SWITZERLAND IS STILL THE ULTIMATE SAFE-HAVEN FOR WEALTH
By Ron Holland Many governments, politicians and financial centers competing with Switzerland regularly attack the independent, freedom loving Swiss because this alpine financial center is home to almost $4 trillion dollars in secure, private wealth.… more »
Goldman Sachs -the Root of All Evil?
Matt Taibbi The Greatest Non-Apology of All Time “While we regret that we participated in the market euphoria and failed to raise a responsible voice, we are proud of the way our firm managed the risk it assumed on behalf of our client before and… more »
Iran and Washington's Hidden Hand - Has the CIA Been Caught in Iran's Cookie Jar, Again?
Esam Al-Amin Only weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post columnist and mouthpiece of the neoconservatives, revealed the target list of the Bush administration as it set out on its post-9/11 war footing. The… more »
Pakistanis Reject U.S. "Aid" Flights, As Lawsuit is Filed Against U.S. Drone Attacks
Jeremy Scahill Damn those ungrateful Pakistanis. After U.S. drone attacks killed more than 600 of their people since 2006—most of them civilians—it seems they think they have some right to say they don’t want the U.S. flying its… more »
Ethnic Cleansing as a State Policy
Nicola Nasser In his speech at Bar Ilan University on June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a new Israeli “peace plan,” with preconditions that a Palestinian negotiator must first meet before he would… more »
John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners
Jason Leopold [Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld instructed officials at the Department of Defense to organize a working group to access the fallout from harsh interrogation methods. (Photo: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)] On January 17,… more »
Pirates of the Mediterranean
Paul Craig Roberts [A Lebanese journalist holds an anti-Israel placard during a protest in front of the Al Jazeera TV office in Beirut February 5, 2009, against the Israeli seizure of a freighter trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip. It was… more »
Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion
Jason Leopold Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam Hussein was in power. That April 2001… more »
USA's role in the Honduran coup -- and how we must fix it
Mary Shaw "The U.S. Army School of the Americas ... is a school that has run more dictators than any other school in the history of the world." -- Congressman Joseph Kennedy They're baaaaaa-aaaack! "They" being military dictatorships in Latin America,… more »
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