It is not whether the individual had done anything wrong: it is whether the state has done anything wrong. Hague’s plea for the omniscient state is chilling: if you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about by Craig Murray So it is alright for the state to eavesdrop all our social interactions, to follow our every […]
“I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong. I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions. I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant. I know […]
An update to yesterday’s article by Simon Wood (The 99.99998271%) The NSA whistleblower has now been identified as Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant who, until the leak, worked in Hawaii for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. His identity was made public at his own request. There can be no doubt that Mr. Snowden is a classic example […]
By Stephen Lendman On June 5, the London Evening Standard headlined “No minutes, no press conferences – just the world’s power brokers chewing the fat on the issues of the day. It’s the Bilderberg conference – and it’s coming to a suburb near you.” On June 6, it convened. It continues through June 9. It’s a rite of spring. A […]
When Pentagon head Chuck Hagel dropped into Southeast Asia this past weekend to spin Washington’s pivoting, no one was exactly expecting a Moses-like moment by Pepe Escobar (for RT) At the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore – Southeast Asia’s top annual security conference – the usual cascade of euphemisms adorned the perennial notion of the US as a benign superpower. Something […]
The lines of hypocrisy can be traced in France’s decision to pick and choose which Islamic conflicts to engage in. While they fight terrorism in Mali, they financially support and arm rebels in Syria by RT Laurent Louis, a former member of the People’s Party of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, who famously denounced the French intervention in Mali as […]
The largest criminal organizations in the world are governments. The bigger they are, the more capable of perpetrating atrocities. Not only do they obtain great wealth through compulsion (taxation), they also have an ideological mystique that permits them uniquely to get away with murder, torture, and theft by Sheldon Richman The U.S. government is no exception. This is demonstrated by, […]
By Simon Wood (The 99.99998271%) “I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well […]
Today, Israeli’s awakened to a new world. Syria has a fully operational S-300 air defense system that covers, if they desire, not just much of Lebanon but most of Israel as well by Gordon Duff Israel awakened with its “pants around its ankles.” How Israel really struck against the S-300 System Yesterday, The Daily Beast, a “Newsweek” publication owned by […]
The whistleblower has allowed us to scrutinise the hidden realities of US power by Owen Jones (The Independent) It has launched illegal and unjust wars with catastrophic human consequences; it has helped overthrow democratically elected governments; it arms and backs some of the most brutal dictatorships on the face of the earth; and it has a track record of supporting […]
For many years John Perkins claimed to have been working as something he defines to be like an “economic hit man in the world of international finance”; a function he performed by persuading Third World countries to take on large -scale public works projects. Today, we recognize that these types of projects, financed by the World Bank and International Monetary […]
Renaissance 2.0 is an educational video course by Damon Vrabel (CSPER) Its worth reading Damon’s conclusion to his year long publishing experiment – it’s included here after the video. Renaissance 2.0 assumes you have a basic understanding of the monetary system and the problem of exponential growth. Lesson 1 – Revisiting American History: Documents the conversion of the US into a monolithic […]
