Benjamin Netanyahu is very good at making speeches, especially to Jews, neocons and such, who jump up and applaud wildly at everything he says, including that tomorrow the sun will rise in the west.

The question is: is he good at anything else?

Historically, this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century by means of the U.S.-instigated Spanish-American War in 1898. Then the Republican administration of President William McKinley stole their colonial empire from Spain in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines; inflicted a near genocidal...

Quickly, take cover, America’s former top diplomat decided to become a talking-mime now that she’s twelve months away from her office in the State Department!

Back in November 1999 it was a kiss to Suha Arafat (wife of then Palestinian President Yasser Arafat) that got Hillary in political trouble as a candidate for the Senate, from which she quickly backtracked...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave one of his typical speeches [1] at this year’s AIPAC convention in Washington. Before he delivered his usual sermon about Iran and the other “terrorists” in the region, he implored the friendship and the alliance between Israel and the United States of America. This time, neither President Barack Obama nor VP Joe Biden showed...

With Russia and the United States confronting each other over Ukraine, the world is at a dangerous juncture. While the chances of war between the two behemoths seem small — these are, after all, nuclear powers that have avoided war for over 60 years — nothing can be taken for granted. No one wanted the Great War that began in central Europe a century ago this year either,...

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly Native American criminal class except Congress.” -Mark Twain

Mark Twain died 104 years ago, but his truth goes marching on. Witness two of our exalted Congressmen who recently launched a resolution of such ineptitude that it twists facts inside out without batting an eyelash, indeed while...

No Truth Need Apply
by Daniel Patrick Welch

The near total blackout of truth in the Western media makes this one of the most dangerous times in history, with coordinated “news” outlets acting collectively as a sort of Ministry of Government Lies. To try to escape this stranglehold, it is necessary to reach outside the echo chamber of massaged and approved opinion...

Recognition of  Israel "As a Jewish State"
by M.J. Rosenberg

Prime Minister Netanyahu is an old-fashioned right-wing Zionist, which is why he is demanding that Palestinians recognize Israel "as a Jewish state" as part of any final status agreement. Today President Mahmoud Abbas said...

At the end of the Cold War, the American people had a grand opportunity, one that entailed the dismantling of the national-security state apparatus that had been grafted onto our governmental system after the end of World War II. It would have made sense, given that the justification for making the national-security state apparatus a permanent feature of American life was the...

This makes the Banking Mortgage Fraud scandal look like child's play. In either case, families lose their homes.  Stated very simply, Medicaid is now a loan program.  Low income citizens need to have this information. They need to be told that they have been singled out to re-pay health care expenses.  Poverty has now been institutionalized and will pass from one generation...

RT’s presenter Abby Martin has bought herself a reputation as a 911 sceptic and a vocal opponent of Israeli‘s policies. Yesterday she denounced Russian action in Crimea while she was live on air.

Famed journalist George Seldes (1890 - 1995) called them "prostitutes of the press." Paul Craig Roberts calls them "presstitutes."

They're that and much more. They're propagandists, not journalists. They're charlatans. They're scam artists. They're blackguards.