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Saturday, November 14, 2009
CHARLES DICKENS' AMERICA: UN Investigator Accuses US of Shameful Neglect of Homeless
America, despite all its rhetoric about being a beacon on the hill that only spreads freedom and prosperity around the world, actually largely spreads poverty, pollution, massive death and war. Although elitists always prosper, our policies have left millions as homeless refugees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. And now the UN notes how we mistreat our own citizens, while effete banksters pig out at the public trough.

Thursday, November 12, 2009
Scahill: Obama may be afraid of Blackwater
Despite news reports that the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater has seen its contracts dry up and its influence wane, the company continues to do brisk business in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and the Obama administration may be too afraid of the firm to do anything about it, says investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill.

Thursday, November 12, 2009
SWINE FLU VACCINE ALERT: VA Teen Diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome after Taking Shot
A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu. Jordan McFarland, a high school athlete from Alexandria, Va., left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children Tuesday night in a wheelchair nearly a week after developing severe headaches, muscle spasms and weakness in his legs.

Monday, November 9, 2009
Top Bailed-out Banks to Pay $30 Billion in Bonuses
Through boundless hubris, denial of the vast damage they have done to the economy plus public and hidden money their buddies in the Treasury and Fed have shoveled their way to make them appear solvent, these banks say they are so important that they deserve $30 Billion as a reward for their social "usefulness". The elitist class has morphed into a caricature of the French Aristocracy just before the French Revolution.

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Italian Prosecutor in Case Against CIA Operatives Hails Convictions for '03 Kidnapping of Egyptian Cleric
(1 comments) In a landmark case, 23 Americans, mostly CIA operatives, have been convicted in Italy for kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003. They were all tried in absentia after the United States refused to hand them over. The convictions turn them into international fugitives who risk arrest abroad. The case marks the first time any American has been convicted for taking part in a “extraordinary rendition.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Congress Grovels to AIPAC Again: Goldstone Report Dissed
(1 comments) Well, we all know that if Moses was to suddenly appear, climbing down from Mt. Sinai and then roundly condemning the Right-wing Israeli government for crimes against humanity, that AIPAC would see to it that Moses AND his patron, GOD, were both swift-boated, so it is not at all surprising that, once again, the serf-like House of Representatives, except for 36 brave souls, has performed another act of fellatio for AIPAC.

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Engdahl: America's Phoney War in Afghanistan
When someone of William Engdahl's caliber (author of Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order) outright calls our adventure in Afghanistan a fraud, then you know that the official BS for this murderous, ruinous, money-sucking fiasco is wearing really thin.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
OUR SUPERIOR BEINGS: Wall Street 40% Bonus Rise Feeds Spending on $43 Steak, Co-ops
Isn't this how it should be, that our superior God-like Banksters should swim in money while we inferior beings go homeless on street-corners, looking for the nearest soup kitchens? After all, didn't their Sun-God brilliance warrant such bonuses? Oh wait, we forgot about the 12 trillion dollars the Fed shuffled under the table to put the Banksters in the black while paying off their monstrous gambling debts.

Friday, October 16, 2009
UN Envoy Says Womens' Breasts "Hacked Off" in DR Congo
The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Philip Alston, described some of the heinous crimes committed against Congolese citizens after an investigation in eastern DRC. These atrocities are not being committed only by rebel forces, but by the Congolese Army itself against its own citizens. We have witnessed the means to the end, war meant to vanquish chaotic forces, become the end itself.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
BBC VIDEO: 45,000 More U.S. Troops To Afghanistan
BBC Newsnight - Broadcast October 14, 2009 The Obama (Peace Prize) administration has told the British government that it will soon announce a substantial boost to its Afghanistan force and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that Britain will send a further 500 soldiers. "All indications are that President Obama is honouring the request by Gen McChrystal" -Said Jawad, Afghan ambassador to the US

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Lawsuit to Attempt to Stop Swine Flu Vaccinations
Jim Turner, a Washington, D.C., attorney noted for his work on consumer health issues, filing suit in federal court to stop all swine flu vaccinations from being given in the United States. According to NaturalNews.com editor Mike Adams, “The lawsuit charges that the FDA violated the law in its hasty approval of four swine flu vaccines by failing to scientifically determine the safety or efficacy of the vaccines.

Thursday, October 8, 2009
Stuck in Kabul, with Saigon blues again
From Pepe Escobar: Some things never change. It was "only" eight years ago that the George W Bush administration unleashed its mini-shock and awe over Afghanistan to, in theory, smash the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Stuck inside of Kabul with the Saigon blues again, the "overseas contingency operations" of Barack Obama continue to perpetrate a myth; never shall the words "Afghanistan" and "oil" be mentioned in the same sentenc

Sunday, September 13, 2009
THE ROVING EYE: Fifty questions on 9/11 By Pepe Escobar
Well-known, well-sourced international journalist Pepe Escobar, who reports for Asia Times and The Real News Network, clearly sees through all the American government's obfuscation about 9/11 and has listed 50 questions begging to be answered by the same. These same questions are starting to reverberate around the world now, surfacing in Japan, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Is the offical storyline starting to collapse?

Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina
As the 4th anniversary of Katrina arrives, Mother Jones Magazine has come out with a must-read article by James Ridgeway that shines light on the hateful, fascist response by authorities to the plight of thousands and thousands of traumatized people. This is the ugly face of authoritarianism in America, racist, sadistic, unjust. As OpEdNews contributor Georgianne Nienaber put it, New Orleans became "Baghdad on the Bayou".

Thursday, August 6, 2009
YOUR NEED TO KNOW: Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines
Aside from the dangerous ingredients many people already know about (like squalene or thimerosal), one of the key ingredients used in flu vaccines (including the vaccines being prepared for the swine flu pandemic) is the diseased flesh of African Green Monkeys.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Saving the Bankers With a Make-Believe War
Penetrating article by Peter Chamberlain: The Western media leads popular opinion to sympathize with the struggling corporate raiders, in order to help orchestrate the greatest transfer of wealth in human history. The media portrays the "war of terror" as a great struggle to save civilization, even though true "civilization" (the liberation of every soul through universal human rights) has not yet evolved.

