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The Case of the Missing Terrorists
If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead. Who is Jose Rodriguez? He is the criminal who ran the CIA torture program. Most of his victims were not terrorists or even insurgents. Most were hapless individuals kidnapped by warlords and sold to the Americans as “terrorists” for the bounty paid. If Rodriguez’s identity was previously a secret,…
Read more »Unz Research Reward (informational bulletin)
Dear Readers: This is an informational bulletin, not a new column. For readers with research skills and for those who would like to develop such skills and/or explore new historical data now made available for the first time on the Internet, Ron Unz, an entrepreneur who is on his way to becoming a public intellectual, is offering a $10,000 First…
Read more »Did Obama Really Kill Osama?
Dear Readers, what do you think? Did Obama really kill Osama? By Ralph Cinque http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31284.htm May 09, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — We just passed the one-year anniversary of the (alleged) execution of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. But, did he really live until 2011? Ten years earlier, in 2001, his kidneys were failing, and he was on dialysis. Do…
Read more »Does The West Have A Future?
Living in America is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral conscience, a sense of justice, or a lick of intelligence. Consider: We have had a second fake underwear bomb plot, a much more fantastic one than the first hoax. The second underwear bomber was a CIA operative or informant allegedly recruited by al-Qaeda, an organization that US authorities…
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Disinformation On Every Front
Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, propaganda from the right, the left and the middle are all part of the disinformation fed to americans. If I may…
Read more »You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going To Do About It?
John Pilger in the article below poses THE QUESTION OF OUR TIME… April 30, 2012, “Information Clearing House” — You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center may monitor…
Read more »Make Love, then War
Dear Friends, I cannot vouch for the truth of this report. However, if Bob Dylan is accepting a Presidential Freedom Award (list of recipients) from the White House warmonger who has exterminated freedom both at home and abroad, it is very disheartening. Perhaps Dylan sees this as irony–the White House recognizing Bob Dylan. Alternatively, Dylan and Baez have grown comfortable…
Read more »Brewing a Conflict with China
Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries concerning island and sea rights in the South China Sea. Washington asserts that China’s territorial disputes with the like of Indonesia and the Philippines are a…
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Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence
Dear Readers: To remind. This site is something that I do for you, not for myself. Every article I post on this site further isolates me from long-time colleagues and friends. When the site started up in January, many donations came in. Donations continue to come in, but the flow is much reduced. Sites are an expense. They have to…
Read more »They Thought They Were Free
THOSE WHO REFUSE TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE FORCED TO REPEAT IT Americans become incensed when comparisons are made between recent developments in the US and Nazi Germany. Nevertheless, the description below first published in 1955 of Germany’s descent into a police state could just as well be a description of what has happened in the US since September 11,…
Read more »Ignorance Is Bliss
Psychological studies confirm Frantz Fanon’s analysis of cognitive dissonance and Morpheus’ explanation to Neo of why people prefer to live in a false reality. But don’t become discouraged. Remember, all change comes from a few determined people. The following is a report from the American Psychological Association. November 21, 2011 Ignorance Is Bliss When it Comes to Challenging Social Issues…
Read more »How Liberty Was Lost
When did things begin going wrong in America? “From the beginning,” answer some. English colonists, themselves under the thumb of a king, exterminated American Indians and stole their lands, as did late 18th and 19th century Americans. Over the course of three centuries the native inhabitants of America were dispossessed, just as Israelis have been driving Palestinians off their lands…
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Unplugging Americans From The Matrix
Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of chastisement, invasion, and occupation. As readers know, from time to…
Read more »Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness
The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed. US government officials routinely criticize other governments for being undemocratic and for violating human rights. Yet, no other country except Israel sends bombs, missiles, and drones into sovereign…
Read more »What Is ObamaCare?
Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to live in the strange Kafkaesque world that exists today. The US government can assassinate any US citizen that the executive branch thinks could possibly be a “threat” to the US government, or throw the hapless citizen into a dungeon for the rest of his or…
Read more »MASS MURDERER GOES FREE
MASS MURDERER GOES FREE “Curveball,” the man whose lies were used by the Bush regime neoconservatives to create a false “weapons of mass destruction” case against Iraq,has confessed that he made it all up. Moreover, the Bush regime warmongers had to know it was a lie, because the weapons inspectors had reported that there were no weapons of mass destruction…
Read more »Empires Then and Now
Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. The reason Rome did not extend its empire east into Germany was not the military prowess of Germanic tribes but Rome’s calculation that the cost of conquest exceeded…
Read more »Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities All Over America
Dear Readers: Only in Amerika. If you feed the homeless or give a homeless person a drink of water, you might be arrested. So much for america being “the land of freedom and democracy.” Amerika is the land of the crazed Police State. -PCR Original Content at: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Feeding-The-Homeless-BANNE-by-the-web-120324-37.html What would you do if you came across someone on the street…
Read more »Why Barack Obama is the More Effective Evil
Dear Readers: This is the best speech I have come across in many years. PCR Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Barack-Obama-is-the-Mo-by-Glen-Ford-120324-930.html No matter how much evil Barack Obama actually accomplishes during his presidency, people that call themselves leftists insist on dubbing him the Lesser Evil. Not only is Obama not given proper credit for out-evil-ing George Bush, domestically and internationally, but the…
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Both The Market and Government Are Irrational
One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes without this myth being disproved scores of times, but the myth persists. For example, today (March 14) Bank of America/Merrill Lynch reported that “yesterday US markets started the day off with a strong rally after the solid retail sales report. . . . tailwinds are…
Read more »Washington’s high-powered terrorist supporters
Glenn Greenwald demonstrates that not only the president but also the Washington elite are above the law. http://www.salon.com/2012/03/12/washingtons_high_powered_terrorist_supporters/singleton/
Read more »Dennis Kucinich and “Wackiness”
US Representative Dennis Kucinich’s defeat in a Democratic primary is more evidence that americans are incapable of recognizing leadership. As the few leaders are eliminated by redistricting and by electoral fraud, the ability of americans to reclaim their liberty and economy diminishes. Glenn Greenwald’s account of the presstitutes’ view of Kucinich and what it reveals about the Washington Establishment is…
Read more »The 0% Doctrine
The Global War on Terror, with its burgeoning secret military, the elite special operations forces, and its growing drone air force, controlled in part by the CIA, should be thought of as the president’s private war. In addition, as legal scholar Jonathan Turleywrote recently, when it comes to drone assassinations (or “targeted killings” as they are now more politely known),…
Read more »No Jobs For Americans
Today (March 9, 2012) the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that 227,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs were created by the economy during February. Is the government’s claim true? No. Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that 44,000 of these jobs or 19% consist of an add-on factor derived from the BLS’s estimate that 44,000 more unreported jobs from new business…
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Why Can’t americans Have Democracy?
Syria has a secular government as did Iraq prior to the american invasion. Secular governments are important in Arab lands in which there is division between Sunni and Shi’ite. Secular governments keep the divided population from murdering one another. When the american invasion, a war crime under the Nuremberg standard set by the US after WWII, overthrew the Saddam Hussein…
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The World War on Democracy
John Pilger describes the reality hidden behind the cloak of anglo-american “democracy.” http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/the-world-war-on-democracy January 20, 2012 — Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s…
Read more »Silencing The Critics
In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI–the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”–called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before grand juries as prosecutors set about building their case that opposing Washington’s wars…
Read more »The New Blacklist—Pat Buchanan On His MSNBC Firing
Pat Buchanan’s strong Republican voice in the mainstream media against the wars against Muslims and the US Constitution has been shut down. 02/16/12 My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of…
Read more »The Greek Experiment
This is my editing of an interview Professor Michael Hudson gave to The Real News Network. I have edited Professor Hudson’s interview for clarity and have not changed the meaning of any of his statements. It is posted on this site with Professor Hudson’s permission. PCR The Greek crisis is being used to find out how far finance can drive…
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Washington’s Insouciance Has No Rival
Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant? Or is he an idiot? According to news reports Obama’s White House meeting on Valentine’s day with China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, provided an opportunity for Obama to raise “a sensitive human rights issue with the Chinese leader-in-waiting.” The brave and forthright Obama didn’t let etiquette or decorum get in his way. Afterwards,…
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Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade?
The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and children for a decade in the name of bringing them democracy. But is the West itself a democracy? Skeptics point out that President George W. Bush was put in office by the Supreme Court and that a number of other elections have been decided by…
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