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Monthly Archives: September 2013
426 dead Syrian children? US 1% heartlessly poverty-kill 1 million children/month in gruesome slow agony
Best current evidence shows that 426 dead Syrian children were murdered by the criminal US 1% and minions as a false flag attack to cause war on Syria. False flags are an aggressor nation committing a horrendous act, blaming the targeted nation, and then … Continue reading
Forget Partisan Rhetoric … The Threatened Government Shutdown Is Caused By Bad Policy By BOTH PARTIES
The Real Cause of the Crisis Preface: Remember what the Founding Fathers said about partisan soap operas. While partisans focus on specific things the other side is doing – “Obamacare” and the “debt ceiling” are the buzzwords of the day … Continue reading
This Way
By Kathy Kelly This article is the foreword to David Swanson’s new book, War No More: The Case for Abolition. I lived in Iraq during the 2003 Shock and Awe bombing. On April 1st, about two weeks into the aerial … Continue reading
Does the Government Only Label Bad Guys As Terrorists?
Government Blurs the Lines Between Bad Guys and Average Americans Preface: Whether you believe this is a conspiracy by the government – or just over-reaction, incompetence or cronyism – the end result is idiotic … and counter-productive. Former NSA boss … Continue reading
NSA Central to U.S. Assassination Program
Intelligence Agencies Central In Assassination Programs Carried out Without Oversight We’ve previously documented that the NSA isn’t just passively spying like a giant peeping tom, but is actively using that information in mischievous ways … such as assassinations. A lot … Continue reading
Pulitzer journalist: Corporate 1% media ‘pathetic, obsequious, LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING’
We all learned in high school social science that oligarchies control populations with three key areas: Government in order to manage laws and enforcement. Creating what is used for money for their own riches and to pay minions. Media propaganda … Continue reading
NSA Tapping Internet Backbone, and Spying On (and Graphing) Our Social Networks
New NSA Spying Revelations Senator Diane Feinstein unintentionally confirmed that the NSA is tapping into the Internet’s very backbone: Upstream collection… occurs when NSA obtains internet communications, such as e-mails, from certain US companies that operate the Internet background [she … Continue reading
NSA’s Spying On Metadata Violates Our Freedom of Association
Why You Should You Care If the Government Spies On Your Metadata The government has sought to “reassure” us that it is only tracking “metadata” such as the time and place of the calls, and not the actual content … Continue reading
College Protests of Absence of War Led by Professors
Come gather round people wherever you roam. And admit that the bullshit around you has grown. Students used to get out of tests and assignments by explaining to sympathetic professors that they had been busy protesting the war on Vietnam. … Continue reading
Major New Polls: Americans Are Sick of War
Americans Think that Putin and Even Assad Have Done a Better Job than Obama A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows : More Americans disapprove than approve of how Mr. Obama is handling relations with Iran. *** Americans overwhelmingly … Continue reading
The Stunning Truth About Inequality In America
Cheat Sheet on Inequality Talk about inequality has been in the news recently, but you won’t believe what’s really happening in America today: Inequality in America today is twice as bad as in ancient Rome, worse than it was in … Continue reading
Bad Government Policy Has Created the Worst Inequality On Record … And It’s Destroying Our Economy
It’s Not an Accident … It’s Policy America is experiencing unprecedented inequality. And a who’s who of prominent economists (and investors) say that inequality is hurting the economy. Defenders of the status quo pretend that this inequality is something outside … Continue reading
Who’s Who of Prominent Economists and Billionaire Investors Say that Runaway Inequality Harms the Economy
Growing Consensus that Inequality Causes Economic Downturns A who’s-who’s of prominent economists in government and academia have all said that runaway inequality harms economic growth, including: Fed chairman Ben Bernanke (video continues here) Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin (more) … Continue reading
Occupy Everything. Did We Ever Give It Back?
