Goldstone challenges US over Gaza report

“The United States has criticised the Goldstone report into Israel’s war on Gaza, calling it one-sided. In an interview with Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi, Justice Richard Goldstone challenged the US government to justify its claims that his findings are flawed and biased.  Goldstone said the attacks on him have become personal and he believes most [...]

Massive expansions of US-NATO “counterinsurgency” in Afghanistan

by Larry Chin, Global Research
US and NATO commander Stanley A. McChrystal is demanding a massive expansion of “counterinsurgency” operations in Afghanistan that, according to classified documents, would require 500 thousand troops over the next five years.
While bellicose new calls for the Obama administration and NATO to exponentially deepen the “war on terrorism” are being repeated [...]

Chris Dodd is a Lying Warmonger of the “Democrat” Kind

by Scott Creighton
One of the key players in the recent banking coup of the U.S. delivered a stunningly dishonest warmongering speech the other day on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and NO, it wasn’t a republican. 
Chris Dodd has been chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs since Jan 2007.  A number [...]

Arianna Huffington is a Lying Warmonger of the “Progressive” Kind

by Scott Creighton
I’ve said it before and I will say it again; Arianna Huffington is nothing more than an ex-republican, DLCish, corporatist shill in “progressive” disguise.
Watch as MSNBC (disclaimer: MSNBC is partly owned by GE… war profiteer extraordinaire) helps spin up lies and disinformation for the imperialist war effort of the Obama administration. It’s nothing [...]

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 [...]

Obama appointee previews the imminent preventive detention debate

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon
By all accounts, the White House is going to unveil its proposal for indefinite detention within the next four to eight weeks, and it has begun dispatching proponents of that scheme to lay the rhetorical groundwork.  In The Washington Post today, one of the proposal’s architects — Law Professor Robert Chesney, a [...]

Strange Bedfellows: AE911Truth, the Drone Industry, and Dwain Deets

by Scott Creighton
Who is Dwain Deets?  And why is one of the founders of the drone aircraft industry writing papers with Gregg Roberts of AE911Truth and working on their staff?
In State of Play an employee of a mercenary contracting firm (read as Blackwater) turns into a whistle-blower and gives the investigative reporter played by Russel [...]

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 [...]

The Eight Year Plan: Part 1

by Scott Creighton( reposted from June 19th 2008)
I would like you to think about this objectively; not as an American or a Republican or a veteran. Just look at the sequence of events over the past 7 1/2 years, the full term of the Bush Administration, as one would review any long term business model performance report. [...]