International banks exploit the crisis to reap massive profits

(What we are witnessing is a world-wide social counterrevolution led be a few international banks with the intent of the eradication of any “New Deal” type policies and the Keynesian economics philosophy behind them. This will leave 4 or 5 international banking cartels in place to control the economies of every single nation. It would [...]

War and Lies – Governments Lie, We Die

So Just What Did Happen to all that TARP Money?

by Scott Creighton ***UPDATE*** – Patrick Martin, from WSWS, has reported the BONUS TOTALS of all 9 of the original TARP Fund banks. They are as follows. (on a side note:in response to the overwhelming public anger over the release of this “bonus” information,  Barney Frank has announced yesterday, the passage of a bill to [...]

A Conversation with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

by Scott Creighton Janet Napolitano had a little chat with the ruling class the other day at the Council on Foreign Relations, during which she made sure to confirm that Obama’s Homeland Security policies wouldn’t be all that different from Cheney’s; and of course we see that more and more these days as the Obama [...]

A Chance for Real Democracy in Honduras

by Kevin Coleman, ICH Honduras is changing. In 1981, Ronald Reagan imposed democracy from the outside, yielding a constitution that minimized the participation of the citizenry in the decisions of their government and a process that repressed and decapitated the social movements—led by workers, peasants, and students—who sought to have their voices heard. Nearly three [...]

America the Great … Police State

by Gore Vidal, Truthdig For those of us who had hoped that the Obama administration would present us with a rebirth of the old republic that was so rudely erased a few years ago by that team of judicial wreckers, Bush and Gonzales, which led, in turn, to a recent incident in Cambridge, Mass. that [...]

The Pending H1N1 “Pandemic” Isn’t What You Think It Is…

by Scott Creighton ***UPDATE*** from CNN this morning;  “The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus — the swine flu — this fall, according to Defense Department officials.” ————— (original) Everything Old is New Again… According to [...]

Lessons the GOP Learned from Adolph Hitler: the ‘Big Lie’ Called 911

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Those still believing Bush’s big 911 lie are of three types plus combinations: crooks, idiots, and liars! There was no fuselage, there was no airliner wreckage, there were no large titanium/steel alloy rotors each some 10 feet in diameter to be found at the Pentagon on the morning of [...]

“New Dems” in the Senate Taking Up the Blue Dog’s Task in the House

by Scott Creighton “I am a New Democrat.” Barack Obama, 2009 As a follow-up to last nights article “Decoding Paul Krugman’s Incoherent Op Ed“, I want to point out that senate democrats in the finance committee are also working to kill certain sections of the healthcare legislation as well. In fact, they already have. “… officials [...]

Decoding Paul Krugman’s Incoherent Op Ed

by Scott Creighton In his New York Times Op Ed piece, Paul Krugman can’t seem to make any sense of the obstructionist behavior of the so-called “Blue Dog Dems” toward the passage of the Obama healthcare bill.  Though quite frankly I don’t know what’s so hard to understand about it. What I can’t figure out [...]

The big lie of Afghanistan

by Malalai Joya, The Guardian In 2005, I was the youngest person elected to the new Afghan parliament. Women like me, running for office, were held up as an example of how the war in Afghanistan had liberated women. But this democracy was a facade, and the so-called liberation a big lie.

Israeli doctors experimented on children

by Chris McGreal, from The Guardian (article from 2005)A leading Israeli doctor and medical ethicist has called for the prosecution of doctors responsible for thousands of unauthorised and often illegal experiments on small children and geriatric and psychiatric patients in Israeli hospitals.

Obama’s Family Physician Dr. David Scheiner Prescribes Single-Payer for America

“Somehow people in this country THINK they get the best medical care in the world. That is ridiculous… we’re 37th.” This is Obama’s former doctor. He was dis-invited to the Obama/ABC healthcare reform infomercial. Here on Democracy Now, he gives you a run-down of not only the for-profit healthcare scam going on in America, but [...]

Google Maps Foreclosure Listings

by Scott Creighton Ever wonder just how many foreclosures are taking place and where? Not to worry, Google Maps has decided to provide you with all that info…

Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’

by Daniel Tencer, Raw Story The Federal Reserve — the quasi-autonomous body that controls the US’s money supply — is a “Ponzi scheme” that created “bubble after bubble” in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York.