Noam Chomsky on Taming the Bewildered Herd

(The “crisis of democracy” in the 1960s gave birth to the Lewis Powell memo of 1971 which served as a blueprint for how they needed to retake control of America, and by that I mean the corporate and banking elites and the special class of their servants in politics and the media. From that was [...]

Wikileaks Rest in Peace

Cryptome The original Wikileaks initiative is dead, replaced by a bloated apparatus promising 260,000 cables at slower than a snail’s pace. At the rate of 20 cables a day it will take 13,000 days to finish — some 35 years. The original merits of Wikileaks have been lost in its transformation into a publicity and [...]

“T.” Carter’s Video Resurgence and the Gatekeepers of the Pentagon

by Scott Creighton There seems to be a huge effort going on right now to frame the entire question of what happened at the Pentagon on Sept. 11th between two artificially opposed positions: 1. (CIT) – “Fly Over” Theory – Endorsed by the father of modern drones – (CIT actually created their own “Hit List” [...]

American Everyman Extending Our Reach

I don’t really like talking about the website itself and I don’t  spend much time worrying about stats, but I saw an article over at WTCdemolition and thought I would look into how our numbers were doing in comparison to other Truth and anti-globalization websites. Turns out, American Everyman is certainly on an upswing. Thought [...]

NATO Trains Afghan Army To Guard Asian Pipeline

(In Aug of 2008 I wrote about the Vulcans Path to the Caspian Sea Basin. The article detailed one of the great untold stories of 9/11; how control of oil and liquid natural gas reserves factored into the need to invade and occupy Afghanistan before the invasion of Iraq. This story also dealt with the [...]

Empire – Hollywood and the war machine

Ron Paul Advocates Demolition of Social Security

by Scott Creighton G*ddamn, I hate Ron Paul. Let’s get this straight; Ron Paul is nothing more than a kinder/gentler face for the Chicago School neoliberalization program supported by the neocons on one side and the Clitonista/Obama New Dems on the other. He is yet another flavor of  the oligarchical corporatist tools, who fully expected his [...]

Globalist Hillary Clinton: More Prison Time for Khodorkovsky Could Be “Bad for Business”

by Scott Creighton Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian oil oligarch, has been found guilty of looting 200 tons of oil from a company he once owned, Yukos, and then laundering the proceeds from that theft from 1998-2003.  When this trial started, Khodorkovsky was already serving an 8 year sentence for tax evasion from back in 2005, but he was hoping to get [...]

From Huxley to Orwell

Chris Hedges explains how we have been sliding toward Orwell’s dystopian state. … Orwell warned of a world where books were banned. Huxley warned of a world where no one wanted to read books. Orwell warned of a state of permanent war and fear. Huxley warned of a culture diverted by mindless pleasure. Orwell warned [...]

Kosovo: Europe’s Mafia State. Hub of the EU-NATO Drug Trail

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Accused of Running Human Organ, Drug Trafficking Cartel (“captives” were “‘filtered’ for their suitability as donors, based on sex, age, health conditions and ethnic origin. “We heard numerous references to captives’ not merely having been handed over, but also having been ‘bought’ and ‘sold,’” the special rapporteur told the Times.” “Some of [...]

Journalism of Appeasement. Corruption, Smoke and Mirrors

(A must read) by David DeGraw, Global Research Here’s a brief summation of my recent reporting: If we continue to let our politicians and wealthy members of society live in comfort, free from the consequences of their actions, we are complicit in our own demise. Our country is so overrun with corruption, we cannot remain [...]

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Israeli Foreign Minister: Peace Deal is “Impossible” and “Forbidden”

(Many of us knew what this racist zealot was going to be about when he first got the job. And here we are, the rest of the world ready to recognize a Palestinian state, a good first step to lasting peace, and the U.S. congress and the racists in Israel’s government see that as “forbidden”.  [...]

Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir

(Just like the formation of the Austerity Commission, when the neoliberals in the Obama administration can’t get their agenda passed through the congress, they just pass it via presidential decree.  The “death panels” are back.) by Robert Pear, New York Times When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” [...]

Julian Assange Gets Another Payday

by Scott Creighton Julian Assange is looking to hit pay-dirt once again as reports of a new book deal with a subsidiary of Random House are surfacing. “The book deal is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $1.5 million and he’s expected to deliver the manuscript in March.” Huffington Post Of course, he’s only doing [...]