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Terrorism expert Steve Emerson says there's no hope of victory in the war on terrorism until we call it what it really is.

This past Saturday, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece entitled "What They Hate about Mumbai," focusing specifically on the free market sins of that great city. With contrived evenhandedness, the op-ed managed to blame both Hindus and Muslim extremists-without blaming either party in particular for the murderous attacks.

To begin with, the Federal Reserve is a private company of bankers with twelve branch banks that confiscate our money and they have been doing this for almost a hundred years. They are not part of the United States government but they collect hundreds of billions of dollars, sometimes trillions, from the American taxpayers every year.

December 1, 2008
By Cliff Kincaid

CNN's "Late Edition" Sunday program featured the views of several observers, including so-called "Republican strategist" Ed Rollins, who could find nothing objectionable in any of President-elect Barack Obama's controversial pro-U.N. nominations in the foreign policy arena. Rollins' views were indistinguishable from those of Democratic Party strategist James Carville.