No Security Patdown for the Elites

No Security Pat-Downs for Boehner by Jeff Zeleny, New York Times Representative John A. Boehner, soon to be the Speaker of the House, has pledged to fly commercial airlines back to his home district in Ohio. But that does not mean that he will be subjected to the hassles of ordinary passengers, including the controversial [...]

Obama stands by controversial air security screening methods

by S. Malveaux, CNN President Barack Obama stood by new controversial screening measures Saturday, calling methods such as pat-downs and body scans necessary to assure airline safety. Speaking at a NATO press conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the president called the balance between protecting travelers’ rights and their security a “tough situation.” Per the new rules, [...]

Obama’s Neoliberal Dream Team Works on Arms Treaty

by Scott Creighton (just a quick note) The administration of CHANGE has enlisted the services of some of the most repugnant war-criminals this country has ever produced to help with the marketing of the stalled nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Just thought you would like to know. Obama has enlisted former advisers from Democratic and [...]

Pentagon Blows up Thousands of Homes in Afghanistan

Repeating the horrors of the Vietnam War by Brian Becker, Answer Borrowing a page from its infamous “pacification” effort in South Vietnam, where peasant villages were napalmed and burned to the ground to “save them from the communists,” the Obama-ordered surge in Afghanistan has been secretly blowing up thousands of homes and leveling portions of [...]

Obama Administration Denies Request for Fort Hood Report That Could Aid Suspect

from Fox News A key intelligence report that could aid accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan’s defense is being withheld by the Obama administration, according to a letter obtained by Fox News as part of its ongoing investigation of a radical American cleric. Intelligence officials do not deny that the report contains information about [...]

Biden: Airport screening pat-downs a ‘necessary policy’

by Jordan Fabian, The Hill Vice President Joe Biden is defending the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) controversial new pat-down technique, calling it a “necessary policy.” Biden acknowledged people have concerns that the TSA’s use of full-body scanners and pat-downs are frustrating and intrusive but argued they are crucial to prevent another incident like the attempted [...]

Fraud Factories: Rep. Alan Grayson Explains the Foreclosure Fraud Crisis

Exclusive Report: Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent

by Gareth Porter, Truthout Since 2007, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – with the support of the United States, Israel and European allies UK, France and Germany – has been demanding that Iran explain a set of purported internal documents portraying a covert Iranian military program of research and development of nuclear weapons. The [...]

Max Keiser: Irish govt slaves to IMF terror machine!

I love Max. Yes, the bankers and the speculators from Wall Street create WMDs of financial terrorism but they also run the CIA and have run the CIA since it’s creation. The CIA is the world’s leading terrorist organization with the proof all around us and in the form of countless documents finally released, by [...]

TSA Chief: Submit or Don’t Fly

Appointed Head of TSA Shrugs Off Senate Calls to Relax Screening by Jason Ditz, AntiWar As an appointed official, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief John Pistole doesn’t necessarily have to care about public opinion. One might have hoped, however, that faced with calls to back down by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental [...]

Gitmo detainee acquitted on all but one charge

from the Associated Press The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial was acquitted Wednesday of all but one of the hundreds of charges he helped unleash death and destruction on two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 — an opening salvo in al-Qaida’s campaign to kill Americans. A federal jury convicted Ahmed Ghailani [...]

U.S. taxpayers are paying for Israel’s West Bank occupation

According to a June 2010 fact sheet on the USAID Internet site, last year American taxpayers funded the paving of 63 kilometers of asphalt roads in the West Bank. By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Travelers along the “original” West Bank roads, the ones enabling drivers to bypass Palestinian villages, can see signs declaring “USAID from the [...]

What Lies Beneath

by Scott Creighton With $40 greens fees in a country that boasts a 28.5% overall headcount poverty ratio in 2008 (what the World Bank refers to as the “upper” poverty line – living on less than $4.00 per day), the Golf Club of Lebanon serves a mere 900 families as the only golf course in [...]

Bloody or Beautiful; The Choice is Ours – Reflections on Arundhati Roy’s “Field Notes on Democracy”

by Scott Creighton I want to put up a little bit of Arundhati Roy’s “Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers“.  Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and anti-neoliberal globalism activist. In 2006 she signed a letter with Chomsky, Zinn and others that was published in the Guardian which called the 2006 Lebanon War a [...]

American Everyman Thanks You

UPDATE: I thank you