The Dark Side: The War on Terror

Few Americans notice how easily media molds, shapes and creates public opinion. Fewer still understand the power of a president to create a lie that changes history. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Baines Johnson and George W. Bush stand in the pantheon of presidents that lied to the American public. All of them sent uncounted tens of thousands to their deaths. Back in high school, rumors ‘planted’ by an individual or group caught fire with horrendous consequences to the victim. Once the rumor started, the targeted... Read article

Defeated in Iraq?

The United States did not invade Iraq to “stop the violence”. That was never the goal. So, it’s foolish to say that the surge achieved its objective. It hasn’t. Nor has the surge “created the space for a political solution”; another meaningless slogan regurgitated endlessly by the Bush troupe. The political agenda in Iraq has failed utterly. We know that because the Shiite-led government has asked the US to leave “as soon as possible” and for the Bush administration to set... Read article

Save The Planet? How About Saving The Republic?

Yesterday, the Politico quoted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as saying, “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet.” She was responding, of course, to pressure that she and her fellow Democrats are experiencing to suspend a congressional ban on offshore oil drilling in the face of skyrocketing energy prices. It would be really wonderful, however, if the liberal congresswoman could get as energized about saving our once great republic. Herein lies another problem: the vast majority... Read article

Thar She Blows

The Last Hurrah for the Banking System The Bush administration will be mailing out another batch of “stimulus” checks in the very near future. There’s no way around it. The Fed is in a pickle and can’t lower interest rates for fear that food and energy prices will shoot to stratosphere. At the same time, the economy is shrinking faster than anyone thought possible with no sign of a rebound. That leaves stimulus checks as the only way to “prime the pump” and keep consumer spending chugging... Read article

What goes on in Wall Street, stays on Wall Street

When I was a little girl, my mother used to tell me again and again just exactly how POOR our family was. That’s all I heard. “We don’t even have enough money to buy even the basics,” was my mother’s constant mantra. But looking back on my childhood, what she said just doesn’t make sense. We owned our own home. We had two cars. My mother vacationed in Europe. And every Saturday she would take me shopping up at the new Stonestown mall near San Francisco and I would sit outside her... Read article

Video: China’s Secret War

After months of investigating China’s covert arms trade, Panorama provides the first evidence of how China is arming Sudan’s killers. Sudan, with its vast oil reserves, sells most of its oil to Beijing. China has officially reached ‘superpower’ status – it’s doing what the US has been doing for decades. Hilary Andersson – China’s Secret War Loading...  Read More →

Barak Obama is not qualified to be President

The REAL 13th Amendment You walk in the kitchen and your four year old is standing next to the counter. The top is off the cookie jar and his face is suspiciously lumpy; the little mouth is working wildly, the throat is bobbing up and down. “Arthur, have you been into the cookie jar?” You go through the motions of asking, even if what is going on could not be more obvious. “No, Mommy,” Arthur says through that last mouthful of cookie, “The top just fell off.” Then he looks at you to see if it is going to work.... Read article

From Karl Marx to Jesus Christ

A Threat to the New World Order… “The authority of God is passed over in silence, just as if there were no God; or as if He cared nothing for human society; or as if men, whether in their individual capacity or bound together in social relations, owed nothing to God; or as if there could be a government of which the whole origin and power and authority did not reside in God Himself. Thus, as is evident, a State becomes nothing but a multitude which is its own master and ruler. And since the people is declared to... Read article

Obama Dazzles Old Europe while McCain cries “No Mas”!

Barak Obama proved yesterday why November’s presidential election will end in a 50-state sweep. John McCain has no chance. It’s like George Bush climbing into the ring with Mike Tyson; one thundering left hook and the Crawford Caligula would be sprawled across the canvas in a pool of his own blood. “No mas”! The same fate awaits the crabby senator from Arizona. The polls are skewed to look like there’s a political horse-race going on. There isn’t. It’s a complete rout. There’s... Read article

Obama’s trip to Yad Vashem: What about Wounded Knee?

There were no surprises on Barack Obama’s trip to Israel. Everything went by without a hitch. Obama met with all the heads of state and party bosses and raced from one event to another without incident. He skillfully tip-toed through a political minefield that could have ended his presidential bid in a blinding-flash. But he never stumbled. There were no gaffes, no miscues, and no slips of the tongue suggesting that US policy under President Obama would be any more “evenhanded” than it has been under George... Read article

Crystal Ball Gazing

Visualize the Dow at 6,000… Last Wednesday, at an improvised press conference, George Bush gave what may have been the most comical performance of his eight year presidency. Looking like the skipper on the flight-deck of the Hindenburg, Bush tried his best to reassure the public that “all’s well” with the economy and that everyone’s deposits were perfectly safe in the rapidly disintegrating US banking system. Leaning lazily on the presidential podium, Bush shrugged his shoulders and said, “My... Read article

Noam Chomsky and the 9/11 Crusaders

Walking around town, we are sometimes accosted by well-meaning people who are greatly devoted to a cause. It can be a Kurdish refugee replete with blood-curdling photos of Turkish atrocities, or an Iranian émigré with a petition to sign, or, if we are lucky, it could be Mia Farrow asking us to condemn the Chinese. These good people do not take no for an answer. They grasp your buttonhole and keep it in their sweaty hands until you sign their petition or ask them rather impolitely to buzz off. Then they explode in a fury... Read article

Operation Hydra

Air Force disaster relief training, flying all over California, GWB & me… With all of us internet buffs getting such a wide selection of interesting articles in our inboxes each day, why should you bother to read this story — which is, after all, rather long? Because it is a detailed account of the state of our armed forces’ readiness capabilities in case of a natural disaster or terrorist attack here in America — and also anywhere else on the globe. This is important information to know. ... Read article

Christians: Don’t Vote for McCain!

Okay, okay, okay! I get it already! Big Crock Obama – as a friend calls him — is a bad guy and, if elected, will be a bad president. I got it a long time ago. The whole subject of Obama-as-evil is so old that when I receive emails with “Obama” in the subject line, I almost always delete them. The same goes for emails with “Clinton” in the subject line. BAWWWW-RINGGGGG!!! However, this does not make John McCain worthy of my vote. No Christian should vote for John McCain, even out of fear of an Obama presidency. On... Read article

The Religious Right Is AWOL From The Real War

I want to begin this column with one of my all-time favorite quotes. It comes from the great German reformer Martin Luther. He said, “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight... Read article

Karadzic’s Arrest: Bosnian Myths Rehashed

The spirit of the media frenzy surrounding the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on July 21 is based entirely on the doctrine of non-equivalence inaugurated in 1992: Serbs willed the war, Muslims wanted peace; Serb crimes are bad and justly exaggerated, Muslim crimes are understandable. This doctrine was spectacularly reiterated a month before Karadzic’s capture, when the Muslim wartime commander of Srebrenica, Nasir Oric, was found not guilty by The Hague Tribunal of any responsibility for the... Read article

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