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The $4.7 Trillion Pyramid: Why Social Security Won't be Enough to Save Wall Street

Michael Hudson •ï¿½April 24, 2005

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Harpers Magazine, April 2005 They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something. â€” J.R. â€œYellow Kidâ€ Weil Social Security, formerly the â€œthird railâ€ of American politics, has now been trod upon, in rather dramatic fashion, by George W. Bush. Given that the maneuver is both stupid and unnecessary, one must ask why.... Read More

Going Seriously Boom

Aboard a Nuclear Missile Sub

Fred Reed •ï¿½September 1, 1988

•ï¿½4,000 Words •ï¿½Leave a Comment

We stood, the captain and I, high in the sail, the rounded steel dorsal fin that used to be called the conning tower, as the sun rose red over the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. A bitter cold wind raced over the Hood Canal, leading to the open Pacific; the water was black and... Read More

The Maserati of Tanks

Splendor, Loose Cows, and A Very Large Gun in Texas

Fred Reed •ï¿½February 1, 1986

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To an observer on one of Fort Hood's flattened prominences, the Abrams M1 tank would seem a dark mote below a high plume of dust, a glint of periscopes, a small furor lost in the vastness and pastels of central Texas. Not even the grandest of tanks can intimidate a landscape. By day and night... Read More

The Racism Racket

Sounding Good While Doing Well

Fred Reed •ï¿½February 1, 1981

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Should anyone in authority say anything sensible about racial policy, an event unlikely to occur before the next Ice Age, he would have to say that when it is not merely futile it often injures the people it is supposed to help; that it succeeds in antagonizing whites without benefiting blacks; that it has become... Read More

A Veteran Writes

A Bad Mood, A Six-Pack, And A Typewriter

Fred Reed •ï¿½December 1, 1980

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I begin to weary of the stories about veterans that are now in vogue with the newspapers, the stories that dissect the veteran's psyche as if prying apart a laboratory frog-patronizing stories written by style-section reporters who know all there is to know about chocolate mousse, ladies' fashions, and the wonderful desserts that can be... Read More

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American Pravda: Holocaust Denial

Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement

Ron Unz

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James Thompson

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American Pravda: Understanding World War II

The Shaping Event of Our Modern World

Ron Unz