Links

1'U.S.-Saudi Arms Plan Grows to Record Size' - WSJ;Entous

Oil and petrodollars for weapons and political support to one of the most odious governments on the planet.
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Adolph Reed on Obama, in 1996: "In Chicago, we've gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics..."

Pretty much on the mark.
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2'China and a new world economic order' - Asia Times; Henry Liu

Too bad the Chinese elite is nearly as rapacious as the American one.
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3'Personality Set for Life By 1st Grade, Study Suggests' - Live Science.com
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4'China is a barometer on whether Israel will attack nuclear plants in Iran' - Christian Science Monitor