When the Pentagon ends an occupation, crawling home from Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan with its Tomahawk missile dragging between its legs, it declares victory every time. And, depending on how you define victory, it certainly leaves lasting effects. The … Continue reading
Top 45 Lies in Obama’s Speech at UN
1. President Obama’s opening lines at the U.N. on Tuesday looked down on people who would think to settle disputes with war. Obama was disingenuously avoiding the fact that earlier this month he sought to drop missiles into a country … Continue reading
“Covering Up The [Gulf] Oil Spill With Corexit Was a Deadly Action … What Happened In the Gulf Was a Political Act, an Act of Cowardice and Greed”
A Tragedy Our Society Should Never Repeat Preface: Additional interviews of leading government-affiliated experts concerning the Gulf oil spill here and here. As we reported at the time, the EPA allowed BP to dump mass quantities of a highly-toxic chemical … Continue reading
More Americans than Ever – Sixty Percent (60%) – Believe Government Has Too Much Power
Americans Becoming Increasingly Wary of Government Power Gallup published a new poll yesterday showing that the highest number ever measured – 60% of all Americans – believe that the government has too much power. Six in 10 Americans (60%) believe … Continue reading
What We Could Do with a Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure that Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers a Dime
Guest post by Ellen Brown, http://www.WebofDebt.com. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is the nation’s second largest civilian employer after WalMart. Although successfully self-funded throughout its long history, it is currently struggling to stay afloat. This is not, as sometimes asserted, … Continue reading
4-minute video: ‘How dare any American criticize legitimate resistance to illegal US wars’
4-minute video of Dahlia Wasfi’s epic speech: Physician Dahlia Wasfi’s powerful speech featured in TheParadigmShift 2009 video. Our only apparent solution: the 99% demanding arrests of obvious US War Criminals (video has images of US war-murders): “We have an obligation … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Congress Members
In 2010 in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, many people who prioritize peace over war probably voted for Democrat Tom Perriello over Republican Robert Hurt. I know many who did just that. Here’s what Congressman Hurt said on Tuesday about Syria: … Continue reading
The Government Is Spying On Us Through Our Computers, Phones, Cars, Buses, Streetlights, At Airports And On The Street, Via Mobile Scanners And Drones, Through Our Smart Meters, And In Many Other Ways
Take a Peek at How Widespread Spying Has Become Even now – after all of the revelations by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers – spying apologists say that the reports are “exaggerated” or “overblown”, and that the government only spies … Continue reading
Spy Agencies Are Doing WHAT?
New Revelations Are Breaking Every Day Revelations about the breathtaking scope of government spying are coming so fast that it’s time for an updated roundup: The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just “metadata” … … Continue reading
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
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Ending One War, Ending All Wars
Remarks on September 21, 2013, at the Nashville Festival for Peace, Prosperity, and Planet. Thank you to Elizabeth Barger and the Nashville Peace and Justice Center and to all of you, and happy International Day of Peace! From a certain … Continue reading
Obama’s “I Am Not a Crook” Moment
Obama Says America Is Not a Banana Republic and We Have to Pay Our Bills … What Do Experts Say? America’s top liberal communications expert is George Lakoff. Professor Lakoff (who we’ve previously interviewed) points out that when a politician says “Not … Continue reading
Polls: Democratic and Republican Politicians Both Oppose Core American Values … Support Policies Which Help Fatcats While Hurting the Little Guy
Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com. Americans Becoming Increasingly Resentful of Skewed Government Policies Polls show that – despite President Obama’s rhetorical skills – Americans don’t like his core policies. This is not a partisan statement … Americans have come to … Continue reading
You’re Much More Likely to Be Killed By Lightning than by a Terrorist
Calm Down … You Are Much More Likely to Be Killed By Boring, Mundane Things than Terrorism The U.S. Department of State reports that only 17 U.S. citizens were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2011. That … Continue reading
5 Years After the Financial Crisis, The Big Banks Are Still Committing Massive Crimes
Preface: Not all banks are criminal enterprises. The wrongdoing of a particular bank cannot be attributed to other banks without proof. But – as documented below – many of the biggest banks have engaged in unimaginably bad behavior. You Won’t … Continue reading
The Grim Facts About Global Nuclear Stockpiles
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Chemical Weapons Expert: U.S. Deadline for Syrian Chemical Weapons Is Contrary to International Law
International Agency Made Up of 41 Nations will Decide Timeline Given that the U.S. has now backed down from its insistence that a UN resolution on Syria include the use of force – and there are indications that Syria won’t meet … Continue reading
What Both Sides Are Missing In The Debt Ceiling Debate
It’s Not a Fiscal Cliff … It’s the Breakdown of the Rule of Law Originally posted in July 2011. Re-posted in light of the debt ceiling drama. The blood pressure of the patient in the emergency room drops precipitously. The … Continue reading
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives
Guest post by Ellen Brown, http://www.WebofDebt.com. Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow banks, although free of government regulation, are propped up by a … Continue reading
The Sierra Club Takes on the U.S. Marine Corps
In this moment in which the public will and a bit of nerve in Congress have made refusing to let a president launch a bunch of missiles into a foreign country a reality and therefore mainstream and respectable (rather than … Continue reading
2nd Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
By David DeGraw, EvolveSociety [See this for DeGraw’s role in organizing the Wall Street protests.] [Background on Occupy Wall Street here and here] Despite all our rage, we are still just debt slaves in a mental cage. It’s been two … Continue reading
Bill Maher: “If The World Is Going To Get Together And Unite To Invade Some Country That’s Poisoning Us, It Shouldn’t Be Syria. It Should Be JAPAN”
Bill Maher said this week: If the world is going to get together and unite to invade some country that’s poisoning us, it shouldn’t be Syria. It should be Japan. Do you think Japan needs an intervention? He’s right.
