Stephen Lendman

                 

I am a 72 year old, retired, progressive small businessman concerned about all the major national and world issues, committed to speak out and write about them.

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199 Articles

Monday, May 12, 2008
Disturbing Stirrings - Ratcheting Up For War On Iran
(2 comments) Hawkish rhetoric increases chance for war on Iran. Very unlikely would be with nuclear weapons and practically no chance of an invasion.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada"
(1 comments) Courageous Palestinian resistance against continued Israeli repression. Baroud's book is personal, moving and superb. Highly recommended.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering
On May 14, Israel will commemorate the founding of its state. This article recounts how it was done and what won't be mentioned around the world amidst all the disingenuous hoopla.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank
Gaza remains under siege, attacks continue daily, the West Bank is also targeted, no relief is in sight, and one of the most hated symbols of the occupation continues - denying Palestinians free movement along with separation and isolation.

Monday, April 28, 2008
Green Scare State Terrorism
(2 comments) Bush administration waging state terrorism against environmental and animal rights activists. The DOJ is indicting, prosecuting, convicting and imprisoning innocent people.

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Breaking the Silence - Israeli Soldiers Speak
(5 comments) Courageous Israeli "Refuseniks" explain why they no longer will serve in Occupied Palestine. They know the situation there and are appalled by it.

Monday, April 21, 2008
Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
(2 comments) Agribusiness schemes are at the heart of the world hunger problem. Food shortages are planned and manipulated for profit and market control.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Updating Sami A-Arian - His Ordeal Continues
(2 comments) Sami Al-Arian is a (trophy) political prisoner in Police State America. The Bush administration is slowly and painfully trying to torture him to death. Contact your representatives in Washington and demand he be freed.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" - Part II
(1 comments) Part II of Hallward's superb account of recent Haitian history continuing through the Aristide coup and its aftermath. A riveting story in a brilliant book.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood"
(1 comments) Hallward's superb account of recent Haitian history and now very timely for its connection to world hunger (because of soaring food prices) and protests in many countries, including Haiti.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
BBC: Imperial Tool
(14 comments) Sadly, people confuse what BBC reports with news. For 86 years, BBC's mission has been to be a reliable government and business partner and the public interest be damned.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Destroying Public Education in America
(2 comments) Republicans and Democrats are complicit in a bipartisan scheme to destroy public education in America so business can exploit it for profit. The (Bill) Gates Foundation is knee-deep into this for the huge potential gains.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Lynne Stewart's Long Struggle for Justice
(3 comments) Lynne Stewart's courageous struggle for justice in Police State America as she awaits her appeals court hearing decision "on pins and needles."

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
The New York Times v. Hugo Chavez
(1 comments) The NYT is at it again doing what it does best - acting as a servile imperial tool attacking one of its favorite targets - Hugo Chavez and Venezuela's model democracy that exposes the sham one here.

Monday, March 31, 2008
Human Rights Violations in Israel and Palestine
Evidence shows how Israel abuses Jews as well as Arabs, but hardly to the same degree. However, by any standard, portraying Israel as a model democratic state in a despotic region is pure myth.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Jonathan Cook's "Blood and Religion"
Another superb book by Jonathan Cook on the Israel-Palestinian conflict and where it's heading. Must be read.

Monday, March 24, 2008
Sami Al-Arian's Long Ordeal
(3 comments) Sami Al-Arian is an iconic member of his community. He's also a high-profile (trophy) example of Bush administration witch hunt persecution. His life is now at risk.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
UN's Assessment of Human Rights Violations in Occupied Palestine
(1 comments) UN Special Rapporteur condemns Israel's continued human rights violations in Occupied Palestine.

Monday, March 17, 2008
Bush v. Chavez - An Update
(1 comments) Updating continued Bush administration efforts to destabilize Venezuela and topple the Chavez government.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America
(3 comments) One of many instances of targeting the innocent in Police State America. Today, we're all Yassins.

Monday, March 10, 2008
Bush and Uribe v. Chavez and Correa
(14 comments) The latest salvo in Bush v. Chavez. The soothing rhetoric and restoration of diplomatic ties mean nothing. Just a matter of time until the next made in USA eruption occurs.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
Peak Oil - True or False
(3 comments) Both sides of the peak oil argument in one article with plenty of ammunition for each one to consider.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Israeli Extra-Judicial Executions
(4 comments) Israel's long-time practice of illegal extra-judicial killings and the outrage of its halted Gaza offensive to be resumed any time for any reason.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Francis A. Boyle's "Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law"
(1 comments) Our legal right to protest against government crimes of war and against humanity.

