A Voice Worth Listening To
By: pcr3|10 April, 2013|Categories: Guest Contributions
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Apparently now even PEN has been purchased by Washington. Chris Hedges Resigns From Human Rights Organization PEN Chris Hedges Resigns From Human Rights Organization PEN “I will not be participating as a speaker in the PEN World Voices Festival in May. I will not participate because of your decision to select Suzanne Nossel as Executive Director of the PEN American…
Read more »US Government has corrupted the human rights movement
By: pcr3|08 April, 2013|Categories: Guest Contributions
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The US government has turned much of the human rights movement into its propaganda agent for war and oppression. http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/u-s-cooption-of-the-human-rights-movement-continues/#more-48267
Read more »The Treason of Intellectuals — Chris Hedges
By: pcr3|02 April, 2013|Categories: Guest Contributions
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In my current column, I point out that truth is offensive. Chris Hedges shows in the article below that truth is so offensive that the media and academics avoid it, preferring to tell lies that advance their careers. Three cheers for Chris Hedges, a person not afraid to tell the truth. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/01-0?print
Read more »Crisis They Can’t Avoid-Paul Craig Roberts By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 March, 2013|Categories: Interviews . Other
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Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says there is another financial calamity coming to the U.S. Dr. Roberts says, “It is a crisis they can’t avoid. One way or another it’s going to bite very hard, whether it comes through the dollar or the bonds.” Dr. Roberts says all the ongoing financial problems we face today are a…
Read more »Will Your Protest Be Terminated By Killer Robots?
Paul Craig Roberts Did you know that the latest big business is killer robots? Not only drones that can be insect size and lethal, but also Terminator-type machines that will have the power to decide who lives and dies. Of course, the way has been paved for killer robots and their inevitable mistakes, as the US military no longer differentiates…
Read more »Not A Single Financial Crook Has Been Prosecuted By Regulatory Agencies
Elizabeth Warren is the person Obama could not get confirmed to the consumer advocate position. She dropped out of contention and ran for the Senate and won. This shows the great gulf between Washington and the American people. Essentially, Washington is a foreign power colonizing the American people. In this video of a Banking Committee hearing of the US Senate,…
Read more »How The Republican Party and the Presstitute Media Made Ron Paul Invisible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlWiTPn7pQ&feature=youtu.be During the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, I suggested that by softening a couple of hardened libertarian positions, Ron Paul could win the nomination. My advice was not taken, but even had it been, this video shows that no matter how many votes Ron Paul received, the Republican Party had no intention of giving him the nomination. The…
Read more »U.S. Goading Japan into Confrontation with China by John V. Walsh
By: pcr3|08 February, 2013|Categories: Guest Contributions
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Just as Washington has involved NATO in its Afghanistan, Middle East and African wars, John V. Walsh explains Washington’s attempt to rope Japan into its military encirclement of China. Perhaps the Japanese will see in Washington’s effort to contain the rise of China the same policy that Washington used against Japan in the 1930s. Will Japan align with the rising…
Read more »Obamacare: A Deception
By: pcr3|03 February, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns . Guest Contributions
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Introduction by Paul Craig Roberts The article below is the most comprehensive analysis available of “Obamacare” – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The author, a knowledgeable person who wishes to remain anonymous, explains how Obamacare works for the insurance companies but not for you. Obamacare was formulated on the concept of health care as a commercial commodity and…
Read more »The Illusion of Reality
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 December, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions
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The Reality of the “Lesser Evil” Is This Child Dead Enough for You? ~ Chris Floyd
By: Chris Floyd|13 November, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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To all those now hailing the re-election of Barack Obama as a triumph of decent, humane, liberal values over the oozing-postule perfidy of the Republicans, a simple question: Is this child dead enough for you? This little boy was named Naeemullah. He was in his house — maybe playing, maybe sleeping, maybe having a meal — when an American drone…
Read more »Obamacare – The Tax Man Cometh ~ Robert S. Dotson, M.D.
