Prostate Cancer “Death Panel”? You Decide

“By calling for a halt to screenings, the panel is recommending an end to a serious search for the second most lethal cancer in adult males in the US, second only to lung malignancies.” — Kate Randall, “US government panel calls for halt to prostate cancer screening”, World Socialist Web Site A government task force has decided that you don’t need to know whether you have prostate cancer or not even though though more than 28,170 men will die from the disease this year. (according to the American... Read article

Learning From Wisconsin

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker not only defeated the recall, he did so easily taking 54 percent of the vote. This is a big defeat for the union leadership who threw as many resources as they could afford behind this effort. How is it possible that this could have happened after all that had gone on before? The massive uprising last winter in Madison, Wisconsin, that was spurred by Walker’s plans to balance the state deficit by slashing public workers’ benefits and wages as well as stripping them of their collective... Read article

Indefinite Detention of Americans Ruled ‘Unconstitutional’

“A Federal judge in the US has ruled Washington cannot indefinitely detain Americans suspected of having terrorist ties unless they have been found in connection with the September Eleventh attacks. It comes just six months after President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have allowed American citizens to be held without trial or charge. The judge initially ruled the act was unconstitutional last month, but the Obama administration asked her to reconsider the ruling. Attorney Carl Mayer... Read article

Killer Insect Virus Helping to Decimate World’s Bee Population

A new study published in the journal Science has revealed that, in addition to the destruction of natural habitats and the widespread use of industrial chemical pesticides, the global bee die-off witnessed in recent years is also caused by a deadly virus carried by bloodsucking parasitic mites. Varroa destructor is a bloodsucking parasite that feeds on honeybees and has spread globally, destroying colonies worldwide. (Photograph: Alamy)The report in Science is available to subscribers only, but according to The... Read article

Expelling Diplomats: The Downside

A Cheap Political Trick… The Houla massacre has whipped up a new wave of outrage at the claimed brutality of Syria’s government. Syrian envoys were kicked out of some Western capitals, more financial sanctions slapped on the regime in Damascus, and more furious demands are being made for a regime change toppling Bashar al-Assad and more calls for military intervention issued. The civilized world kicking out Syrian diplomats was to be the thin reed of straw that would certainly break the camel’s back in Damascus’... Read article

The Immorality of Liberals

“I think he did the right thing,” said the man, emphatically, in reference to Bill Clinton’s 1990s infidelity with Monica Lewinsky.  The sentiment, expressed during a conversation I had some years ago, was really no surprise.  You see, the fellow was a fine specimen of his political species. In every civilization you have, to use psychological terminology, well-adjusted individuals and dysfunctional ones.  Of course, dividing people into two groups in this area will always be problematic, as moral status is a continuum. ... Read article

Taking The Temperature of The Department of Consumer Affairs–Diagnosis: DEADLY

Reichel Everhart, the Deputy Director of the California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), has declined to respond to questions as to the functioning of the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, which is housed in the DCA. Nor will she respond to written requests to direct the Bureau to respond to public records act requests in a manner which would be considered legal. The two records requests in question, one made to the PFB in January of 2012 and the other made in April of 2012, produced email responses which were highly... Read article

The White House Secret Kill List

In a recent column, Judge Andrew Napolitano highlighted a recent New York Times investigative report that reveals how President Barack Obama is engaging in secret assassinations worldwide. Judge Napolitano begins, “The leader of the government regularly sits down with his senior generals and spies and advisers and reviews a list of the people they want him to authorize their agents to kill. They do this every Tuesday morning when the leader is in town. The leader once condemned any practice even close to this, but now... Read article

Defiance: A Lost Virtue?

It was August 19th, 1920.  A military detachment of Red Army soldiers led by Bolshevik authorities steamrolled into the Russian town of Khitrovo to implement a policy known as “Prodrazvyorstka”; resource allocation in the name of national security which led to the confiscation of vital grain supplies and the starvation of millions of peasants.  To be sure, multiple excuses were used to rationalize the program, all in the name of the “greater good”.  But in reality, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks saw the farming... Read article

USS Liberty…What Phil Saw That Day

45th anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty… Back in 2009, in Houston Texas, Mimi Adams, a distinguished Palestinian solidarity & human rights activist, gave me a present- a USS Liberty baseball cap. She put it on my head and said, “Gilad, in the next two weeks, make sure you have it on your head everywhere you go in America. You will see what happens.” It was around midnight, I was tired and jet-lagged, I couldn’t really understand the significance of the baseball cap, I just wanted to make my way... Read article

America In Decline

The Soul Crushing Despair of Lowered Expectations… All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over.  When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can’t get one it can be absolutely soul crushing.  If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know exactly what I am talking about.  When you have been unemployed for month after month it can be very tempting to totally cut yourself off from society.  Those that are kind will... Read article

A Synchronized Global Slowdown

In Negative Territory… “Every major part of the global economy is slowing, and slowing rapidly….Right now, we seem to be in a synchronized global slowdown, and that is very worrisome.” – Mohamed El-Erian, Pimco. Growing troubles in the eurozone, a slowdown in China and a jobs report that was weaker than the most-pessimistic forecast, sent stocks plunging on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 275 points on the day while the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ followed the DJIA into the red. All the gains of... Read article

Advantages of Chinese Trade Policy

“The Chinese may take risks far more than average Americans do, thanks to advice from traditional proverbs.” The saying “At a good bargain, think twice” is pretty risk-averse. On the other hand, a typical Chinese proverb such as “Seize an opportunity and make good use of it” shows how risk-taking is ingrained in Chinese culture. Much of the coverage on the imbalance in global trade focuses on Chinese imports into the U.S. In order to understand these disparities, a short review of the International... Read article

The Media is Dead….Long Live the Media

This past weekend it was reported that CNN has lost 50% of its total audience in the past 12 months.  This is not isolated to CNN but is a consistent trend among all television news networks.  It seems that as if the “mainstream media” is no longer as “mainstream” as it likes to present itself. This weekend while CNN, MSNBC, FOX and their identical counterparts were sitting in their air conditioned offices running pointless and divisive stories to distract the public, the REAL media was on the ground at Bilderberg... Read article

Torture In Palestine, Syria & Cleveland: Making It happen!

I recently attended a video presentation in Oakland given by a member of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, and while the speaker was describing various theater projects now being staged in Palestine, he also happened to mention several relatively unique types of psychological torture currently being implemented by Israeli corporatists and their enforcers in the occupied West Bank. For instance, imagine that you are a Palestinian farmer and happily out plowing your land — when a bunch of rather nasty armed settlers come rampaging... Read article

Israel Formulates Tripartite Plot To Destroy Syria

A politically incorrect wave of labyrinthine madness is casting its heavy shadow over Syria as the country is being surrounded left and right by Zionist plots thickening beyond control. The complicated situation in Syria is ever more obfuscated by myriad forces at work to destroy the friend of Iran and the foe of Israel. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned on Sunday that Syria has become the target of a imperialist foreign conspiracy and that the country is facing a real war waged from the outside. In an address to the... Read article

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