UN Investigating 14 Different Chemical Weapons Attacks In Syria
All Syrian Chemical Weapons Attacks Must Be Investigated The UN weapons inspection team reported today that sarin was used in the Ghouta region of Syria on August 21st. The team’s report implies that the Syrian government carried out the attacks. … Continue reading
Global Credit Excess Is WORSE than Before the 2008 Crash
Precarious Credit Bubble Threatens Global Economy The world’s most prestigious financial agency – the central banks’ central bank, called the Bank of International Settlements or “BIS” – has slammed U.S. economic policy for a decade. For example, BIS has long … Continue reading
Big Banks Manipulated Gold and Silver Markets
Gold and Silver Are Manipulated The Guardian and Telegraph report that gold and silver prices are “fixed” in the same way as interest rates and derivatives – in daily conference calls by the powers-that-be. Long-time trader Andrew Maguire told told … Continue reading
Attacking Syria Or Iran Would HURT the American Economy
Top Economists Say War Is Bad for the Economy Preface: Many Americans – including influential economists and talking heads – assume that war is good for the economy. Many congressmen assume that cutting pork-barrel military spending would hurt their … Continue reading
Admit It: Things Are Going Well
When something goes right Oh, it’s likely to lose me It’s apt to confuse me It’s such an unusual sight —Paul Simon Larry Summers has proven unacceptable to oversee the continued destruction of the U.S. economy. The U.S. public has … Continue reading
Too Big Has Failed: 3-Minute Video On Wall Street
The REAL Fukushima Danger
The Real Problem … The fact that the Fukushima reactors have been leaking huge amounts of radioactive water ever since the 2011 earthquake is certainly newsworthy. As are the facts that: Tepco doesn’t know how to stop the leaks Scientists … Continue reading
Head of Syrian Rebels Calls for Terrorist Attacks On America
Why Are We Supporting Guys Who Want to Blow Us Up? We knew that the Syrian rebels are mainly Al Qaeda, and that the U.S. has been supporting these terrorists for years. And we knew that rank-and-file Syrian rebels have: … Continue reading
Syrian Rebels Slit Throat of Christian Man Who Refused To Convert To Islam, Taunt Fiance, “Jesus Didn’t Come To Save Him”
U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel Support Al Qaeda Terrorists Who Are Brutally Persecuting Syrian Christians Until recently, Syria was a safe-haven for Christians. The New York Times notes: As secular leaders from the secretive Alawite sect, the Assad dynasty … Continue reading
Classified U.S. Military Document: Syrian Rebels DO Have Chemical Weapons
Al Qaeda In Syria Had Sarin Before August Attack We’ve extensively documented that the Syrian rebels do have access to chemical weapons. It turns out that a classified U.S. military document says the same thing. A former senior security policy … Continue reading
Legal Scholars Question Government’s 9/11 Testimony
Experts In Weighing Evidence and Judging Credibility Aren’t Buying It … Legal experts say that the government destroyed evidence, concocted fake evidence and obstructed justice in connection with the 9/11 investigation. Lawyers know that “conspiracies” are alleged every day by … Continue reading
9/11 Commission Chair: Director of Intelligence James Clapper Should Be Indicted for Perjury regarding NSA Spying
Hamilton Says Americans Should Be More Outraged About Spying Abuses The co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission – Lee Hamilton and Thomas Keane – slammed the NSA last month, saying that spying was out of control. As the Herald Times reported … Continue reading
Poll: More Americans Believe World Trade Center 7 Was Demolished On 9/11 than Believe the Government’s Explanation
What Do You Believe? Preface: Americans have learned in the past decade that our government lied to us about: Iraq weapons of mass destruction (and here) The case for war against Syria (and see this) Its involvement in false flag … Continue reading