Two views on the Mid-East Summit

Srdja Trifkovic and Alexander Cockburn

Other stuff of interest from Counterpunch:

Michael Hudson, Does Our Economy Really Have to Run on Fraud? 

Winslow T. Wheeler, The Surge in Defense Spending: What Did the Pentagon Do With That Extra Trillion Dollars?

Ralph Nader, Labor Day in a Time of Recession

Jack Bradigan Spula, Restoring the Gulf the Right Way

Kim Nicolini, Meth and Myth in the Ozarks -- which discusses the movie Winter's Bone (Sundance) .

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