Monday, February 25, 2008
Washington v. Cuba After Castro
The passing of an era in Cuba, Washington's hostile reaction, and the marked differences between the two countries.

Friday, February 22, 2008
Potential Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
(2 comments) Disturbing information on the real risks to human health from eating genetically engineered foods. If agribusiness gets its way, that's the only kinds that will be available as they pollute the planet with GMOs.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Large Potential Albanian Oil and Gas Discovery Underscores Kosovo's Importance
(1 comments) Controlling and transporting Central Asia's oil and gas reserves lie at the heart of Washington's Balkans strategy.

Monday, February 18, 2008
Bush and ExxonMobil v. Chavez
(4 comments) The latest salvo in Bush v. Chavez with ExxonMobil its lead aggressor and long arm of the CIA and Pentagon in the wings.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part II
Part II of F. William Engdahl's epic work that puts in context everything happening now. Picks up where Part I left off and completes it up the Bush era.

Monday, February 11, 2008
F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part I
(1 comments) Reviewing an epic work by an impressive writer on the essential history of geopolitics and strategic importance of oil - in two parts. Part II coming later in week.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire
How the Murdoch empire gets away with defrauding its viewers and readers through willful lies and deception.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Jonathan Cook's "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations"
(2 comments) Jonathan Cook's important new book on Israel, Iran, Iraq and the plan to remake the Middle East.

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Life in Occupied Gaza
Life for Palestinians under a medieval siege that world leaders ignore, the UN debates and abstains, and the Arab League denounces but won't act. In the meantime, a devastating human tragedy unfolds.

Monday, January 28, 2008
Jennifer Van Bergen's "The Twilight of Democracy"
Post-9/11, democracy in America has been somewhere between life support and the graveyard.

Thursday, January 24, 2008
Israeli Oppression in Hebron - A Case History of Separation, Forced Displacement and Terror
An in-depth study of Israeli oppression in occupied Palestine conducted by two Israeli human rights organizations.

Monday, January 21, 2008
Robert McChesney's "Communication Revolution"
(1 comments) Another Robert McChesney tour de force. His topic - we're at a "critical junture" in media reform. From it changes will come for better or worse. It's crucial we seize the opportunity.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Institutionalized Spying on Americans
(2 comments) It's no longer science fiction. Big Brother really is watching in Police State America. This article is an update with new information from that one written in December.

Monday, January 14, 2008
Using Bhutto for Imperial Gain
There's an apt line from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore that goes: "Things are seldom as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream." Apply it to Bhutto's assassination and you've got the theme of my article.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Fraud US-Style: Fake Videos and Elections
(2 comments) More evidence showing official news reports can't be trusted.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Reviewing David Cromwell and David Edwards' "Guardians of Power"
(2 comments) A brilliant expose of the corrupted dominant media, how they serve the powerful and ignore the public interest.

Friday, January 4, 2008
Reviewing F. William Engdahl's Seeds of Destruction (Part III)
(1 comments) Part III of William Engdahl's powerfully important book on how agribusiness giants want to control food worldwide, make it all genetically engineered, and use it as a weapon.

Thursday, January 3, 2008
Reviewing F. William Engdahl's Seeds of Destruction (Part II)
(2 comments) Part II of agribusiness plot to control food worldwide, make it all genetically engineered and use it as a weapon to reward friends and punish enemies.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Reviewing F. William Engdahl's Seeds of Destruction (Part I)
A riveting account of how agribusiness giants want to control food worldwide, make it all genetically modified, and use it as a geopolitical weapon.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A Profile in Courage, Honor and Hope
(9 comments) The story of these courageous freedom fighters, how they risked everything to battle the forces of fascism, and their relevance today in the age of George Bush.

Thursday, December 20, 2007
Holiday Season Hypocrisy
(5 comments) Some thoughts on the corrupted spirit of the holiday season to reflect on and consider.

Monday, December 17, 2007
Police State America - A Look Back and Ahead
(10 comments) An analysis of the willful bipartisan destruction of the US republic post-9/11.

Thursday, December 13, 2007
FCC Proposes Greater Media Consolidation
(2 comments) The FCC ignores the public interest in its role as handmaiden to the corporate interests it represents. Its latest proposal, if passed, will greatly harm independent journalism. That's the whole idea behind it.

Monday, December 10, 2007
Ritual Gloating Postmortems - The Corporate Media v. Hugo Chavez
(1 comments) Post-Venezuelan referendum, the corporate media is euphoric while simultaneously bashing Chavez. In the end, he may get the last laugh.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Venezuela's Social Democracy Hits A Speed Bump
(5 comments) Venezuela's democratic spirit remains strong in spite of Sunday's electoral setback.

