After Fort Hood: Count All the Dead

(I don’t know yet what happened at Fort Hood, that is why I am shying away from jumping into the fray at this time. Over at Kenny’s Sideshow there are some interesting videos collected which you can check out. They deal primarily with the subject of the missing first-hand eyewitness accounts of the shooting. So [...]

The Evil Empire

(Paul Craig Roberts lays out what I and some others have been saying for years; that this entire Afghanistan occupation, started and continues because of the Caspian Sea Basin reserves and the corporations that cling to their future profit margins.)
by Paul Craig Roberts, Information Clearinghouse [partial excerpt, read the rest here]
Moving from the tip of the [...]

Breaking the Australian Silence

(A reader here suggested I read John Pilger’s address given at the Sydney Opera House on the evening of his winning the Sydney Peace Prize. I recommend everyone reading it.)
by John Pilger   [excerpt taken from Information Clearinghouse. read the entire speech, here]
… An historic shift is taking place. The major western democracies are moving towards a corporatism. [...]

US unemployment rate surges to highest level in 26 years

by Andre Damon, WSWS
The US unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in October, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. This is only the second time official unemployment has reached double digits since the end of World War II. It is the highest level since early 1983.
The latest figures show the real basis [...]