smedley Butler. Thanks. truth2power Aug 2012 #33

Assange got Spitzered by the big banks cartel librechik Aug 2012 #28

Sometimes xchrom it feels like turtlerescue1 Aug 2012 #2

I am disgusted to see the US abandon all its principles in this sorry situation. NC_Nurse Aug 2012 #3

agreed Swagman Aug 2012 #6

Agreed times two. nt avebury Aug 2012 #9

When I mention Julian Assange, virtually no one knows who he is. Sad. but the propaganda machine truth2power Aug 2012 #34

K&R! Send straight to Greatest Threads! This push (and I mean push) to the Right has spread too Dustlawyer Aug 2012 #4

just? datasuspect Aug 2012 #5

Hell of an author you've picked there. Robb Aug 2012 #7

he makes it pretty regularly into mainstream sites like businessinsider. xchrom Aug 2012 #8

I looked around that website. What is it you find "indelicate" there?... truth2power Aug 2012 #22

Here's the problem with this line of thought malaise Aug 2012 #11

K&R backscatter712 Aug 2012 #12

Heh heh. "40 hours a week". Curious, isn't it? eom truth2power Aug 2012 #35

I'm done with the spinners. riderinthestorm Aug 2012 #36

"left this thread alone" You know why that is... truth2power Aug 2012 #41

Agreed! K&R nt riderinthestorm Aug 2012 #42

The USA has always been a "banana republic." hunter Aug 2012 #13

that's utterly ridiculous. it's always been a flawed nation, but that's another story cali Aug 2012 #15

More accurately, we have enabled banana republicanism in many nations due Cleita Aug 2012 #17

A glaringly flawed nation... hunter Aug 2012 #18

sure, glaringly flawed- although, not historically, without quite a few postive attributes cali Aug 2012 #19

Some of us are allowed to live among the wealthy as a "middle class." hunter Aug 2012 #20

From the same source: tama Aug 2012 #40

The 1% simply can NOT allow... bvar22 Aug 2012 #14

Bankers in the west have applied unfettered laissez faire JRLeft Aug 2012 #16

WikiLeaks shows that 'Money Trumps Peace' is Buy-Partisan... Octafish Aug 2012 #21

The Western World is less ruled by Democracy than Corporatocracy cr8tvlde Aug 2012 #23

How did I miss this post? JDPriestly Aug 2012 #25

When we speak about this, it's almost as if it's in third person--"they" did this, or that. WE did Romulox Aug 2012 #37

shhhh -- we're not allowed to speak of that. nt xchrom Aug 2012 #38

Indeed tama Aug 2012 #39

All this fuss about war crimes and rape, when all along it was about the money. GliderGuider Aug 2012 #43

Evening kick. nt riderinthestorm Aug 2012 #44