One Conflict, Two Billboards; The Marketing of Morality

by Scott Creighton Recently, two billboards have been brought to my attention.  On the surface they represent the two sides of a rather one-sided conflict (“one sided” at least as far as the new Obama/Emanuel administration is concerned) and that is the continuation of U.S. financial and military support of Israel, Obama’s “Beacon of Democracy” [...]

Economic Terrorism

by Scott Creighton ***UPDATE*** “…some of the country’s largest mortgage companies and banks, including those that have received billions of dollars in government handouts, have sharply increased their foreclosure filings since Obama announced his “Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan” last month. Among the firms mentioned were JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo…”  WSWS Once we taxpayers absorbed [...]

Rethink Afghanistan (Part 3): The Cost of War

Israel will not cooperate with UN Gaza inquiry

from Reuters News Agency Israel does not plan to cooperate with a U.N. agency’s investigation into alleged war crimes by Israeli troops and Hamas militants during fighting in Gaza, an Israeli government official said on Wednesday.

Obama pledges more bank bailouts, cuts in social programs

(Barack Obama was given the greatest opportunity of any democrat in our recent history. With popular support and a friendly House and Senate, he could have taken this country in a whole new direction. Instead he sold us out to the Clintons and the Bush Junta… we have never been so betrayed by any democrat [...]

9/11 Commission Counsel: Government Agreed to Lie About 9/11

New book from man tasked by government to help investigate attacks unveils how “official story is almost entirely untrue” by Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet The senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission – John Farmer – says that the government agreed not to tell the truth about 9/11, echoing the assertions of fellow 9/11 Commission [...]

Chop Shop Economics and Stealth Zionism

by Karin Friedemann, Atheo News Causing $64 trillion of liquidity to vanish from the world financial system and then manipulating the US government to reward the perpetrators with bailout money requires the presence of the “right people” in government, academia, and finance industries.

US Mulls Attacks Along Somali Coast

(and…. what did I tell you?) by Jason Ditz, AntiWar Following the end of the nearly week-long hostage standoff off the coast of Somalia (which ended when US troops shot and killed three pirates in a lifeboat), there is growing talk both inside and outside the military of how to launch further attacks against the [...]

Susan Boyle – BGT 2009

(click on the image to link to the video) I don’t know if this was a ringer or not, nor do I really care. For a moment at least, it was refreshing to lose my cynicism.  Sometimes, increasingly rare as they are, there is a moment that stands out and reminds me of the wonder [...]

Israel’s Racist in Chief

by Chris Hedges, from Truthdig It was unthinkable, when I was based as a correspondent in Jerusalem two decades ago, that an Israeli politician who openly advocated ethnically cleansing the Palestinians from Israeli-controlled territory, as well as forcing Arabs in Israel to take loyalty oaths or be forcibly relocated to the West Bank, could sit [...]

Pro-Palestinian Supporters Enter French Supermarket And Remove Israeli Goods From Shelves

absolutely beautiful….

Elderly used as front in letter-writing campaign

(“the Dewey Square Group, a national political marketing and consulting firm” is in the middle of a spin campaign, using the “Letters to the Editor” section of local papers to push for their clients Medical Advantage program that just rips off the elderly… the way they are doing it, they are making up letters, signing [...]

War, Peace, and the Season of Hope

Justin Raimondo, AntiWar This Easter Sunday, a holiday of resurrection – or, at least, spring – there are some signs that things may be turning around, in certain limited but encouraging areas. Take, for example, the predicament of President Mikheil Saakashvili, of the Republic of Georgia, who has been besieged of late by massive protests [...]

I Am a Domestic Terrorist

by Adam Kokesh, Revolutionary Patriot According to Merriam-Webster, terrorism is “ the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.” It also defines terror as “a state of intense fear.” The definition that I learned in school is even more specific: the threat or use of violence to incite fear by non-state actors [...]

Umm, Let’s See: CIA Operatives Funding Terrorist Attacks For a Pro-Western Business Class In Somalia… and Now We Have The Global War on “Piracy” In a Country On the Horn Of Africa We Desperately Want to Put a U.S. Base On… hmmm

“Several hundred people, mostly civilians caught in the crossfire, died during this conflict. Mogadishu residents described it as the worst fighting in more than a decade. The Islamic Courts Union (ICU) accused the U.S. of funding the warlords through the Central Intelligence Agency and supplying them with arms in an effort to prevent the Islamic [...]