Clinton Dusts Off Two New Special Envoy Retreads: One is a CFR Banker, the Other Represents Her Biggest Campaign Contributer

Richard Holbrooke was announced as a special adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan. on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations ” He has also served as vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston, managing director of Lehman Brothers… vice chairman of Perseus LLC “a merchant bank and private equity fund management company [...]

Your Sacrifice is Demanded so that “The System” Does Not Fail

by Scott Creighton No matter what; the system must not fail. How many times, in word and in deed, have we been told this by the people that run this country on both sides of the artificial political divide? How many times, in word and in deed, have we been told that we must protect [...]

Picking Up the Pieces in Gaza

Whistleblower: NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists

from Raw Story Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists. [...]

How the People of Gaza View “Change™”

Two weeks after the Sabbath opening of the assault, with much of Gaza already pounded to rubble and the death toll approaching 1000, the UN Agency UNRWA, on which most Gazans depend for survival, announced that the Israeli military refused to allow aid shipments to Gaza, saying that the crossings were closed for the Sabbath. [...]

Israeli actions violate law; Richard Falk the UN Special Rapporteur

Riots Across the European Union

Riots and demonstrations all across the European Union against sweeping economic reforms. In Lithuania: “We are here today because this government is mocking us,” said Liucija Mukiene, a 63-year-old protester in Vilnius. “They are taking away our last money and providing nothing. I am fed up with the lies, corruption and those grinning, fat faces [...]

On the eve of Obama’s inauguration

(Couldn’t have summed it up better myself) Barry Grey, WSWS The inauguration of Barack Obama has become the occasion for a tidal wave of media-orchestrated delusions and stupidities designed to overwhelm and chloroform public consciousness. The junior senator from Illinois is being compared, and is comparing himself, to everyone from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Delano [...]

Today Is an Historic Day; Just Not for the Reasons You Think

by Scott Creighton Today is an historic day. Like the out-going president before him and the one before that, President Obama comes to Washington deeply indebted to special interest groups and Wall Street bankers alike; to corporations and to war-mongers.  Ultimately, Barack Obama has embedded within his administration, the same power structure that has ruled [...]

Who Really Runs America part 4

Israel isn’t the Only One Ramping Up Their Blogger PR Campaign

from Wired Blog Network Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don’t be surprised. They’re just following the service’s new “counter-blogging” flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force’s public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on [...]

A Call from Within – signed by Israeli citizens

from Free Gaza In support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action As if the occupation was not enough, the brutal ongoing repression of the Palestinian population, the construction of settlements and the siege of Gaza – now comes the bombardment of the civilian population: men, women, old folks and children. Hundreds [...]

éirígí activists rebrand Starbucks

As well as having followed the US military to establish stores in occupied Afghanistan, Iraq and even in the notorious Guantanamo Bay torture centre, the Starbucks CEO, Shultz proudly accepted the “Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award”. eirigi [for some statistics about the conflict, please check out "If Americans Knew" for statistics and [...]

al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist

Part 1

In “Class” Conscious America, “Women and Children First” Means Nothing. We have been taught to except it.

You see the average working people there, who were flying coach, clinging to their beer-fart soaked seat cushions and standing in frigid water getting frost-bite while the plane they are standing on slowly sinks,  and all the while, the wealthy Business Class and First Class passengers have life preservers wrapped around their necks and rest [...]