Finally, Neda’s Staged “Killing” Exposed

by Scott Creighton On June 24, 2009 I wrote an article called “Compare and Contrast: One is Real the Other is Fake” which explained how I thought the Neda killing in Iran was a staged attempt to ferment indignation in Iran and the rest of the world against the ruling party that had just won [...]

Looting Main Street:How the nation’s biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece

by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone excerpt… The city of Birmingham was founded in 1871, at the dawn of the Southern industrial boom, for the express purpose of attracting Northern capital — it was even named after a famous British steel town to burnish its entrepreneurial cred. There’s a gruesome irony in it now lying sacked [...]

THE GREAT CON JOB – DYLAN RATIGAN

(Though Dylan is still doing a good job on this story, he still seems to miss (or ignore) the real motive behind the story… the fact that they deliberately orchistrated this in order to create this economic atmosphere so that they could impose the IMF type neoliberal structural reforms.) Part 1

Is the Fed Helping the Big Banks to Cook the Books?

by Mike Whitney, Information Clearinghouse On Friday, the Wall Street Journal revealed details of a cover up by the nations largest banks that have been engaged in potentially-criminal accounting activities to conceal the amount of debt on their balance sheets. The SEC has been notified of the allegations and has launched a probe to determine [...]

Washington nuclear conference promotes US campaign against Iran, North Korea

by Patrick Martin, WSWS President Barack Obama opened the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington Monday, a two-day event that, in the guise of promoting disarmament and opposing terrorism, seeks to line up international support for the US campaign to isolate, pressure and ultimately overthrow the governments of Iran and North Korea. Far from representing a [...]

Think Progress Shows its Neoliberal/Carl Rovian Pro-War Roots

Quick note… Found a lovely piece of propaganda on the “progressive” ThinkProgress website.  In it, they extol the virtues of quickly passing a ”cap-and-trade” derivatives market scam in order to cripple the “dictatorship” of Iran and other “unfriendly” nations like Venezuela all for the benefit of our “national security”. Of course, as is evident from the [...]

The Economy is Great… Just Buy a Gun

by Scott Creighton Just a day or so after a report came out that basically said that the suffering and the anger of the people of this country is meaningless in the face of “the market”, a county in Ohio announced that it is laying off over 50% of its cops due to the economy [...]

Iraq anti-US cleric Sadr urges unity vs Americans

(Iraqis uniting under the common purpose… to get rid of U.S.) by Reuters Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, likely to be a key player in forming a new Iraqi government following elections last month, urged Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims on Friday to unite to oust American troops. In an address read to tens of thousands of [...]

Wikileaks Video Shows Apache Gunner Lied to Command at Least 8 Times to Gain Permission to Kill Unarmed Civilians

Is Lying to Commanding Officers Now Considered Appropriate Standard Operating Procedure? by Scott Creighton In a war started by lies, is it any wonder that soldiers routinely lie as well in order to kill Iraqi civilians? Its been a few days now since the Wikileaks video story broke and I have yet to hear anyone talking about something [...]

Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians

Chris Hedges, author, spoke at a Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and US complicity in Israel’s murderous destruction of Gaza. Part 1 (Part 2 after the break)

Progressive RAGE!!!!

A Neoliberal Regime Falls in Kyrgyzstan

by Scott Creighton I’m still working on piecing this all together. It’s hard to get a firm grip on what the situation is in Kyrgyzstan at this point. But so far, this is what I know.  The 5-year-old pro-western regime of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, a man who came to power promising to end the corruption and cronyism [...]

“We Will Target and Kill U.S. Citizens Based on Lies and You Will Like It” – Says the New York Times

by Scott Creighton As the American military’s credibility has been cast into the gutter by several recent stories which exposed one lie after the other after the other, the Obama administration is taking the unprecedented step to confirm they feel they have the right to kill any US citizen abroad whom they determine poses a threat to [...]

Just Another Atrocity

by Justin Raimondo, from AntiWar The video released by Wikileaks showing US fighter planes picking off civilians as our airmen chortle with glee is shocking everyone. Everyone but me, that is. Perhaps I’m suffering from some sort of moral exhaustion: I’ve just about gone numb after living through and constantly writing about the past decade [...]

Iraq Slaughter Not An Aberration

by Glen Greenwald, Information Clearinghouse I was just on Democracy Now along with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange discussing the Iraq video they released yesterday, and there’s one vital point I want to emphasize.  Shining light on what our government and military do is so critical precisely because it forces people to see what is really being done [...]