Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-kroll/billionaire-political-donors_b_3285766.html

Today, politics is a rich man's game. Look no further than the 2012 elections and that season's biggest donor, 79-year-old casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. He and his wife, Miriam, shocked the political class by first giving $16.5 million in an effort to make Newt Gingrich

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2013/05/15/kristol-clear

neoconservative dominated American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, sees Chechens and other Central Asian Muslim militants as “freedom fighters” against Russian rule, exists side by side with other organizations..

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=Paul+Craig+Roberts&sentence=sentence&in_blogs=6

Over the last several years I have watched the rise of an important new intellect on the American scene. Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, has demonstrated time and again the extraordinary ability to reexamine settled issues and show that the accepted conclusion was incorrect.

Link: http://rt.com/usa/wikileaks-monsanto-cables-report-273/

After US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that the State Department was lobbying worldwide for Monsanto and other similar corporations, a new report based on the cables shows Washington's shilling for the biotech industry in distinct detail.

Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/06/1207338/-Maine-legislature-votes-to-overturn-Citizens-nbsp-United

Maine joins West Virginia, Colorado, Montana, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, Maryland, Vermont, New Mexico and Hawaii in calling for that Constitutional amendment. Which means momentum:

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/how-did-barack-obama-become-monsantos.html

And when are anti-GMO activist groups going to stop saying they’re “shocked and disappointed” by the president? Shocked and disappointed is polite-speak and politically correct reaction. It’s baloney. Don’t you get it? Obama has never been on your side. He never deserved your trust.

Link: http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/

Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.

Link: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/17/cons-a17.html

On Tuesday, the Constitution Project, a Washington, DC think tank, issued a report by its “Task Force on Detainee Treatment” on decades of crimes committed by US imperialism.

Link: http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/04/15/favorable-opinion-of-the-federal-government-plunges-to-a-record-low-of-28/

I have highlighted these polls in the past due to the fact that when support for the Federal government plunges to these sorts of levels you have a recipe for serious social problems.

Link: http://rt.com/news/us-publishes-magnitsky-list-777/

The US government has published the names of the people on the ‘Magnitsky List,’ despite warnings of counter-measures from Moscow and the risk of straining ties between the two countries.

Link: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/us-adds-russian-supercomputer-maker-to-list-of-nuclear-threats/

Maker of world's 26th fastest supercomputer faces heavy trade restrictions. Six months ago, a company called T-Platforms triumphantly announced the "First Delivery of [a] Russian Supercomputer to [the] US."

Link: http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/

Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/03/pol-us-ambassador-to-canada-obama.html

U.S. President Barack Obama has selected a partner at the investment firm of Goldman Sachs in Chicago to be the new U.S. ambassador to Canada, CBC News has learned.

Link: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/03/15/freedom-not-government-made-america-great/

When a columnist in the Lakewood Hub edition of the Denver Post advanced the ridiculous thesis that 19th century American progress was largely to government programs, I just had to respond. The truth, of course, is that 19th century America was generally a time of minimal government and almost unimaginable (to us) economic freedom. In the course of editing my response, the Post made some unfortunate omissions and changes. Here is the original response in correct wording

Link: http://www.zengardner.com/global-elitism-the-character-traits-of-truly-evil-people/

What frightens the common citizen is the possibility that some people hurt others not because mommy and daddy “mistreated” them, or because they have a psychological deficiency that clouds their judgment, but because they fully and consciously ENJOY doing what they do.

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/political-violence-grips-egypt-from-all-sides/

Since the second anniversary of the uprising that ended the Mubarak regime, Egypt has witnessed a spate of political violence. Egypt’s opposition led by the high-profile National Salvation Front (NSF) blames President Mohamed Morsi for the bloodshed, but many blame the NSF and its leaders.

Link: http://youtu.be/xTJOsEXBZBQ

Bill Maher agrees that there is an elephant in the living room.

