An Open Letter to Potential Whistleblowers: Wikileaks May be a State Department “Honeypot”- You Have Other Options

by Scott Creighton (Part 2 and 3 will be published tomorrow. I accidentally hit the “publish” button instead of “save”.. oops) Attention future whistleblowers: Contrary to “popular opinion” (conveniently being forged by the complicit MSM on both the contrived ”left” and the complicit ”right”) there is ample reason to be extremely cautious about using Wikileaks as the publishing venue for information you wish to [...]

Locking Up the Working Poor in China: One Step Away from the Warsaw Ghetto

What happens to these communities when all the buildings and the new construction projects in Beijing are complete?

World War III Scenario?

by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research TV A group of former CIA and military officials have written to President Obama to say they believe Israel is preparing to attack Iran this month. The group explained that Israel wants to launch a war suddenly, and make it politically untenable for Obama to do anything other than offer [...]

What collapsing empire looks like

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military [...]

Report: Obama Launches New Program to Help Corporations “Take Advantage of Low Labor Costs” Abroad

by David Sirota, Open Left In recent months, President Obama reversed his campaign promises on trade issues – first by dropping his pledge to renegotiate NAFTA and then by pushing to pass NAFTA-style trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia. Now, with the unemployment crisis persisting, the key jobs question is once again front [...]

Haiti: Manipulating the Electoral Process. Putting a Smiley Face on a Murderous Military Occupation

Wyclef Jean for President? Look Beyond the Hype by Charlie Hinton, Global Research To cut to the chase, no election in Haiti, and no candidate in those elections, will be considered legitimate by the majority of Haiti’s population, unless it includes the full and fair participation of the Fanmi Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. [...]

Wednesday Morning Music

Ed Waters from over at Make Them Walk the Plank sent me a link to this video of his. Thanks Ed. A Wanna Be a Pirate

The American Dream

Obama Administration Declines to Declare Water as a Fundamental Human Right

by Scott Creighton The U.N. General Assembly forced a vote on a Bolivian resolution declaring that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. The count was 122 nations FOR the resolution, 0 AGAINST, with 41 ABSTAINING.  Guess which way the neoliberal Obama delegation went? “It was the United States and Canada, the [...]

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 [...]