Monday, December 3, 2007
Annapolis Hypocrisy Hides Occupied Palestine Reality
The latest sham peace offensive hides the grim reality of daily life in occupied Palestine.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Reviewing James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer's "Multinationals on Trial"
Petras and Veltmeyer's powerful book explaining and documenting how corporate giants exploit developing nations through direct foreign investment.

Monday, November 26, 2007
Tragedy and Travesty at Annapolis
(1 comments) Once again, hypocrisy will be matched by certain failure at Annapolis. To highlight the point, the IDF bombed Gaza overnight and the Territory remains under a devastating siege.

Monday, November 19, 2007
Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela
(3 comments) The Bush administration again threatens Venezuela's social democracy with another possible coup attempt in the run-up to a crucial December 2 national referendum on constitutional reform.

Friday, November 16, 2007
Thanksgiving Hypocrisy
(7 comments) Exposing the Thanksgiving myth and denouncing its shame.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Torturing Palestinian Detainees
(2 comments) Israel, like the US under George Bush, condones and uses torture routinely as official policy.

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Our Man in Islamabad
(3 comments) Bush regime condones Musharraf coup.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Punishing Gaza
(1 comments) Israel continues to violate international law in oppressing the Palestinian people. Conditions in the Territories are intolerable and desperate ahead of the latest sham "peace process" to convene in Annapolis.

Thursday, November 1, 2007
Congressional Shame and Duplicity
(4 comments) Democrat-led congressional betrayal of the public trust.

Monday, October 29, 2007
The Bank of the South: An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance
(1 comments) Latin America will launch its new Bank of the South alternative to the IMF and World Bank on November 3 in Caracas where it will be headquartered.

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide
(1 comments) The ugly face of US imperial war.

Monday, October 22, 2007
UAW Sellout at GM and Chrysler
Corrupt UAW union leaders sell out their rank and file members.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Nobel Hypocrisy
(16 comments) The hypocrisy of the Nobel Peace Prize award to a war criminal. Unfortunately, he's not the first one to get it as the article explains.

Monday, October 15, 2007
Promised Social Change in Ecuador
(2 comments) Signs of real change in Ecuador under a socially democratic president wanting to end Washington's neoliberal agenda.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Reviewing James Petras' "Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire
James Petras' important new book covering many key topics including war and peace, imperialism, who rules, who is ruled and much more in America, Latin America, the Middle East, China and elsewhere.

Thursday, October 4, 2007
"Capitalism and Freedom" Unmasked
(5 comments) Milton Friedman's dark legacy and the economic and military fallout from it.

Monday, October 1, 2007
Greenspan's Dark Legacy Unmasked
(4 comments) Alan Greenspan's dark legacy refutes the historical revisionism in his memoirs.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
A Culture of Violence
(4 comments) An in-depth analysis of a nation addicted to war and violence.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
(1 comments) An in-depth review of Naomi Klein's extraordinary new book that's a primer on everything wrong with the Bush administration and the corrupted ideology of "disaster capitalism."

Thursday, September 13, 2007
The Greatest Story Never Told
(4 comments) Revealing examples of how the corrupted corporate media cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Monday, September 10, 2007
"Unrecognized" Palestinians
(5 comments) Israel violates international law and its own Basic Law by denying its Arab citizens their legal rights.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Middle East Madness
(2 comments) The madness of war with Iran some distinguished analysts think might ignite WW III.

Friday, August 31, 2007
Labor Day Hypocrisy
(1 comments) How Democrat and Republican governments alike shamelessly mock worker rights.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The War on Working Americans - Part II
(3 comments) Part II picks up where Part I left off. It covers why workers are being so badly harmed in an age of globalized business and friendly governments acting as their handmaiden. It then reviews the horrific damage done and what needs to happen to fix it. Plenty is needed and so far nothing is happening except further decline.

Monday, August 27, 2007
The War on Working Americans - Part I
(8 comments) Workers are losing out on the war being waged against them. This is Part I in a two-part article. It traces the labor movement's emergence, rise and subsequent decline. Part II on Wednesday will cover the reasons why and deplorable state of working people today in an uncaring nation.

Friday, August 24, 2007
Market Efficiency Hokum
(2 comments) Debunking the myth that so-called "free markets" work best and government always gets it wrong. It's pure nonsense and reason it has to be repeated all the time.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007
America and Venezuela - Constitutional Worlds Apart
Highlighting the dramatic differences between real democracy in Venezuela and the fake kind here.