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Meet Shah Ali Khamenei
Amid blood in the streets, cries in the rooftops and daggers drawn at silky corridors, the 30-year-old Islamic Revolution in Iran has a date with destiny: the challenge is to finally celebrate the marriage of Islam and democracy. This will be a long engagement though, as the Iranian people slowly wear down the theocratic police state.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Analysis casts doubts on Ahmadinejad's victory
(3 comments) CAIRO - An analysis by a British think tank highlights profound differences between voting patterns in Iran's recent election and hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first victory in 2005, casting doubt on whether they could have occurred without manipulation.

Saturday, June 20, 2009
Iran's Balance of Power Has Been Upended -- Is the Country Teetering Toward Civil War?
Amid scattered deaths and rising protests, the showdown in Iran continues to build. The Iranian regime's crackdown is gathering momentum, with reports of sweeping arrests of opposition figures, militia raids on university campuses, and threats from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps that protestors are liable to be executed.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
In the Shadow of Military Might, A 50-Mile Walk for Peace
(1 comments) Calling all peace and justice activists across America and beyond: Come walk with us to create a catalyst to change the path America is on, from one of fear, hatred and self-destruction to one of love, hope and renewal. Walk with us to promote a new America and a new world.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Eight-Year-Long Psychological Operation: Osama Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive?
I've been saying this for several years, and now some corroboration: Osama Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive? by David Ray Griffin is a critical examination of the whole range of evidence bearing on the question, is Osama bin Laden still alive? The importance of this question comes from the fact that the U.S. under Obama is escalating its offensive in Afghanistan and expanding the war into Pakistan, partially to "hunt for bin Laden"

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
THE ROVING EYE: The myth of Talibanistan By Pepe Escobar
Once again, we have a used car salesman for a president selling us that most toxic of all products, war, which CAN only be sold to us by fantasizing about a fear-drenched future. So now, as Pepe Escobar so eloquently points out, we have the demon Taliban, who can't wait to kill us all and rape our women they infer, poised to become the nuclear-armed Taliban/Satan/Al Qaeada/swarthy, dangerous brown-skinned men/Satan/Evil.

Sunday, May 3, 2009
Thirty-Six Thousand People Do Not Die Each Year from "Regular Flu" (Confirmed)
Mike Adams: I find it interesting that when talking about swine flu, the criteria for inclusion in statistics is positive identification in a rigorous laboratory. But when talking about regular flu, the criteria for inclusion is, technically speaking, anybody's wild guess. The 36,000 number, it turns out, was pulled out of thin air. It has no scientific validity whatsoever, even according to the CDC's own standards.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Georgianne Nienaber on DR Congo: Report Says 100,000 Civilians at Risk of Attack and Humanitarian Aid Desperately Needed
Two Rwandan militia groups, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and the Rally for Unity and Democracy (RUD), in addition to the regular Congolese army, have routed 100,000 civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from their homes. The FDLR consists of members of the Hutu Interahamwe that carried out the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which up to one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Swine Flu Smoking Gun? CDC was Combining Flu Viruses in 2004
(3 comments) "There is evidence the United States government has been working on concocting new flu virus blends."

Saturday, April 25, 2009
THE ROVING EYE: Torture Whitewash from The Dark Side By Pepe Escobar
(2 comments) It's a script worthy of Freddie Krueger, the fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. Nearly five years after the irruption of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, here's another chamber of horrors, another glimpse of how The Dark Side really works.

Friday, April 17, 2009
THE ROVING EYE: The mother of all cockfights By Pepe Escobar
On one side, the most powerful man on Earth, who happens to carry a Muslim middle name. On the other, the largest tribal nation in the world, which happens to be Muslim. Welcome to the mother of all cockfights.

Monday, April 13, 2009
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Fact-Finding Mission "Shocked" By Constanza Vieira
THE HAGUE, Apr 10 (IPS) - A delegation of seven British Labour members of parliament and 10 trade union leaders from the U.S., Canada and Britain said they were in a "state of shock" over what they heard during a week-long fact-finding mission to Colombia.

Friday, April 10, 2009
60 drone hits kill 14 al-Qaeda men, 687 civilians
(5 comments) LAHORE: Of the 60 cross-border predator strikes carried out by the Afghanistan-based American drones in Pakistan between January 14, 2006 and April 8, 2009, only 10 were able to hit their actual targets, killing 14 wanted al-Qaeda leaders, besides perishing 687 innocent Pakistani civilians. The success percentage of the US predator strikes thus comes to not more than six per cent.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
DR Congo: Brutal Rapes by Rebels and Army
Rwandan rebel forces, government army soldiers, and their allies have raped at least 90 women and girls since late January 2009 in the volatile North and South Kivu provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today. The Rwandan rebel forces have also been implicated in the deaths of most of the 180 civilians killed during this period.

Monday, April 6, 2009
Remembering The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years Later (SLIDESHOW) by Georgianne Nienaber
(6 comments) The historical event is straightforward and easily summarized. The plane carrying Hutu Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down on April 6, 1994, on approach to the Kigali airport. Their assassination sparked the Rwandan genocide, which lasted for 100 days. Up to one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus lost their lives. In the initial bloodshed a majority of the dead were Tutsi

Saturday, March 28, 2009
THE ROVING EYE: Obama's Afghan Spaghetti Western by Pepe Escobar
Afghanistan (and Pakistan) has now become Obama's psychotic adventure. He is talking himself into a "good war" that will kill untold numbers before it is over, just like LBJ talked himself into a "good war" in the 1960s, Vietnam. Hey, hey Obama, how many children will you mur-ur-der?

Sunday, March 15, 2009
Israeli Soldier Shoots American Activist in Face with Tear Gas Can
An American activist who participated in a Palestinian solidarity demonstration is in serious condition Saturday after an Israeli soldier shot him in the face with a high-velocity tear gas canister. He underwent surgery early Saturday.

