Iraq: the dirty “racket” of petro-politics
Stuart Littlewood A speech made 75 years ago by a US Marine Corps general, Smedley Butler, helps put today’s belated Iraq war inquiry, promised by the British government, into proper context. ”There are only two things we should fight for,” said Butler.… more »
ODE TO THE DEATH OF NEDA AGHA-SOLTAN
Allen L Roland Neda Agha-Soltan moments before bleeding to death from a sniper wound June 20, 2009, as her music teacher and others try to resuscitate her. The bloody video of Neda's violent death on Saturday has circulated in Iran and around the world… more »
The U.S. Federal Budget Pipeline: Where Do The Dollars Drain?
By Emily Spence In order to raise sales and personal royalty gains, Alan Greenspan, just prior to the release of his book The Age of Turbulence, carried out a public relations blitz dragged out for a whole week in which he made remarks similar to those… more »
Christian Scripture: The Zionist Deception
Charles E. Carlson Judeo-Christianity is less than 200 years old. The World Jewish Zionism movement has played the key part in assuring its growth. We see the result of this mind bending in the creation of a new “Christianity” which in its… more »
Seeing Through All the Propaganda About Iran
Eric Margolis Iran’s political crisis continues to blaze. It’s still impossible to say which leaders or factions will emerge victorious, but one thing is certain: the earthquake in the Islamic Republic is shaking the Mideast and deeply… more »
Question Authority: Always and Forever Hereafter
William Buppert Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration. ~H.L. Mencken For some time, I have been trying to figure out why the nation and we as individuals are in the fix we are in now. Many reasons manifest themselves. We… more »
BRIC & SCO summits: Reinventing the wheel
Eric Walberg A new world is being born, one without the US dollar greasing the wheels of commerce, notes Yekaterinburg, famous tragically as the spot Lenin chose to have the Tsar and his family executed in 1918, and ironically as the fiefdom of Boris… more »
The propaganda war against Iran
Bill Van Auken The US media, led by the New York Times , is continuing its concerted propaganda campaign against Iran over charges that the government stole the June 12 presidential election. There is not even a semblance of objectivity in the media… more »
THE NINE STAGES OF CIVILIZATIONS / WE'RE IN THE SEVENTH ~ APATHY
Allen L Roland The United States is just over 230 years old and is now firmly entrenched in the seventh stage of all civilizations ( Apathy ) with only Dependence and eventually Bondage ahead of it: The average age of the world's greatest civilizations… more »
Long on rhetoric, short on memory
Jim Miles Having watched the situation in Iran now for several years through to the current protests by the dissident citizens of the country unsatisfied with the election results, I remain as perplexed as ever. Not the perplexity of not understanding… more »
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