By Gary Brecher
![The War Nerd Vs. Neocon Knucklehead Victor Davis Hanson: A War Nerd Classic](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/war-nerd-flamethrower1-200x200.jpg)
For your reading pleasure, The eXiled is reposting one of the War Nerd’s most famous–and hilarious–episodes: The epic battle pitting Gary Brecher against neocon historian Victor Davis Hanson, guru to Dick Cheney and “Scooter” Libby. Like Bull Run, this battle…
By Anathapindika Bhikkhu
![Caterpillar CEO's Business Strategy: "Bluster While You Plunder"](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/oberhelman1-1-200x200.jpg)
They grow some giant hogs back there in Illinois, but the CEO of Caterpillar, HQ’d in Illinois, represents a whole new subspecies of giant pork-fat-based fauna, a species that has developed the ability to lecture America and about the evils of taxing poor multinational corporations like Caterpillar, while simultaneously stuffing embezzled tax money into his pork-fattened coffers.
By Yves Smith
![Get Ready For TARP 2.0!](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/obama-axelrod-white-tux1-200x200.png)
This article by Yves Smith is cross-posted from Naked Capitalism. Washington DC appears to be readying itself for a repeat of the TARP, namely, the passage of unpopular legislation to appease the Market Gods (and transfer even more income from…
By Mark Ames
![Khloe Kardashian's Army: Meet The C-List Celebrity Martyrs To TSA "Tyranny"](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/kardashian-flashing1-200x200.jpg)
Khloe Kardashian, Donna D’Errico of Baywatch, former Miss USA Susie Castillo, Playboy nude-model Tammy Banovac, Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones: to most Americans, a list of names like that sounds like the punch-line to an elaborate pop culture comedy routine….
By Mark Ames
![Black Metal Nation: How Norway Spawned The World's Most Violent Rightwing Metalheads](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Varg_Vikernes-200x200.jpg)
My idea of a Norwegian was always some cheerless Social Democrat in a knit sweater whose greatest joy in life was comparing the price of beer in Prague (cheap) to the price of beer in Krakow (even cheaper). Then I…
By Ramon Glazov
![How An Australian Oligarch Is Using Dirty Tricks And Libertarian Lies To Fleece Aborigines Out Of Billions](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/forrest-leads-mining-tax-rally-200x200.jpg)
My blood’s boiling as I write this: Roebourne (the town where I grew up) is under attack by Australia’s richest man, a West Australian oligarch named Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest.
The reason why this vampire-billionaire wants my hometown: Roebourne’s resident Aborigines, the Yindjibarndi people, are sitting on $280 billion dollars worth of iron ore deposits. And Forrest’s mining company, Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), wants what the Yindjibarndi have.
By Mark Ames
![FOC The RATS! Bring Back Ike's Tax Rate On The Rich](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wpid-still-like-ike-200x200.jpg)
The eXiled has set up an emergency “deficit crisis” website calling on America to restore President Eisenhower’s top tax rate on the wealthiest 0.1% Americans: RATFOCR. Everyone agrees that the Golden Age for America’s middle-class was under President Eisenhower, when…