Monday, August 20, 2007
Iraq Progress Report: A Time to Assess and Reflect
(2 comments) An account of the true conditions on the ground in Iraq before a flurry of September progress reports come out packed with the usual kinds of disinformation we've come to expect from the Bush White House.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007
A "Slow Motion Train Wreck"
(3 comments) The banking cartel owned Federal Reserve is engineering a "slow motion (economic) train wreck" in service to Wall Street and the giant banks that own this for-profit enterprise that's not a government agency as commonly believed.

Thursday, August 9, 2007
Reviewing Marjorie Cohn's "Cowboy Republic"
Noted law professor and president of the National Lawyers Guild, Marjorie Cohn, explains the most egregious Bush administration crimes.

Monday, August 6, 2007
Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
(1 comments) Deconstructs the myths about the Constitution and the framers who, in fact, were very ordinary "wheeler dealer" schemers who did the whole thing for their own self-serving interests. "The people" were nowhere in sight. Neither was democracy.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Reviewing Linda McQuaig's "It's the Crude, Dude"
(1 comments) All about war, oil, Iraq, global warming, Big Oil, Hugo Chavez, and lots more in one terrific package.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Reviewing Michael Parenti's Democracy For the Few
Parenti's book (now in its 8th edition) destroys the myth of "We the people."

Monday, July 23, 2007
Saving A President
A desperate George Bush shows he's willing to do anything to stay in power - building troop and weapons levels in Iraq, attacking Iran and waging war on the First Amendment July 17 by criminalizing dissent.

Thursday, July 19, 2007
The Militarization and Annexation of North America
(10 comments) The hostile corporate takeover of North America below the radar, including all the ugly details and implications of what this means.

Monday, July 16, 2007
Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation
(3 comments) Plans in place for the permanent occupation of Iraq.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Remembering The Maestro - Music Master, Anti-Fascist
(2 comments) Honoring a noted democrat, patriot and anit-fascist on the 50th anniversary of his death.

Monday, July 9, 2007
Making Gaza "Scream"
(9 comments) Israel made occupied Palestine "scream" for six decades. It's now hardened to a more severe intolerable level in Gaza people of conscience and other nations must demand be stopped.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Lewis "Scooter" Libby Sentence Commuted
Within hours of the appeals court upholding Libby conviction George Bush brazenly commutes it in defiance of the law and any sense of justice.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Reinventing A War Criminal
Efforts to reinvent Tony Blair into a peacenik only expose him as a poorly disguised Trojan horse.

Monday, July 2, 2007
Independence Day Hypocrisy
(8 comments) Independence Day shame and hypocrisy

Monday, July 2, 2007
Lewis Libby Heading for Jail
(2 comments) Lewis Libby loses appeal and faces prison if upheld on higher appeal and failing an intervening presidential pardon.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Big Oil and Big Media V. Hugo Chavez
(1 comments) Big Oil and Big Media assaults against Hugo Chavez over his socially democratic oil policies serving the interests of all Venezuelans above elitist ones only.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Reviewing Linda McQuaig's Holding the Bully's Coat
(3 comments) Reviewing Canada's ugly role in the Bush administration's war on terrorism.

Monday, June 25, 2007
"Demonstration" Government in Palestine
(3 comments) The made in Washington and Jerusalem coup d'etat against the democratically elected Hamas government because they're too democratic and refused to be Israel's enforcer against their own people like corruptible Fatah is willing to be.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The Record of the Newspaper of Record
(3 comments) Exposing the deceit and hypocrisy of the New York Times in its coverage of Venezuela under Hugo Chavez

Monday, June 18, 2007
Reviewing Michel Chossudovsky's America's War on Terrorism
(4 comments) Chossudovky's carefully documented blockbuster book exposing the Bush administration's phony "war on terrorism," in fact, a war on the world for imperial conquest.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Reviewing Noam Chomsky's New Book: "Interventions"
(4 comments) In-depth review of Noam Chomsky's new book focusing heavily on the Iraq war and Middle East overall, but also discussing some key domestic issues, Latin America and more.

Friday, June 8, 2007
Wall Street Journal's Looking Glass News
(2 comments) Washington-orchestrated Venezuelan street protests may be prologue to another coup attempt to oust Hugo Chavez. CIA's dirty hands are all over this.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Resource Wars - Can We Survive Them?
(4 comments) Unless stopped, resource wars will destroy what Noam Chomsky calls "biology's only experiment with higher intelligence."

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Terrorism Defined
(2 comments) Four noted experts define terrorism properly, not the way the US propaganda model defines it.

