America R.I.P.
During the second half of the 20th century the United States was an opportunity society. The ladders of upward mobility were plentiful, and the middle class expanded. Incomes rose, and ordinary people...
View ArticleLaunching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia1
The engineering of a series of provocations to justify military intervention is feasible and could be accomplished with the resources available. - Report of May 1963 to Joint Chiefs of Staff1Bush’s...
View ArticleU.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes for Using 9/11 as a Justification for...
U.S. Officials Created a False Link Between Iraq and 9/115 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said “my interest is to hit Saddam”.He also said “Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things...
View ArticleFukushima Update:
Unit 4 Is Sinking … Unevenly...And It May Be Tilting!The spent fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4 is the top short-term threat to humanity, and is a national security issue for America.As such, it is...
View ArticleHow big ideas become government policy
Thirty-five years ago the policies that now define democratic governance – or rather anti-democratic – in Canada were literally unthinkable. Voluntarily giving up, through reckless tax cuts, hundreds...
View ArticleDeepening the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade Partnership
Overshadowed by the upcoming American election are reports that the U.S. and European Union (EU) are working towards launching official negotiations on a deal that would further deepen their...
View ArticleThe Virtual Economic Recovery
Rigged Inflation Measure Understates InflationSince mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates inflation. The financial Presstitutes...
View ArticleTop Bank of England director admits Occupy movement had a point
Andrew Haldane praises ‘loud and persuasive’ protesters who succeeded because ‘they are right’The Occupy movement received vindication from unlikely source tonight, as a senior executive at the Bank of...
View ArticleIt’s the Interest, Stupid!
Why Bankers Rule the WorldIn the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released last week, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35% to 40% of everything we buy goes to interest. This interest goes...
View ArticleTax Cheaters
Give Us Back Our MoneyThere is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and...
View ArticleU.S.-Canada Integrated Cybersecurity Agenda
As part of the Beyond the Border initiative, the U.S. and Canada are strengthening cybersecurity cooperation. In a move that received little attention, both countries recently announced a joint...
View ArticleSurvivors File U.N. Complaint Against Canada for Failing to Prosecute George...
November 14, 2012, Vancouver and New York— Today, four torture survivors filed a complaint against Canada with the United Nations Committee against Torture for the country’s failure to investigate and...
View ArticleFighting ‘Terrorism’ or Repressing Democracy?
Britain’s System of Mass SurveillanceThe British government’s plans to monitor the entire population’s electronic communicationThe focus of critiques of authoritarianism today lies increasingly in the...
View ArticleLeaked “Grand Bargain”
Document Details Obama’s Plan for Cuts in Entitlement ProgramsIn his first post-election press conference, President Barack Obama on Wednesday reiterated the claim that his focus in deficit-reduction...
View ArticleThe “Fiscal Cliff” Fraud
As the US Congress reconvenes following the Thanksgiving Day holiday, the media is once again ratcheting up its propaganda offensive over the so-called “fiscal cliff.”Behind the orchestrated wrangling...
View ArticleAusterity
Tthe 1%’s Global Battle CryWhether we are left with the Fiscal Cliff or a Grand Bargain, workers in the U.S. face massive cuts to programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, unemployment...
View ArticlePreserve Benefits:
Cut Gouging and InequitiesCongress is still talking about a “Grand Bargain” that “balances” far more spending cuts than tax increases. That is another way of saying that you – the consumer of Medicare...
View ArticleCanadian Vets Victimized by National Security State
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper chose this year to spout his annual Remembrance Day propaganda half a world away in Hong Kong, the symbolic nature of his distance from a growing number of Canada's...
View ArticleReining in Obama and His Drones
Barack Obama, former president of the Harvard Law Review and a constitutional law lecturer, should go back and review his coursework. He seems to have declined to comport his presidency to the rule of...
View ArticleCanada:
Starving the People in Order to Feed the BanksGlobal Research News Hour Radio: Episode 7“What is this? This is nonsense! This is an unconstitutional use of the Bank of Canada and it also breaches the...
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