Friday, March 13, 2009
THE INTERMEDIATE TRIBUNAL OF KIGALI RULES ON THE APPLICATION FOR THE RELEASE OF GENERAL-MAJOR LAURENT NKUNDA MIHIGO INA
Rwandan authorities betrayed General Laurent Nkunda, chairman of the CNDP around January 23 when they invited him to a strategic military conference and basically kidnapped him becasue they needed him out of the way to carry out a joint operation with Joseph Kabila, President (some say dictator) of DR Congo. Since there is no legal reason for Rwanda to hold Nkunda, his dauntless wife has been suing Rwanda for his release.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Here We Go Again With the Iranian Nuclear Scare
(4 comments) Once again, the American and Israeli Neocon war pimps are fanning fear and paranoia against Iran, utterly hypocritcally, to say the least, when you realize that both of them are armed to the teeth with nukes. So hats off to Eric Margolis for exposing how full of it these propagandists are. Truth liberates, lies kill.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Turning Scorpions into Butterflies - Israeli Propaganda at Work
Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military analyst from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has published a "strategic analysis" of the Gaza massacre.(1) He reaches the remarkable conclusion that "Israel did not violate the laws of war." The report is based on "briefings in Israeli [sic] during and immediately after the fighting made possible by a visit sponsored by Project Interchange....

Monday, February 16, 2009
Human Rights Watch Sees Signs of White Phosphorus Use in Gaza
Amnesty International has declared Israel's use of white phosphorus in Gaza "indiscriminate" and a war crime. Human Rights Watch is still preparing its report on the conflict, but the group's senior emergencies researcher, Fred Abrahams, said firing phosphorus shells in a populated area "is inherently indiscriminate because it spreads over such a wide area."

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Israeli Veteran: Gaza Attacks Marked My Military's Moral Low
Since the major military operations in Gaza stopped, the full effects of the heavy-handed assault that my country conducted there have become increasingly clear. Our leaders' responses to the carnage are shocking: after each "misfire" of our artillery, hitting a school or hospital, some high-ranking general or politician apologizes for the "mistake."

Monday, February 2, 2009
Israeli War Crimes: Under the Black Flag By URI AVNERY
(1 comments) ISRAELI TV VIEWERS have lately been exposed to a bizarre sight: army officers appearing with their faces hidden, as usual for criminals when the court prohibits their identification. Pedophiles, for example, or attackers of old women. On the orders of the military censors, this applies to all officers, from battalion commanders down, who have been involved in the Gaza war.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Rwanda puts down Nkunda dissent
(1 comments) Crackdowns have increased at refugee camps in Rwanda after protests calling for rebel Laurent Nkunda's release. Here is an eyewitness quote: "I tried to get you some photos but I couldn't because of the police. No one can enter the 2 camps anymore-it surrounded by soldiers and police. But refugees decided to go on demonstrating until they release their leader and yes this has an important effect on the world......"

Monday, January 26, 2009
The Rumpus Interview With General Laurent Nkunda
From the Rumpus: In bringing you this interview with Gen. Nkunda, we walk a very fine line. The world has roundly condemned both him and his Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) in the Congo...The Rumpus.net takes these accusations against Mr. Nkunda seriously. But we also take seriously the obligation to probe a story from all angles. "What I know is that we are conducting a war of liberation," says Nkunda. True?

Friday, January 23, 2009
General Laurent Nkunda: the Congo's George Washington or Western Media Villain?
(2 comments) Rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda generally gets short shrift in the Western media as a "Bad Guy", while the president of the DR Congo, Joseph Kabila, generally gets a "Good Guy" pass. But is that the case in reality? How many times has the lazy, opinionated, power-worshipping mainstream media gotten it wrong in the past? Getting it wrong once again could sink an already devastated Congo into the lower rings of Hell.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Inside A Congolese Displaced Persons Camp: Children Cling To Our Arms, Begging For Human Touch (PHOTOS)
American journalist Georgianne Nienaber and Australian journalist Helen Thomas traveled to the Mugunga II refugee camp located near Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo to report on the horrific conditions there, Mugunga II being but one of the many refugee camps that are a legacy of the ongoing rape of the Congo. As bad as the situation is in Gaza, Palestine, let us note that are even worse-ravished regions in the world.

Monday, January 19, 2009
Haaretz: Israel Recruits 'Army of Bloggers' to Combat anti-Zionist Web Sites
Surprise, surprise (not really). On top of the Israeli State's already massive propaganda campaign to make a race pogrom against Gaza look like a Disneyland fireworks show, now they are planning to bombard blogs and websites across the planet with a a coordinated propaganda assault. Time to reinforce the truth battlements, bloggers, for the attack. Taking the battle to them is to be encouraged.

Monday, January 19, 2009
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Congolese Rebel Leader Denies Reports of His Ouster in Western Press
In the ongoing horror story that is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there are reports and counter-reports that the main rebel army, the CNDP, is breaking apart into two camps. This would be welcome news to DR Congo president Kabila, whose army is reeling from rebel attacks, but is it true? Not according to Gen. Nkudha, the head of the CNDP.

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Exclusive Interview: Congo Rebel Leader Accused Of War Crimes Tells His Story (SLIDESHOW)
Congo rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda has been accused by human rights organizations of ordering his troops to rape and murder civilians and pillage communities. Huffington Post contributors Georgianne Nienaber and Helen Thomas traveled to Nkunda's compound in Kivu province, Congo, to interview Nkunda face-to-face.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Amy Goodman: Mobilized Against Israel's Bombs, Jewish Activists Say 'Not in Our Name'
(1 comments) Amy Goodman: Tens of thousands of people took to streets over the weekend in cities across the globe to protest the Israeli assault on Gaza. In France, tens of thousands of people marched in the streets of Paris. In London, thousands filled Trafalgar Square. (In the US) Some of the protests have been organized by Jewish groups who are speaking out against Israel's actions.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
The record is fairly clear. You can find it on the Israeli website, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. Israel broke the ceasefire by going into the Gaza and killing six or seven Palestinian militants. At that point-and now I'm quoting the official Israeli website-Hamas retaliated or, in retaliation for the Israeli attack, then launched the missiles.

