The War – Did We Sacrifice a Million Lives and a $Trillion Cash Just to Hand Our Jobs to China? Part One

While the Tea Partiers and the liberals squabble over important domestic issues, America’s corporate and military titans, at the expense of America’s workers and taxpayers and with the blessing of Congress and the President, are creating China’s economic miracle. The military, at a cost of over $1 trillion, has paved the way for China to acquire and the U.S. to lose access to vast mineral and petroleum resources. The oil industry, with U.S. government assistance, is building a safe haven in East Asia from the imminent... Read article

The Riots in Egypt and the Price of Oil

From: The Economic Collapse… As if the world economy did not have enough problems already, now the riots in Egypt threaten to send the price of oil soaring into the stratosphere.  On Friday, the price of U.S. crude soared 4 percent.  A 4 percent rise in a single day is pretty staggering.  The price of Brent crude in London closed just under the magic $100 a barrel mark at $99.42.  The incredibly violent riots in Egypt have financial markets all over the globe on edge right now.  Any time there is violence or war... Read article

Education leads to Compassion, Compassion leads to Change

An Interview with Richard Forer and the Arab Awakening… Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, was born in 1957 in Beit Sahour, a suburb of Bethlehem. He became a Professor of Genetics and taught at Yale University School of Medicine and Duke University. He is currently teaching at Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine and his main interests are media activism and public education, human rights and international law. In a 30 January 2011, email he wrote: “Arabs everywhere (yes even here in occupied Palestine) are talking about... Read article

Hezbollah is the New Government of Lebanon. Now What?

Beirut… This observer tends to get a haircut about every four months whether I need it or not.  But this morning I got more than a trim from my Hezbollah friend and barber, Abass, named after Abass ibn Ali, the brother of Hussein, both martyrs and heroes of the epic 680 a.d. internecine Muslim battle at Karbala in present day Iraq. The Battle of Karbala, for Hezbollah members and Shia Muslims generally, symbolizes the triumph of good over evil and the willingness to sacrifice one’s life for justice and the greater... Read article

An interview with poet, Andrew Rihn

“America Plops and Fizzes” Some guy named Percy Shelley once said poets were the “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” So, I’m thinking maybe Percy’s been hanging out in Canton, Ohio with Andrew Rihn, author of the inventive new poetry collection, America Plops and Fizzes from sunnyoutside press. #8 Sometimes the best things in life are broken. Rihn’s no Ivory Tower purist or coffeehouse boor. Sure, he’s the got the English degree from Kent State and six chapbooks to his... Read article

Joseph Lieberman’s Long Overdue Departure

Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Al Gore’s vice-presidential candidate in 2000 who subsequently broke away from the Democratic Party and won reelection as an independent in 2006, has announced that he will not seek reelection when his fourth term expires next year. Lieberman’s departure will not make much difference to the political scene in Washington as his influence has been on the wane for years. It is nevertheless moderately good news because his hypocrisy, bad judgment and malevolence are impressive even... Read article

Liberating the American People

In his latest Newsweek article Stephen Kinzer wonders who  America is betting on to counter the popular  rising forces in the Middle East : “The same friends it has been betting on for decades” he answers.   “Mubarak’s pharaonic regime in Egypt, Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority, the Saudi monarchy, and increasingly radical politicians in Israel. It is no wonder that Iran’s power is rising as the American-imposed order begins to crumble,” he concludes. Kinzer explains America’s stance succinctly... Read article

The Tea Party, The Left and “Ammo” for Senator Rand Paul

Republican and Tea Party Representative Senator Rand Paul has called for an end of aid to Israel and has been getting slammed ever since by U.S. Democrats and pro-Israel lobbies. In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on 26 January 2011, Paul said that “Reuters did a poll, and 71 percent of American people agree with me that when we’re short of money, where we can’t do the things we need to do in our country, we certainly shouldn’t be shipping the money overseas.” Blitzer inquired if Paul... Read article

