Politics

By Sherwood Ross

In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky said he never expected much of  President Obama, adding, ”The one thing that did surprise me is his attack on civil liberties. They go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain.”

Maybe the reasons for Obama’s transformation from a Chicago law professor into a world-class totalitarian thug is that he is a creature of the Central Intelligence Agency; that both his parents were CIA payrollers; that the CIA financed his college education and gave him his first job afterwards----so that we may well have a president beholden to this international criminal organization, an agency that has left a trail of blood, turmoil, and assassinations around the globe.

Read more: Obama's Background May Explain Totalitari​an Views

By Greg Palast

Following the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, I received documents marked “SECRET” from the files of the FBI’s Washington field office. The information in those files will make you sick.

When the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, I grabbed those FBI files – and a plane for Kazakhstan, bullying cameraman Rocco D into joining me.  [Rocco, no fool, won’t let me print his full name.]

Read more: FBI Spiked Chechen Jihadi Investigation

By Stephen Lendman

It is not surprising. On April 27, WikiLeaks Supporters Forum headlined "Syria False Flag Chemical Weapons - Obama sets up America for invasion," saying:

US intelligence "actively promot(es)" a false flag attack. Assad's wrongfully blamed. Obama's heading closer to full-scale intervention.

Read more: False Flag Chemical Attack on Syria

By Agencies

by Camille Elhassani

Nearly 100 of the 166 Guantanamo detainees are on hunger strike.

Defence lawyers say the number is much higher. And 11 weeks since the strike began, the crisis shows no sign of abating.

Read more: Message from Guantanamo prison cells

By Stephen Lendman

Things appear heading closer toward full-scale US intervention. The fullness of time will have final say.

On April 28, The New York Times headlined "Lawmakers Call for Stronger US Action in Syria," saying:

Republicans "took President Obama to task Sunday for what they characterized as dangerous inaction in Syria…."

Read more: Syria: Upping the Stakes