Monday, May 28, 2007
Venezuela's RCTV: Sine Die and Good Riddance
(18 comments) The culpable, corrupted Venezuelan hard right TV station, RCTV, is now off the air replaced by a public service station serving all Venezuelans.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Forty Years of Occupation
(15 comments) June 6 will mark the 40th anniversary of a day that will live in infamy - Israel's occupation of Palestine - the longest continuous (illegal) occupation in the world.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Review of End Times
CounterPunchers Alex Cockburn and Jeff St. Clair's scathing indictment of the pathetic and shameless corporate print media.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
The War on Free Expression
(3 comments) The fight to save the most precious of all our constitutional rights - the right to speak and write freely and openly without restraint or censorship.

Friday, May 4, 2007
Wall Street Journal Claims Chavez Oil Policy "Aims to Weaken US"
(2 comments) Wall Street Journal again attacking Hugo Chavez's progressive social democratic policies because they hurt corporate America wanting everything their own way but no longer get it in Venezuela thanks to Chavez.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
"Worthy and Unworthy Victims"
(3 comments) Bush administration police state actions against innocent targeted victims.

Monday, April 23, 2007
A Review of Chris Hedges' American Fascists
(2 comments) The destructive influence of the dominant Christian Right in the US wanting to turn the country into a fascist theocracy.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
NEW US POSTAL RATES UNDERMINE SMALL PUBLICATIONS
(6 comments) New US postal rate increases will undermine small and mid-sized publications threatening their survival and preventing new start-ups.

Monday, April 16, 2007
Ecuador Votes for Revolutionary Change
(1 comments) Sunday the Ecuadorean people voted overwhelmingly in a referendum for democratic progressive social change to come from a new Constitution to be drafted and voted on later this year.

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Wall Street Journal and New York Times Attack Journalism
Wall Street Journal and New York Times savage attacks against Hugo Chavez and Raphael Correa because these two progressive independent democrats refuse to surrender their nations' sovereignty to ours.

Thursday, April 5, 2007
The Long Ordeal of Sami Al-Arian - Civil and Human Rights Advocate and Political Prisoner
(1 comments) The long ordeal of Sami Al-Arian at the hands of the Bush administration's Department of Justice

Thursday, March 29, 2007
The Racist War On Immigrants
(7 comments) The Bush administration and congressional joint racist war against immigrants of color directed mainly at impoverished Latinos from Mexico and Central America.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
A Review of John Ross' Zapatistas
(1 comments) An extended review of John Ross' new book Zapatistas including the history of their rebellion from the roots to fight against imperialism on the march.

Thursday, March 15, 2007
Fake Congressional Opposition to War
(11 comments) Congressional Democrats again proving the criminal class in Washington is bipartisan as they prepare to vote for limitless funding for endless war in Iraq and against Iran as well if George Bush so orders.

Thursday, March 8, 2007
George Bush's Samson Option
(3 comments) The Bush administration's reckless agenda to engulf the Middle East in conflict by attacking Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons.

Thursday, March 1, 2007
A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic
(6 comments) A review of Chalmers Johnson's new book Nemesis showing the US on tipping edge of passing from a Republic to tyranny, and it's almost too late to change things.

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Hugo Chavez's Social Democratic Agenda
(2 comments) The truth about Hugo Chavez's social democratic agenda and how it differs from the US under George Bush

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Ecuador's President Embraces Bolivarianism
How Ecuadorean President Raphael Correa wants to bring Venezuelan Bolivarianism to his country and will hold a national referendum to do it.

Thursday, February 15, 2007
UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism
(1 comments) An account of the true role of UN peacekeepers serving imperial interests as thuggish paramilitary enforcers.

Thursday, February 8, 2007
A Review of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
(13 comments) A review of Ilan Pappe's powerful and important new book documenting Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine from uncovered Israeli archives and other official sources

Thursday, February 1, 2007
Israel's Kafkaesque "Matrix of Control"
(10 comments) Israeli Kafkaesque policies of harsh repression against the Palestinians preventing any just settlement of their long-term conflict.

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Venezuela's RCTV Acts of Sedition
(6 comments) Hugo Chavez begins democratizing Venezuela's corrupted corporate media by acting with legal justification against those in it that violate the law.

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Democrat Agenda Omissions
(8 comments) How the corrupted Democrats are complicit with Republicans and the Bush administration in betraying the public trust.

Friday, January 12, 2007
Holiday Hypocrisy
(1 comments) The corruption and hypocrisy of our federal holidays for patriotism and profit.

