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Support Opednews. Make a tax deductible donation to make OEN Strong.  Headlines By Paul Craig Roberts Whatever Became of Economists -- and the American economy Why did economists make no protest as the US economy was shipped abroad and deep-sixed at home? Globalism, like neoliberal economics, is an instrument of economic imperialism. Labor is exploited, while peoples, cultures, and environments are destroyed. Yet the propaganda is so powerful that people partake of their own destruction. By Chris Hedges We Kill Our Revolutionaries There are lessons about resistance that apply not only to the 2.3 million Americans who are incarcerated but to a society in which the loss of civil liberties and the creation of the security and surveillance state increasingly mirror the prison state. By Richard (RJ) Eskow "His Own Man's" Man: Jeb Bush and the Return of Wolfowitz This war has been the greatest failure in American history. The American people will be paying the price for it for generations to come, in more ways than one. But Jeb Bush has reminded us that there is no price to be paid for failure, or for ethical lapses, among the elites who govern us. By David Corn The Proofiness of Bill O'Reilly Bill O'Reilly tried to win the day by producing documents that, he asserted, showed how he had been unfairly tarred. "In what I consider to be a miracle," he declared, "I found this CBS internal memo from 33 years ago praising my coverage" of a protest in Buenos Aires that happened just as the 1982 Falklands war ended. Three Minutes Of Terror for The Koch Brothers As Bernie Sanders Storms Sunday Show It was a terrifying three minutes for the Koch brothers, as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took on the Kochs directly and delivered a message of populism that struck at the heart of their oligarchic plot to buy control of the federal government on ABC's This Week. Bernie Sanders is the last person that the Koch brothers want to see on a network Sunday morning show. Sen. Sanders (I-VT) did more damage to the Koch conspiracy to buy control of the federal government in three minutes than almost anyone else could have done in ten. By US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute US Army's War College Report on Lying in the Military The US Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute's (SSI) has generated a report: By Media Matters Former CBS News Colleague Calls O'Reilly's Combat Claim "Absurd" Another one of Bill O'Reilly's former colleagues at CBS News is casting doubt on his claims that he reported from a "combat situation" in Buenos Aires during the Falklands War. Charles Krause, a CBS News correspondent from 1980 to 1983 who reported from Buenos Aires during the same period as O'Reilly, is the latest to contradict the Fox News host. By Tom Engelhardt Pepe Escobar: Inside China's "New Normal" Seen from the Chinese capital as the Year of the Sheep starts, the malaise affecting the West seems like a mirage in a galaxy far, far away. On the other hand, the China that surrounds you looks all too solid and nothing like the embattled nation you hear about in the Western media, with its falling industrial figures, its real estate bubble, and its looming environmental disasters. By David Swanson U.S. Army Claims to Be Full of Liars "Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession" is the title of a new paper by Leonard Wong and Stephen Gerras of the U.S. Army's Strategic Studies Institute. Its thesis: the U.S. Army is full of liars who habitually lie as part of a lying culture that has internalized and normalized lying to the point of unrecognizability. By Garland Favorito GA House Republicans Move to Legalize No-Knocks, Allow Murders Georgia House Republicans Moved to Legalize No-Knock Warrants for the First Time in Georgia History, creating HB56 which also helps to allow bad apples in law enforcement to get away with crimes under the newly legalized and highly profitable raids. By Dr. Lenore Daniels The Empire of Necessity Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (Greg Grandin): Of Hulls and "Routes" of Regene A review/essay of Greg Grandin's "The Empire of Necessity." Discover's 25 Best Science Books of All Time From the introductory essay: Patricia Arquette's Badass Oscar Acceptance Speech Demanding Equality for Women During the 87th annual Academy Awards, journeywoman actress Patricia Arquette delivered a rousing speech upon accepting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Boyhood. She brought the house down. "To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights," shouted a fiery Arquette. "It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America!" Laura Poitras Dedicates "Citizenfour" Best Documentary Win To Edward Snowden "Citizenfour" won Best Documentary at the Oscars on Sunday night. Director Laura Poitras accepted the award with Glenn Greenwald by her side. "The disclosures that Edward Snowden reveals don't only expose a threat to privacy but to the many other whistleblowers." The film tells the story of his 2013 National Security Agency leaks. Poitras travels to Hong Kong to meet with Snowden and analyzes the impact of the surveillance documents he revealed as well as his role as a public figure threatening to eclipse the story he unmasked. By Marta Steele The 21st Century: What's in Store for Maryland Voters and the U.S., IV? Will Voters' Privacy and Security Become History Sliding and Slithering Down the IV Slippery Slope. Back, Beast! By Lewis Mehl-Madrona Can We Reinvent Ourselves? I ask the question, can we reinvent ourselves? I believe we can by becoming aware of the stories that we have absorbed which tell us how to live our lives. Through our interaction with others, we can modify those stories to become more effective and satisfying. We absorb stories through being born into a family, a place, a culture. We habitually perform those stories because we don't know better. By Joan Brunwasser Monstah Super PAC: The 99% Strikes Back! We are determined to be a leading voice against nuclear power, Big Pharma and big banking, and in favor of remanufacturing heavy equipment including tractors and cars. Also, putting body cams on every police officer, requiring safety locks for firearms, the proliferation of AEDs to curb sudden cardiac arrest, especially in Big Box stores.