U.N. Study: Austerity Measures Pushing World Economy Toward Disaster

from Reuters The pursuit of austerity measures and deficit cuts is pushing the world economy toward disaster in a misguided attempt to please global financial markets, the annual report of the United Nations economic thinktank UNCTAD said on Tuesday. The report, entitled “Post-crisis policy challenges in the world economy,” savaged U.S. and European economic policies [...]

Meet Professor Juan Cole, Consultant to the CIA

(So, we should be reading Juan Cole’s justifications for Obama’s little war in Libya, eh? Read about an ex-CIA agent who talks about Juan Cole consulting with the CIA on multiple occasions over the years. Does the term “Mockingbird” apply here?) by John Walsh, CounterPunch Juan Cole is a brand name that is no longer [...]

NYPD confirms CIA officer works at department

WASHINGTON (AP) – New York’s police commissioner confirmed Thursday that a CIA officer is working out of police headquarters there, after an Associated Press investigation revealed an unusual partnership with the CIA that has blurred the line between foreign and domestic spying. But he and the CIA said the spy agency’s role at the department [...]

Libya: NATO Enabling War Crimes

By Tony Cartalucci – BlacklistedNews.com According to Fox News, a Libyan rebel “spokesman” recently boasted, “in the end, we will get [the city of] Sirte, even if we have to cut water and electricity and let NATO pound it with airstrikes.” Sirte is one of many cities still standing in defiance of NATO’s operations to [...]

Syria, Intervention and the Path to WWIII

War of ideas breaks out over battle in Libya: Phony leftists exposed

by John Catalinotto, Global Research By directing their enormous joint military and economic power against a poorly armed, nonindustrialized country of 6 million people, the imperialist states of North America and Western Europe have imposed a criminal regime on the Libyan people. Part of Libya’s continued resistance to this attempted imperialist takeover of an African [...]

Obama Appeases Chamber of Commerce; Kills New EPA Regulations on Smog

Obama maintains the Bush administration standards on corporate emissions (smog) which makes big business happy but shocks the left and the special interest groups that watch such things. There is no congressional action they could have taken to stop him, there is no pressure that ANY republican could have put on him, the fact is, [...]

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“As Long as the Population is Quiet, it doesn’t Matter” – Thank you Cowardly Left

by Scott Creighton The left abandoned the anti-war movement as soon as Kerry lent his support to the wars, renditions, and torture during his run for office and they definitely turned their backs on their morals during the Obama campaign and presidency. The left cowers in fear of the pain they will suffer under a [...]