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Signs of the Times for Tue, 26 Dec 2006

Signs Economic Commentary for 25 December 2006

Donald Hunt
Signs of the Times
December 25, 2006

Since it's Christmas, what better time to think about the deeper significance of gift exchange? Any retailer knows how important the gift-giving season is for the whole year's performance. What is the meaning of all this gift exchange in a neoliberal economy? The exchange of gifts has always been somewhat difficult, as we will see, for classical economics to understand.

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Why Condemning Israel and the Zionist Lobby is so Important

James Petras
December 22, 2006

"It's no great secret why the Jewish agencies continue to trumpet support for the discredited policies of this failed administration. They see defense of Israel as their number-one goal, trumping all other items on the agenda. That single-mindedness binds them ever closer to a White House that has made combating Islamic terrorism its signature campaign. The campaign's effects on the world have been catastrophic. But that is no concern of the Jewish agencies."

December 8, 2006 statement by JJ Goldberg, editor of Forward (the leading Jewish weekly in the United States)

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Gambling to Save Face on Iraq

December 25, 2006
by Rodrigue Tremblay

Sometimes, when a snake tries to swallow a porcupine, it gets stuck in its throat and the predator has no choice but to spew it out. The neoconservative Bush-Cheney administration, under the pro-Israel Lobby's influence, thought that Iraq would be an easy meal, to be savored while doing an easy "cakewalk", in the words of neocon Ken Adelman: "I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk." Now, the Bush-Cheney administration will spend the next two years it has left attempting to extricate itself from the morass they have brought upon Iraq and upon the United States.

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Why did Russia and China vote to sanction Iran?

By Jorge Hirsch
12/26/06
Information Clearing House

In the aftermath of the Dec. 23 United Nations Security Council unanimous vote imposing sanctions or Iran for failing to suspend uranium enrichment (see text of resolution here), one has to wonder: why did Russia and China go along with it?

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