Archive for July, 2009

(Fox) – Cavuto interviews Curatola Read the rest of this entry »

(ProjectCensored) – Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” poster. Read the rest of this entry »

During the Vietnam War, GI dissent was both documented and nurtured by a slew of underground GI newspapers. Papers like “Up Against the Bulkhead,” “Harass the Brass” and “About Face” were mimeographed and passed from base to base, hand to hand. These bold, clever, ragtag papers gave voice to the soldiers’ rage against the injustices of the military and offered advice on everything from filing for conscientious-objector status to organizing anti-war protests. Read the rest of this entry »

While the nation’s economy flounders, business is booming for The GEO Group Inc., a private prison firm that is paid millions by the U.S. government to detain undocumented immigrants and other federal inmates. Read the rest of this entry »

Discussions in George Bush’s team revolved around the timing of the coup. One option under consideration was to synchronize it with Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia in order to demonstrate US assertiveness over all azimuths, but the idea was found too extreme even by the staunchest hawks given the upcoming elections in the US. Read the rest of this entry »

(WSJ) – Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview that Russia’s economy is “withering,” and suggested the trend will force the country to make accommodations to the West on a wide range of national-security issues, including loosening its grip on former Soviet republics and shrinking its vast nuclear arsenal. Read the rest of this entry »

(Independent) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said today that it would strike Israel’s nuclear facilities if Tel Aviv attacked the Islamic state, state television reported. Read the rest of this entry »

The Federal Reserve has extended $14 trillion and doesn’t want any oversight. Former NY Governor and Attorney General Spitzer says the private bankers are running the Fed to bail themselves out. Read the rest of this entry »

(LATimes) – As much as 40% of the workforce could be affected during the peak of a pandemic, health officials say, noting low resistance to the H1N1 virus and its persistence through the summer months. Read the rest of this entry »

After federal border agents detained several Mexican immigrants in western New York in June, an article about the incident in a local newspaper drew an onslaught of vitriolic postings on its Web site. Some were racist. Others attacked farmers in the region, an apple-growing area east of Rochester, accusing them of harboring illegal workers. Still others made personal attacks about the reporter who wrote the article. Read the rest of this entry »

Global Research Editor’s note

We bring to the attention of our readers this 2005 article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. published by Rollingstone.com. Read the rest of this entry »

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday, and in congressional testimony later in the week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured all that thanks to his accurate foresight and deft use of the Fed’s policy toolkit, he could maintain near zero percent interest rates for an extended period without creating inflation. With supernatural powers such as these, one wonders if Ben would be better employed by the Justice League rather than the Federal Reserve. Read the rest of this entry »

According to a story in Friday’s New York Times, Vice-President Cheney advocated in 2002 for the Bush administration to send military troops to Buffalo to arrest the so-called Lackawanna Six as enemy combatants. Read the rest of this entry »

(6-30-09) – Joe Saluzzi talks on Bloomberg and explains how machine trading is distorting the financial markets. Read the rest of this entry »

(7-24-09) – Discussing how to invest in this market, with Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital; Richard Sichel, Philadelphia Trust; Lee Munson, Portfolio Asset Management; Mark Kollar, Kollar Financial Strategies; John Buckingham, Al Frank Asset Management; and CNBC’s Dennis Kneale. Read the rest of this entry »

Some 52 percent of soldiers severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan who have come to the U.S. Army’s largest hospital for treatment have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), an internal study has found. Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – Law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the United States and abroad are preparing to go on high alert as part of a massive terrorism prevention exercise – the first of its kind here. Read the rest of this entry »

(7-24-09) – Dahr Jamail, one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation. Jamail is the recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Read the rest of this entry »

Individual rights. Economic freedom. Increased competition and productivity. These talking points are often foundational to the rhetoric of small government advocates. There are, however, plenty of supporting arguments that don’t achieve nearly the amount of exposure as these more traditional persuasions. Read the rest of this entry »

Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical “Greater Israel.” Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – The active ingredient in marijuana appears to target cancerous brain cells for destruction while leaving healthy cells alone, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Complutense University in Madrid, and published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Following the publication of my story about “the new Mr. America: Bankrupt, Diseased and Running Out of Options,” we received a number of complaints from some readers who thought the story was too dark. It’s just “too negative” to talk about the actual financial numbers in the U.S. budget, it seems. Who really cares about all that accounting, anyway? (Congress obviously doesn’t…) What Americans really want is more happy talk! Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – With a military rifle in one hand and a bottle of prescription medications in the other, the new “Mr. America” is over-fed, under-nourished, over-medicated, over-spent and “over there” (waging war in the Middle East). Read the rest of this entry »

