Home Third World Traveler, third world, United States foreign policy, alternative... BuzzFlash - Daily Headlines and Breaking News | Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude Former Wall Street Goldman Sachs executive Nomi Prins is back with a thoroughly documented historical account of how DC and financial barons are locked at the hip. Accessible and compelling: Buy directly from Truthout by clicking here. The US Is Fast Becoming a Third World Police State by Jeff Burwick As a P.T. (often referred to as perpetual traveler, permanent tourist or prior taxpayer), I have traveled to nearly 100 countries. During those travels there has always been one defining moment, upon entry into a country, which shows that the country is what is generally thought of as a "third world country". It is the moment when, upon arrival, you are charged a fee to enter the country. They have this in Cambodia, Indonesia, Bolivia and numerous other similar countries. The US has long-used "visa application fees" to bilk money from people in countries like Thailand as a way to raise money but now the US has announced that they are going to charge a $5.50 fee to Canadians upon entering the US. The fee is ludicrous and counterproductive for many reasons. Not to mention the hilarity of calling it an "inspection fee".
The Public Record | Intrepid New Journalism CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names Aftermath News | Independent Post-9/11 News Liberal News Glenn Greenwald on the Democrat's leading hawk Peter Galbraith, who, as it turns out, had a huge financial stake in the Iraq war: After playing a key role in enabling the invasion of Iraq, Galbraith first became one of a handful of U.S. officials who worked on writing the Iraqi Constitution, and after he resigned from the government, he then continuously posed as an independent expert on the region and, specifically, an "unpaid" adviser to the Kurds on the Constitution. autonomy, arguing tirelessly in numerous venues for such proposals – including in multiple Op - Eds for and insisting that Kurds must have the right to control oil resources located in Northern Iraq….. What Galbraith kept completely concealed all these years was that a company he formed in 2004 came to acquire a large stake in a Kurdish oil field whereby, as the put it, he "stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars." direct — and vast — financial stake in the very policies which he was
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