What follows is a partial list of American politicians who have parroted the line about the US and Israel sharing the same “values”: Obama (“The bond between Israel and the United States is rooted in more than our shared national interests; it’s rooted in the shared values and shared stories of our people.”) Joe Biden […]
By Peter Van Buren | We Meant Well | August 19, 2015 Many supporters of Hillary Clinton say that since she committed no criminal offense, the whole thing about her private email server containing classified material is just partisan sniping. So as a public service, let’s see if we can sort that out. The Law […]
By Garikai Chengu | CounterPunch | August 17, 2015 Global outrage was sparked when the Zimbabwean lion, Cecil was killed as a trophy; but to this day, Britain and America continue to display in museums human remains that are human trophies of their massacres and subjugation of indigenous populations. Britain has recently revealed that it […]
By Mike Lofgren | Consortium News | August 2, 2015 A recurrent buzz phrase of the Washington mandarinate in the last two decades has been “soft power.” The term was coined by Joseph Nye, a Harvard academic, in his 1990 book, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power. What he meant by the term […]
By COLIN TODHUNTER | CounterPunch | June 25, 2015 In Britain, the welfare system is under sustained attack and rights are being stripped away. At the same time in ‘austerity Britain’, however, there’s always enough taxpayers’ money to pour into the black hole of imperialist wars and the pockets of the profiteers that live off […]
By Willis Eschenbach | Watts Up With That? | June 15, 2015 Sometimes when I’m reading about renewable technologies, I just break out laughing at the madness that the war on carbon has wrought. Consider the Ivanpah solar tower electric power plant. It covers five square miles in Southern California with mirrors which are all […]
Sputnik | 09.06.2015 Bankers, politicians and leaders of huge global businesses are set to meet in the annual Bilderberg conference in Austria this week, during which the rich and the powerful discuss global issues in secretive talks that influence global politics. Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is set to rub shoulders with ex-CIA […]
By Gilad Atzmon | June 4, 2015 The Guardian reports this morning that Tony Blair is to take on a new role leading the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation. This is no doubt great news. The 21st century’s greatest war criminal is called to lead the campaign against ‘extremism’ which he himself instigated. Truth be […]
Calls for massive reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions ignore the impacts on the poor By Bob Lyman | Watts Up With That? | May 23, 2015 People who believe in the theory of catastrophic human-induced global warming claim that they want to “save the planet” and that this is the moral thing to do. […]
The Sinister Ideology of the Rich By COLIN TODHUNTER | CounterPunch | May 21, 2015 If physical violence is to be used only as a final resort, a dominant class must seek to gain people’s consent if it is to govern and control a population. It must attempt to legitimize its position in the eyes […]
