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Obama’s Fateful Line in the Sand 27 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
To die by cobra is not to die by bad pork – Gregory Corso, “Bomb” Who would have imagined that, five years into Barack Obama’s tenancy of the White House, American whistleblowers would seek refuge i...
The Katrina Pain Index, 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 01:54 pm
Eight years after Katrina, nearly a hundred thousand people never got back to New Orleans, the city remains incredibly poor, jobs and income vary dramatically by race, rents are up, public transportat...
Syria in the Crosshairs 27 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
I found it truly scary to read that some high officials in the Obama Administration are so disconnected from reality that they consider the 1999 war in Kosovo to be a precedent for justifying limited ...
Forcing Obama into a Prolonged Syrian War 27 Aug 2013 | 01:38 pm
Tehran The Bandar-Zionist lobby collaboration, currently the cocktail party talk of many in Washington, is not a case of strange bedfellows given three decades of mutual cooperation which started d...
The Leveraged Buyout of America 27 Aug 2013 | 01:33 pm
Giant bank holding companies now own airports, toll roads, and ports; control power plants; and store and hoard vast quantities of commodities of all sorts. They are systematically buying up or gainin...
Who Are The Terrorists? 27 Aug 2013 | 01:32 pm
“Everyone is talking all about crime, crime; But tell me: who are the criminals?” – Peter Tosh, “Equal Rights” To paraphrase Peter Tosh, everyone is talking about terrorism; but who are the terroris...
Another Western War Crime In The Making 27 Aug 2013 | 01:32 pm
Washington and its British and French puppet governments are poised to yet again reveal their criminality. The image of the West as War Criminal is not a propaganda image created by the West’s enemies...
The Anti-Free Trade Strike in Colombia 27 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
As Colombian peasants ended their eighth day of an anti-free trade agreement strike last night by forcing President Juan Manuel Santos to the negotiating table, thousands of protesters banging pots an...
How Not to Think About Drones 27 Aug 2013 | 01:12 pm
The latest defense of remote control killing by the U.S. appears in the September issue of The Atlantic, “The Killing Machines” in which author Mark Bowden tells us “how to think about drones.” Known ...
Prison Medicine and the California Hunger Strike 27 Aug 2013 | 12:59 pm
The Federal court decision on August 19 giving the state permission to force-feed hunger strikers deemed “at risk of near-term death or great bodily injury” is a shameful one. It violates long-establi...
