A Little News from what Obama calls “The Right War”

by Scott Creighton Ex-ISI Chief talks about Afghanistan (by way of Kenny’s Sideshow) -  Before the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, the country produced about 4,500 tons of opium per year.  By the end of the Taliban reign in 2001 that number was down to 50 tons. The Taliban had reduced the production of [...]

How “The Crazies” Silenced Critics on the Left and Saved Obamacare

by Scott Creighton Just a few weeks ago I was starting to have a little “hope”.  Just a little.  Don’t go crazy. I was witnessing what I thought must have been some kind of waking daydream; pseudo “progressive” blogs actually starting to reject the Obama healthcare plan and pressing openly for real single payer healthcare. [...]

Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

(“We must opt out of the mainstream. We must articulate and stand behind a viable and uncompromising socialism, one that is firmly and unequivocally on the side of working men and women. We must give up the self-delusion that we can influence the power elite from the inside. We must become as militant as those [...]

Paulson and Goldman Sachs: A dirty secret of the Wall Street bailout

(Paulson’s crimes are being laid bare, just like so many others of the previous administration. But as with Cheney, Bush, Addington, Yoo, Rice, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and all the rest, the current administration of “CHANGE” will NEVER prosecute.  Never.  Instead, the Obama administration will perpetuate the very same policies as the Bush administration, just under a [...]

If You Don’t Like Team DLC Obama™ Brand’s Neoliberal, Corporatist Policies… You’re a Racist

by Scott Creighton What we are watching now in the healthcare debate is just deplorable, bottom of the barrel, desperation muck-raking politics of the absolute worst kind.  And I am talking about what is coming from the White House and their “progressive” minions.  It is the EXACT same thing as when someone who is critical [...]

The International: The TRUE Value of Conflict (and the nature of “Globalization”)

by Scott Creighton “You control the debt, you control everything. This is the very nature of banking. To make us all, whether it is a nation or an individual, slaves to debt.” Insider trading prior to 9/11,  Put Options, the promise of the privatization of Iraq’s central banking system… (one of the first things Paul [...]

Steven Jones is Literally Selling His “Nanothermite” Story

by Scott Creighton (Well, this won’t win me any new friends, but I gotta do it just the same…) What a crock of shit.  Steven Jones is pimping a DVD of his “nanothermite lecture” for $20 a pop. “Nanothermite: What in the World is High-Tech Explosive Material Doing in the Dust Clouds Generated on 9/11/2001? [...]

Renegade Economist US Special with Dr. Michael Hudson

by Scott Creighton “What they are calling a “post industrial” economy is really a lapse back into a neo-feudal economy and into debt peonage.” (“Peonage is a system where laborers are bound in servitude until their debts are paid in full. Those bound by such a system are known, in the US, as peons.” ) [...]

US health care lobby pumps millions into Obama’s “reform” effort

by Kate Randell, WSWS In the maneuvering surrounding the effort in Washington to enact an overhaul of the US health care system, the health care industry is pumping in record amounts of cash to the politicians involved. In the “debate” over health care, key figures on congressional committees are being bankrolled by health insurers, while [...]

Single Payer Vs “Public” Option

It’s Official: Economic Collapse Brought to You by Same Banks We Bailed Out and the Same Banks that Paid themselves BILLIONS in Bonuses (of our money) for Doing It

by Scott Creighton The numbers could hardly be more stark: Tax receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression, while the federal deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion.  AP The last time the government’s revenues were this bleak, the year was 1932 in the [...]

Panetta: ‘Reality’ of 9/11 excuses Bush scandals

(Obama’s man at the CIA (or should I say, “Clinton’s man”?) sings a different tune now that he is in charge of the CIA.  It’s all about 9/11.   9/11 justifies ALL HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.   9/11 means we have to ignore WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.  This rationalization from the “CHANGE” regime?  This rationalization [...]

The Obama opiate: Crisis deepens, crowds cheer

(now that we are done with the FAKE DISSENT, let’s get back to the real threat) by Larry Chin, Global Research Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by [...]

Obama touts economic “recovery”

(now that we are done with the FAKE DISSENT, let’s get back to the real threat) by Tom Eley and Barry Grey, WSWS The Obama administration and the media have seized on second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data to promote the notion that the recession is ending and “recovery” is underway. This effort is [...]

The Kenyan “Registration of Birth” is a Forgery

by Scott Creighton It’s very simple… at the bottom of the page you can clearly see that this is from the Office of the Principal Registrar, Coast Province, REPUBLIC of Kenya… and it is dated Feb. 17th, 1964. Though Kenya did gain it’s independence from Great Britain in Dec. of 1963… the fact is, the [...]