Obama Wants $180 Billion for More NUKES

by Scott Creighton When Barack Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize (Kissinger got one too, by the way) they justified the ridiculous PR move by saying it was an effort to show they supported his future plans to reduce the nuclear weapons on the globe and make the world a “safer place” for everyone. Then, [...]

Another $205 Million for Israel

by Scott Creighton Barack Obama wants congress to pay $205 million dollars over and above the $3 billion a year we give to Israel,  to help Israel defend themselves from this… Barack Obama wants congress to pay $205 million to Israel, a year and a half after Israel did this to the walled off people of [...]

1998 – Congressional Testimony About the Caspian Sea Basin, Pipelines, and Securing U.S. Interests In Afghanistan

(H/T/ What Really Happened) 1998 Congressional Record. Emphasis added to text. U.S. INTERESTS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION FEBRUARY 12, 1998 {part of the testimony of  Clinton administration ROBERT W. GEE, [...]

Everything Would be Just Fine if Not for Those Damn Poor People

(I have often wondered what my writing would have been like had I gone to journalism school… had I learned the “proper” way to report and to write for the MSM type publications in ways that would not rattle those institutions. I once had a professor in college who did everything he could to instill [...]

Is the US Media Leading America into Another War?; America’s Armed Forces are “Embedded in the Media”

by Robert Bridge, Global Research In the past, war reporters bravely followed soldiers into the jaws of war. Today, it looks like the soldiers are embedded in the media instead, simply going along for the story. This article asks a simple question that unfortunately has no simple answer: “Where should media publications draw the line [...]

Greek government announces major pension cuts

(The Greek middle class has completely abandoned the working class. There are calls now from the billionaire owned papers to suspend the constitution in order to deal with the popular dissent in Greece. The Greek government in collusion with the IMF and the EU are calling for a pension freeze, massive tax increases on that [...]

Britain’s Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition plans attacks on social programmes

(The IMF structural reforms are being implemented all across the European Union. In Britain they are already talking about the privatization of the education system and I am sure they will soon be introducing our brand of for-profit insurance and healthcare. They are also introducing something I am sure we will see here very soon… [...]

Euro aid package inaugurates offensive against working class

by Peter Schwartz, WSWS Last weekend, European leaders and finance ministers agreed to a rescue package for the euro which inaugurates the most comprehensive offensive against the working class since the end of World War II. This offensive must be repulsed by the combined resistance of the European working class.

Arrests at Al Walaja

a little history of the land… Abu Nidal finds the original location of Walaja on a map dating from the 1920s.Walaja is located south west of Jerusalem. The village was Occupied in October 1948, but Palestinian and Egyptian guerillas fought off the Israeli battalions and successfully defended their village. Several times they were able to [...]

Amateur Video Of Gulf Oil Slick – Worse Than BP Admits

Video is from Alabama resident John Wathen as a volunteer pilot flew him over the area where the oil rig sank. Officials have stopped guessing at the amount of oil leaking although some speculate it may be closer to 1 million gallons per day. Don’t let BP spin this into something trivial. “It’s not a [...]

Jeremy Scahill’s True Colors Bleeding Through (or “Poo On Fire”)

by Scott Creighton (***UPDATE*** True to my word, the pictorial I call “Ode to Liberal Fraud” is now posted at the end of this article. Years in the making (ok… about 10 minutes) and at a cost of thousands of dollars (ok… it didn’t cost anything), the final work is completed at great personal risk [...]

SnapScouts App… Do You Believe This?

This is a screen shot I took of an app for one of the new phones. Turn in your neighbors and win cool prizes.  Click on the image for a larger view.  Check after the break for some more info I found…   [now check after the break for some more info I found on [...]

The Fake “Global War on Terror” in a Nutshell

by Scott Creighton You want to go to war with Afghanistan to run the Trans Afghan Pipeline? Falsely claim the Taliban refused to give up al Qaeda… You want to go to war with Iraq to get control of oil fields? Falsely claim Saddam is helping fund al Qaeda… You want to go to war [...]

All in the Family; The Globalist Kagans of Brooklyn

Elena Kagan must produce her entire family lineage prior to her confirmation hearings and this is why…  by Scott Creighton   Elena Kagan will be the next Supreme Court justice as she was just announced as President Obama’s choice to fill the seat of one of the last real liberals left on the Supreme Court, Justice John [...]

Jeremy Scahill is a Douche Bag

by Scott Creighton (H/T Kenny’s Side Show) It’s not so much that Scahill denies there is any reason to believe elements of the previous Bush administration facilitated the attacks of 9/11… I wouldn’t expect anyone who makes a living doing interviews on Democracy NOW! and being published in magazines like The Nation to say anything else. Its how [...]