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America's "Bases of Empire"
by Stephen Lendman Besides waging perpetual wars, nothing better reveals America's imperial agenda than its hundreds of global bases - for offense, not defense at a time the US hasn't had an enemy since the Japanese surrendered in August 1945. So when… more »
No Reason to Favor Private Health Insurers
Joel S. Hirschhorn In the national debate about health care reform absolutely nothing makes less sense than the positive views of much of the public about private health insurers. There is no good reason to have positive views of private health… more »
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 »
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 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 »
The battle of the sexes is still raging
Roland Michel Tremblay I don’t think much of women in this world. This is quite a hard statement to make, it is politically incorrect, I certainly will lose my job for stating it so clearly. However you have not heard the end of my argument yet. I don’t… more »
Bailing the corrupt - BILLIONS STARVING
Re-reporting and commentary by Carolyn Bennett UN food agency reports a sixth of the world’s people are undernourished ¯1.02 billion people are hungry. This pandemic does not come from eating pork or traveling cooped up on transcontinental flights. Nor… more »
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