Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
The rulers of the empire know damn well what they’re doing in every corner of the earth, and the people should never be fooled by their public posturings and speeches. By Justin Raimondo Crossposted with Antiwar.com April 11, 2010 The war in Afghanistan, which George W. Bush started and Barack Obama pledged [...]
By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t | Report | 7 April 2010 WITH SPECIAL VIDEO Whether or not the old excuse, “I was just following orders” applies to these horrific circumstances, there’s little doubt that what our troops are doing in our name was concocted at the highest levels [...]
The evil at work in the Middle East is not so much a question of “Jewishness” as ideology, in this case Zionism. What Israel is doing in the name of “self-defense” is a stain on the memory of countless Jews who gave their lives fighting against injustice and oppression down the centuries, and who even [...]
While history does not repeat itself exactly, the past offers enormously important clues as to what we might be facing. Crossposted with http://blog.buzzflash.com/jonas/186 By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Dateline: Thu, 03/25/2010 Fascism may be briefly defined as: “A politico-economic system in which there is: total executive branch control of both the legislative and administrative [...]
The echoes of a deed that took place in 1170 still resonate in our time or How the Sainthood of the Archbishop Became the Epiphany of the King BY GAITHER STEWART The worldwide influence of the Roman Catholic Church emanates from the Holy See, the Church’s central government headed by the Pope, physically located within [...]
Most worrying, the report explicitly urged Israeli intelligence agencies like Mossad to take unspecified action against peace activists using entirely legal methods: “Neither changing policy nor improving public relations will suffice…Faced with a potentially existential threat, Israel must treat it as such by focusing its intelligence agencies on this challenge; allocating appropriate resources; developing new knowledge; [...]
Revisiting History—By Iris H. W. Engstrand Beware of “settled” truth about any topic. Established truths are usually contaminated by the favored views of powerful parties, in this case the longstanding animosity of the English toward the Spanish in the 16th century and thereafter. How Cruel Were the Spaniards? Iris H. W. Engstrand Reprinted from the [...]
Dateline: February 8, 2010 Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies By Thom Hartmann Globalization is killing Europe, just as it’s already wiped out much of the American middle class. Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring [...]
Crosspost with http://invereskstreet.blogspot.com/2006/09/howard-zinns-je-ne-suis-pas-marxiste.html The late Howard Zinn gives Marx his humanity back, warts and all. The following is reprinted from The Zinn Reader (1997, Seven Stories Press, pp 574-578) and with the permission of the author. FOR A LONG TIME I thought that there were important and useful ideas in Marxist philosophy and political economy that [...]
Few times in recent history have we seen so many layers of hypocrisy and deliberate confusion directed at controlling one country… By John Pilger January 27, 2010 • THE THEFT OF HAITI has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all [...]
