Grappling With Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic

Grappling With Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic:

"How can you vote for someone who wages an undeclared drone war that kills scores of Pakistani children? Or someone who righteously insisted that indefinite detention is an illegitimate transgression against our civilizational values, and proceeded to support that very practice once he was elected?"

"The racist newsletters should in fact be part of the calculus.
So should the uncomfortable fact that bygone complicity in racist newsletters doesn't necessarily make Paul the candidate most complicit in human depravity (sad as that is)...."

Is Ron Paul serious? Blowback in 1979 from a 1953 coup? - YouTube

Is Ron Paul serious? Blowback in 1979 from a 1953 coup? - YouTube

Federal Reserve shipped $12 billion in cash to Iraq

The Federal Reserve sent nearly $12 billion in cash, mainly in $100 bills, to Iraq from 2003 to 2004. According to Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, the Federal Reserve Bank in New York had to pack 181 million individual bills including more than 107 $100 bills on to wooden pallets to be shipped to Iraq. The cash weighed more than 363 tons and was loaded onto C-130 cargo planes to be flown into Baghdad.

A few months earlier, Ron Paul had questioned Ben Bernanke on this and other items; Bernanke called all the allegations "bizarre."