#^d 2014-10-03
#^h Working Links
<p>A quick listing of some open tabs as I'm shutting down the computer:</p>

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<li><p><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26513-eric-holder-the-reason-robert-rubin-isn-t-behind-bars">
Dean Baker: Eric Holder: The Reason Robert Rubin Isn't Behind Bars</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/25/threatiness_obama_speech_islamic_state_bombing_iraq_syria_khorasan">
Rosa Brooks: But This Threatiness Goes to 11 . . .</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/26/does-david-cameron-have-any-idea-what-kind-of-war-hes-getting-into/">
Patrick Cockburn: Does David Cameron Have Any Idea What Kind of War He's
Getting Into?</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175901/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_entering_the_intelligence_labyrinth/">
Tom Engelhardt: Failure Is Success</a>: Subtitle: How American Intelligence
Works in the Twenty-First Century. "Intelligence," of course, is not what
the word implies.</p></li>

<li><p><a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/02/feigned-american-support-egyptian-democracy-lasted-roughly-six-weeks/">
Glenn Greenwald: After Feigning Love for Egyptian Democracy, US Back to
Openly Supporting Tyranny</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/who-will-profit-from-the_b_5915794.html">
William Hartung/Stephen Miles: Who Will Profit From the Wars in Iraq
and Syria?</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/opinion/paul-krugman-how-to-get-economic-policy-wrong.html">
Paul Krugman: How to Get It Wrong</a>. His blog is also full of examples
of people getting it wrong; e.g.,
<a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/bill-grosses-idealized-and-actually-existing/">
Bill Gross</a>,
<a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/2011-and-all-that/">
Bill Gross</a>,
<a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/the-pimco-perplex/">
Bill Gross</a>, and
<a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/nobody-could-have-predicted-bill-gross-edition/">
Bill Gross</a>.</p></li>

<li><p><a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/recognize-minister-birthrate">
Kate: 'Only a suicidal country doesn't recognize the Bedouin problem':
Israeli minister seeks ways to lower Bedouin birthrate</a>: and other
stories of life under the Zionist state. For another, earlier report:
<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/settlers-palestinian-abducted">
J'lem settlers amok: 10-year-old Palestinian is run over, 11-year-old
is nearly abducted</a>.</p></li>

<li><p><a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/09/22/shin-bet-murders-palestinians-who-killed-three-israeli-youths/">
Richard Silverstein: Shin Bet Murders Palestinians Who Killed Three Israeli
Youths</a>, and
<a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/10/03/border-police-special-forces-commander-confirms-execution-of-hebron-kidnap-murderers/">
Border Police Special Forces Command Confirms Execution of Hebron
Kidnap-Murderers</a>.</p></li>

<li><p><a href="https://medium.com/data-telling/why-be-curious-about-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century-a03a698937b6">
Why be curious about "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"?</a></p></li>

<li><p>Meanwhile, TPM is still specializing on stupid people saying stupid
things; e.g.
<a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pam-mazanac-us-ended-slavery-voluntarily">
Ed Board Member: Give US Credit for Voluntarily Ending Slavery</a>.</p></li>

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