Tea Party to Hold “I Stand With Scott Walker” Rally in Opposition of Protesters In Wisconsin

by Scott Creighton The fake populist Tea Party, a controlled opposition movement for a while now, is making plans to hold a rally in Madison in support of the unconstitutional bill which seeks to undermine unions in Wisconsin. With Republican state lawmakers stymied over plans to pass an anti-union bill, and Gov. Scott Walker saying [...]

US Veto on Settlements Undermines International Law

from Human Rights Watch The US veto of a proposed United Nations Security Council Resolution calling upon Israel to end illegal policies that promote settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, undermines enforcement of international law, Human Rights Watch said today. The Geneva Conventions, to which Israel is a party, prohibit the transfer [...]

US vetoes UN res. condemning illegal Israeli settlements

Mondoweiss Mondoweiss Obama administration vetoes any remaining legitimacy it had to lead the “peace process.” Time to step aside.15 seconds ago  Favorite  Retweet  Reply sahoura سحر US vetoes UN res. condemning illegal Israeli settlements shows Obama is an hypocrite-liar when he pretends he wants an end to this activity. gazamom Laila El-Haddad by PalestineToday US [...]

Yemen observes ‘Friday of Fury’

At least three killed as tens of thousands of demonstrators, both pro- and anti-government, march in several cities. from Al Jazeera English Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken part in anti-government demonstrations across the country, with pro-government supporters also rallying in several cities. Three people have been killed in the demonstrations with one of [...]

Bahrain forces fire at protesters

Troops open live fire around Pearl roundabout in Manama after nightfall, at least 66 wounded. from Al Jazeera English Shots were fired by soldiers around Pearl roundabout in Manama, the Bahraini capital, a day after police forcibly cleared a protest encampment from the traffic circle. The circumstances of the shooting after nightfall on Friday were [...]

Fresh protests hit Iraqi cities

Reports of deaths as thousands turn out to demand better service delivery and jobs from government. from Al Jazeera English Violent protests have taken place at various locations in Iraq, with anti-government protesters rallying against corruption, poor basic services and high unemployment. In Basra, the country’s second largest city, about 1,000 people rallied on Friday, [...]

Is Madison Wisconsin The Start of the Next American Revolution?

This is a question posed by Chomsky yesterday on Democracy Now!  They talk about the huge 50 year old propaganda campaigns coming from the left and the right to demonize and marginalize private sector unions and now the latest, them going after the public sector workers as if they are the cause of our current [...]

Horrific Video of Cop Brutality in Houston Beating of 15-Year Old Released

The main officers in this case were indicted on charges of misdemeanor oppression and not assault. The official position coming out of the Houston mayor’s office is that they “tried” to get the officers fired but were unsuccessful and they seek to indict the individual who leaked the video because obviously, he is the real [...]

The Fight of Their Lives: All Out War on Workers’ Rights in Wisconsin!

by Christopher Fons, Global Research Republicans in Wisconsin, after a fresh set of tax giveaways to corporations and limits on liability in a special session of the legislature this week have decided to go for the whole bratwurst and devour all public sector unions in one big gulp.  Fueled by worker distress, Tea Party bluster, [...]

Serious doubt cast on FBI’s anthrax case against Bruce Ivins

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon …  yesterday, the National Academy panel released its findings, and it produced a very unpleasant surprise for the FBI (though it was entirely unsurprising for those following this case).  As The New York Times put it in an article headlined “Expert Panel Is Critical of F.B.I. Work in Investigating Anthrax Letters”:  “A review of the [...]

Home Sweet Wall Street

by Robert Sheer, Truthdig A most dastardly deed occurred last Friday when the Obama administration issued a 29-page policy statement totally abandoning the federal government’s time-honored role in helping Americans achieve the goal of homeownership. Instead of punishing the banks that sabotaged the American ideal of a nation of stakeholders by “securitizing” our homesteads into [...]

Truth and Consequences: A Watershed Moment for Rebuilding a Movement

by Scott Creighton The website “9/11 Blogger” was exposed as a controlled opposition site years ago by myself and a long list of other well-meaning Truth advocates.  Heavily controlled actually. Typically I wouldn’t waste my time or yours writing about the goings on over there, but recently it has come to my attention that due to their own [...]

Iraqi defector ‘Curveball’ admits to WMD lies that led to war

(So everyone admits it was all a lie now. Rumsfeld admits it, curveball admits it… everyone but Fox News and 99% of it’s audience.) from Raw Story An Iraqi defector, codenamed Curveball, who allegedly helped convince the Bush administration that Saddam Hussein had a secret stash of biological and chemical weapons, has admitted for the [...]

Panel casts doubt on FBI scientific evidence in anthrax case

(So, the FBI did not have enough evidence to convict Bruce Ivins for the anthrax attacks. In fact their entire case was circumstantial according to a new study.) from Raw Story An independent panel of scientists has determined that the FBI did not have enough scientific evidence to produce a conviction in the case of [...]

The Fake Color Revolution is Back in Iran – Globalist Destabilization Efforts Under Cover of Egypt’s Real Revolution

by Scott Creighton In every crisis, real or manufactured, there is… opportunity. Contrary to Julian Assange’s assessment, the current wave of pro-democracy movements in the Middle East (recently called a “virus” by John McCain) was not created by the CIA honeypot called Wikileaks. Nor, as the one-time Lyndon LaRouche follower Webster Tarpley has put it, was it [...]