A Lie that serves the rich — Roberts, Titus, Kranzler

A Lie That Serves The Rich the truth about the American economy Paul Craig Roberts, John Titus, and Dave Kranzler The labor force participation rate has declined from 66.5% in 2007 prior to the last downturn to 62.7% today. This decline in the participation rate is difficult to reconcile with the alleged economic recovery that began in June 2009 and…

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Inside America’s Prisons — James Ridgeway

Guest Column by James Ridgeway from CounterPunch http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/04/inside-americas-prisons/print American politicians and media can’t stop screaming about how inhumane Muslims are because those few whom we have enraged cut off heads of a handful of people instead of blowing to bits with bombs hundreds of thousands of people. Read Ridgeway’s report and decide for yourself if anyone is more inhumane than…

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Guest Column by Peter Haisenko

Guest Column by Peter Haisenko Peter Haisenko was a pilot for Lufthansa for 30 years. In the article below he explains his conclusion that the Malaysian airliner downed in Ukraine was hit first by an air-to-air missile from a Ukrainian fighter jet and then by machine gun fire. As Ukrainian air control has refused to release its communications with the…

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