The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits rose by 30,000 in the week ended July 18, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The total for the week was 554,000. Read the rest of this entry »

The name of the program is That’s Impossible-Weather Warfare and it airs on July 25th on the History Channel Read the rest of this entry »

US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen on Thursday said he believed the top leadership of Al Qaeda, including Osama Bin Laden, was in Pakistan. Read the rest of this entry »

Saint Louis University has received 500 calls from people interested in volunteering to try a new swine flu vaccine. Read the rest of this entry »

(ScienceDaily) – A leading microbiologist from the University of Southampton has told a conference that his research has found copper is effective in inhibiting the influenza A H1N1 virus. Read the rest of this entry »

(HuffPost) – The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke. Read the rest of this entry »

Warning: Reading the following may be hazardous to your mental health. The material herein has caused readers to experience Cognitive Dissonance (CD). CD is the discomfort felt at the discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation that contradicts a strongly held belief system – It’s that queasy feeling that rises in your gut and screams, I DON’T BELIEVE THAT! Because, if you accepted the new information, you would have to admit you been ”had,” or ”conned,” in this case into shopping for stuff to trash the planet. Read the rest of this entry »

American economists think the world can’t afford to let go of the dollar’s reserve currency status. The world is about to teach them differently. Read the rest of this entry »

Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be “disastrous” for Texas. Read the rest of this entry »

(NewScientist) – The Pentagon’s enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be fired from an aircraft. Read the rest of this entry »

Genetically modified foods are not safe. The only reason they’re in our food supply is because government bureaucrats with ties to industry suppressed or manipulated scientific research and deprived consumers of the information they need to make informed choices about whether or not to eat genetically modified foods. Read the rest of this entry »

“Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects anonymous testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifada.” They recount experiences that deeply affected them, including abusing Palestinians, looting, destroying property, and other practices “excused as military necessities, or explained as extreme and unique cases.” Read the rest of this entry »

(Fox) – Federal law now criminalizes activities that the average person would never dream would land him in prison. Consequently, every year, thousands of upstanding, responsible Americans run afoul of some incomprehensible federal law and end up serving time in federal prison. Read the rest of this entry »

(NYTimes) – The nation’s top public health officials are alerting doctors that swine flu may cause seizures, after four children were hospitalized in Texas for neurological complications. Read the rest of this entry »

When I attended the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Shooting, Hunting Outdoor Trade Show in Orlando, Fla., last Jan­uary, there was a completely different atmosphere among the 1,700 firearms-related manufacturers and the thousands of dealers that attended. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – All parents will be forced to sign “contracts” to ensure their children behave at school, the Government has announced. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed against it by Nigerian parents who claim the company caused harm to their children by using them as guinea pigs in a nonconsensual, unlicensed drug trial. Read the rest of this entry »

The Matthew Shepard Act, as part of the 2010 Department of Defense Authorization Bill that it is attached to, has now officially cleared the Senate and is making its way toward President Obama’s desk but first must make a stop at a conference committee to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate versions of the legislation before final votes in September, but it does so after having had four amendments made to it, one of which adds a death penalty provision. Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) – Morgan Stanley is setting aside a huge sum to pay out bonuses despite posting its third consecutive quarterly loss and admitting it is disappointed with key departments. Read the rest of this entry »

“When a government lies to you, it no longer has authority over you.” Cindy Sheehan. Dallas, Tx; 2005
(CindySheehan) – Okay, so the United States of America has had a new puppet regime for six months now. I was never so much into giving Obama a “chance” and I think it’s way past time to call Obama and his supporters out, like we called Bush and his supporters out. Our Presidents are merely puppets for the Robber Class and Obama is no exception. Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s be honest, America is facing the same legal, moral and ethical questions that our Founding generation did, especially regarding the issue of “Who Is Sovereign in the United States.” For our Founders, they fought, bled and died on the principles that no man or government has the right to rule over others contrary to their agreement (i.e. compact, constitution) Read the rest of this entry »

(HenryMakow) – The drawback of denying mankind is in the grip of a Satanic cult is that the Illuminati will continue to degrade, slaughter and bankrupt humanity until it is sucked dry. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Many cases of senior dementia are actually caused by drug side effects and could be reversed with a change in prescription, reports the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen on its Web site WorstPills.org. Read the rest of this entry »