The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There’s no price the big banks can’t fix Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the … Continue reading
On the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked, “How could so many false assertions be taken as fact” in the lead-up to the Iraq War? She wanted to know where the journalists had been. Well, most … Continue reading
[Maybe a few letters to the IRS questioning the Bradley Foundation's compliance with rules about non-profits might help at least annoy all those WhiteGuyz.] By Ruth Conniff It’s “the most powerful organization in America that no one seems to know … Continue reading
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle—and a nightmare. [This is a story by a guy who really enjoys blowing smoke up his own ass. How he … Continue reading
One has to believe in something or someone in order to betray it or them. by KEVIN ALEXANDER GRAY From the start, President Barack Obama has shown little interest or loyalty in the issues that affect the poor, working class … Continue reading
by ANDREW LEVINE Too bad for corporate moguls that they can’t yet patent news events. If they could, they could turn the dedication ceremony for George W. Bush’s presidential library in Dallas last Thursday into one hell of a moneymaker. … Continue reading
FORGET CYPRUS AS A ONE-OFF. THIS DEPOSIT CONFISCATION SCHEME/RACKET IS EVERYWHERE!by ELLEN BROWN “[W]ith Cyprus . . . the game itself changed. By raiding the depositors’ accounts, a major central bank has gone where they would not previously have dared. … Continue reading
Trees by Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918 I THINK that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, 5 … Continue reading
Gray and silver storage tanks filled with radioactive wastewater are sprawling over the grounds of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. TOKYO — Two years after a triple meltdown that grew into the world’s second worst nuclear disaster, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear … Continue reading
[Yet Another Sign of the Looming Apocalypse] By Robert Sheer A recent article in The Wall Street Journal by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, “The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution,” makes for very scary reading. It is not so … Continue reading
You won’t believe the predatory behavior of this education “reform” outfit, Parent Revolution. Photo Credit: Brad Jonas — NSFW (This article first appeared at Not Safe for Work Corporation.) By Yasha Levine When I traveled to the desert city of … Continue reading
Austerity cannot go on forever, it is already failing economically, flagging politically. By Alex Gourevitch Photo Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK Austerity is collecting a lot of high-flying enemies these days. In the past month the manager of PIMCO, the largest bond-buying firm … Continue reading
It’s not only fry chefs who are struggling to make ends meet. By Joshua Holland In the first two years of “recovery” from the Great Recession, the top one percent of households captured 121 percent of the economy’s gains, according … Continue reading
Pills in black and white(Photo: e-MagineArt.com) Each year, millions of Americans are dealt the devastating news that they have cancer, and each year, millions of Americans, many of whom are uninsured, have to figure out how to pay for the … Continue reading
[Here is "Fair and Balanced" crossing over into straight-up insanity!] By Sy Mukherjee In a campus-wide email sent out on Friday, Dartmouth College’s Board of Trustees Chair Steve Mandel appeared to equate the actions of sexual assault protesters with the … Continue reading
Off-the-books cash delivered directly to President Karzai’s office shows payments on a vast scale. [So WHY are those bags of cash not being used to relieve unemployment, people thrown out of home, student loan debt and the poor? This kind … Continue reading
There is zero legal or ethical justification for denying a suspect in custody this fundamental right The initial debate over the treatment of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev focused on whether he should be advised of his Miranda rights or whether the “public … Continue reading
The dogs were raising a bit of a fuss but not the back-and-forth barking which often ensues between the older Lhasa male and the St. Charles Spaniel puppy over ”who is in charge here.” Nor was anyone making any noise … Continue reading
A STATEMENT TO AUSTIN (TX) CITY COUNCIL, 12:00 pm 25 April 2013, C.E. My name is Thom Prentice [thomprentice@gmail.com] and I am here to speak about the people-owned Austin Electric Utility – an exemplar of SOCIALISM THAT WORKS. We have … Continue reading
Just over three years ago, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig leased by BP killed 11 people [MORE than at the Boston Marathon and NOT INVESTIGATED AS CORPORATE DOMESTIC TERRORISM], injured 17, and — according to government estimates … Continue reading
by Maria Popova On the art-science of “allowing the various petals of our identity to fully unfold.” [Easier to read if you go directly to the site.] “If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out … Continue reading
There is no hint that the U.S. is about to bring any pressure to bear on Israel to end its violations of human rights. By Phyllis Bennis John Kerry campaigning for president in 2004. Photo Credit: Thomas True/Wikimedia Commons So … Continue reading