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 [...]

Cranking up the Bullshit on Iran Again: “Several Thousand” (or is it 25?) Protest

by Scott Creighton
Does THIS look like “several thousand” protesters as described in war profiteer GE’s MSNBC/AP article?
(Let’s count them together 1,2,3,…. 25…. 25…. 25…. I count 25 Young Republican looking guys. Now I could be wrong… let’s count them again just to be sure.  Wouldn’t want to report something that was complete BULLSHIT, now would [...]

The Mousavi campaign in Iran and the lessons of past “color revolutions”

by Niall Green, WSWS
The political movement of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, named the “Green Wave” due to its campaign color, has striking parallels with the US-backed “color revolutions” in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine.
Like the campaigns to bring to power pro-US regimes in Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004), the [...]

The Big Whorehouse on the Potomac

by Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch
Americans celebrate July 4, they can contemplate that the union of “free and independent states,” like the former British colonial power, has evolved into its final manifestation–a complete whore house.  While Members of Parliament in London charge their expense accounts with every personal expenditure, including the rental of adult xxx-rated films, [...]

Israeli News Now Just Making Shit Up about Iran…

“… a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi“  JPost
“… sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview…”
“… no independent confirmation of the report… “
There used to be a time when unsourced, unconfirmed propaganda couldn’t make it past your laughing editor.  Didn’t some guy get [...]

The Shah’s Son Promises on Israeli Television to Return to Power in Iran

by Scott Creighton
The son of the notorious Iranian dictator Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is claiming on Israeli television (the IBA – Israeli Broadcasting Authority) not only that he knows he will return to power in Iran but that under his rule, the climate of aggression between Iran and Israel will be over.  [...]

Pathetic Progressives Ignore Coup

by Scott Creighton
I have never been so ashamed to have at one time considered myself in league with some of these so-called “progressive” websites or the people that frequent them.
Out of the 6 main “liberal and progressive” websites (Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Michael Moore, Think Progress, Op Ed News, After Downing Street), I was able [...]

AJAX REDUX: US Heavy Meddle in Iran

by Nima Shirazi, Wide Asleep in America
The Western press has clearly taken a side and has successfully managed to drag its uninformed audience along with it. News reports all refer to the continuing groundswell of protest to the election results as an “unprecedented” show of courage, resistance, and people power against the government not seen [...]

Compare and Contrast – One is Real, One is Fake

by Scott Creighton
You are going to watch 2 videos. One is real, the other is fake.
One was forgotten, never played on the MSM. One is running daily every channel, every web page.
One is about a struggle for the rights of a people, oppressed… the other is about changing a regime that just won an election.
In [...]

Destabilization 2.0: Soros, the CIA, Mossad and the new media destabilization of Iran

by James Corbett, Corbett Report
It’s the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each other to see who can offer the most hyperbolic denunciation of the [...]