National Politics
Robert Fisk: Madness is not the reason for this massacre
I’m getting a bit tired of the “deranged” soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week had no sooner returned to base than the defence experts and the think-tank boys and girls announced that he was “deranged”. Not an evil, [...]
Ron Paul says US ‘slipping into fascism’ in Kansas City
Corporatocracy: Ron Paul says US ‘slipping into fascism’ Get short URL email story to a friend print version Published: 19 February, 2012, 23:30 Republican presidential candidate US Representative Ron Paul (Reuters / Brian Snyder) TRENDS: US Election 2012 TAGS: Arms, Election, Military, Crisis, Politics, Budget, History, USA, Katerina Azarova, Government Spending, Economy Republican presidential [...]
US Drones Targeting Rescuers and Mourners of Previous Drone Attacks
On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired by a U.S. drone. As I noted at the time, the report contained this extraordinary passage buried in [...]
Josh Fox – Director of Gasland – Arrested at Fracking Hearing
Maker of Oscar-nominated documentary ejected when Republicans object to him trying to film meeting [Read Story]
Ron Paul Lands Coveted Wikileaks Endorsement
In an interview with Rolling Stone’s Michael Hastings, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange thanks him for his “impassioned and rational speech. Who has been your most critical public supporter? John Pilger, the Australian journalist, has been the most impressive. And the other is Dan Ellsberg. It’s the amount of time I’ve spent with him, both in [...]
United States Congress: A Graveyard for Democracy and Justice by Ralph Nader
The editor of The Hill, a newspaper exclusively covering Congress, said that Congress was not going to do very much in 2012, except for “the big bill” which is extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment compensation, which expire in late February. That two month extension will likely reignite the fight between Democrats and Republicans [...]
Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention
This is from a statement from Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers regarding Republican Denny Rehberg as a target of recall, who also voted for NDAA. Here in Montana, while we will go after all three violators of the Bill of Rights, I will place special emphasis and “focus of effort” on Denny Rehberg, since he [...]
WHY WE OCCUPY!
“With its giant underclass, the income gap in the United States resembles that of many third-world nations. The top 1 percent of Americans has more income to spend than the bottom 40 percent taken together. This is a huge gap compared with Europe and Japan. British economist Richard Wilkins argues that large income disparities erode [...]