EXCLUSIVE: Senator’s husband cashes in on crisis

by Chuck Neubauer, Washington Times On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.

Obama’s adviser in Trinidad: the real face of “change”

(The real face of Obama’s “change”: A Clintonista retread with prior connections to the CIA/Nixon installed dictator Augusto Pinochet and Apartheid South Africa, Jeffrey Davidow.) by Bill Van Auken, WSWS One telling measure of the real nature of the “change” that Obama is bringing to US-Latin American relations is the selection of his chief adviser [...]

The writing on the wall spells “freedom”

(on May 10th of this year, the day I turn 43, the project to paint the 1,998 words of Farid Esack’s letter to the people of Palestine on the Apartheid Wall will be completed.) by Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada “My dear Palestinian brothers and sisters, I have come to your land and I [...]

NU’s Katz reminds Emanuel he’s Jewish

by Mathew Wagner, Jerusalem Post Katz was hinting that Emanuel should use his influence to protect Israeli interests, which, he believes, are best served by preventing the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC

by Jeff Stein, CQ Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization [...]

‘America lives in a fascist state’ – Gerald Celente

(Jlennon08 suggested this. Good interview.)

Wrong Again, Mr. Obama

Obama on prosecution of CIA torturers: “Mr Obama gave an assurance that “those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice… will not be subject to prosecution”    BBC Nuremberg Principle IV states: “The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or [...]

A Lexicon of Disappointment

(I have been wondering what Naomi had been doing recently, then I ran across this reposted at WRH.  She published it at The Nation and Huffington Post,  the mainstays of Obama-ites and politically correct “Obama-speak”.  She certainly has guts.  You gotta give her that. I posted the pic because I have a school-boy crush on [...]

Job Creation/Loss Since Jan. 2007

Slate put up this great interactive map showing specific counties job numbers by month compared to the previous year, for the past 2 years.  It runs a little slow on my computer, so I took a sampling of the months and made screen-shots out of them.  If you want to know what economic terrorism looks [...]

Perhaps the Billboard Comparison Wasn’t Blunt Enough for Most of you to See the Propaganda… Try This One Where Israel Attempts to Sell the People Of India on the Notion That they are Israel’s Bitch…

Dancing around weapons, promising to “protect” their new bitch, India… Israeli missles – Indian traditional dancers, and “Rico Swuavee de Israel”… with such classic lines as… Israel – We’ve been together for so long, trusting friends and partners India – I need to feel safe and sheltered, security and protection commitment and perfection, defense and [...]

Non-Violence in Palestine; Timing and Intentions

(“Some may suggest that non-violent resistance in such situations is the embodiment of the dignified struggle. Others might call it surrender.” Goddamn right.) by Ramzey Baroud, Atheo News When one speaks of or advocates non-violence, does he promote such an idea because he believes that historically it has been a more effective means of liberation, [...]

How Can You Trust The Cowardly BBC?

The BBC Trust is now a mouthpiece for the Israeli lobby which abused Bowen by Robert Fisk, ICH The BBC Trust’s report on Jeremy Bowen’s dispatches from the Middle East is pusillanimous, cowardly, outrageous, factually wrong and ethically dishonest. But I am mincing my words. The trust – how I love that word which so [...]

Baptist pastor beaten + tazed by Border patrol – 11 stitches

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” – [...]

Don’t Fall for the Old Divide and Conquer Trick

by George Washington, Washington Blog The powers-that-be are trying to distract us from the looting of our wallets by the big banks by creating a left-versus-right, us-versus-them drama. You know, the old divide-and-conquer schtick. Americans from across the political spectrum are furious at the financial elite who have robbed us blind, and their enablers in [...]

Iraq air raids hit mostly women and children

(Bush’s “Shock and Awe” was a war-crime in both Iraq and Afghanistan. If Obama insists on continuing the practice in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he is also guilty and should be impeached and prosecuted as a war criminal just like Bush before him.) by Kim Sengupta, The Independent Air strikes and artillery barrages have taken a [...]