Abdullah to Boycott Runoff as Talks Break Down

by Jason Ditz, AntiWar
Amid reports that the ongoing election talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and runoff opponent Abdullah Abdullah have broken down, it is widely expected that Abdullah will announce a boycott of the election, perhaps as soon as this weekend.

Ron Paul’s Solution to the Healthcare Crisis in America? “Free Markets”…

This is primarily why I don’t support either Ron Paul, or his publicist, Alex Jones… all they are doing is steering naturally occurring dissent in this country toward support of the very thing that has caused the problems in the first place; free-market neoliberal ideology. They are both a perfect example of “controlled opposition” whereas you hijack [...]

Obama Administration Spinning up 911/Pakistan Connection for more war…

A passport bearing the name of Said Bahaji, a suspect linked to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, has been found in a town captured by the Pakistani military…Bahaji is alleged to have been a member of the Hamburg, Germany-based cell that provided money to the September 11 hijackers, who carried out [...]

Empire of Illusion: The Cult of Self

You need to go check out this video lecture from Chris Hedges. I would post it up here, but I can’t get the VodPod video to post on this WordPress blog. It’s a long lecture, 3 parts… but I have watched it all, and it is a must-see.
Empire of Illusion: The Cult of Self
If anyone [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, Philip Alston: Record AfPak Drone Attacks Under Obama May Violate International Law

(The entire Predator Drone program in the AfPak theater of operation is nothing more than a CIA/Blackwater run assassination campaign with absolutely no oversight whatsoever.)
from Democracy Now interview  (full interview transcript after the break and follow the link to the DN video)
The problem is that we have no real information on this program. What Jane Mayer [...]

What are US troops dying for in Afghanistan?

by Bill Van Auken, WSWS
At least 21 US soldiers and Marines have been killed in Afghanistan since last weekend, making October the bloodiest month for US forces since they invaded the country eight years ago. Still more have been wounded by roadside bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire.
Among those killed in the last several [...]

Fault Lines – 100 Days of Resistance – 15 Oct 09

Part 1

[see Part 2 after the break]

After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in … Illegally

(I have been writing about this kind of Friedmanesque neo-liberal “free-market” transition for years now. This story, an important one, is the embodiment of everything I, and many others, have been saying. This story needs much more attention than it has received as of yet.) willy
by Mark Ames, Alternet
Editor’s Note: The shocking transfer of public [...]

Citizens Arrest, Disruption of Olmert in San Francisco

Mass disruption of former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert speaking in San Francisco
from Information Clearinghouse

What You Didn’t Know About The War

from Kenny’s Sideshow

“Since WWII, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians. A third of them children.
Our victims have done nothing to us. From Palestine to Afghanistan to Iraq and Somalia to wherever our next target may be, their murders are not collateral damage, they are the nature of modern warfare.
They [...]