Who killed Swedish Prime Minister Olaf thirty years ago?

By Dennis Edwards: Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme may very well have signed His own death warrant, when on the 29th of September 1985 Swedish Customs Officials raided the Malmo offices of the arms-broker Karl-Erik Schmitz.[1] It was thirty years ago...

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I see my old battalion assigned to Helmand again and I wonder: What is the point?

By Stephen Carlson, Washington Post, February 27, 2016:The Pentagon recently announced that an undisclosed number of U.S. soldiers will be sent to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan in a “force protection” role. It’s a minor story, perhaps, considering...

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How Exercise May Lower Cancer Risk

By Gretchen Reynolds, NY Times, February 24, 2016:The relationship between exercise and cancer has long both intrigued and puzzled oncologists and exercise physiologists.Exercise is strongly associated with lowered risks for many types of cancer. In epidemiological...

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IMF warns the global economy is “highly vulnerable”

BBC, 25 February 2016          The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the global economy has weakened further and warned it was “highly vulnerable to adverse shocks”. It said the weakening had come “amid increasing financial...

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The US is selling weapons to nearly half the countries in the world

Samuel Oakford, VICE News, Feb. 24, 2016 The global trade in arms continued to grow over the last half decade, buoyed by an appetite for weapons in the Middle East. Figures released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a monitoring group,...

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On The Front Line With the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Battling Outside Aleppo

By Robert Fisk, The Independent, February 24, 2016: We knew who they were the moment they approached us on the front line outside Aleppo. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards–no longer merely advisers but fighting troops alongside the Syrian army–emerged on the...

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Making Sense of the Syria “Ceasefire” with Pepe Escobar

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We all know exercise makes you live longer. But this will actually get you off the couch.

By David Brown, Washington Post, February 22, 2016: When someone dies in the intensive care unit, the first thing the nurse does is turn off the EKG monitor. That’s because the heart can go on depolarizing–writing its electrical signature on the screen, if...

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A Question of Values: Do You Cross the Line?

By Dennis Edwards: Recently I was talking with my older son and he mentioned the subject of euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research. He was of the opinion that the most Christian position would be to support both euthanasia and embryonic stem cell...

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What is The Mandrake Mechanism?

By G. Edward Griffin Editor's Note: The Federal Reserve Act was passed by 3 (THREE) bribed senators in a unanimous voice vote (all three of them) on 23 December 1913 - while everyone else was home for the holidays.  Some people think of the Federal...

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