Thursday, January 4, 2007
The Spirit of Tom Paine
(5 comments) How the corrupted dominant corporate-controlled media thought-control police defiles the spirit of Tom Paine

Saturday, December 30, 2006
Former Longtime Confidant Accuses Ariel Sharon of Assassinating Yasser Arafat
(2 comments) The role of Ariel Sharon in the death of Yasser Arafat

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
A Look Back and Ahead In An Age of Neocon Rule
(7 comments) The year in review under Bush neocon rule and an ominous look ahead.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Reports of Fidel Castro's Impending Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
(1 comments) Spanish surgeon gives Fidel Casto a clean bill of health, predicts his full recovery and says he has no need for further surgery.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Chavez Landslide Tops All In US History
(2 comments) Hugo Chavez won two landslide elections including being reelected President of Venezuela topping all those in US history.

Thursday, December 14, 2006
Omissions In the Iraq Study Group Report
(7 comments) What's not included in the Iraq Study Group report is more important than what's in it.

Friday, December 8, 2006
The Spirit of Democracy in Venezuela
(14 comments) The reelection of Hugo Chavez was a model of how a real democracy works in contrast to the fraudulent and illusory one in the US.

Monday, December 4, 2006
The End of the Bush Dynasty
(7 comments) The end of a family political dynasty because of the criminal and failed presidency of George W. Bush

Saturday, December 2, 2006
The Spirit of Resistance in Mexico City
(1 comments) Resistance on the streets of Mexico City against the stolen presidential election and decades of abuse and injustice against the people that may be blossoming into a national revolution.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar's New Book - Perilous Power
A Chomsky and Achcar tour de force on the disastrous US foreign policy in the Middle East under the Bush administration

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Rafael Correa Officially Declared Winner of Ecuador's Presidential Election
Populist Rafael Correa declared the official winner of Ecuador's run-off presidential election

Monday, November 27, 2006
Hugo Chavez Gains An Ecuadoran Ally
(1 comments) Ecuadoran populist wins run-off presidential election defeating Washington-supported candidate

Saturday, November 25, 2006
Hugo Chavez Holds Commanding Lead Eight Days Before Election
(7 comments) Bush administration scheming to subvert the democratic process in Venezuela and oust Hugo Chavez

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Eva Golinger's New Book: Bush vs. Chavez
US efforts to destabilize Venezuela and overthrow the government of Hugo Chavez and try to assassinate him.

Thursday, November 16, 2006
The Price of Imperial Arrogance
(8 comments) The price at home and abroad for the crimes of the Bush administration that will prove in the end insurmountable even for Jim Baker to be able to deal with.

Monday, November 13, 2006
New Faces, Same Agenda
(15 comments) The deceptive mid-term election results cloaked in phony euphoria concealing the dismal reality nothing at all changed in Washington where come January it will be just business as usual - proving again the criminal class in the nation's Capitol is bipartisan.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
A Trial Giving Kangaroos A Bad Name
(2 comments) How the US occupier in Iraq made a mockery of justice in the first of Saddam Hussein's kangaroo court trial just concluded with the known verdict conveniently timed 48 hours ahead of the mid-term elections,

Monday, November 6, 2006
Agitprop Capital of the World (the USA) Exports Its Poison to Venezuela
(2 comments) How the Bush neocon cabal is trying to disrupt the December 3 presidential election in Venezuela to prevent another six years of Hugo Chavez in office.

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Threats to Hugo Chavez As Venezuela's December Presidential Election Approaches
How the Bush administration neocons intend to destabilize the presidential election process in Venezuela in their attempt to prevent Hugo Chavez's reelection or oust him if he is.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
The Power of Israel in the United States
(6 comments) An extended review of James Petras' crucially important book on the power and influence of the Jewish Lobby in the US - information that's suppressed in the corporate-owned and funded media.

Monday, October 23, 2006
The Shame of the Nation: A Collective Perversion
(4 comments) The collective perversion of US policy and all those responsible for it

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Lynne Stewart's Crime of Courage, Honor and Resisting Tyranny
The glorious vindication of Lynne Stewart and strong rebuke of the Bush Justice Department

Monday, October 16, 2006
The Mettle of A UN Secretary-General
The tainted legacy of Kofi Annan as a UN changing of the guard approaches

Thursday, October 12, 2006
BBC Guilty of Venality In Its Misreporting on Venezuela
(2 comments) An account of BBC's shameless reporting on Venezuela and how the vaunted news service acts as an agent of state propaganda

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Thom Hartmann's New Book - Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class
(3 comments) A review of Thom Hartmann's important new book documenting how the middle class and democracy in the US are slowly being destroyed because it serves the interests of capital to do it.