Sunday, January 11, 2009
Israel Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer in December By Gareth Porter
More of Israel's propaganda debunked: WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (IPS) - Contrary to Israel's argument that it was forced to launch its air and ground offensive against Gaza in order to stop the firing of rockets into its territory, Hamas proposed in mid-December to return to the original Hamas-Israel ceasefire arrangement, according to a U.S.-based source who has been briefed on the proposal.

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Russia asks Israel to end Gaza attacks, let in aid
MOSCOW, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Russia urged Israel on Sunday to end military attacks that had killed nearly 300 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and allow humanitarian supplies into the territory, Russia's Foreign Ministry said. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov conveyed Moscow's position during a telephone conversation with Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni held at her initiative, the ministry said in a statement.

Friday, December 19, 2008
THE NATION: Katrina's Hidden Race War
(1 comments) After three years, finally a major news journal is investigating some of the human-induced horrors in New Orleans during Katrina, specifically the toxic mixture of hatred and paranoia that led to White vigilante attacks on Blacks desperately struggling to reach higher ground in the Algiers Point district of New Orleans, Blacks who had been demonized in the media as thugs and looters, not hurricane victims in need of help.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Pepe Escobar's ROVING EYE: The Emperor Gets the Boot
From now on three historic images will forever sum up the Bush administration-generated Iraqi tragedy: Bush's "Mission Accomplished" stunt off San Diego harbor; the "black scarecrow" figure tortured at Abu Ghraib; and Iraq's leather-soled kiss to the man who destroyed the country. Meanwhile, Escobar notes, we must stop them from torturing the shoe-thrower to death.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Big Melt: 2 Trillion Tons of Ice Gone Since '03
(1 comments) More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming.

Sunday, December 14, 2008
Who is Dawood Ibrahim & Did He Do Mumbai?
(4 comments) The NEWS of Pakistan, in an article by Ayesha Ijaz Khan, is picking up on Wayne Madsen's thread that Dawood Ibrahim, the "King of Karachi", a leading fugitive-from-India gangster, who has, according to Madsen, been utilized by the ISI & the CIA in the past, may have masterminded the Mumbai Massacre as a deadly message to rivals in the Underworld & to India and the CIA. Time for OpEdNews and the media to look at Ibrahim.

Monday, December 1, 2008
Pentagon to Detail 20,000 Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
The relentless march toward an Orwellian Police State continues, with announced plans to deploy 20,000 army regulars domestically by 2011. As always, this is based on projected fear & paranoia, not reality, since we have the power to create a positive future if we will it. But that doesn't fit the goals of totalitarians who crave to sink America into 3rd World serfdom & Fascism. The Matrix increases, driven by the living dead.

Friday, November 28, 2008
The Obama "Dream Team": Rubin-clones And Other Fakers
(2 comments) There's no accountability at any level of government anymore; it doesn't matter how big or heinous the crime, no one pays. The justice system is a sham. In fact, the D.O.J. is just a weapon for destroying political enemies; that's it. The one noteworthy conviction in the last 8 years was home-decorating guru Martha Stewart. What a joke. In his memoirs, Bush can boast, "At least we got Martha Stewart off the streets."

Monday, November 24, 2008
Progressive Hypocrisy: Sympathy for the Rape Victim While Siding with the Rapist
(1 comments) James Petras gives so-called progressives in the West a royal chewing out, pointing out their hypocrisy and double standards in dealing with imperialism.

Friday, November 14, 2008
New Blackwater Iraq Scandal: Guns, Silencers and Dog Food
A federal grand jury in North Carolina is investigating allegations the controversial private security firm Blackwater illegally shipped assault weapons and silencers to Iraq, hidden in large sacks of dog food, ABCNews.com has learned. Under State Department rules, Blackwater is prohibited from using certain assault weapons and silencers in Iraq because they are considered "offensive" weapons inappropriate for Blackwater.

Thursday, November 13, 2008
MILITARY FAMILIES TO VA: STOP DENYING THAT MILITARY SUICIDES ARE CASUALTIES OF WAR!
Nationwide -- Members of Military Families Speak Out are condemning comments by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs suggesting that the dramatic increase in the suicide rate among young veterans is not connected to the war in Iraq. The suicide rate among male veterans under the age of 29 is now twice that of the general population.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
MOTHER JONES: The Iraq Math War
When math guru Les Roberts used conflict epidemiology to calculate that, by 1999, the death toll in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was not the 50,000 being quoted, but 1.7 million, his work was widely accepted, including by the US Govt. But when he went to Iraq and, using the same technique, calculated that Iraqi war dead were five times what the outfit "Iraqi Body Count" was professing, he was "fuzzy math" branded.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Ain't War Grand? Air Strikes Kill Dozens of Wedding Guests
(2 comments) KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - Dozens of Afghan civilians are dead and dozens more are wounded after a series of air strikes aimed at Taliban fighters fell short of their target and exploded in the middle of a wedding party in a mountainous region north of Kandahar city, tribal elders and wedding guests told The Globe and Mail on Tuesday.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Arctic is Melting Even in Winter
(17 comments) The Arctic icecap is now shrinking at record rates in the winter as well as summer, adding to evidence of disastrous melting near the North Pole, according to research by British scientists.

Monday, October 27, 2008
'John McCain was never tortured in my jail', says Tran Trong Duyet
Tran Trong Duyet has been interviewed again, saying the same thing: McCain was never tortured. One could dismiss this as pure Communist propaganda, except for one thing: Counterpunch ran an article several months ago stating that, on March 25, 1999, two of McCain's fellow POWs, Ted Guy and Gordon "Swede" Larson, told the Phoenix New Times that, while they could not guarantee McCain was not physically harmed, they doubted it.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
I Survived the Georgian War. Here's What I Saw, by Lira Tskhovrebova
On the night of Aug. 7, Saakashvili went on television and assured the frightened civilian population of South Ossetia that he would not attack us. Ossetians went to bed relieved and thankful for a peaceful night. Less than two hours later, according to credible international accounts, his artillery, bombers, and three brigades of ground troops unleashed what I can only describe as a fierce hell on our city.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Investigating John McCain's Tragedy at Sea
(4 comments) When McCain's stories about his Naval career are placed beside documented evidence from other sources, significant contradictions often emerge. One such case involves McCain's experience in the devastating fire and explosions that killed 134 sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal during the Vietnam War three months before he was shot down over North Vietnam.

