George of Arabia: Better Kiss Your Abe 'Goodbye'

Bush needs the Saudis to charge us big bucks for oil. The Saudis can't lend the US Treasury and Citibank hundreds of billions of US dollars unless they first get these US dollars from the US. The high price of oil is, in effect, a tax levied by Bush but collected by the oil industry and the Gulf kingdoms to fund our multi-trillion dollar governmental and private debt-load. Full Story »

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by Ben Ross - Oct. 1, 2008

Palast takes the news from an independent angle. Does not pull punches. He makes statements which may be true and are still difficult to corroborate...like "Forget the cost of health care: General Motors’ interest burden quintupled in just two years." Must read! like Krugman!

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