Wanna See What Happens When You Videotape a Cop in Sweden?

I guess he doesn’t know that everyone is a terrorist and they hate us for our freedom…

‘Worst Bush-era policies’ becoming the ‘new normal’: ACLU

by Muriel Kane, Raw Story From the point of view of civil libertarians, the Obama administration has been an exercise in frustration, with every hopeful sign followed by failures to live up to its own promises. The ACLU has just issued a report (pdf), titled “Establishing a New Normal: National Security, Civil Liberties, and Human [...]

Clinton Appointee Blocks Arizona Immigration Laws Thus Saving Globalization

by Scott Creighton Well, they made sure the case went before a globalist judge appointed by Bill Clinton and she basically said that officers could not check to see if a detained person was here legally or not because if they were here legally, their “liberty” would be “restricted” for the 60 seconds or so that [...]

White House Neoliberals (Clintonistas) Work With GOP Neoliberals and Democratic Congressional Leadership to Fund More War and Defund Education and Teachers… and Police and Firefighters and Other State Employees

mash-up from HuffPo… The White House veto threat, combined with a GOP filibuster, was enough to defeat the funding bill in the Senate. On July 22nd, the Senate sent the stripped-down war funding bill back to the House, leading to Tuesday’s showdown. Nine years into the war, the Senate approved funding on a voice vote…. [...]

Guardian Writer Mentions CIA Death Squad Murder

(Writer from The Guardian talks about CIA (death squad) killing a deaf-mute Afghan civilian…) DAVID LEIGH: Yes, Shum Khan. This is one of the rather harrowing little stories that appears in these 92,000 entries. He lived in a very remote village 7,000 feet up in the mountains near the border with Pakistan. A CIA paramilitary [...]

Karzai Confirms: NATO Killed 52 Civilians in Friday Attack

Rockets Hit House Full of Hiding Civilians by Jason Ditz, AntiWar Following up on reports emerging over the weekend, Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office is confirming that a NATO attack in Sangin District of the Helmand Province struck a houseload of civilians hiding from a nearby battle, and that at least 52 civilians were killed.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has resulted in increased Unemployment in the U.S.

(… and yet the Clinton’s little puppet, Barack Obama, is trying to sell 3 more NAFTAs to us “as if” we can still be convinced that “free trade’ is good for anyone outside Wall Street or their personal servants in Washington…) by Mark Vorpahl, Global Research … We will make our case as hard and [...]

Leaked documents expose imperialist war in Afghanistan

(Task Force 373 – think “Caravan of Death”  (Chile), “Escuadrón de la Muerte ” (El Salvadore), “Battalion 316″  (Honduras), “Contras” (Nicaragua), and SAVAK in Iran.. the list goes on and on… ) by Alex Lantier, WSWS On Sunday, the WikiLeaks web site posted 91,731 American military documents on the US-NATO occupation of Afghanistan, covering the [...]

BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle

(Remember back when the cameras were not permitted around the clean-up crews? Yeah, it’s because many of them were prisoners forced to work on the toxic clean-up for next to nothing.) by Abe Louise Young, CommonDreams In the first few days after BP’s Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, [...]

Netanyahu: I deceived US to destroy Oslo accords

(In this video, it appears as if Bibi is boasting about how he undermined the Oslo accords, how they are smashing the Palestinians to undermine Arafat, and how “absurd” it is that “80%” of the U.S. population supports what Israel is doing. The sound is disabled for some reason but it appears as if the [...]

House Dems Pressured To Drop Funding For Schools, Students To Pay For Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan

(The Clinton Party (“New Dems”) taking money from the school systems and sending it to the partying war contractors of Afghanistan and the new slave owners setting up shop in Haiti (with Slick Willy))… by Andrew Taylor, AP After a take-it-or-leave-it vote by the Senate, House Democrats face little choice but to drop billions in [...]

Obama Is Preparing to Bomb Iran

by Webster Tarpley, Tarpley(dot)net After about two and a half years during which the danger of war between the United States and Iran was at a relatively low level, this threat is now rapidly increasing. A pattern of political and diplomatic events, military deployments, and media chatter now indicates that Anglo-American ruling circles, acting through [...]

A Lie Exposed

by Jerry White, WSWS Four months after the passage of Obama’s health care legislation—hailed by most of the media and the entire liberal establishment as the most progressive social reform since the 1960s—the reactionary implications of the measure are emerging ever more clearly. The centerpiece of the plan, the White House claimed, was the extension [...]

Money Laundering and the Global Drug Trade Fueled by Capitalist Elites

by Tom Burghardt, Global Research When investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker broke the story four years ago that a DC-9 (N900SA) “registered to a company which once used as its address the hangar of Huffman Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, Florida Airport which trained both terrorist pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, was [...]

Shock wave and bubble: the untruth about the Cheonan

by Hilary Keenan, 21st Centrury Socialism Only a small coterie in the USA and South Korea know for sure what really happened to the South Korean warship. But, unreported in the Western media, the ‘proof’ that the Cheonan was sunk by North Korea has been thoroughly discredited. As is often the case following a negotiated [...]