Friday, October 6, 2006
Hugo Chavez Embraces the Spirit of Benjamin Franklin
(9 comments) Hugo Chavez's vision for a nation where everyone is middle class and his new vision of social equity and justice has reached fruition.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Alvaro Vargas Llosa Sends Hugo Chavez to Dante's Inferno
Latin American expert Alvaro Vargas Llosa exposes himself as a charlatan and fraud in his shameless attack on Hugo Chavez

Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Erosion of Democracy and Freedom In America
(2 comments) Democracy in the US is somewhere between life support and the crematorium after the passage of the "torture authorization bill." We all now "enemy combatants" and no one is safe anymore.

Sunday, October 1, 2006
Sixth Anniversary of al-Aqsa Mosque Intifada Passes Still Unresolved
The Israeli - Palestinian conflict goes on unabated and unresolved and the terrible toll it's taken

Saturday, September 30, 2006
Diplomatic Jousting Over Venezuela's Bid for UN Security Council Seat Heats Up
(4 comments) US determination to block Venezuela's bid for the UN Security Council seat the majority of nations wants it to have

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Afghanistan - The Other Lost War
How US "liberation" is plundering and ravaging Afghanistan

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Journalism, Wall Street Journal-Style
A critique of the Wall Street Journal's black propaganda

Monday, September 25, 2006
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Illegally Detained at JFK Airport and Strip-Searched
Outrageous treatment of the Venezuelan Foreign Minister at JFK Airport

Friday, September 22, 2006
Chavez's Chomsky Book Choice-- and the Message that Drew a UN Standing Ovation
(3 comments) A Courageous Man Speaks Out - Hugo Chavez Was In Rare form at the UN; Hugo Chavez's tour de force before the UN General Assembly

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Hugo Chavez's New World Vision
(7 comments) The letter and spirit of Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Imperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness - Part II
(3 comments) Part II of Imperialism 101 focusing on the war in Iraq

Saturday, September 16, 2006
Imperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness
The US imperial agenda historically and today.

Thursday, August 31, 2006
CNN's Vice President of Racism and Associates
(5 comments) Exposing racism and empire-supportive journalism on corporate-run television

Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Courage and Resistance in Oaxaca and Mexico City
(3 comments) The spirit of resistance in Mexico today

Monday, August 28, 2006
Cuba Under Castro
(3 comments) A detailed account of Cuba under Fidel Castro and what he's accomplished despite all the efforts of the US to destabilize his government and kill him for nearly 48 years.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Alternatives To the Collapsed WTO Doha Round Talks
Alternatives to the failed, US dominated, neoliberal WTO model of world trade

Friday, August 18, 2006
Wall Street Journal Rhapsodizes Over Sham UN Resolution To End Lebanon War
(10 comments) The deconstruction of a shameless Wall Street Journal article on UN Resolution 1701 to end the Lebanon war.

Thursday, August 17, 2006
Venezuela Leading the Race for the UN Security Council Seat
Venezuela ahead in the race for the Latin American Un Security Council seat for 2007

Tuesday, August 15, 2006
MEXICAN ELECTORAL FRAUD WINS ROUND ONE - ROUND TWO NOW BEGINS
THE MEXICAN PEOPLE INTEND TO FIGHT IN THE COURTS AND THE STREETS FOR THEIR CANDIDATE SO FAR DENIED THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT HE WON BUT HAS BEEN DENIED

Monday, August 14, 2006
Sham UN Resolution Guarantees No End To Israel's War of Illegal Aggression
Sham UN Resolution 1701 on Lebanon guarantees no end to the conflict

Saturday, August 12, 2006
Three Cheers For Ned Lamont - Maybe Not When You Know Where He Stands
(5 comments) The imperfect candidacy of Ned Lamont for the Connecticut Senate seat now held by Joe Lieberman

Friday, August 11, 2006
Israel Must Be Held Accountable For Its International Law Violations
The devastation caused and international laws violated by the joint US-Israel assaults against Lebanon and Palestine.

Monday, August 7, 2006
Comments on Helen Caldicott's New Book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
(2 comments) A powerful and convincing indictment of commercial nuclear power and the need to end its use.

Thursday, August 3, 2006
Freedom to Fascism - A Must-See Film by Aaron Russo
A review of Aaron Russo's important and powerful new film showing the US is losing its freedoms and may be becoming a fascist state.

Monday, July 31, 2006
US - Israeli UN Resolution Hypocrisy
Important examples of US - Israeli obstruction of UN resolutions.