Friday, September 19, 2008
MIKE ADAMS: U.S. Govt. Soaks Taxpayers to Bail Out Wealthy Elite; $1 Trillion Rescue Fund Lands at TaxpayerS' Feet
The U.S. government treats its financial problems in the same way doctors treat patients with health problems: Mask the symptoms and ignore the cause. This $1 trillion rescue plan is like chemotherapy for the U.S. economy. Sure, it might visibly shrink some tumors, but the patient will soon find himself vomiting, losing hair and dropping body weight to dangerous levels.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
She's Jerry Falwell with a Pretty Face
Meet retired American Baptist minister Howard Bess, who pastors a small congregation in nearby Palmer, Wasilla's twin town in Alaska's Matanuska Valley. He has tangled with Sarah Palin in the past over her repressive and regressive policies, and claims he is one of the authors whose book she wanted to ban.

Sunday, September 14, 2008
Palin's Good Ole Boy/Girl Network in Alaska
WASILLA, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal. So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Saturday, September 13, 2008
Did Palin Break the Law?
Did Sarah Palin, who turned against GOP leader, Randy Ruedrich on ethics grounds, break the same laws Ruedrich did, abusing government resources for her own gain?

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention
Chris Hedges writes: St. Paul is a window into our future. It is a future where, as one protester told me by phone, "people have been pepper-gassed, thrown on the ground by police who had drawn their weapons, had their documents seized and their tattoos photographed before being taken away to jail." It is a future where illegal house raids are carried out.

Sunday, August 31, 2008
WP Exclusive: Chief Fired by Palin Speaks Out
The July firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan by Gov. Sarah Palin, who was announced as John McCain's running mate on Friday, has unearthed a stream of soap-opera-like details about Palin, her husband, her family and top state appointees. The controversy has also cut against Palin's reputation for holding an ethical line and standing up to colleagues in the Republican Party over matters of principle.

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Daily Kos Blog: Sarah Palin Is NOT The Mother [Photos+Video]
(2 comments) "The story begins on March 6th, when Sarah decided to come forward and announce to the world that she was pregnant, a monumental occasion for an acting Governor. Republican Governor Jane Maria Swift of Massachusetts was the first sitting Governor in United States history to give birth in office just seven years before, and now here we were once again. Yet, no one could believe the news."

Thursday, August 28, 2008
With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies
According to Mikhail Molchanov, Moscow's new position is, if friendship with the West can only be bought by standing idly by and ignoring desperate pleas for help from a kindred, ethically affiliated nation, Russia cannot afford such a friendship. Cold war or not, the time of a politically correct, US-style Russia is now over.

Friday, August 8, 2008
Information Clearing House Website Operator Threatened By Armed Thugs
I always like to refer to the Bush Cabal as a sad caricature of Johnny Friendly's gang in On the Waterfront. Well, Johhny Friendly's boys paid Tom Feely's wife a visit recently, threatening harm if Tom doesn't shut down his website. Well, at least they didn't throw him off the roof like they did in the movie. But they may still try, so everyone needs to rise to the occasion and support Tom and his terrific website now.

Friday, August 1, 2008
Meet Nadia, Raped by Bush America
We know that the American military in Iraq has a huge problem with sexual abuse and rape of women by their fellow soldiers and marines. But how many of you have asked that, if criminally inclined males are getting away with raping American women, just what are they getting away with with Iraqi women? Read the story of Nadia, one of the few whose story has even been told. This is why this abominable occupation must stop now.

Saturday, July 26, 2008
FALSE FLAG WATCH: If Iran is Attacking It Might Really be Israel
Some intel types are beginning to express concerns that the Israelis might do something completely crazy to get the US involved. There are a number of possible "false flag" scenarios in which the Israelis could insert a commando team in the Persian Gulf or use some of their people inside Iraq to stage an incident that they will make to look Iranian, either by employing Iranian weapons or by leaving a communications footprint.

Sunday, July 20, 2008
Different Planets by Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery, leading Israeli peace activist, discusses the vast gulf in perception between the Israeli people and the Arab world regarding the recent prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Betancourt Unbound by Mike Whitney
The "Great Escape" level Columbian military's spectacular rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others is starting to look a little bit more like Jessica Lynch's famous Rambo shootout with the Iraqis. In otherwords, no heroics at all. Reports continue to surface that the Columbian gov't had indeed cut some kind of deal with several FARC members to stage the rescue, although they may also have double-crossed them.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
How Britain Wages War by John Pilger
So much for the myth of the noble, heroic British Army. Aussie author, film-maker and journalist John Pilger exposes the depths of depravity to which Her Majesty's Royal Army has sunk during the Iraqi and Afghan adventures. Is this the last hurrah of the Anglo-Saxon pipe-dream of renewed Empire, shared with the Americans, an Empire run by sadists, racists and criminals?

Friday, July 4, 2008
BBC: 'When John McCain was my captive'
(11 comments) Meet Tran Trong Duyet, who ran the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War and got to know John McCain so well he still considers him a friend. However, regarding McCain's allegation that he was tortured at Hoa Lo Prison, Tran says it never happened. You be the judge. Who is telling the truth? Before you dismiss Tran, note that several American POWs who were in this same prison also say that McCain was likely never tortured.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Myth of 'Weapons-Grade' Enrichment
The utter speciousness of the West's propaganda broadsides against Iran is amazing, amazing in the same way that the propaganda broadsides against Iraq were: complete lies that millions bought uncritically. What it boils down to now is that it is Iran's turn to be put in the barrel and beat on, and any pathetic excuse will do. Civilized Europe, Israel and the US? As civilized as a pack of hyenas in a feeding frenzy.

