Robo-signers: Mortgage experience not necessary

Banks hired hair stylists, teens to process foreclosure documents, workers’ testimony shows “The mortgage servicers hired people who would never question authority,” by Michelle Conlin, from Raw Story In an effort to rush through thousands of home foreclosures since 2007, financial institutions and their mortgage servicing departments hired hair stylists, Walmart floor workers and people [...]

How the Simpson’s Opening Sequence Actually Supports Globalization (and probably wasn’t directed by Banksy)

by Scott Creighton The worm has turned; it’s time to demonize China’s human rights and labor policies for the good of the global economy.  It was just last year that globalist Hilary Clinton decided that we had to ignore China’s terrible human rights record and draconian labor policies “for the good of the global economy” but [...]

UK opens 7/7 bombings inquest

from Al Jazeera A court in London began hearing inquests into the deaths of 52 people killed in a series of bombings that targeted London’s transport network on July 7, 2005. The inquiry will examine whether the police or the MI5 domestic intelligence service could have intercepted the bombers, two of whom had been under the surveillance [...]

US physics professor: ‘Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life’

from the Telegraph UK Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society. Anthony Watts describes it thus: This is an important moment in science history. I would describe it as [...]

Israel approves loyalty oath

Cabinet adopts bill that requires non-Jewish immigrants to swear loyalty to the “Jewish, democratic state” from Al Jazeera The Israeli cabinet on Sunday approved a bill requiring new immigrants to pledge loyalty to the “Jewish and democratic” state. The language has triggered charges of racism from Arab politicians who see it as undermining the rights of the country’s [...]

Canadian Finance Minister Want’s to “Reassert Free Trade at All Costs”

“the IMF is a failure… globalization is a failure… the Washington Consensus is a failure… let’s end it“ That of course is all based on the assumption that it wasn’t designed to do exactly what it is doing; impoverishing that vast majority of the world.

Jewish Voice for Peace: We stand with Abdallah

(Email received from Jewish Voice for Peace about the campaign to free Abdallah Abu Rahmah.) Dear Scott, What would you do if soldiers came to take your land away? Would you be brave enough to stand up to them, with your family in harm’s way? What if a soldier pointed a gun at your daughter? [...]

Yemen Governor: No Indication US Cleric Affiliated With al-Qaeda

by Jason Ditz, Antiwar Despite US officials repeating the allegations that New Mexico-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is a known leader of al-Qaeda, Ali Hassan al-Ahmadi, the governor of Yemen’s Shabwa Province, the region in which the cleric is believed to be hiding from US assassins, has never been given evidence against him. “So far we [...]

Behind the Coup in Ecuador

by Eve Gollinger, Information Clearinghouse The latest coup attempt against one of the countries in the Bolivarian Alliance For The People of Our America (ALBA) is attempt to impede Latin American integration and the advance of revolutionary democratic processes. The rightwing is on the attack in Latin America. Its success in 2009 in Honduras against [...]

George Galloway Returns To Canada

from Information Clearinghouse The support of the oppressed people in Gaza is no longer a crime or considered support of terrorism, according to the latest Federal court ruling in Canada.

The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America

(Common Cause) (Justice Steven’s dissent in the Citizens United case) by Robert Reich, Information Clearinghouse Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before – and they’re doing it behind closed doors. Hundreds of millions [...]

Justice for Fallujah Fundraiser: Noam Chomsky

The Justice For Fallujah Project Fundraiser, 9/16/2010 Paulist Center, Boston, MA http://www.thefallujahproject.org Recorded and edited by Charngchi Way Additional audio by Jason Pramas (The coup of 1958 by Abd al Karim Qassim terrified the British and U.S. monied interests… quoted at the time as saying “… Qassim might attempt to redistribute wealth in an attempt [...]

Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain

from the Guardian UK A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian. The non-specific US warning, which despite its vagueness led Britain, France and other countries [...]

Nato contractors ‘attacking own vehicles’ in Pakistan

(There is a desperate need to create a justification, a pretext, for the all-out invasion of Pakistan… the recent terrorist threats in Europe and the Times Square bomber (state department manufactured events) are both examples of efforts to create this pretext. Now we seem to have another. This one serves the dual purpose of creating [...]

Operation Recovery launches publicly today

notification from Iraq Veterans Against the War… received today Dear Scott, Operation Recovery launches publicly today Today Iraq Veterans Against the War publicly announces our Operation Recovery campaign to Stop the Deployment of Traumatized Troops. Our team of campaign organizers has been working around the clock for the past month to prepare for today’s action [...]