Conscience Dreaming:Was Jared Loughner Trying to Tell Us Something?

by Scott Creighton Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition, or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong. Moral evaluations of this type may reference values or norms (principles and rules) At this point it’s impossible to understand what went through the mind of Jared Loughner in the lead-up to his Saturday morning attack on [...]

Exclusive: Loughner Friend Explains Alleged Gunman’s Grudge Against Giffords

by Nick Baumann, Mother Jones … Tierney, who’s also 22, recalls Loughner complaining about a Giffords event he attended during that period. He’s unsure whether it was the same one mentioned in the charges—Loughner “might have gone to some other rallies,” he says—but Tierney notes it was a significant moment for Loughner: “He told me [...]

Environmental activists demand inquiry into undercover officer’s role

(For seven years an undercover Met police officer posed as an environmental activist, lived with and helped out various movements in the U.K. and 22 other nations. Six activists have been convicted of planning to take part in an operation the undercover officer planned and paid for. Seven years this officer was assigned to infiltrate peaceful environmental groups [...]

Israeli humor – Hope kindergarten

from an Israeli TV program, mocking the current propaganda being forced on Israeli kids. A brilliant skit from the Israeli comedy show “Eretz Nehederet” (lit: “Wonderful Country) on Channel 2. This skit depicts a joint education program devised by the right-wing (yet mainstream) organization Im Tirtzu with the Ministry of Education that helps kindergarten children be [...]

Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig … The moratorium on anti-war protests in 2004 was designed to help elect the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry. It was a foolish and humiliating concession. Kerry snapped to salute like a windup doll when he was nominated. He talked endlessly about victory in Iraq. He assured the country that [...]

The IDF uses propaganda like an authoritarian regime

by Gideon Levi, Haaretz Jawaher Abu Ramah died young. She stood facing the demonstrators against the separation fence in her village, inhaled very large quantities of the gas that Israel Defense Forces soldiers fired that day, collapsed and died several hours later at a Ramallah hospital. These are definitive facts. The IDF should have immediately [...]

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

(More on one of the buried stories I covered in my article In the Name of Business: Buried Headlines of a Changing World ) from CBS News President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. [...]

Setting the Record Straight on Venezuela and Hugo Chavez

by Eva Golinger, Global Research With so much misinformation circulating in different media outlets around the world about Venezuela and President Hugo Chavez, it’s time to set the record straight. Venezuela is not a dictatorship and President Chavez is no dictator. Just last evening the Venezuelan head of state participated in a meeting with a [...]