Link: http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/civil-disobedience-the-only-weapon-we-have-remaining-by-camillo-mac-bica-ndaa/

Mario Cuomo, commenting on the political process, once observed, “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Though candidates for public office frequently campaign on a platform of change, when elected, promises remain unfulfilled and what they inevitably deliver is more of the same. Beholden to the special interests and the Super PACS, they govern solely in the interest of the wealthy and the privileged, and remain blatantly unresponsive to the general will, the needs of the majority of the people, and to the dictates of law and morality.

Link: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Videos.php/2013/02/17/hagel-halted-us-congress-blocks-nominati

Republican Senators have blocked the vote to confirm Chuck Hagel as U.S. Secretary of Defence, he is the first such Presidential nominee for Pentagon chief this has happened to. Paul Craig Roberts, a Reagan administration official, joins RT studio from Florida to discuss the confirmation hearings.

Link: http://www.voltairenet.org/article177497.html

Mr. President, tell us who your C.I.A. Director is and we will tell you who you are! No remark could be more appropriate in view of Barack Obama’s decision to place an apologist for torture and drone assassinations at the helm of the top U.S. intelligence agency. Analyst Nil Nikandrov fills out John O. Brennan’s profile, a man who enjoys the President’s "implicit trust."

Link: http://www.theglobalistreport.com/top-ten-documentaries-every-activist-must-watch/

David versus Monsanto: A Documentary on GMO This documentary tells the story of a fight between a heroic Canadian farmer, David Schmeiser, and a notoriously greedy biotechnology corporation called Monsanto.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article22429

Politicians are slime, pure and simple. They are self-serving, venal, conscienceless reprobates, perverse enough to waste millions of dollars seeking offices where they can make life and death decisions, and arrogant enough to believe those decisions are never wrong.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/285555.html

Four years into his presidency, Barack Obama’s political formula should be obvious. He gives fabulous speeches teeming with popular liberal ideas, often refuses to take the actions necessary to realize those ideas and then banks on most voters, activists, reporters and pundits never bothering to notice - or care about - his sleight of hand.

Link: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/01/17/1461881/louisiana-medicaid-patients/?mobile=nc

This week, potential Republican presidential contender Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) rolled out one of the country’s most regressive tax proposals... According to New Orleans CBS affiliate WWLTV, Louisiana residents over the age of 21 who are on Medicaid — the public insurance program for disabled and poor Americans — will stop receiving hospice care benefits at the end of this month. That means that low-income Louisianans with terminal illnesses, debilitating disabilities, and chronic long-term medical problems will no longer have access to the essential home and medical care that they need.

Link: http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2013/01/king-i-have-dream-obama-i-have-drone.html

A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.

Link: http://www.theonion.com/articles/israel-vows-to-use-veto-power-if-chuck-hagel-confi,30824/

“Because congress does not possess the necessary nine-tenths majority to override an Israeli veto, they’ll have no choice but to head back to the drawing board and provide a Defense Secretary whom we find more suitable.” Sources confirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sent the White House a list of three individuals the Israeli leader considered appropriate to head the American military from which U.S. President Barack Obama could choose.

Link: http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/8_striking_parallels_between_the_u_s_and_the_roman_empire/

1 — Staggering Increase in the Cost of Elections, with Dubious Campaign Funding Sources: Our 2012 election reportedly cost $3 billion. All of it was raised from private sources – often creating the appearance, or the reality, that our leaders are beholden to special interest groups. During the late Roman Republic, elections became staggeringly expensive, with equally deplorable results. Caesar reportedly borrowed so heavily for one political campaign, he feared he would be ruined, if not elected.
2 — Politics as the Road to Personal Wealth: During the late Roman Republic period, one of the main roads to wealth was holding public office, and exploiting such positions to accumulate personal wealth...
3 — Continuous War: A national state of security arises, distracting attention from domestic challenges with foreign wars.

Link: http://www.infowars.com/2013-the-year-america-dies/

Will 2013 be remembered by future historians as the year that the United States of America to all intents and purposes died as a Republic and was finally seized by authoritarian globalists who have already openly usurped governments all across Europe?

Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-sale-of-5000-bunker-buster-bombs-to-israel-israel-bunker-busters-in-exchange-for-not-striking-iran-2012-12

Here's How Much America REALLY Spends On Israel's Defense
In March President Barack Obama reportedly offered Israel bunker-buster bombs and other advanced weapons in exchange for a postponing an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities until 2013.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/11/susan-rice-benghazi-secretary-state

Her record of war advocacy and close ties to tyrants is notably missing from the debate over whether she should be Secretary of State

Link: http://www.alternet.org/media/right-wing-media-bubble-cocoons-republicans-adapting-new-political-landscape

The right can't confront the reality of their demographic challenges. Republicans are responding to their recent losses not by moderating their rhetoric or rethinking their policy preferences, but by retreating deeper into the conservative bubble -- and hardening it lest any objective reality intrude.

Link: http://rt.com/usa/news/monsanto-insurance-ge-contamination-272/

The United State Department of Agriculture has finalized a report to address concerns from farmers who fear they’ll be next on an ever-expanding list of defendants sued by biotech giants Monsanto, but those worries aren’t about to end.

Link: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/11/19/puppet-state-america-paul-craig-roberts/

The United States government and its subject peoples think of the US as “the world’s only superpower.” But how is a country a superpower when its entire government and a majority of the subjects, especially those members of evangelical churches, grovel at the feet of the Israeli Prime Minister? How is a country a superpower when it lacks the power to determine its own foreign policy in the Middle East? Such a country is not a superpower. It is a puppet state.

Link: http://youtu.be/FmFSWMBWb7Q

Israel…Butchers Of Gaza

Link: http://www.americanfreepress.net/Issue_fronts/2012_AFP_Issue_48_1.pdf

Many believe the scandal was a set-up designed to bring down the general precisely because he was a highly placed figure standing in opposition to the push by Israel’s current rulers to engage the United States in a war against Iran. Although previously a favorite of “neo-conservative” supporters of Israel, Petraeus ended up on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “destroy” list after the general testified before Congress on March 16, 2010, that U.S. interests and Israeli interests are not identical; Israel is a strategic burden, not an asset, to the United States; and Israeli policies endanger the lives of our troops. The reaction to the candid remarks by Petraeus provides a revealing list of his critics.

Link: http://www.jta.org/news/article-print/2012/11/16/3112036/senate-resolution-backs-israel-actions-in-gaza?TB_iframe=true&width=750&height=500

Both Houses of the U.S. Congress unanimously passed resolutions expressing support for Israel's "inherent right to act in self-defense." The American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a statement praised "the leadership of Senators Gillibrand and Kirk, and the extraordinary show of support by the Senate for Israel’s struggle against terrorist attacks on its citizens."

Link: http://www.voltairenet.org/article176565.html

Far from having broken with his Republican predecessor, Democratic President Barack Obama has now reinforced the law of exception that he criticised when he was a senator. It is now possible to deprive United States citizens of their fundamental rights because they have taken part in armed action against their own country, but also when they take a political position favourable to those who use military action to resist the Empire. Worse - Barack Obama has added to the law John Yoo’s "Unitary Executive theory," which puts an end to the principles of the separation of powers as defined by Montesquieu. The security policy of the United States President now escapes all control.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/10

It is my hope that a great artist takes brush to canvas to capture the contours of your furrowed brow when you uttered the words, “It’s not a traditional America anymore.” It was a look of depraved beauty that made my heart sing. Watching you, Mr. O’Reilly, before a national audience, realize that all of your racist lies and hatred could not change the fact that people of color exist and will not be bowed by your insane denunciations, was an inspiration to me and millions of others.

Link: http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2295-dead-enough-the-reality-of-the-qlesser-evilq.html

"Yes, the drone wars, the gutting of civil liberties, the White House death squads and all the rest are bad; but Romney would be worse. Therefore, with great reluctance, holding our noses and shaking our heads sadly, we must choose the lesser evil of Obama and vote accordingly."

Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-elections-the-empty-politics-of-duopoly/5311179

After months of rhetoric and political campaigning, the smoke has finally cleared on the media frenzy that is the US Presidential Election. Once the winner of the race was announced, supporters at the Obama Campaign headquarters in Chicago jubilantly celebrated. The haze of American flags, pop music, and confetti worked wonders to mask the absence of any real political substance throughout the election process.