India up “For Sale” to Western Corporate Capital Giving the Thieves the Key to Your Home by Colin Todhunter Do you know that there is a country up for sale? Do you know that its finance, agriculture and retail sectors are being put ‘on the market’? Perhaps you are already aware of this due to various media reports. But then […]
The poet, lyricist and philosopher bard, Phil Rockstroh, made this unique observation (via Facebook) earlier today: An entire U.S. city is in lockdown due to the search for a solitary, nineteen year old suspect. Thirty different law enforcement agencies are involved. This is the sort of militarist overkill that is emblematic of a police state i.e., all sense of proportion is […]
25 Years Later, Edward S. Herman (co-author with Noam Chomsky of “Manufacturing Consent’) by TheRealNews Edward is an economist, a media analyst, a prolific author. For many years he was a professor at the Wharton School at Penn. Among his many books are Manufacturing Consent, also Corporate Control, Corporate Power, The Politics of Genocide. Transcript Twenty-five years ago, a book […]
By Norman Solomon After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt compassion — and reflexive “doublethink,” which George Orwell described as willingness “to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.” In sync with media outlets across the country, the New York Times put a chilling […]
‘They were set up, FBI followed them for years’– Tsarnaevs’ mother to RT As police search for the younger of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings, RT spoke to the pair’s parents who are adamant about their sons’ innocence, claiming it was a set up. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva maintains her younger son is innocent and like so many […]
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett The Obama administration and other sanctions advocates claim that U.S.-instigated sanctions against the Islamic Republic are meant to achieve a range of objectives (changing Iran’s “nuclear calculus,” getting Iran “back to the negotiating table” and making it “negotiate in good faith,” strengthening the “credibility and leverage” of “pro-engagement camps” inside Iran, preventing military […]
US embassy cables allegedly detailing UK plan to stop return to Indian Ocean islands used by US military is ruled inadmissible by Owen Bowcott Classified American embassy cables obtained by WikiLeaks cannot be used as evidence in English and Welsh courts because they breach diplomatic privilege, judges have ruled. The decision by Lord Justice Richards and Mr Justice Mitting in […]
By John Cusack (originally published 1 Jan 2013) This week, I was proud to join the board and help launch the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a new organization which plans on crowd-funding for a variety of independent journalism outlets whose prime mission is to seek transparency and accountability in government. You can read about the first group of four organizations […]
How the FBI Fosters, Funds and Equips American Terrorists by James Corbett The Boston Marathon bombing has provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded […]
By Margaret Kimberley “You know, I suspect that on Social Security we’ve got a somewhat similar position.” – Barack Obama in debate with Mitt Romney “When a Democrat gets away with austerity and wars of aggression it is truly time to admit that a new paradigm is needed.” Yes Virginia, there is a class war going on in America. There […]
The media has vilified Chavez relentlessly. After his December 1998 election, New York Times Latin American correspondent Larry Roher, called him a “populist demagogue, an authoritarian….caudillo (strongman).” He lied saying so by Stephen Lendman In death as in life, denunciation continued. Chavez was hemispheric villain number one. Independent leaders aren’t tolerated. The threat of a good example concerns Washington and […]
…That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is Over a Century in the Making Pulling back the curtain on how intent the wealthiest Americans have been on establishing a propaganda tool to subvert democracy by Andrew Gavin Marshall Where there is the possibility of democracy, there is the inevitability of elite insecurity. All through its history, democracy has been under a […]