The Palestine Papers and Us

I have a rule — I never intervene in Palestinian political matters. I never comment on Palestinian internal debate. I do not think that I have the right to do so : I am an ex-Israeli and an ex-Jew, and I write about Israel, Jewish Identity politics, and Zionism. For me, the leaked Palestinian Papers provide us with a valuable glimpse into Israeli politics and Western complicity in the crimes carried out against the Palestinian people.  I do realise that most Palestinian commentators agree that the leaked papers have... Read article

Mr. Obama: we don’t want amnesty for illegal aliens

The last column “72 million immigrants added to US in 24 years” HIT a cord.  A-men!  Hundreds of emails poured into my inbox!  Three radio interviews in one day!  A journalist in Istanbul, Turkey interviewed me on our immigration predicament.  People seem to be ‘getting’ the immensity, the enormity and the calamity we face as a civilization if we allow the worldwide accelerating “Human Tragedy” of millions of desperate people migrating into our country.” One person said, “Great immigration article.... Read article

Satanic Solutions

“Rebellion against God’s law is a frightful crime; rebellion in favor of God’s law is a fearful duty.” America, the “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”, or is it?  Touted as a war to preserve our freedom, in typical double-speak fashion, the “War on Terror” has spawned the very freedom robbing police state laws and procedures it was supposed to prevent. We are living in a nation that has for decades been controlled by nefarious humanistic forces who have manipulated public opinion and... Read article

Rick Warren introduces “The Devil Plan”

Pastor Rick Warren continues to work at “fulfilling people’s needs.”  His latest endeavor is “The Daniel Plan,” a 52-week health and fitness program. Pastor Rick has decided it’s high time to lose 90 pounds. But there’s more to his health plan than meets the eye. “The church says all of its more than 5,000 small groups will go through “The Daniel Plan,” which is part of Saddleback’s “Decade of Destiny,” a 10-year plan launching this month “to help individuals succeed... Read article

Egypt unplugs Internet as protests loom; “unprecedented in Internet history”

By Jordan Robertson | YahooNews.ca… About a half-hour past midnight Friday morning in Egypt, the Internet went dead. Almost simultaneously, the handful of companies that pipe the Internet into and out of Egypt went dark as protesters were gearing up for a fresh round of demonstrations calling for the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30-year rule, experts said. Egypt has apparently done what many technologists thought was unthinkable for any country with a major Internet economy: It unplugged itself... Read article

Could Bernanke Spark a Run on the Dollar?

Treasury yields are “blinking red”, but the Fed keeps acting like nothing’s wrong. What’s the deal? Let’s explain: Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s bond purchasing program (QE2) has sent the yield on the 30-year Treasury skyrocketing. At the same time, the the 2-year Treasury is stuck at a lowly 0.61. That means, the “yield curve” between the two bonds has grown steeper, which normally happens at the beginning of a recovery because investors are moving out of “risk free”... Read article

State of Our Union Reality Check

On 25 January 2011, during President Obama’s State of the Union speech he said, “America’s moral example must always shine for all who yearn for freedom, justice, and dignity. And because we have begun this work, tonight we can say that American leadership has been renewed and America’s standing has been restored.” On 25 January 2011, Chief Correspondent for Channel 4 News in the UK, Alex Thomson reported on Israeli filmmaker Nurit Kedar regarding her film Concrete, in which former soldiers involved in Operation... Read article

Let’s talk infrastructure decay in the United States

In this continuing series on America’s challenges for the 21st century, William Dickinson, director of The Biocentric Institute, exposes underlying realities facing America. You may access much of the information here. As we steam full speed into the 21st century Mr. Dickinson, what parts of America’s infrastructure need attention? “Infrastructure is one of those words — such as process, paradigm, challenges — that cause a reader’s eyes to glaze over,” said Dickinson. “Too bad, because we are... Read article

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