A Brief Example of How the Wikileaks Propaganda Works

by Scott Creighton With Wikileaks, we see what we want to see, like everyone else On Oct. 24, 2010, Tom Burghardt wrote an article for Global Research, an anti-globalization website, titled “The WikiLeaks Release: U.S. Complicity and Cover-Up of Iraq Torture Exposed“.  In this article, Tom clearly states that Wikileaks’ Iraq War Logs shows the criminality of [...]

Dennis Kucinich Voted for the Obama/Bush Tax Cuts that will Increase Taxes for 1/3 of the American People and Ultimately Serve as the Pretext for Another Bush Plan, the Privatization of Social Security

by Scott Creighton Dennis Kucinich voted for the Bush tax cuts that are already being cited by the next speaker of the House as justification to privatize Social Security. Alan Grayson voted against it. “Earlier in the evening, on the only amendment voted on, the House rejected a change to the estate tax which would [...]

War On Terror – War of Words?

Los Angeles follows trend of public schools seeking corporate sponsorship

from The Raw Story This algebraic equation, brought to you by Coca-Cola? Absurd as it may sound, that will soon be a figurative reality for many students in Los Angeles county, as public school officials there have announced a plan to solicit corporate sponsorship to help grow their budgets and retain staff. In a unanimous [...]

Fmr. health insurance executive pleads for more corporate whistleblowers

from The Raw Story Wendell Potter, the former Cigna communications chief who turned whistleblower and revealed the insurance industry’s disinformation campaign during the recent healthcare debate, is now urging other would-be whistleblowers to get off the fence and speak out. In an extended interview with Raw Story last week, Potter had encouraging words for those [...]

Federal court blocks Obama Administration attempt to spy on cell phones without a warrant

from The Raw Story The Obama Administration’s effort to obtain your location from cell phone towers without a warrant was rebuffed Wednesday by a federal court. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the Justice Department cannot obtain information about which cell phone towers mobile phones communicate with without a warrant. The decision [...]

“What Teachers Make,” by TAYLOR MALI

As the neoliberals continue to demonize our dedicated public school teachers in order to ultimately justify handing over your child’s eduction to some corporation run like McDonald’s or WalMart (in fact, both McDonald’s and WalMart partner with some school systems to “teach’ kids how to work at their respective companies), I thought I would put up this video defining just [...]

Italian Court Ups Sentences for 23 CIA Agents

from Common Dreams An Italian court on Wednesday upped the sentences for 23 CIA agents convicted in absentia of abducting an Egyptian imam in one of the biggest cases against the US “extraordinary rendition” program. The 23 CIA agents, originally sentenced in November 2009 to five to eight years in prison, had their sentences increased [...]

People & Power – On a wing and a prayer

Boeing whistleblowers expose dangerous flaws and government collusion with big business that puts all of us at risk. Al Jazeera has conducted an investigation into claims that more than 1,500 of the world’s most commonly-used passenger planes, the Boeing 737NG, were built with ill-fitting and illegal parts.  Two whistleblowers who used to work for Boeing [...]

Clay Duke, Bill Husfelt, and Subprime Mortgages – An American Tragedy

by Scott Creighton Repealing Glass-Steagall, Sub-prime mortgages, Goldman Sachs, collateralized debt obligations, the SBA, the Race to the Top, Bill Husfelt, and Clay Duke. How two men met and neither knew why. Yesterday Clay Duke walked into a Bay County School Board meeting and he never walked out. He painted a V symbol on the [...]

Hillary Clinton Just Loves Those Untouchable “Mafia Like” Heads of State (especially the ones who build statues of her husband)

by Scott Creighton Hillary Clinton was in Kosovo back in mid-October of this year, a country that loves the Clintons and even has a statue of Bill Clinton somewhere. She gave a press conference with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and this is part of what she said… “Thank you very much, Prime Minister Thaci, and [...]

As the Rest of the Civilized World Moves to Recognize The Palestinian State, US Representatives RUSH to Oppose It

by Scott Creighton Civilized World: European Union: “On Monday, the European Union reaffirmed its readiness to recognize a Palestinian state at an “appropriate” time. However, it stopped short of an outright recognition… the statement demands that a way be found to resolve the status of Jerusalem “as the future capital of two states” and calls [...]

NATO Forces Bomb Afghan School by “Accident”, Kill 30 “Suspects” – Obama “Pleased” With C.I.A. Run Afghan War

by Scott Creighton Here’s a bit of luck for you. A day before the Obama administration is going to make public their redacted review of the war in Afghanistan, it is being reported that  NATO airstrikes in that country “accidentally” hit a school and killed 30 people overall (who have yet to be officially identified).  But not [...]

Filibuster: China, China, China, China, China… Five Chinas

You Ain’t Gonna Stop What’s Comin. That’s Vanity

by Scott Creighton Glenn Greenwald quits CREW over Wikileaks…. and exposes what I assumed had been the motivation behind his and many other leftwing dissenter’s motivation for blindly buying into the Wikileaks propaganda… “I believe defense of WikiLeaks has become one of the greatest and most important political causes that exists” . Personally I believe [...]