Town Hall Meeting on Health Care – Brought to you by Burson-Marsteller

by Scott Creighton
(breakdown of the transcript, and links to the transcript, at the end of this)
In a video from Tuesdays White House Press briefing (see below), Helen Thomas and Chip Reid challenge Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the heavily controlled aspects of the next days healthcare “Town Hall” meeting. The argument is that the [...]

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Hello all. Just a quick note: I have changed the text formatting of the articles posted here in an effort to make the site a little more reader friendly. I know it has been a pain these last few weeks with the itty bitty text. am sorry it took so long to fix it, but [...]

Undo the Coup

by Amy Goodman, TruthDig Reports
The first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. Honduran soldiers roused democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from his bed and flew him into exile in Costa Rica. The coup, led by the Honduran Gen. Romeo Vasquez, has been condemned by the United [...]

Why Zelaya’s Actions Were Legal

by Alberto Vallentine Thorenson, CounterPunch
In the classic Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound, the playwright observes: “Of wrath’s disease wise words the healers are.” Shortly put, this story is about Prometheus, a titan who was punished by the almighty gods for having given humanity the capacity to create fire. This generated a conflict, which ended with Prometheus’ [...]

The “Spirit of Humanity

by Paul Craig Roberts, ICH
As President Obama has called for humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza, and as the International Red Cross has damned the inhumanity of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the question that immediately comes to mind is why did not the United States send sufficient US Navy escort to see the “Spirit [...]

Michael Scheuer: “The only chance we have as a country right now is” for bin Laden to “detonate a major weapon” in U.S.

“An attack which will FORCE Americans to DEMAND their government protect them effectively, consistently, and with as much VIOLENCE as necessary.” Scheuer said this to a nodding Glen Beck broadcast on FOX NEWS.

Michael Scheuer is a 22 year veteran of the CIA. Was tasked from 1996-1999 with “tracking” Bin Laden… not [...]

History Haunts Honduras:The past as prologue to the future

by Justin Raimondo, AntiWar
About the crisis in Honduras, let’s get this out of the way from the very beginning: the U.S. government has no right to lecture the Hondurans about the virtues of democracy. It was, after all, Uncle Sam that encouraged, even masterminded, [...]