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 [...]

Internal AU Reports Acknowledge Indiscriminate Targeting of Somali Civilians

AU Major Insists All Civilians Actually Killed By ‘Extremists’ by Jason Ditz, AntiWar The large numbers of civilians being killed by African Union troops in their attempted occupation of Somalia are damaging their image, internal African Union reports are cautioning.

Obama’s War on the Internet: The Ministry of Truth

by Philip Giraldi, Capaign for Liberty The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to [...]