NSA Security running amok to plug leaks about 9/11

Obama admin: No grounds to probe Afghan war crimes

by Lara Jakes, AntiWar Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces.

NSA Security running amok to plug leaks about 9/11

from Pakistan Daily It has been learned that the National Security “Q” Group, responsible for security, has grown to an immense security and counter-intelligence force, with an estimated one thousand government employees, contractors, and paid informants. NSA’s Security force is reportedly primarily tasked with plugging any leaks of classified or other information that points to [...]

Honduras: US-backed mediation legitimizes military coup

by Bill Van Auken, WSWS The talks convened in the Costa Rican capital San José on Thursday with the purported aim of resolving the political crisis unleashed by the June 28 coup in neighboring Honduras, are shaping up as a farce. The apparent object of this fraudulent exercise is to legitimize the military overthrow of [...]

Rona Kuperboim slams Foreign Ministry’s plan to hire pro-Israel talkbackers

by Rona Kuperboim, from YNET The Foreign Ministry unveiled a new plan this week: Paying talkbackers to post pro-Israel responses on websites worldwide. A total of NIS 600,000 (roughly $150,000) will be earmarked to the establishment of an “Internet warfare” squad. The Foreign Ministry intends to hire young people who speak at least one language [...]

Like Father Like Son: Obama Administration Seems to Have Forgotten Why We Are In Afghanistan, Just Like Bush Before Them

by Scott Creighton Yet another similarity between the Bush administration and Obama’s that gets far too little press, is brought up by James Cogan at the World Socialist Web Site: the fact that Obama, like Bush before him, really doesn’t seem to have any interest in capturing Bin Laden nor are they really going after [...]

Kucinich at Single-Payer Hearing

now listen to how this smarmy little weasel doctor’s phony numbers about the Canada Healthcare plan works it’s way into the public debates… Notice how the proponate for this insurance industry backed “universal” healthcare plan just writes off the 50 million uninsured people who can’t get healthcare. This is a key part of their justification; [...]

Honduras: What’s Black and White and Gets the Red Out?

(The Coup that Wasn’t – coup supporting newspaper in Honduras airbrushes blood from photo…) by Al Giordano, The Field CubaDebate has an illuminating find regarding the coverage of the crisis in Honduras by the pro-coup newspaper, La Prensa. The now-iconic photograph of the late 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, being carried by his friends to seek [...]

Cranking up the Bullshit on Iran Again: “Several Thousand” (or is it 25?) Protest

by Scott Creighton Does THIS look like “several thousand” protesters as described in war profiteer GE’s MSNBC/AP article? (Let’s count them together 1,2,3,…. 25…. 25…. 25…. I count 25 Young Republican looking guys. Now I could be wrong… let’s count them again just to be sure.  Wouldn’t want to report something that was complete BULLSHIT, [...]

The Obama justice system

(“presidential post-acquittal detention power” – the courts are meaningless in the face of the absolute power of the Obama regime.) by Glen Greenwald, Salon (go to the Salon link to read his UPDATES) Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD’s General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified.  As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even [...]

New 7/7 Bombing Photo Contradicts Official Story

by Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet A new photo released on the fourth anniversary of the 7/7 attacks in London appears to contradict the government’s official story that Muslims with backpack bombs were responsible for the Tube and bus bombings which killed 52 people. The image seemingly dovetails with a survivor’s eyewitness statement that the [...]

Obama’s “Universal” Healthcare Plan: The Criminalization of the Uninsured

by Scott Creighton ***UPDATE*** … and Oh yes, you will be forced to pay higher taxes to cover the cost of healthcare, even though the insurance companies will surely profit even more than they have over the past decade or so, setting record profit margins. So you will HAVE to buy insurance, no matter WHAT [...]

A Coup is Not a Coup. A Not-Coup is a Coup.

by Keven Coleman, History News Network On Sunday June 28th, the Honduran military kidnapped their president, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, and flew him to Costa Rica in his pajamas. In doing so, the military enforced an unconstitutional and undemocratic transfer of power from the Honduran left to the right. The international community immediately and unanimously condemned [...]

The Honduran coup: A warning to the working class

by Bill Van Auken, WSWS Since the June 28 coup by the most right-wing sections of the ruling elite, backed by the US-trained military, Honduran workers have waged an implacable struggle against the imposition of an illegitimate and repressive regime. Over 60,000 Honduran teachers have carried out an indefinite strike since June 29, the day [...]

Settler assaults Peace Now volunteers, Channel 2 news broadcast