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We Might As Well Face It – America Is Addicted To Debt
We Might As Well Face It – America Is Addicted To Debt Corporations, individuals and the federal government continue to rack up debt at a rate that is far faster than the overall rate of economic growth. We are literally drowning in red ink from sea to shining sea, and yet we just can’t help […]
Obama’s Bipolar Approach To Energy And Climate Change
Obama’s Bipolar Approach To Energy And Climate Change With less than two years to go in office, President Obama has already sealed his fate with regards to his legacy on climate change. When historians look back and assess his actions on what could be one of the biggest issues of his presidency, they will undoubtedly be […]
Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up to Tyranny
Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up to Tyranny “Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.”—George Orwell The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s a shell game intended to keep us focused on and distracted […]
Oil and Arctic Ocean Make A Highly Troublesome Mix
Oil and Arctic Ocean Make A Highly Troublesome Mix As the U.S. and Russia take the first halting steps to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, experts say the harsh climate, icy seas, and lack of any infrastructure means a sizeable oil spill would be very difficult to clean up and could cause […]
Mexico and American Oil Companies Want a Crude Swap to Open Loophole in the Oil Export Ban
Mexico and American Oil Companies Want a Crude Swap to Open Loophole in the Oil Export Ban As politicians from oil-producing states work to draw up bills to end the ban on oil exports, Mexican officials are “confident” that the country will soon be importing American crude through a backdoor loophole in the law. Back in January, […]
Did “China” Really Say “War” With the United States is “Inevitable”?
Did “China” Really Say “War” With the United States is “Inevitable”? The Stenographic Press Strikes Again! Spoiler: No. It would seem a certain amount of foreign affairs reporting starts out as pabulum fed by the government and its loyal allies to available journos, who further if incompletely digest it and then crap it out on […]
Crisis and the Politics of Possibility
Crisis and the Politics of Possibility The Marketplace Belongs Only to Those Who Can Pay For It Following in the tradition of his father and Bill Clinton before him, in 2003 George W. Bush launched a ‘liberal’ war to, in the words of the agreed upon rationales; protect the ‘homeland’ from attack and remove a […]
Orwellian Language – the Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues
Orwellian Language – the Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues Sometimes we get the feeling the ruling elites are investing the laws they enact with a kind of impertinent, slap-in-your-face black humor. How else to explain the Orwellian names given to the liberty-crushing laws that have been put in place since the “war on terror” […]
The Empire Was Temporarily Defeated In Macedonia
The Empire Was Temporarily Defeated In Macedonia Global Research has made available an English translation of Andrew Korybko’s interview with the Macedonian NetPress. Washington’s color revolution for Macedonia has failed for now. Korybko describes how Washington-funded NGOs are used as Fifth Columns to destabilize and to overthrow governments in order to bring countries under Washington’s […]
Western ‘News’ Media as Tyranny’s Propagandists Hiding Reality
Western ‘News’ Media as Tyranny’s Propagandists Hiding Reality 1: The ugly realities are covered up, not covered; here’s an example of what you don’t see in the regime’s media about the people whom Americans’ tax dollars are bombing and killing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgB2bhFfEtM&app=desktop 2: The great investigative journalist John Pilger discusses the systematic truth-suppression: http://johnpilger.com/articles/war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda 3: The […]
Iraq War Propaganda Redux: U.S. Claims Syrian Government Supporting ISIS
Iraq War Propaganda Redux: U.S. Claims Syrian Government Supporting ISIS West Busted Supporting ISIS … Tries Instead to Point Finger At Syrian Government America’s closest allies have been busted supporting ISIS in order to topple Syria’s government. Mainstream U.S. writers are calling for open support of ISIS and Al Qaeda to enact regime change in Syria. And a […]
Superpower in Distress
Superpower in Distress Think of this as a little imperial folly update — and here’s the backstory. In the years after invading Iraq and disbanding Saddam Hussein’s military, the U.S. sunk about $25 billion into “standing up” a new Iraqi army. By June 2014, however, that army, filled with at least 50,000 “ghost soldiers,” was only standing in […]
German Court Turns Down Drone Lawsuit But Leaves Door Open to Others
German Court Turns Down Drone Lawsuit But Leaves Door Open to Others On August 29, 2012, a drone flying above the Yemeni town of Khashamir launched four missiles at a group of five men standing near a vehicle on a remote mountainside. All of them perished. Three of the men were suspected al Qaeda militants, […]
