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In Tracking Down And Eliminating Terrorists, We Need To Change Our Metaphor From A "war On Terror" - Exactly What, Pray Tell, Is That? - To The Mind-set Of Interpol Tracking Down Master Criminals Through Intense Global Cooperation Among Nations, Or The Fbi Stalking The Mafia, Or Local Police Determined To Quell Street Gangs Without Leveling The Entire Neighborhood In The Process.

Fate Handed Barack Obama The Best Of All Political Gifts - A Dyspeptic, Surly, Spiteful Opposition On The One Hand And Very Unpopular Financiers On The Other - And He Wouldn't Come Out Punching, Name Names, Or Go For The Jugular. It Was As If While Getting Mugged By Guys With Brass Knuckles, He Turned The Other Cheek. He Even Jeopardized His Pledge To Preserve Women's Rights Under Roe V. Wade In Order To Get A Health Care Bill Written By The Corporate Lapdog Max Baucus And The Gang Of Revolving Door Mercenaries He Hired To Write A Bill Friendly To Industry.

On The Eve Of The Election Last Month My Wife Judith And I Were Driving Home Late In The Afternoon And Turned On The Radio For The Traffic And Weather. What We Instantly Got Was A Freak Show Of Political Pornography: Lies, Distortions, And Half-truths - Half-truths Being Perhaps The Blackest Of All Lies. They Paraded Before Us As Informed Opinion.

David Rockefeller Is The Most Conspicuous Representative Today Of The Ruling Class, A Multinational Fraternity Of Men Who Shape The Global Economy And Manage The Flow Of Its Capital. Rockefeller Was Born To It, And He Has Made The Most Of It. But What Some Critics See As A Vast International Conspiracy, He Considers A Circumstance Of Life And Just Another Day's Work... In The World Of David Rockefeller It's Hard To Tell Where Business Ends And Politics Begins

I'll Believe Corporations Are People When Texas Executes One