By: Robert S. Dotson, M.D.|12 November, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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“I think you should send us the biggest transport plane you have, and take this thing to the Arctic or somewhere and drop it where it will never thaw.” – Lieutenant Dave in the Sci-Fi Classic, “The Blob” With the confusion accompanying the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, aka Obamacare) and its on-going implementation, it…
Read more »Welcome to the Age of Hell: Entrenching Murder as the American Way ~ Chris Floyd
By: Chris Floyd|29 October, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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This article was originally posted: http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2291-welcome-to-the-age-of-hell-entrenching-murder-as-the-american-way.html The Washington Post has just laid out, in horrifying, soul-slaughtering detail, the Obama Administration’s ongoing effort to expand, entrench and “codify” the practice of murder and terrorism by the United States government. The avowed, deliberate intent of these sinister machinations is to embed the use of death squads and drone terror attacks into the…
Read more »Obamneycare – Another Win-Win for the Oligarchs ~ Robert S. Dotson, M.D.
By: Robert S. Dotson, M.D.|19 October, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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“Mitt Romney is a wolf in a wolf’s clothing. Barack Obama is a wolf in a sheep’s clothing, but they both essentially have the same agenda.” – Jill Stein “Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.” – George Carlin “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it…
Read more »The Matrix
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 October, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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We don’t have “the one.” We are without Neo. We only have ourselves. If we can stand together, we are the one. Can we stand together, or are the left and the right too brainwashed to stand together? Or even to stand separately?
Read more »But What of Truth
By: Hal O’Leary|30 September, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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Poetry can often achieve the same communication with far fewer words than prose. This poem sums it up. BUT WHAT OF TRUTH by Hal O’Leary For now, the loss of truth’s the only known. The truth’s become old fashioned. Could this be? With lies, we have decided to condone, Just what the end will be, I cannot see. The truth…
Read more »Reflections on a Medical Career by Robert S. Dotson, M.D.
By: Robert S. Dotson, M.D.|02 August, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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The Impending Collapse of American Medicine Just as is every issue in the US, Obamacare and the wider question of the state of American health care are obscured by propaganda and disinformation. In the article below, Dr. Robert S. Dobson looks back on a lifetime of medical practice and provides facts and insights that might help us to understand our…
Read more »The Next Four Years by Gerald Celente
By: Gerald Celente|01 August, 2012|Categories: Gerald Celente . Guest Contributions
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In the summer, 2012, issue of the Trends Journal, Gerald Celente explains that, despite Obama’s or anyone else’s promises, change will not occur until we as individuals change. Those who wait for a leader to emerge who will do the right thing wait in vain: I the Person = We the People What will it take to change the course…
Read more »Nationalize Money, Not Banks by Herman Daly
By: Herman Daly|30 July, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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We Don’t Have To Be In Financial Crisis In the article below, Herman Daly, a University of Maryland and former World Bank economist, makes the case for 100% reserves. This reform, once a principle goal of important economists, would terminate the ability of the banking system to create credit to finance its own speculations and return the power over money…
Read more »The Real Libor Scandal ~Paul Craig Roberts and Nomi Prins
By: Paul Craig Roberts and Nomi Prins|14 July, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns . Guest Contributions
According to news reports, UK banks fixed the London interbank borrowing rate (Libor) with the complicity of the Bank of England (UK central bank) at a low rate in order to obtain a cheap borrowing cost. The way this scandal is playing out is that the banks benefitted from borrowing at these low rates. Whereas this is true, it also…
Read more »Unspeakable Things: The Liberals’ Clumsy Dance Across Obama’s Killing Floor
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 June, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions
This brilliant essay by Chris Floyd demonstrates that Western civilization has succumbed to evil. The essay is posted here with Chris Floyd’s permission. The turbulent ramifications of last week’s New York Times story detailing the operations of Barack Obama’s White House death squad continue to reverberate across the country today, sending shock waves through Washington and bringing crowds of outraged…
Read more »Killing Innocent Civilians as Part of a US Covert Op. Plan to Mobilize Public Support for War Against Syria
By: Michel Chossudovsky|31 May, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
Operation Northwoods: Syria 2012 (New York 2001?) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31122 Killing Innocent Civilians as Part of a US Covert Op. Plan to Mobilize Public Support for War Against Syria, by Professor Michel Chossudovsky The Northwoods 1962 document was titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba”. ”The Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a…
Read more »A Victory for All of Us
By: Chris Hedges|20 May, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions
Never Give Up Don’t be discouraged by the heavy hand of the tyrannical state and the private interests served by the government. Soviet dissidents faced the most powerful state in human history, and they did not give up. Now we have had a victory. Read this and renew your hope. A Victory for All of Us http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_victory_for_all_of_us_20120518/ Posted on May…
Read more »Did Obama Really Kill Osama?
