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  Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows posted by David Reilly via reed, 2010-02-01 07:50:38
The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all. (full story)
imperialism / international
 US Courts complicit in 'war on terror' Profiteering posted by Tom Burghardt via ryall, 2010-01-31 21:02:17
In late January, the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report that provided startling new details on illegal operations by the FBI's Communications Analysis Unit (CAU) and America's grifting telecoms. (full story)
imperialism / international
 The Big Theories Underwriting Society Are Crashing All Around Us -- Are You Ready for a New World? posted by Terrence McNally via reed, 2010-01-29 07:39:46
The ideas and institutions that define our culture are breaking down -- and that's a good thing, say authors Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman. (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
Obama Roundly Condemned by American Intellectuals posted by harley, 2010-01-24 20:53:46
American intellectuals have added their voice to the rapidly growing chorus of condemnation directed at President ‘Hope and Change!’ Obama is now choking on his previous promises and pledges. Maintaining the status quo for Corporatists and acquiescing to Pentagon Militarists could hardly be described as ‘Change;’ notwithstanding that escalating WAR is the most HOPE-LESS human endeavour imaginable! (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
![[US] Corporate military 'secures' Palace grounds, Haiti](attachments/jan2010/haitipalace.jpg) Disasters are Big Business posted by William Bowles via stan, 2010-01-22 13:13:10
I am staggered. There are 10,000 ‘NGOs’ (Non-Governmental Organizations) in Haiti, one for every 900 inhabitants and each one of them has no doubt at least one Westerner working within, yet aside from the Cuban health workers, it seems they could do nothing until the gringos arrived with their Blackhawks and nuclear-tipped aircraft carrier and of course, the 82nd Airborne, paying yet another ‘visit’ to this benighted and super-exploited land to ’secure’ the place for the locust storm of aid to come (too late for too many). (full story)
imperialism / international
A Very American Coup posted by William J. Astore via fran, 2010-01-20 19:38:58
Here’s a bit of cheery news: Last week, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with the nation's top defense company executives, including the CEOs of those mega-military-industrial combines Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and called for a “closer partnership.” He also made them a promise. He pledged, according to his spokesman, “to work with the White House to secure steady growth in the Pentagon's budgets over time. (full story)
social/political / international
 ICC Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Gonzales posted by Prof. Francis A. Boyle via teale, 2010-01-20 18:34:48
Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C. (full story)
injustice/law / international
Criminally Complicit Mass Media posted by Media Lens via stan, 2010-01-16 18:14:34
Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports 'our' crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest of the media. Do they follow suit, perhaps digging deeper for details, devoting space to profiles of the victims and interviews with grieving relatives, humanising all concerned? Do they put the crimes in perspective as the inevitable consequence of rapacious Western power? Or do they look away? (full story)
mass media / international
 Playing Victim for Politics and Profit -- Murdoch, Palin and the Extreme Right posted by Frank Schaeffer via teale, 2010-01-14 23:44:43
The following article is not only highly readable and entertaining it is USEFUL for a number of reasons, not least of which is the APPLIED Balkanisation of the USA! (full story)
theology / international
Community Co-ops are only hope for the future posted by Sena Christian via zed, 2010-01-11 21:15:12
The most viable and efficient social model for an uncertain future (and failing present) is the mutually assisting, co-operative COMMUNITY. The days of the self-seeking, alienated, capitalist, 'individual' have come to a dramatic CORRUPT, criminal END. If you wish to endure or survive, join or form a COMMUNITY co-op. WE are ONE or we are nothing! (full story)
social equality/unity / international
 The Airport Scanner Scam posted by James Ridgeway via fleet, 2010-01-05 18:52:37
'Scan, baby, scan!' That’s the mantra among politicians at all levels in the wake of the thwarted terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet. According to conventional wisdom, the would-be “underwear bomber” could have been stopped by airport security if he’d been put through a full-body scanner, which would have revealed the cache of explosives attached to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s groin. (full story and 1 comments)
human rights / international
 Obama: pathetic! posted by Shamus Cooke via quill, 2009-12-18 05:46:01
Shortly before Obama was sent to Copenhagen to deliver a scripted speech on behalf of rich Bankers, Military Industrialists and the REAL ruling elite of the USA, he implored the US banking/financial establishment to lend more money to the average person and small business -- you know, they're the people that bailed the banks out with trillions in future debt and tax burdens. To demonstrate their heart-felt gratitude for the people and the government, the bankers, while drowning themselves in yet more bonuses, refused Obama's request and showed him the service exit! It should now be plain to even the average American that Western democratic governments NO LONGER GOVERN anything! (full story)
social/political / international
Why Americans Are a Broken People? posted by Bruce E. Levine via quill, 2009-12-14 18:58:53
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
Bernanke applies liquid palliative while Real Economy continues to flounder posted by Mike Whitney via fleet, 2009-12-12 17:31:44
The Fed's monetary intervention has created a bifurcated market. Stocks rise on an ocean of central bank liquidity while the real economy continues to languish in a small "d" depression. The disparity between financial markets and the underlying "productive" economy has never been greater. Nor has the "wealth gap", the gross inequality exacerbated by decades of "monetarist" supply side policies. Bernanke simply has no other choice but to try to inflate another gigantic bubble that will lift the economy from the doldrums on a speculative wave of zero-rate liquidity. The problem is, according to Bernanke himself, the strategy is not working. (full story)
miscellaneous / international
 USA Refuses to Allow UN Inspectors to Investigate its WMDs! posted by AFP via rann, 2009-12-11 18:01:31
PROOF incontrovertible! It's all out in the open NOW!
The world's leading civilian killing (therefore TERRORIST) nation persistently refuses to comply with International Law and Convention -- Balkans and South Asia -- is anyone really surprised that America now clarifies its ROGUE STATUS by denying UN weapons inspectors access to its WMD sites? (full story)
peace/war / international
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