By Noel Brinkerhoff and Steve Straehley | AllGov | November 11, 2014 North Carolina has begun to do something no other state in the nation has attempted: Pay victims of forced sterilization. The state is attempting to right a 20th century wrong when that state and others mandated that tens of thousands of Americans have […]
RT | November 10, 2014 A new study has revealed that 0.01 percent of the population holds more and more of America’s wealth. The share of wealth in the hands of middle class families has tumbled to levels not seen since before the Wall Street Crash in 1929. A research paper from the London School […]
Police State USA | November 5, 2014 ROUND ROCK, TX — A little girl was confiscated from her loving parents because they smoked marijuana, and given away to a foster mother who put her into a coma and killed her. Alexandria “Alex” Hill, age 2, succumbed to her injuries after being “thrown to the ground.” […]
By Paul Craig Roberts | Press TV | October 11, 2014 A number of readers have read reports that the CIA was active in West Africa just prior to the Ebola outbreak, and some have read reports that the Ebola strain is a weaponized version engineered to spread by air and surface contact. Some readers […]
By Brett Redmayne-Titley | Press TV | October 5, 2014 “I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.” – Pol Pot (Dictator of Cambodia, 1963-1981) Similarly, on Monday, Sept 15, 2014, Department of Justice (DoJ) leader, Eric Holder, announced a new set of US programs designed to increase America’s […]
By Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam | October 3, 2014 The U.S. ambassador to the UN, Samantha Powers, ever alert to opportunities to showcase Israel’s better qualities to the world (aka hasbara), suggested to the foreign ministry that it send a medical field hospital to Sierra Leone, to help that country combat the deadliest outbreak […]
By Atilio Borón | teleSUR | September 23, 2014 The question Leslie Stahl, moderator in the U.S. news show 60 Minutes asked Madeleine Albright in 1996 was, “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?” The […]
By DANIEL RAVENTOS and JULIE WARK | CounterPunch | September 12, 2014 A bunch of academic pundits and media cognoscenti inform us that among the causes of a person’s becoming unemployed is a yen for job-change because he or she opts for a certain “work-related opportunity cost” so as to “optimise utility function”. Renouncing jargon, […]
By Richard Edmondson | Fig Trees and Vineyards | September 3, 2014 This is George Galloway’s first interview since being attacked on a London Street less than a week ago. In answer to a question regarding whether his remarks about Israel could be viewed as anti-Semitic, the British parliamentarian offers the view that “Israel has […]
GANGREEN! Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai claims that there is a ‘Jewish gene’ and that is passed down from mother to child (and not from father to child). Both of these claims have absolutely no scientific factual basis whatsoever. However, he publicly proclaims them as such, because if they were in fact true, they would […]
