One Day We Will All be Terrorists

“Dissent is no longer the duty of the engaged citizen but is becoming an act of terrorism.”  Hedges
by Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only [...]

The Lap Bomber Mystery

excert from Justin Raimondo, Antiwar
 Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, is the son of Dr. Umaru Mutallab, former economics minister in the Nigerian government and one of the country’s most prominent bankers: schooled at the exclusive British International School in Lome, Togo, and an aspiring mechanical engineer, he had a bright future ahead of him, [...]

Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul

The FBI Says This “Ball-Bomber” is Proof that Obama Was Right to Kill Innocent Civilians In Yemen

by Scott Creighton
***UPDATE*** Chris Floyd has also noticed the convenient timing of this new “terrorist attack” that wasn’t… Instant Karma: New US War Target Gets Its Own Terror Icon
***UPDATE2*** “The facts are still emerging, but there are strong suggestions of a Yemen-Al Qaeda connection and an intent to blow up the plane over U.S. airspace,” [...]

America is not a democracy, nor was it intended to be.

No, the United States is not a democracy.   Never has been.  Could be.

“It’s what’s called in the technical literature, a “polyarchy“, it’s the term invented by the leading democratic theorist and Yale professor, Robert Dahl, but the idea is old.  Goes way back to James Madison and the foundation of the constitution. [...]

Change: A Holiday Message From Truthdig.mov

(Give a Sh*T)

by Mr. Fish

What Did the “Beacon of Democracy in the Region” do This Week?

1. They (Israel) admitted to illegally harvesting the organs of dead Palestinians for decades…
Israel has admitted pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others, without the consent of their families – a practice it said ended in the 1990s – it emerged at the weekend.
The admission, by the former head of the country’s forensic institute, followed [...]

No Way Through

Matthews Trashes Netroots and thereby Exposes his Own

by Scott Creighton

Listen to Chris Mathews denigrate liberals who don’t support the Obamacare health insurance industry bailout bill.  He’s “worried” if people like us vote because to him we are not “regular grown up Democrats.  A lot of these people are trouble makers who like to sit in the back seat and [...]

Obama, Is Preparing for War in South America – Interview with Eva Golinger

(In South and Central America, there is a revolution taking place. It is a revolution of ideas, of democracy, of human rights and the dignity of each and every person. It’s called the Bolivarian Revolution and it is taking hold in other nations and spreading like a whispered dream. Honduras was about to join when their business [...]