Friday, June 20, 2008
Remembering the Deliberate Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty
The assault on the Liberty is well docu­mented. With no warning, the Liberty was attacked by successive waves of unmarked jets deploying cannons, rockets and napalm. The attacking jets jammed all of the U.S. communications frequencies, an indication they knew the Liberty was American.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A Line Not To Be Crossed - Pentagon on Verge of Push into Pakistan
(1 comments) Endless war, the merchants of death's greatest fantasy-dream, and humanity's worst mightmare, becomes a greater reality daily under Bush/Cheney, who actually believe their own BS about the War on Terror. The U.S., psychotically pursuing its anti-Moslem Crusade, is on the verge of plunging into the maelstrom against millions of Pushtun tribesmen, dragging NATO with it. And we used to think Europeans had intelligence.

Sunday, June 15, 2008
John McCain: War Hero or North Vietnam's Go-To Collaborator?
"In the fall of 1967, Navy pilot John McCain was routinely bombing Hanoi from an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. On October 26, he was trying to level a power plant in a heavily populated area when a surface-to-air missile knocked a wing off his jet. Banged-up John McCain and what was left of the plane splashed into Truc Bach Lake." What happened after that is highly controversial.

Saturday, June 14, 2008
John McCain's Chilling Project for America
John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars, you know, the Neocons, with an emphasis on Cons.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Obama, Israel and AIPAC by Uri Avnery
After months of a tough and bitter race, Barack Obama has defeated Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world. And what was the first thing he did after his astounding victory? He ran to the Israel lobby, AIPAC, and made a a speech that broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Memo To Corporate Media: Anyone Can Dress Up As An Arab Terrorist & Fake An Al-Qaeda Tape
Nearly four years after Benjamin Vanderford hoodwinked the global media by manufacturing a fake Al-Qaeda beheading tape, America's corporate press whores are once again gearing up to fearmonger about the prospect of mushroom clouds over American cities by instantly ascribing gospel status to a dubious "Al-Qaeda fan" Internet videotape that encourages the use of WMD in a terrorist attack.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August'
(2 comments) From Asia Times: The Bush Admin plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently. Two key US senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according to the source, but their projected New York Times op-ed piece has yet to appear.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
CIA Protects Al-Qaeda Group From Extradition
(1 comments) There's nothing more revealing about White House hypocrisy regrading terrorism than to realize it is helping groups to attack Iran declared by the West to be terrorist organizations, groups like MEK, Jundallah and PJAK. This is consistent though, once you realize the White House is projecting its own shadow (Jungian) in its so-called War on Terror. In otherwords, the men in the White House are terrorists, psychologically.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Gorbachev: US could start new Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev has accused the United States of mounting an imperialist conspiracy against Russia that could push the world into a new Cold War.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Somalia: a Victim of Bush's Recklessness
Because Bush and the whole Neocon movement has a scarcely disguised, visceral hatred of Islam, they throw all reason out the window to leap at any opportunity to kill Moslems. In the case of Somalia, not only the anti-Islamic Neocons, but also the racist Southern-cracker Neocons have a deeply biased motive for breaching international law to push their pogram disquised as the War on Terror: The Moslems there are also black.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
CONTRADICTING PETRAEUS: Iraq says No Hard Evidence of Iran Support for Militia
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq said on Sunday it has no evidence that Iran was supplying militias engaged in fierce street fighting with security forces in Baghdad. ADVERTISEMENT Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said there was no "hard evidence" of involvement by the neighbouring Shiite government of Iran in backing Shiite militiamen in the embattled country.

Friday, May 2, 2008
The Iranian Chessboard: Five Ways to Think About Iran Under the Gun by Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar continues to offer an extremely astute analysis of what is going on in and around Iran, especially in light of the relentless propaganda offensive the White House and Pentagon, not to mention Israel, which is literally salivating for Bush to attack Iran, have unleashed to attempt to demonize Iran in the last few days. An attack, Escobar points out, is going to be a disaster for everybody.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
McCain Accused of Accepting Improper Donations from Rothschilds
A US campaign watchdog has accused presumptive Republican president nominee John McCain of violating election laws by accepting campaign contributions from two prominent Londoners.

Friday, April 18, 2008
THE ROVING EYE: My militia is more untouchable than yours, by Pepe Escobar
In a make-believe world where the green, green grass of the "surge" is alive with the sound of music, the George W Bush administration and US counterinsurgency ace General David Petraeus - not to mention presidential candidate Senator John McCain - keep assuring American public opinion the "surge" is working. But back in real life, an Iraq transfixed by no less than 28 militias is burning - again - all over.......

Monday, April 14, 2008
Financial Collapse will End the Occupation by Mike Whitney
It is not going to be our gutless, whore Congress that ends the war in Iraq, nor the military that is waist-deep in blood and gore and spinning around in circles. It will be the collapsing economy with millions of Americans in dire straits wondering why the government is pissing away billions in Iraq while America itself collapses. The myths and fantasies that have sustained the war are coming to an end.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Evil Iran, the New al-Qaeda, by Pepe Escobar
(2 comments) "Iraq and its costs", a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), is a formidable piece of propaganda with an overall martial theme: We need war, war, war. The piece, however, is lies, lies, lies.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Water Pipelines Across the US Are Breaking; Repair Costs Put at Nearly $300 Billion
The Plutocracy is impoverishing America with its Imperialist wars and military bases. To further the ambitions and profits of the elitists in America and beyond, the US Treasury is being depleted to the point where our own infrastructure is collapsing due to lack of funds, including our water supply systems. America has become a scorpion stinging itself to death.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Pentagon Releases Memo on Harsh Tactics
The Pentagon made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Winter Soldiers Sound Off by Dahr Jamail
REPORTS FROM THE IRAQI HOLOCAUST: Jason Moon suffers from persistent insomnia as he wrestles with memories of his time in Iraq. "While on our initial convoy into Iraq in early June 2003, we were given a direct order that if any children or civilians got in front of the vehicles in our convoy, we were not to stop, we were not to slow down, we were to keep driving," says the former National Guard and Army Reserve member.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Not Another Lie that Set America up for Hatred of Iraq
One of Bush's and the Establishment's key selling points for despising and attacking Iraq was that murderous Saddam Hussein had tried to "kill his Dad", George Bush Senior. Now there are indications that this too was something cooked up during the Clinton Administration, perhaps by the Kuwaitis. Did Clinton launch attacks based on flase evidence too?