By: Ralph Cinque|10 May, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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 »You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going To Do About It?
By: John Pilger|01 May, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions
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 »They Thought They Were Free
By: Milton Mayer|23 April, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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
By: American Psychological Association|23 April, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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 »MASS MURDERER GOES FREE
By: Jonathan Owen|01 April, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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 »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…
Read more »Washington’s high-powered terrorist supporters
By: Glenn Greenwald|14 March, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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”
By: Glenn Greenwald|14 March, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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
By: Tom Engelhardt|12 March, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions
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 »The World War on Democracy
By: John Pilger|20 February, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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 »The New Blacklist—Pat Buchanan On His MSNBC Firing
By: Patrick J. Buchanan|17 February, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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
By: Michael Hudson|16 February, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
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…
Read more »Will the US Launch ‘Mini-Nukes’ Against Iran?
By: Michel Chossudovsky |08 February, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2032 This article by Professor Michel Chossudovsky describes the casual and complete way in which neoconservatives have incorporated the use of tactical nuclear weapons into US war doctrine. These weapons are widely distributed, and theater commanders now have the discretion to attack with nuclear weapons. Anyone so naive as to believe that there is a scrap of morality anywhere in…
Read more »The Assange Case Means That We Are All Suspects Now
By: John Pilger|02 February, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
Original source: http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-assange-case-means-we-are-all-suspects-now By John Pilger This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain.…
Read more »Mikhail Gorbachev, “Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 January, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
http://www.thenation.com/article/165317/world-really-safer-without-soviet-union Dear friends: Led by political and economic reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union agreed with presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush to end the cold war and to reduce nuclear arms. A revolt by diehard communists weakened Gorbachev and resulted in Boris Yeltsin and the leaders of Ukraine and Belorussia abolishing the Soviet Union. The removal of the…
Read more »BIG BROTHER INTERNET
By: Gerald Celente|30 January, 2012|Categories: Gerald Celente
Dear friends: I am pleased to bring to you Gerald Celente’s assessment of the threats posed to Internet freedom. Celente’s Trends Journal is one of the most insightful publications of our era. PCR Do you remember the Safe-Cyber instructions they taught you in the mandatory Computer Ed class (operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology)? First you fire…
Read more »The “anti-Semitism” smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on–Guest Post
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 January, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
Original source: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/19/the_smear_campaign_against_cap_and_media_matters_rolls_on/singleton/ By Glenn Greenwald This is an important article. Glenn Greenwald criticizes the Israel Lobby for smearing liberal writers, some of whom are Jews, as anti-semites in order to prevent any criticism of the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians. Greenwald shows that the Israel Lobby also uses the smear tactic to prevent any questioning of the Israel Lobby’s…
Read more »Beating the Drums of War: Provoking Iran into “Firing the First Shot”? – Guest Post
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 January, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
By Michel Chossudovsky Original Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28652 Introduction While the possibility of a war with Iran is acknowledged in US news reports, its regional and global implications are barely analyzed. Very few people in America are aware or informed regarding the devastation and massive loss of life which would occur in the case of a US-Israeli sponsored attack on Iran.…
Read more »10 Reasons the U.S. is no Longer the Land of the Free–Guest Post
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 January, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
Original Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story.html By Jonathan Turley, Published: January 13, 2012, Washington Post January 14, 2012 “WP” — Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, for example, has been criticized for denying fair public trials and limiting privacy, while Russia has been taken to…
Read more »Guantanamo by the Numbers [Infographic] – ACLU Guest Post
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 January, 2012|Categories: Guest Contributions . Other
Original Source: http://www.aclu.org/national-security/guantanamo-numbers
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