Watergate Scandal's "Deep Throat" Reortedly Comes Clean

A former
FBI official claims he was "Deep Throat," the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair reported Tuesday.

W. Mark Felt, 91, who was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.

"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he told lawyer John D. O'Connor, the author of the Vanity Fair article, the magazine said in a news release.

"The Real Problems With $50 Oil"

Henry C K Liu, Asian Times

After oil prices peaked above US$58 a barrel in early April, and stayed around
their current $50 range, the White House announced that it wanted oil to go
back down to $25 a barrel.

There is a common misconception in life that if
only things could go back to the ways they were in the good old days, life
would be good again like in the good old days. Unfortunately, good old days
never return as good old days because what makes the old days good is often
just bad memory.

The problem with market capitalism is that while markets can
go up and markets can go down, they never end up in the same spot. The term
"business cycle" is a misnomer because the end of the cycle is a very
different place from the beginning of a cycle. A more accurate term would be
"business spiral", either up or down or simply sideways.

Oil is a good example whereby this market truism can be observed. When oil
rises above $50 a barrel and stays there for an extended period, the resultant
changes in the economy become normalized facts. These changes go way beyond
fluctuations in the price of oil to produce a very different economy. Below
are 10 new economic facts created by $50 oil.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Support Anarchist Anthropologist David Graeber

After a decision at a meeting convened by tenured faculty at the department of anthropology, Yale University, David Graeber’s [author of 2004 Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology] contract was not renewed.

This is not a situation of David being denied tenure, but rather that the extension of his contract has been denied, and this is an extremely rare situation. In light of his exemplary scholarship and mentoring, many of David’s students and colleagues strongly support his continuing at Yale.

To this end we have created an open petition. As the review process of the decision is going to take place very soon, we request you to support this endeavor by signing this petition as soon as possible. We would also appreciate any other support that you are able to provide. The link of the petition is below. Please feel free to forward this petition to any interested persons or listserves.

http://www.petitiononline.com/dgraeber/petition.ht ml

Thanks,
Durba Chattaraj,
department of anthropology, Yale University;
Devika Bordia,
department of anthropology, Yale University

Andre Gunder Frank, 1929-2005

Pat Manning, World History Network

Andre Gunder Frank died peacefully at 8:30 a.m. on April 23, 2005 in Luxembourg, in the presence of his loved ones, after a long and brave struggle against cancer and its complications. He was a brilliant and highly productive analyst of political economy and related social sciences who produced fundamental insights on global social interactions, from the 1950s until his death, and whose analysis was always connected to campaigns for social justice. He was a founding figure in the current expansion of studies in world history, and his 1998 book, ReOrient, won the World History Association's book prize.