First of All… He Does Lie. Second… You SHOULD have Called Bush a Liar

by Scott Creighton All Lit Up with No Place to Go The fake progressive blogosphere is lit up today over the republican lawmaker who had the audacity to yell out “You lie!” during Obama’s speech last night. And that is just as they want it because the Obama/DLC/Clintonista White House certainly appreciates a good distraction [...]

Israeli Study: Majority of Gazans Slain in War Were Civilians

by Jason Ditz, AntiWar A study issued today by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem dramatically challenged the Israeli government’s claims about last winter’s war against the Gaza Strip, saying that the majority of the nearly 1,400 Gazans killed in a month-long offensive were civilians and that at least 252 of them were children under the [...]

IMF Gives $164 million to Coup Government in Honduras, Following Familiar Pattern

by Mark Weisbrot, Axis of Logic The IMF is undergoing an unprecedented expansion of its access to resources, possibly reaching a trillion dollars. This week the European Union committed $175 billion, $67 billion more than even the $108 billion that Washington agreed to fork over after a tense standoff between the U.S. Congress and the [...]

Jones Justifies his Fake News Story… with… another Fake News Story

by Scott Creighton ***UPDATE*** InfoWars, one of Alex Jones’ advertising heavy websites, is running the Reuters PR piece written by Jones’ people at InfoWars AS IF it were a real Reuters news article. Over at InforWars, they have removed any and ALL references to PRNewswire and Send2press that were included in the original press release [...]

Alex Jones Spoon Feeds the Debunkers… Again

(a few comments from a famous debunking site… just to give you a flavor of what the REAL consequences of the Jones/Sheen fake news story are…) —- Lets make it as simple and clear as possible: You cannot claim to be searching for the truth..when you engage in such deceit. You cannot claim to be [...]

I am Israel

(H/T Kenny’s Side Show)

Willyloman Never settle

Photos: WTC Relics Items that survived the WTC attacks. “A sign advertising a performance of the Arthur Miller play “Death of a Salesman” was recovered from the World Trade Center site and is kept in Hangar 17 of Kennedy International Airport. Credit: Photo by Lane Johnson” (found by Kenny from Kenny’ sideshow…)

Twenty Minutes With The President

(AND he didn’t mention “nano-thermite” ONCE! Smart man… GOOD JOB Charlie!) (Ahhh… turns out to be a “script” by Sheen and Jones… posted on Jones’ site AS IF it were real… fucking Alex Jones, making up shit to embarrass the Truth movement again… should have known… BUT! Sheen STILL has enough common sense to leave [...]

It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It

by E.J. Dionne, Truthdig President Barack Obama’s health care speech on Wednesday will be only the second most consequential political moment of the week. Judged by the standard of an event’s potential long-term impact on our public life, the most important will be the argument before the Supreme Court (on the same day, as it [...]

Meet the Press’s idea of a “debate”

(Meet the Press holds a “debate” between 4 Council on Foreign Relations members… talk about the Washington Consensus at work… ) by Glenn Greenwald, Salon Yesterday, Meet the Press hosted a panel discussion to debate two primary issues:  (1) foreign policy — specifically, the war in Afghanistan, and (2) health care.  The panel:  Rudy Giuliani, Tom Friedman, Harold Ford, [...]

Obama on Labor Day: Hollow promises of economic recovery

by Patrick Martin, WSWS Speaking to an AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati, Ohio, President Barack Obama declared that “our recovery plan is working,” and that the US economy is “moving in the right direction,” despite the ongoing destruction of working class living standards and the steady rise in the unemployment rate, which hit 9.7 [...]

Outrage as US Forces Attack Afghan Hospital

No Explanation Given as Troops Force Their Way in, Tie Up Staff by Jason Ditz, AntiWar The charity group Swedish Committee for Afghanistan expressed outrage today in reporting a US attack on a remote hospital being operated by the group. The troops burst in to the hospital without explanation and conducted a full and rather [...]

Noam Chomsky Interview on CBC

(Watch as a young, conformist, media establishment fledgling gets and education from one of the greatest minds of our time.) “The immediate problem is to free ourselves from the shackles imposed, very consciously, by the kind of people you are talking about. Who don’t want the facts to be known, for very good reason.  Because [...]

Anger at Israeli settlement plan (Settlement “freeze” is “off the table”)

from the BBC Israel has officially approved the construction of more than 450 new homes in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli defence ministry has announced. This is the first new government-approved construction project in the West Bank since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to power in March. It comes despite US pressure to halt [...]

Even the Bravest Couldn’t get to Ground Zero

by Scott Creighton (video from kenny’s sideshow) For those people who think that the towers couldn’t have been demoed because no demolition equipment or other evidence was found in the rubble by the “volunteers” who worked “for months and months” at Ground Zero, I got news for you; that didn’t happen. The New York Fire [...]