Thursday, July 27, 2006
The Crime of Lebanon and Palestine - Are Iran and Syria Next? - Part II
Israel's US funded and supported war on Lebanon and Palestine - Part II

Monday, July 24, 2006
The Crime of Lebanon and Palestine - Are Iran and Syria Next?
Israel's US backed and supported war against Lebanon and Palestine

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Democracy, Mexican Style - Part II
(2 comments) More information on the stolen Mexican presidential election.

Friday, July 7, 2006
Democracy, Mexican Style
An account of fraud in the Mexican July, 2006 presidential election

Wednesday, July 5, 2006
It's Time to End the "Last Taboo"
An explanation of Israel's real aims in assaulting the Palestinian people and its leadership.

Thursday, June 29, 2006
Dirty Secrets of the Temple
(2 comments) An account of how the Federal Reserve System has defrauded the public since inception.

Saturday, June 24, 2006
Wall Street Journal Calls Hugo Chavez A Threat to World Peace
(8 comments) Author's response to counter the hostile Wall Street Journal anti-Chavez article on June 23

Saturday, June 17, 2006
WALL STREET JOURNAL GIVES HUGO CHAVEZ A MIXED REVIEW
Wall Street Journal distortions about Hugo Chavez even when reporting positive activities and events

Thursday, June 15, 2006
Comments on John Pilger's New Book Freedom Next Time
John Pilger's account of oppressed peoples' struggle for their freedom.

Friday, June 9, 2006
Comments on Greg Palast's New Book Armed Madhouse
(1 comments) Review of Greg Palast's excellent new book

Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Bush "democracy At Work; Exporting Crooked, Rigged Elections to Colombia and Peru
Colombian and Peruvian Elections Prove Stalin Was Right; Sham "demonstration elections" in Colombia and Peru are the latest instances of US meddling.

Friday, June 2, 2006
SHAM US PROPOSAL TO IRAN EVOKES MEMORIES OF PAST SIMILAR ONES
(4 comments) The May 31 US proposal to Iran is no different than similar ones made to other target nations in the past - an undisguised scam.

Monday, May 29, 2006
The Threat of Depleted Uranium Exposure - It's Real, Deadly and Covered Up by the Pentagon and VA
The deadly toxic threat of depleted uranium covered up by the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration

Friday, May 26, 2006
The Latest Confrontation Between the US Empire and Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez
(1 comments) Empire flacks at Wall Street Journal again attacking the two most glorious democrats anywhere.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
New Estimate of Venezuela's Total Oil Reserves Makes It the Grandest of Grandest Prizes for US
Startling new estimates of Venezuela's total oil reserves.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Solidarity Street Demonstrations To Demand US Keep hands Off Venezuela and Cuba
(3 comments) National and worldwide street demonstrations on May 20 to demand US keep its imperial hands off Venezuela and Cuba

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Comments On David Sirota's New Book - Hostile Takeover
A review of David Sirota's new book on "how power & corruption conquered our government - and how we can take it back."

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Evo Morales Now Joins Hugo Chavez As A US Target
(2 comments) More evidence emerges that the Bush administration is planning hostile action against the democratically elected governments in Venezuela and Bolivia

Saturday, April 29, 2006
COMMENTS ON NOAM CHOMSKY'S NEW BOOK - FAILED STATES
(1 comments) A review of Noam Chomsky's new book explaining that the US has the characteristics of a "failed state"

Monday, April 24, 2006
HOSTILE TAKEOVER - THE CORPORATE CONTROL OF SOCIETY AND HUMAN LIFE
(1 comments)

Monday, April 17, 2006
The US Now Planning a Fourth Attempt to Oust Hugo Chavez
(1 comments) An explanation of how US corporate media programs the public mind using case study example of their invective to demonize Hugo Chavez.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
WAR ON IMMIGRANTS
(2 comments) The US war against immigrants in their fight for equity and justice

Friday, March 31, 2006
The War Drums Are Getting Louder and Sounding a Clear Message
(3 comments) Why would those in charge in Washington ever want another war or maybe two of them. Already they're embroiled in two out-of-control debacles leaching multi-billions we don't have to pay for them. Now it looks almost certain we're now headed for a new one with Iran and may try to "double our displeasure" by adding still another with Venezuela to remove their twice democratically elected President Hugo Chavez.

Thursday, March 23, 2006
War Making 101-- A User's Manual
(1 comments) for the last 65 years congress decided in its infinite indifference to abrogate it's authority and allow the President to usurp its power to Declare War and use it at his pleasure and choice. We've seen the result - a mess without end.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006
THE US GULAG PRISON SYSTEM - THE SHAME OF THE NATION AND CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
(1 comments) An expose of the US criminal injustice system and prisons within it

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