A Taboo Subject for the Corporate Media by BSN Editor Finding the important stories within the mainstream media is never an easy task. When the story is critical of corporate or state power that task is almost impossible, the mainstream media tend to play down or as in this case, not report it at all (with the honourable exception of […]
A Furious Cyprus Begins Investigating Who Breached The Capital Controls by Tyler Durden, Zerohedge On Monday we reported the very disturbing news that despite the ongoing liquidity blockade, capital controls and (somewhat) closed Cyprus banks, one particular group of people – the very same group targeted to prompt this whole ludicrous collapse of the island nation – Russian Oligrachs had found […]
(Written by Monsanto-sponsored Senator) by RT United States President Barack Obama has signed a bill into law that was written in part by the very billion-dollar corporation that will benefit directly from the legislation. On Tuesday, Pres. Obama inked his name to H.R. 933, a continuing resolution spending bill approved in Congress days earlier. Buried 78 pages within the bill […]
The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors by Ellen Brown Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that […]
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya On the day that it was announced Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez had died from an unidentified cancer, two US diplomats were expelled as persona non grata from Caracas for trying to organize some type of coup and conspiracy against Venezuela. Not trying to attract any more negative attention, the Obama Administration would calmly wait until March […]
by Pepe Escobar Reports on the premature death of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have been greatly exaggerated. Western corporate media is flooded with such nonsense, perpetrated in this particular case by the head of Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Reality spells otherwise. The BRICS meet in Durban, South Africa, this Tuesday to, among other steps, create […]
This piece of writing can be seen on the wall at Hillside Animal Sanctuary by BSN Editor We feel it is a fine declaration of the BSNews ethos of universal empathy which has, as its foundation, compassion for the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. And it is how we treat the most vulnerable – animals – that is […]
The Battle of Cyprus The Battle of Cyprus by Ellen Brown If these worries become really serious, . . . [s]mall savers will take their money out of banks and resort to household safes and a shotgun. – Martin Hutchinson on the attempted EU raid on deposits in Cyprus banks The deposit confiscation scheme has long been in the making. […]
Uncle Marx never thought about this one: history repeating itself as double tragedy after already being a farce in the first place by Pepe Escobar Let’s examine the case in hand. First of all, take a close look at this Wall Street Journal op-ed from September 2002, in the hysterical run-up towards the invasion of Iraq. Title: The Case for […]
Workfare recognises a reality that the TUC and many on the left haven’t – our current model of production, from a social perspective, is crumbling. Make workfare a weapon for change by Arron Peters The potential list of objectionable adjectives that have been extended to the medley of policies collectively understood as ‘workfare’ is, much like any credibility once invested […]
Terror’s State continues in Bahrain while Western world is asleep by PressTV An analyst debunks the US and UK governments’ claims of bringing democracy to the Middle East in the wake off their collaboration in the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Bahrain, Press TV reports. Police in Bahrain continue to step up attacks on pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain as questions […]
Citizens band together to arrest former British prime minister over involvement in Iraq’s invasion a decade ago by Simon Hooper It was only as David Cronin saw Tony Blair and his entourage striding towards him that he finally plucked up the courage to go through with his plan to attempt to arrest the former British prime minister over his role […]
