Two from Truthout:
America in the Hands of a Professional Military
Jeff Shear, Miller-McCune: "Americans observe two anniversaries this year, neither one of them wanted. March marked eight years of combat in Iraq, and October, 10 years of fighting in Afghanistan. These are America's 'long wars,' a seemingly endless grind of combat. These long wars invite comparison, and some recall the eight years of US war in Vietnam, but there is a more compelling distinction. It was a conscript Army that flew its Hueys over the jungles of the Mekong Delta; it is an all-volunteer force that drives its Humvees along the Tigris and in the shattered urban landscape of Kabul."
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Is S&P Helping Crush Social Security and Medicare?
Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: "Today's breathless anxiety-inducing headline was that Standard & Poors, the rating agency, has issued a 'negative outlook' warning on US sovereign debt, claiming that the US, in comparison with other countries with a top AAA credit rating, has 'very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us.' S&P warned that there was a 'a one in three chance that the US could lose its AAA rating in two years because of its mounting debt.'"
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Jeff Shear, Miller-McCune: "Americans observe two anniversaries this year, neither one of them wanted. March marked eight years of combat in Iraq, and October, 10 years of fighting in Afghanistan. These are America's 'long wars,' a seemingly endless grind of combat. These long wars invite comparison, and some recall the eight years of US war in Vietnam, but there is a more compelling distinction. It was a conscript Army that flew its Hueys over the jungles of the Mekong Delta; it is an all-volunteer force that drives its Humvees along the Tigris and in the shattered urban landscape of Kabul."
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Is S&P Helping Crush Social Security and Medicare?
Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: "Today's breathless anxiety-inducing headline was that Standard & Poors, the rating agency, has issued a 'negative outlook' warning on US sovereign debt, claiming that the US, in comparison with other countries with a top AAA credit rating, has 'very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us.' S&P warned that there was a 'a one in three chance that the US could lose its AAA rating in two years because of its mounting debt.'"
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