U.S. changing controversial rule for holding detainees

(How about some more CHANGE? It used to be under the Bush administration the TROOPS could detain and interrogate Afghani civilians for up to 4 days… but now, under the PEACE PRIZE PRESIDENT they get to hold them and torture them for up to 14 DAYS (more if needed).  How’s THAT for CHANGE?) A controversial [...]

Today Do Something for Rachel

(I received this just a few moments ago. I wanted to pass it on to you. Many of us are truly troubled by what is happening in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel. Many of us do what we can. Rachel Corrie did more. She went to Palestine and stood beside mothers and fathers as [...]

More Secrecy, Less Transparency Under Obama; and oh yeah, and Under No Circumstances Will There Be a Real Investigation of the Anthrax Attacks

by Scott Creighton So the FBI tries to frame up Steven Hatfill, botches it badly, pays him $5 million or so (of OUR money) to shut him up, then sets up Ivins with a bought and paid for informant (Duley), wildly spins the facts of the case to fit their suspect, sweeps it all under [...]

Michael Moore Stands up for Dennis Kucinich on Countdown Last Night

***UPDATE*** Since they can’t count on democratic holdouts like Kucinich (good for you Dennis) Pelosi may use the old “deem and pass” rule to pass the Senate version of the Insurance Company Bailout Plan WITHOUT actually having a vote on it… The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate [...]

Remember What Used to be “Progressive”?

While MoveOn and other “progressive” sites start attacking Kucinich for not caving in to Obamacare, just remember what a “progressive” used to be…

More “CHANGE”;The Scary Homegrown “Al Qaeda” Plotline Continues

by Scott Creighton S. 1959-Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007-”A bill to establish the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, and for other purposes.” It’s important to note that this bill, though it passed its House version, died in committee while Joe Lieberman (it’s co-sponsor) held it for [...]

New Uncle Sam Poster by Mr. Fish

President Obama Uses $200,000 of his “Peace Price” Money for the Neoliberalization of Haiti

About $200,000 will go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which is raising money for long-term relief efforts in that country after the devastating earthquake.  Washington Post “Long-term relief efforts” means using money donated to help the desperate people of Haiti, to make more sweatshop garment factories set up by neoliberal ex-presidents Clinton and Bush. Leave [...]

Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ campaign;A Bush Era Retread to Benefit Military Recruitment and the Insurance Industry

At a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign to end childhood obesity in the United States, an epidemic she said is costly and a threat to national security.   “A recent study put the health care cost of obesity-related diseases at $147 [...]

Israel seals off West Bank (and other collected points of view)

by CNN Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the army to seal off the West Bank for 48 hours and tightened security around the old city of Jerusalem, Israeli officials said Friday. One Palestinian was injured in the old city after Israeli police restricted worshipers from entering the Al Aqsa mosque for Friday prayers. [...]

Bruce Ivins’ attorney calls for case to be re-opened

(The 92 page report issued recently by the FBI relied heavily on conversations Ivins had with “a witness close to the suspect”. That “witness” was Jean Duley, the woman I and many others have written extensively about. She got paid by the FBi to set Ivins up then led him in carefully scripted secretly recorded phone conversations, [...]

The Business Roundtable: The Most Powerful Corporate Business Club Most Americans Have Never Heard of

(As I have written many times before, the problem that stands before us is not “the Republicans” or the “Democrats”, it’s not “The Jews” or “Israel”, it’s not some super secretive gaggle of grotesquely wealthy families or even  ”The Lizard People” for that matter. It’s an ideology… “… thousands of individuals who subscribe to an ideology [...]

US and Europe drift toward trade war

(The globalists are fighting with each other now. We have outsourced our entire manufacturing sector, even sent our automaker jobs overseas, yet that isn’t enough for the globalist European Union. They want more. They want a BIGGER slice of the last industry we have left… the Military Industrial Complex. How DARE we build our own [...]

Nearly half of Americans believe climate change threat is exaggerated

by Suzanne Goldenburg, Guardian Nearly half of Americans – 48% – now believe the threat of global warming has been exaggerated, the highest level since polling began 13 years ago, the poll published today by Gallup said. It directly linked the decline in concern to the controversies about media coverage of stolen emails from the [...]

Neoliberal Free Market Reform News of the Day 3-11-2010

Greece hit by strikes over austerity plan – MSNBC – “Riot police fired tear gas to disperse rock-throwing protesters at one point of the demonstration as strikers and protesters marched through the capital, banging drums and chanting slogans such as “no sacrifice for plutocracy,” and “real jobs, higher pay.” People draped banners from apartment buildings [...]