Saturday, March 22, 2008
THE ROVING EYE: IRAQ FIVE YEARS ON: SHOCKED, AWED AND LEFT TO ROT
Future non-biased historians may well regard March 19, 2003, as a crucial mark in the annals of Western imperial arrogance. Five years later, the pre-emptive war celebratory fireworks have turned to dust. For months now Iraq has been an invisible American war. It's seldom on TV. It does not "sell". Thus, it does not exist. (Pepe Escobar on the Iraqi Holocaust)

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Israel hits new Gaza targets after U.S. urges halt
(2 comments) Well, the Spartans are slaughtering the Helots again for daring to struggle for freedom, to use an historical analogy. In otherwords, The rabid Israeli government, murderous and blind, continues to dig a deeper and deeper moral hole for itself with fresh new attacks on the Palestinian people. "But these are all evil terrorists" the Israelis shout, just as the Nazis used to shout about the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. How ironic.

Saturday, February 23, 2008
UK troops accused of executions and torture in Iraq
We have been hearing allegations of torture by the Tommies for some time. If these newest allegations are proven true, so much for the myth of the sophisticated, honorable British soldier, who it seems, might now have become every bit as savage and degenerate as his American counterparts. Let's see, charges of cutting off penises, gouging out eyes, is that all done with a click of the heels and shouts of God save the Queen?

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Seymour Hersh: Syrian Site Attacked by Israel Not Nuclear
There was always something wrong with the Israeli allegation that it had taken out a clandestine Syrian nuclear lab, even though an outrageous Neocon propaganda broadside, led by attack dogs like Charles Krauthammer, was immediately launched. There was never any proof of radioactive contamination or countless other indicators of nuclear activity, so Seymour Hersh has finally taken a good look at this whole deceptive charade.

Friday, February 1, 2008
THE ROVING EYE: The State of the (Iraqi) Union by Pepe Escobar
As Bush continues to rape and destroy Iraq, one Iraqi again speaks out: I say this to the evil Bush - leave my country. We do not need you and your army of darkness. We don't need your planes and tanks. We don't need your policy and your interference. We don't want your democracy and fake freedom. Get out of our land. - Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi Shi'ite leader

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
There Is No "War on Terror"
(8 comments) Edward S. Herman and David Peterson have crafted a well-documented piece that lays out the whole fraud of the "War on Terror", the whole bloody sham that cloaks the resurrection from the Undead of "Manifest Destiny", the elitist fantasy to subjugate the planet. Wake up, world, before it is too late.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
The Myth of Sectarianism
The propaganda that if the US leaves Iraq, it will go to Hell in a hand basket, "gains ground, substance, and reality due largely to the ignorance of those ingesting it. The snow job by the corporate media on the issue of sectarianism in Iraq has ensured that the public buys into the line that the Sunni and Shia will dice one another up into little pieces if the occupation ends."

Sunday, December 16, 2007
Red Cross: Israel worsening Palestinian humanitarian crisis
Besides those evil villains Jimmy Carter and Bishop Tutu, yet another vicious anti-Semitic hate-group, the International Committee of the Red Cross, has launched a slanderous attack on that font of moral perfection, Israel, accusing Israel of creating "a deep human crisis, where millions of people (Palestinians) are denied their human dignity. Not once in a while, but every day."

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Ominous Arctic Melt Worries Experts
Coming on the heels of Al Gore's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize is this dire report: An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years. Houston, we have a problem. Global warming is exceeding computer model predictions.

Sunday, December 2, 2007
Bush Handed Blueprint to Seize Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal
How's this for insanity, guaranteed to infuriate almost the entire population of Pakistan (except for Bush's toadies): The man who devised the Bush administration's Iraq troop surge has urged the US to consider sending elite troops to Pakistan to seize its nuclear weapons if the country descends into chaos.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Spinning Mass Murder: Has Pol Pot Bush Surpassed Rwanda's Slaughter?
Dahr Jamail, in his newest post on Iraq, writes how John Pilger recently declared that "The scale of death caused by the British and U.S. governments may well have surpassed that of the Rwanda genocide, making it the biggest single act of mass murder of the late 20th century and the 21st century." Dahr also goes into detail as to how the Pentagon and Bush have obfuscated this holocaust against Iraqi civilians.

Sunday, November 25, 2007
Speaking Truth to Power: Archbishop of Canterbury Condemns Washington
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain during its imperial heyday. Archbishop Williams claimed that America's attempt to intervene overseas by "clearing the decks" with a "quick burst of violent action" had led to "the worst of all worlds".

Friday, November 16, 2007
Has the Pakistani Army Become Bush's "HO"?
According to the dauntless Eric Margolis, the Pakistani Army is in disarray, reeling from the corruption of its senior officers by the CIA. The loyalty of the army's senior officers has been rented by billions of dollars of secret aid the CIA has funneled through Musharraf. Those who could not be bought were ousted, including Pakistan's most capable military men. Will Pakistan become a Central American Banana Republic now?

Monday, November 12, 2007
Interview with Farooq Tariq, secretary general, Labour Party Pakistan
One element of the secular opposition to Musharraf is the Labour Party of Pakistan, a democratic socialist organization launched in 1997 from various elements of the Pakistani Left. What follows is an exchange conducted over the past couple of days (November 9-10, 2007) between Ron Jacobs of Counterpunch and Farooq Tariq, secretary general of the Party.

Friday, November 9, 2007
ROVING EYE: Bush's Turkey Shoot by Pepe Escobar
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a fine politician, knew even before he set foot in Washington on Monday that President George W Bush could not possibly have anything tangible to offer him on the explosive Turkey vs Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) dossier, apart from Pentagon aerial intelligence passed on to Turkish generals.

Sunday, November 4, 2007
No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear-weapons Program, Experts Say
(1 comments) Despite President Bush's claims that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons that could trigger ''World War III,'' experts in and out of government say there's no conclusive evidence that Tehran has an active nuclear-weapons program.

