Peace Prize Laureate Obama Humbly Takes his Place Next to Terrorists (Begin) and War Criminals (Kissinger)

by Scott Creighton For only the third time in history, a seated U.S. President has won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Barack Obama has been named the recipient of this years award.  According to the chairman of the Nobel committee, President Obama was given the award not so much for what he has done, but for [...]

Palestinian President Abbas Faces Uproar for Aiding US-Israeli Derailment of UN Report on Gaza Assault

(The following is a transcript of a recent Democracy Now interview in which Rhasid Khalidi describes how the Obama administration helped apply pressure to the leadership of the Palestinian Authority in order to get them withdraw their support of Libya’s request for further action on the Goldstone investigation.) from Democracy Now, watch the video here [...]

G Edward Griffin – Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

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CODE PINK: Women FOR the Occupation of Afghanistan

by Scott Creighton The Global War on Sexism?  The Obama administration has ruled out any troop reduction in Afghanistan after a Tuesday meeting with 30 lawmakers from congress.  That should suit Medea Benjamin of CODE PINK just fine.  Apparently she has returned from a trip to the Green Zone of Afghanistan with a slightly less [...]

The Washington Consensus Exposes it’s Globalist Roots

by Scott Creighton Just days a few days after the Irish Referendum on the dictatorial Lisbon Treaty was rigged, word is now getting out about the newly ratified  European Union’s pending game-plan for dealing with the manufactured international monetary crisis, and guess what? It is, page for page, the exact same neoliberal free-market Freidmanesque ”Chicago Boys”  type [...]

Some Random News (that really isn’t so “random” when you think about it)

1. Despite the economic downturn, Special Interests paid lobbyist a record 3.2 billion dollars in 2008: the is 17 million dollars for every single day that congress was in session. 2. “You will not leave this place innocent” – Years ago, an innocent man was tortured and forced to “confess” to crimes he had not [...]

“Dead Peasants” Insurance Scheme

Michael Moore’s new film has exposed something called the “Dead Peasants” insurance scheme.  It allows employers to take out large policies on their employees lives and at the same time, allows for huge tax-breaks on the premiums they pay.  The name “Dead Peasants” comes straight from the corporations that created and use this tax/insurance scheme. [...]

The Biggest Bank you Never Heard of

The BIS is the Central Bank of the privatized Central Banking system.  It is the privately owned bank of 57 privately owned central banks around the world. [T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able  to dominate the political system [...]

The Strange Death of Terry Yeakey

by Wendy Painting, from 911Blogger On May 11, 1996, the New York Times ran a story with the headline “A Policeman Who Rescued 4 in Bombing Kills Himself.” Sergeant Terrance Yeakey, Oklahoma City Police Department, was 30 years old and was about to receive the police department’s Medal of Valor for his heroic rescue efforts [...]

Oh Look… It’s a “Recovery”

“The US unemployment rate reached 9.8 percent and the economy lost 263,000 jobs in September, according to figures released Friday by the Labor Department.”  WSWS “The broadest measure, including discouraged workers and people forced to work part time, reached 17 percent last month. This is up from 16.8 percent in August and 10.6 percent a [...]

Everything is OK Montage

and check out other videos of thiers on their Youtube site… A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object. -Albert Camus [...]

Debunking the War Party

Greenwald Slaps Down Huffington by Justin Raimondo, AntiWar The long-awaited first top level meeting in thirty years between US diplomats and their Iranian counterparts in Geneva is over but we are far from done with what promises to be a long, involved, and often quite scary drama, likely to unfold slowly-but-ominously over the next year. [...]

Resistance silenced in Honduras

Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True

(Juan Cole has compiled a little information to help counter the pro-war-progressives/neocon SPIN about Iran. There are only 2 points of his that I would like to add some info for clarity’s sake: 1. Iran did NOT “break its word” to the IAEA by not telling them as soon as they began construction – that [...]

The Swine Flu Conspiracy