NBC Spins Afghanistan Story about Rioting and Anger into a “Hearts and Minds” Saga to “Support the Troops”

by Scott Creighton U.S. military contractors, reportedly assigned to the U.S. Embassy, sparked a major riot the other day when they crashed into some civilians killing 4 of them. The incident sparked riots in which the anger toward our immoral and illegal occupation bubbled to the surface. SUVs were burned, rocks were thrown, and cowardly [...]

Arianna Huffington Praises Obama The Union Busting “Liberal”

by Scott Creighton So while “The Greatest Man of Our Generation” is looking to break-up the teacher’s union, Arianna Huffington is showing “progressives” how they need to cheer him in his “bipartisan” effort. She’s right; these days, union-busting and the privatization of every public sector dollar is a bipartisan effort. It’s called the Washington Consensus. [...]

Targeted Killing Is New U.S. Focus in Afghanistan

(What is the  new Afghanistan plan for President Peace Prize? Death squads and torture… that’s right… guess he learned that from his childhood days in Indonesia under Suharto’s rule, huh?) By HELENE COOPER and MARK LANDLER, New York Times When President Obama announced his new war plan for Afghanistan last year, the centerpiece of the [...]

“Let Them Eat Cake”: A handful of oligarchs are becoming billionaires while the rest of the country goes down the drain

by Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research It is not unusual for members of the diminishing upper middle class to drop $20,000 or $30,000 on a big wedding.  But for celebrities this large sum wouldn’t cover the wedding dress or the flowers.  When country music star Keith Urban married actress Nicole Kidman in 2006, their wedding [...]