Saturday, November 3, 2007
ROVING EYE: Double-crossing in Kurdistan
The Turks are demanding the U.S. help them take out the violent PKK, so the White House, which has been blithely ignoring the PKK's attacks on Turkey, suddenly wants to eliminate what they now label the terrorist PKK. Meanwhile Bush and Israel are supporting bloody PJAK attacks inside Iran. The PJAK is the Iranian arm of the PKK. Who will make a citizen's arrest of Bush for enabling what he himself declares a terrorist group?

Saturday, October 27, 2007
ROVING EYE: 'War on Terror' is Now War on Iran
The B*llSh*t out of the White House is so thick now that if everyone in the Bush Cabal was Pinocchio, they would all be impaled on each other's noses after this latest Big Lie. The whole edifice of ludicrous charges against Iran springs from the sordid imaginations of various Neocons with primordial hatred of Iran, because Iran's in solidarity with Israel's victims, Syria, Palestinians and Shiite Lebanese. So they want blood.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
General Claims Bush Gave 'Marching Orders' on Torture at Guantanamo
(1 comments) President Bush gave "marching orders" to Gen. Michael Dunlavey, who asked the Pentagon to approve harsher interrogation methods at Guantanamo, the general claims in documents reported in a new book entitled "Administration of Torture". More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001.

Monday, October 22, 2007
US intelligence Doesn't Show Syrian Nuke Weapons Program, Officials Say
Allegations that a Syrian envoy admitted during a United Nations meeting Oct. 17 that an Israeli air strike hit a nuclear facility in September are inaccurate and have raised the ire of some in the US intelligence community, who see the Vice President's hand as allegedly being behind the disinformation. Apparently the Father of Lies is weaving a new web of fear and deceit that will rationalize attacks on Syria and Iran.

Sunday, October 21, 2007
No Evidence Iran Arming Taliban: Afghan Minister
The Neocon armies of the night are in a full-court press to propagandize Iran right now as the supply hub for world terrorism. I won't be surprised if they accuse Iran of arming the MEK next, you know, the CIA-sponsored operatives attacking Iran itself. Our ethically compromised military, from Gen Petraeus on down, are basically cherry-picking and falsifying information in one big psyops. So thank God others are speaking out.

Sunday, September 30, 2007
Here Comes the Iran is a Direct Threat Crowd-WATCH OUT
Freedom's Watch, a reactionary propaganda cell of the Neocon War Party, having just helped promote the Surge to Congress, is getting ready to launch a giant con job on Congress and the American people, that Iran is an existential threat. Fool us once shame on you, fool us twice shame on me. TIME TO ATTACK THE ATTACK DOGS.

Friday, September 28, 2007
Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions
(1 comments) Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger's insulting words against the Iranian nation and president and invited him to provide responses for 10 questions of the Iranian academicians and intellectuals.

Saturday, September 15, 2007
THE ROVING EYE: Mr Bush, your sheikh is dead
Pepe Escobar has yet another penetrating analysis of the situation in Iraq, particularly in Anbar Province, where he points out that there is still a huge indigenous insurgency against the occupation, much larger than the al Qaeda presence, and that there are a number of players who could have slain Bush's Potemkin Village Chief, Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha.

Friday, September 7, 2007
Iran Hunkering Down as the War-Pimps Prepare to Strike
(1 comments) The ever hustling Pepe Escobar, Asia Times' Roving Eye reporter, has been able to get us a good look at what is going on behind the scenes in Iran, both diplomatically and militarily, while the unhinged Neocon psychotics lather up to rape not one country, but two, both Iran and America, because it is not only Iranians who will suffer grievously, but every day Americans who will pay for this war in rivers of blood and money.

Monday, August 27, 2007
University of Massachusetts Gaian Professor Calls For New 9/11 Investigation
Well-known Professor Lynn Margulis, who has worked closely with famed independent British scientist James Lovelock on developing the planetary Gaia Theory integrating biology, ecology and life sciences in general, which has won greater and greater support in the past few years since Lovelock announced it, is openly calling for a new 9/11 investigation, declaring outright that what happened on 9/11 was a false flag operation.

Friday, August 17, 2007
ASIA TIMES: US steps closer to war with Iran
(2 comments) This is like watching a "B" horror movie. Just when you thought the Blob had been slain, it returns in the form of Dick Cheney, oozing through the sewer pipes, ratcheting up war with Iran again, Dick's ultimate sexual fantasy. Asia Times writer Kaveh Afrasiabi explains why declaring the Republican Guard, an intrinsic part of the Iranian State, a "terrorist" organization is dramatically escalating the prospects of all out war.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
A US Invasion/Incursion into Pakistan is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen
The indomitable Canadian reporter, Eric Margolis, who has spent time on the Pakistani/Afghan border and has a deep understanding of the Pashtun tribesmen, who number in the millions, openly asks, "Is the US preparing to invade Pakistan"? If the answer is yes, Margolis bluntly states, then stand by to reap the whirlwind, and this on top of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with war against Iran in the wings.

Saturday, July 14, 2007
Has an Islamic Revolution Begun in Pakistan?
(1 comments) The Red Mosque attack is increasingly seen as the opening clash of a budding civil war between the Pakistani Government (and its Western allies) and forces for Islamic revolution now evolving in Pakistan. General Musharaff speaks of "crushing extremists" and has dispatched considerable forces to the Swat Valley. But we have seen how well crushing anybody has worked in both Iraq and Afghanistan. This may be a formula for chaos.

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Democracy Now: Are Fox TV "24" & Jack Bauer Encouraging Torture?
(1 comments) This past fall, Dean of West Point, Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, along with military and FBI interrogators and representatives of Human Rights First, met with the team behind the hit Fox TV show "24" to ask them to stop using torture, because American soldiers were copying the show's tactics. We speak with two of the delegation's members -- former Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis and David Danzig of Human Rights First.

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Expert Goes On Record: Bin Laden 9/11 Confession Is Bogus
(6 comments) Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University's Religious Studies program and a leading expert on Osama bin Laden, has officially gone on the record saying that he believes the so called "9/11 Confession" tape by bin Laden, released shortly after the attacks, is an outright fake.