Greenspan: Patron Saint of America's Affluentocracy

No gold watch for Alan Greenspan as he retired from serving the elite – we can hardly call it public service!  After almost two decades as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, this Robin Hood for the rich and powerful was bestowed,.. FULL STORY...

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Blowback Through the Looking Glass

In 1953, Uncle Sam, at the behest of his British ally, stepped through the looking glass to attack Iran. The CIA’s month-long covert war deposed the popularly elected Mohammad Mossadegh and ended the Middle East’s oldest constitutional democracy. FULL STORY...

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7 million Americans, $49 trillion lost under Bush

The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has recently de-valued the worth of Americans by about $900,000 each, de-valuing from $7.8 million per person to $6.9 million per person. FULL STORY...

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Presidential candidates address everything... and nothing

It happens time and again as America's quadrennial campaigns to gain residency at the imperial White House gather momentum.  Although our forever-cloned candidates, one for each of the two indistinct political parties, are asked to address each and every issue of the day, soft-hearted – or perhaps civically-ignorant – Americans... FULL STORY...

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Perception is often the stepchild of ignorance, especially when controlled by those with the most to gain. It is especially difficult for our Congress to perceive clearly when it grovels at the feet of its master, AIPAC. America’s Knesset, servile hirelings of Israel’s lobby, rush to pass yet another resolution conceived by AIPAC and authored and co-signed by its most slavish puppets,.. FULL STORY...

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Australians & Tuvaluans Protest Man-made Climate Disaster

On July 5, 2008 about 5,000 citizens of Melbourne - plus some lovely people from the acutely climate change-threatened Pacific Island Nation of Tuvalu – gathered to protest man-made Climate Change in the Melbourne City Square and then marched through the City to make a human sign saying “Climate Emergency!” FULL STORY...

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A Re-Declaration of Independence

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with its own government, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the denunciation. FULL STORY...

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Six down, six to go… trillion dollars!

America's economic misery index is fast climbing, yet most people still discount the current state of economic affairs as an "oil crisis," or a "housing crush," or a "credit crunch"… or simply one more "mild recession" in the unavoidable cycles of economic life that tune up the free marketplace in this mighty USA. FULL STORY... 

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Scheherazade, Murdochracy Paczmen & Climate Criminals

We are all familiar from childhood with the fabulous stories of The Arabian Nights, the One Thousand and One stories told by the courageous princess Scheherazade to stop the deadly mass murder of innocent princesses by the vengeful Sultan and indeed to change his heart to a course of humanity. FULL STORY...

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To bolster his argument that the Guantánamo detainees should be denied the right to prove their innocence in federal courts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush: "At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantánamo have returned to the battlefield." It turns out that statement is false. FULL STORY...

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