Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling the Budget Deficit and the Samson Solution

October 20th, 2013
James Petras Introduction US and world political and economic leaders are faced with what they describe as a ‘systemic catastrophe’: the inability to pay global creditors, including domestic and foreign banks, investors and governments, who hold $16.7… more »

At our expense

October 15th, 2013
Michael Collins The drama of the government shutdown and threatened default on government obligations is entirely unnecessary. It is also harmful to the people of the United States. Government workers and contractors are idle and without income. Their… more »

Baffling Boehner - Who owns this guy?

October 8th, 2013
Michael Collins The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives has the power to end the government shutdown and avoid the U.S. entering into default on October 17. Speaker John Boehner refuses to exercise that power. Why? Who will save us?… more »

Debt Ceiling Disaster - Crazy or Criminal?

January 9th, 2013
By Michael Collins (Washington, DC 1/9/13) Let's say that on a Monday, you sit down and take a hard look at your finances. Your bills exceed your income, assets are just a feint memory, and there is no relief in sight. Reluctantly, you decide that your… more »

Tea Party Horror Show

July 30th, 2011
What sort of person would deliberately ignore the obvious fundamental reality of any budget? By Numerian It’s hard to say if the Tea Party has an acknowledged leader, but someone who professes to be just that has chosen a very opportune moment to trash… more »

If you declare bankruptcy, will everything be OK in a few days, weeks?

July 27th, 2011
By Michael Collins The crazies in the United States House of Representatives would have you believe it were so. They say fix that budget before we'll raise the debt ceiling. If we don't get our fix, they announce, there's no deal. We'll just default… more »

Obama's Budget Betrayal - Questions and Answers

July 22nd, 2011
By Michael Collins Question: Why did President Obama put Social Security and Medicare on the table in the budget negotiations when 80% of the people oppose cuts to these programs? Answer: The president is not in office to represent those people. He was… more »
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  • Ned Lud Parade, Protest & Projectile We are urgently called—by custom, media, or the relentless churn of the day—to witness. Witness the parade. Witness the war. Witness the ticker inching past news of missiles, of cities ravaged, of another speech…
  • Ned Lud Israel has an unusual pastime. He likes to provoke fights in bars—specifically with bouncers. Not with patrons in general, not with pool sharks or irate drunks, but full-time bouncers, men carved out of concrete and protein powder, schooled in…
  • Paul Craig Roberts "The most significant fact of our time is that the entire Western World is a dead man walking..." Democrats for many long years have imposed race and gender privileges, which violate the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal…
  • Fred Gransville The climb of fascism in the United States was not born from a single event, nor was it the result of some sudden, dramatic cultural shift. Rather, it emerged through a slow, relentless erosion of democratic institutions, camouflaged…
  • By David Swanson I recommend reading Charlottesville: An American Story by Deborah Baker. Itʼs an account, of course, not of all aspects of the city of Charlottesville, but principally of the Nazi-KKK-White Supremacist riot of 2017 that has taken on the…
  • By Ned Lud They don’t need jackboots when they have behavioral analytics. The war on speech has gone stealth. Once, repression was crude—clubs, tear gas, blacklists. Now, a fusion of military-grade surveillance and corporate-state platforms executes the…
  • by Tracy Turner In the besieged killing field territories of Gaza, survival has become a nightmare. The siege blockade, far from being mere policy, has morphed into an insidious engine of deliberate starvation-its mechanism fine-tuned to crush the will…
  • Paul Craig Roberts Belaya air base Russia The attack on Russian strategic forces by Ukraine, with or without President Trump’s knowledge and with or without help from Washington and the British, could have been the most dangerous event in East-West…
  • By Chris Spencer The architecture of censorship in the 21st century is not built of iron bars or smoldering books. It is invisible by design—engineered into the digital substrate of everyday life, encoded in autocomplete predictions, invisible filters,…
  • META/Facebook Shadow Protocols: Web Weaponized Against Palestinian Genocide Discourse Ned Lud Spoiler alert: Not Muslim. Not affiliated with Hamas. And definitely not an Islamophobe. Like Zuckerberg.  This information is backed by reports from…
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