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The Terrorism Pretext: Mass Surveillance is About Money and Power
The Terrorism Pretext: Mass Surveillance is About Money and Power “We are under pressure from the Treasury to justify our budget, and commercial espionage is one way of making a direct contribution to the nation’s balance of payments” -Sir Colin McColl, former MI6 Chief For years public figures have condemned cyber espionage committed against the […]
Greece Surrendered: But to Whom Exactly?
Greece Surrendered: But to Whom Exactly? On July 12, Greece surrendered abjectly and totally. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who had promised to combat the austerity measure that are driving the Greek people to ruin, poverty and suicide, betrayed all his promises, denied the will of the people expressed in the July 5 referendum, and led […]
Riots in Athens: EU’s Impending Collapse?
Riots in Athens: EU’s Impending Collapse? People move events. The Greek people are trying to shape their own history. They aren’t there yet—even the Left hasn’t quite joined them. But a coalescence of forces is on the horizon: either Syriza radicalizes or it will be left behind. Capitalism by its very harshness is creating its […]
The Impending Ecosystem Collapse
The Impending Ecosystem Collapse Climate change/global warming is the main protagonist on the worldwide stage of collapsing ecosystems. The ecosystem is a combination of living organisms in harmony with nonliving elements like air, water, and mineral soil interacting as one whole. But, what if the living and nonliving elements stop interrelating as “one harmonized whole”? […]
When a Black Swan Flies Over Wall Street’s House of Cards
When a Black Swan Flies Over Wall Street’s House of Cards A black swan is Wall Street lexicon for an unpredicted event. The author of that concept, Nassim Taleb, opines that most of the major moves in stock market history originated as black swan events coming out of nowhere, with a random, stochastic disorderliness that […]
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising There’s been a virtual blackout of news from this year’s seventh annual BRICS summit in Ufa, Russia. None of the mainstream media organizations are covering the meetings or making any attempt to explain what’s going on. As a result, the American people remain largely in the dark about a powerful coalition […]
Framing Iran: Thomas Friedman’s War Wish
Framing Iran: Thomas Friedman’s War Wish Thomas Friedman, the New York Times op-ed-page representative of the foreign-policy elite, is unhappy with how the soon-to-be-completed Iran nuclear talks are going. He says President Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, hasn’t been tough enough. Obama holds all the cards, Friedman says, but somehow the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dictating […]
The Tragedy of Harper’s Canada
The Tragedy of Harper’s Canada Tilting Toward Totalitarianism “This abuse of executive power is tilting toward totalitarian government and away from the foundations of democracy and the rule of law on which this country was founded.” -Errol Mendes, Professor of constitutional and international law (University of Ottawa) The current Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen […]
Revolution’s Matchstick
Revolution’s Matchstick Fighting The Trans-Pacific Partnership Rolling down the corporate-political assembly line is a trade deal so treasonous to the peoples of the world that it should serve as revolution’s matchstick. The treaty is secret, but one fact is well known: the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is being negotiated by transnational corporations without a single US […]
Veterans Urge Drone Operators to Refuse Orders to Fly
Veterans Urge Drone Operators to Refuse Orders to Fly Letter Reinforces Call Made in National TV Ad Campaign An increasing number of United States military veterans are counseling United States military drone operators to refuse to fly drone surveillance/attack missions – the veterans are even helping sponsor prime time television commercials urging drone operators to […]
Is Fukushima Getting Worse?
Is Fukushima Getting Worse? Straight Disaster The Fukushima multiple nuclear disasters continue spewing out hot stuff like there’s no tomorrow. By all appearances, it is getting worse, out-of-control nuclear meltdowns. On June 19th Tepco reported the highest-ever readings of strontium-90 outside of the Fukushima plant ports. The readings were 1,000,000 Bq/m3 of strontium-90 at two locations near […]
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street Imperialism and the Control of Agriculture In October of last year, World Food Day celebrated ‘Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth’. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s website, the family farming theme was chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder […]
James Risen, Obama, Holder and the NSA
James Risen, Obama, Holder and the NSA “He made my life miserable for a long time.” Earlier this year I did an hour long interview with James Risen. We discussed his case with the Department of Justice, where he was being threatened with incarceration for refusing to reveal his source who gave him insights about […]
How Venture Capitalists Came to Rule the World
How Venture Capitalists Came to Rule the World Jobless Growth and the Lottery Economy Before the gale-force hurricane of Reaganomics swept through the United States in the 1980s, America very briefly entertained the adoption of a deliberate industrial policy. As in South Korea and certain European nations, the U.S. government would pick economic winners and […]
What’s Really Going on at Fukushima?
What’s Really Going on at Fukushima? The Real Story Fukushima’s still radiating, self-perpetuating, immeasurable, and limitless, like a horrible incorrigible Doctor Who monster encounter in deep space. Fukushima will likely go down in history as the biggest cover-up of the 21st Century. Governments and corporations are not leveling with citizens about the risks and dangers; similarly, truth itself, as an […]
