Taliban defectors: US, Israel funding militants

from PressTV Two militants’ leaders who defected from notorious Taliban chief in Pakistan have revealed that their comrade was pursuing a US-Israeli agenda across the country. A prominent militant leader, Turkistan Bittani, who broke away from Baitullah Mehsud, called him “an American agent”.

When Life-Long War Criminal Henry Kissinger Threatens “Regime Change”, People Listen

by Scott Creighton Kissinger, adviser and special envoy to the president of the United States, has just suggested “regime change from the outside” in Iran over the obviously fake “election fraud and oppression” stories being sold to the American public by firms like Burson-Marsteller. This is a serious problem. Sure, Kissinger is a war-criminal and [...]

Obama: US “meddling” in Iran should not be seen

by Bill Van Auken, WSWS Amid rhetoric about his commitment to the “universal values” of democratic processes and free speech, US President Barack Obama made one unintentionally revealing statement on Iran Tuesday. “It’s not productive, given the history of the US-Iranian relationship, to be seen as meddling,” he said.

The Take – Naomi Klein 2004

“In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act – The Take – has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.” Part 1 [see the rest after [...]

Burson-Marsteller’s Twitter “Campaigns” and Their Tool of Choice, Tru-Cast; as Defined by Burson-Marsteller

by Scott Creighton ****UPDATE**** July, 2008 – Seymore Hersh talks the $400 million dollar propaganda program against Iran… plans to “destabilize Iran” … I wonder if Burson-Marsteller have been getting any “covert money” from CIA black ops programs… This week in the magazine, Seymour M. Hersh writes about how the Bush Administration has stepped up [...]

Iran: Some Dots You May Want To Connect

Axis of Logic Before you start connecting the dots, consider this: The attempt to discredit the elections and cause instability in Iran look very much like a scheme we’ve seen before – directly out of the CIA playbook. We’ve seen this pattern in so many elections in Venezuela, for example, I swear that even the Chavistas would [...]

American Ju$tice – The Mario Reyes Story

by Scott Creighton Years ago I got a DUI in Florida. I was coming home from dinner at around 9pm, had beer with my meal, cop followed me out of restaurant parking lot for 2 miles, finally pulled me over for a tail-light being out. According to the cop, I had committed no moving violations. [...]

House “New Dems” Pass War Funding Bill With 7 Billion for “Pandemic Preparedness” and 5 Billion for the IMF

(The house dems pushed Team DLC Obama™ Brand’s “Free-Market Unrestricted Free-trade Zone” (aka “Globalization”)  Empire Building Fund today.  Another banner day for the pro-war republicans and DLC or “fake” democrats in the House and the Obama administration.) QUICK! Who said this Jan. 31st, 2008?  “I want to end the mindset that got us into war [...]

Ahmadinejad won. Get over it

by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett, Politico Without any evidence, many U.S. politicians and “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud. They ignore the fact that Ahmadinejad’s 62.6 percent of the vote in this year’s election is essentially the same as the 61.69 percent [...]

Obama blocks list of visitors to White House

(reminiscent of the Bush administrations’ secretive “Energy Meetings” of Feb. 2001, the Obama White House is ILLEGALLY denying access to information about just who is meeting with the president of the United States and his cabinet.  THEY ARE JUST MAKING UP THE RULES AS THEY GO ALONG.  There seems to be no end to the [...]

Iran 2009 IS Venezuela 2002 – Deal With It

The Revolution Will Not be Televised President Hugo Chavez’ speech upon being returned to the Presidential Palace and his rightful place as the elected president of Venezuela: “Firstly I want to call for calm on today, on… Sunday is it?…What’s the date?  Sunday, 14th of April.  I have been incommunicado for the past few hours. [...]

Iran: Election clashes mount as West escalates pressure

(Is this Obama’s idea of “peaceful dissent”? Stoning militia volunteers in their own headquarters and trying to set them on fire? All because a populous candidate won the election and the wealthy college students won’t be able to join in on the “unrestricted free-market/Free-trade paydays like they get here…) (“But violence erupted after dark when [...]

Obama calls for cuts in Medicare and Medicaid

by Jerry White, WSWS Over the weekend, President Barack Obama called for cuts in funding for Medicare and Medicaid, the federal health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor, including the elimination of subsidies for hospitals that treat uninsured patients. This proposal, combined with plans to limit medical tests and treatments, underscores the reactionary, [...]

Bankers Storing Gasoline in Tanker Ships Offshore

JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) has hired a crude tanker vessel to store gas oil off Malta’s coast, shipping sources said on Wednesday. The U.S. investment bank declined to comment. Storing any light, refined oil products in a crude oil tanker is unusual. Separately, a shipping source said another new VLCC had been fixed to [...]

The American Empire Is Bankrupt

by Chris Hedges, TruthDig This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what is [...]