Disaster by Design or Neglect? Katrina Victims Win a Major Ruling

by Scott Creighton
U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval awarded six plaintiffs a total of $720,000 in a landmark decision against the Army Corp of Engineers yesterday.  This ruling will only be the first of many, if allowed to stand by the appellate courts, which it will almost certainly go to.  It looks like the flood gates are opening again in [...]

China will not support crippling sanctions against Iran

by Scott Creighton
The fate of the Iranian people appears to be in the hands of China and Russia at this point.  My, how the worm turns.
As the United States, France, and Great Britain take the lead in calling for extreme sanctions against the nation of Iran and her people (the same kinds of sanctions that had [...]

The 23,000 Missing Trusses of 9/11

by Scott Creighton (reposted from Aug 9th 2009)
***UPDATE*** Please check out the companion article, The 6,000.
According to the official explanation of the collapse of the Twin Towers on Sept. 11th, 2001… the initial plane crashes damaged the core structure of the towers enough so that when the resulting fires “weakened” the floor trusses, the result [...]

The Miracle of America… or… The Second 9/11

by Scott Creighton (reposted from Oct. 5 2007)
By every right this President and his corrupt administration should have been impeached and then incarcerated years ago. But what do you expect from a group of people that we have, by concession, allowed to steal the White House, not once… but twice?
When Nixon and the Chicago Boys [...]

9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Georgia, Iran, and Pakistan; The Vulcan’s Path to The Caspian Sea Basin

by Scott Creighton (reposted from Aug. 10th 2008)
One of the first things this administration did was meet with Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force in early 2001. Those meetings were kept secret and they have refused to disclose who was actually there, and what was discussed. We all know that.
“The Washington Post reported on November 15, 2005 [...]

Breaking Quarantine: How the Obama Administration is Infecting the Global Economy

by Scott Creighton
Look at it this way: the rest of the industrialized world views our unique, selfish, greedy, primitive form of commodity driven healthcare as a hideous indictment of the weakness of the American citizen.  In their eyes, we don’t have enough brains or heart to stand up and demand what the rest of the [...]

Barack O’Bush to Boost 401(k) Enrollment for Wall Street

by Scott Creighton
The Obama administration’s hypocrisy is absolutely breathtaking.
At a time when the “adjusted/new math” unemployment numbers  show that there are more people out of work than there have been since 1983, and the major banks are consolodating even more power through control of the market shares via the government’s many varied bailout schemes, Barack [...]

US airstrike incinerates scores of civilians

(Remember that scene in “Running Man”? The one where the brave hero (and now a tool of the fascist neoliberal economic bomb being dropped on the state of California) Arnold Schwarzenegger, refused to fire upon innocent civilians during a food riot?  Guess what… those kinds of “heroes” don’t exist in the U.S. military, at least [...]

Obama’s Job Hemorrhaging, Union-Busting “Recovery” Rolls On

by Scott Creighton
As the corporatist shills drone on about the “success” of the Obama Stimulus Package, more and more jobs melt away like the steel trusses in the Twin Towers.  The lucky few that still cling to their paychecks by their fingernails are “persuaded” to accept less and less for each day of their labor [...]

CIA Involvement: Police chief: Lockerbie evidence was faked

from Global Research
This report was published by the Scotesman exactly three years ago. “the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.”
A former Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial [...]