Contradictions and Hypocrisy Professor Obama Lectures the Muslim World

By Esam Al-AminSeptember 30, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - On Sept. 25, Professor-turned President Barack Obama lectured the Muslim World and world leaders during his annual address before the United Nations.The beautifully crafted speech of the Nobel peace laureate would have been believed – and better received—had it simply been genuine. The president’s appeal for...

Killed For Exposing Truth

He knew what was at stake. “My people are dying and I am waiting my turn,” he wrote. Maya knew that powerful forces were at work maligning his country.By Finian CunninghamSeptember 30, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The 33-year-old journalist placed his own life in danger on several occasions because he wanted the world to...

Romney Wants to Waterboard Again: Bringing Torture Back

By Matthew RothschildSeptember 30, 2012 "The Progressive" -- So now Mitt Romney wants to bring waterboarding back?An article buried on the bottom of page 13 of The New York Times on Friday revealed that Romney’s national security team has recommended to him that he rescind President Obama’s executive order barring torture.The Times article, by the...

International Warlords Coercing Mankind

By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhDSeptember 30, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - And here is the dilemma we face as a civilization. We march collectively toward self-annihilation. Corporate capitalism, if left unchecked, will kill us. Yet we refuse, because we cannot think and no longer listen to those who do think, to see what is about...

Failed UNGA-rithm: Pointless talks of war & peace flip-flop?

Financialization and the World Economy

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Failed UNGA-rithm: Pointless talks of war & peace flip-flop?

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Cut & Bleeding: Austerity-bitten Spain stands up in fury

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Bad Romance: Iran saber-rattling strains US-Israel relationship

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Video: Violent clashes erupt as Madrid cops squelch austerity protest

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"Political Fraud" by ClassWarFilms

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“Political Fraud”

Video By Class War Films Addiction is a kind of insanity. The American people have been addicted by relentless indoctrination to the worship of a cynically concocted fantasy version of their country. See also Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine - A brief and crucial history of the United States. Posted September 29, 2012 To...

Egypt’s Morsi Takes UN Center Stage on Syria and Palestine

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Venezuelan Barrios Vote for Chavez and Participatory Democracy

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Parallel secret services

function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element'); } LAUNCHING THE U.S. TERROR WAR (2/3)by Peter Dale ScottContinuing his analysis, Peter Dale Scott shows that liaison arrangements among the intelligence agencies of allied countries gave rise to parallel services and shadow operations. This former Canadian diplomat thereby reveals the method that allowed the September 11...

‘US aims to destabilize Iran by dropping opposition group from terror list’

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‘UN ridiculous, cover for US hypocrisy as force for democracy’

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Dollar Hegemony in the Empire of the Damned

function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element'); } By Colin TodhunterGlobal ResearchMany commentators and economists wonder if the US is able to turn its ailing economy around. The reality is that it is bankrupt. However, as long as the dollar remains the world currency, the US can continue to pay its bills by simply...

Report reveals deteriorating social conditions in Wisconsin

By Niles Williamson 29 September 2012The scope of the social crisis in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin is revealed in a recent report, “The State of Working Wisconsin 2012,” released by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.While the overall unemployment rate has dropped from a peak of 9.2 percent in July of...

US scuttles Syria negotiations, backs anti-Assad forces at UN

By Niall Green 29 September 2012Syrian opposition fighters linked to the US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) launched a major offensive in the city of Aleppo on Friday. The main commercial center and most populous city in Syria, Aleppo has seen months of heavy fighting between the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and opposition militant groups...

Building Bridges Instead of Imperial Wars

by: John Grant“Blows that don’t break your back make it stronger.”- Anthony Quinn in Omar Mukhtar, Lion of the DesertFor years, I’ve been working either in the journalism realm or as an antiwar veteran activist expressing the core idea that the United States of America is an “empire,” that its militarist foreign policy is “imperialistic” and...

Oops! They Rigged It Again

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CrossTalk: Bibi’s Bomb

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Judges to Review Constitutionality of NDAA Military Detention Legislation

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America’s Drone Attacks Are ‘Killing 49 People for Every Known Terrorist in Pakistan’

 Study found war against violent Islamists has become increasingly deadly Researchers blame common tactic now being used – the 'double-tap' strike Drone strikes condemned for their ineffectiveness in targeting militantsBy Leon WatsonSeptember 28, 2012 "Daily Mail" --  Just one in 50 victims of America’s deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists – while the rest are innocent civilians,...

A Culture of Delusion

By Paul Craig RobertsSeptember 28, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - A writer’s greatest disappointments are readers who have knee-jerk responses. Not all readers, of course. Some readers are thoughtful and supportive. Others express thanks for opening their eyes. But the majority are happy when a writer tells them what they want to hear and are...

Israel Is A Pretty Crazy State

An Interview With Noam ChomskyBy Ricardo LezamaSeptember 28, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - - RICARDO LEZAMA: Have you heard about the Stand With Us group/campaign?NOAM CHOMSKY: No. Tell me about it.LEZAMA: They are a group that spread favorable propaganda regarding the IDF on different campuses.CHOMSKY: Never heard of them.LEZAMA: Just trying to see how prominent...

‘Our (New) Terrorists’ the MEK: Have We Seen This Movie Before?

By Coleen Rowley Former FBI Special AgentSeptember 28, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - And what kind of mind-boggling corruption -- of the worst kind -- influence peddling by a "foreign power" (as defined by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to include foreign terrorist groups) -- lies hidden behind the curtain? Could some members of the...

Mitt Romney Blurts Out The Truth About Neo-conservatism

By Linda McQuaigSeptember 28, 2012 "The Toronto Star" -- Ironically, in the now-famous video that seems likely to end his political career, it could be said that Mitt Romney was speaking truth to power.Of course, “speaking truth to power” is a phrase normally used to describe courageous souls who risk their own hides to take...

Georgia accused of fostering terrorism as prison abuse affair not fading

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News Bulletin — 06:00 GMT

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US agrees to extend South Korea’s missile range

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The terror of US drone warfare

By Ernst Wolff 28 September 2012A new study, “Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan,” describes the terrorizing of Pakistan’s civilian population by US drone assaults.The study, released by researchers at New York University School of Law and Stanford University Law School, includes interviews with survivors of drone...

Obama Grandstanding at the UN

President Obama's speech in front of the UN on Tuesday was a study in total detachment from reality. The man is totally unaware that the rest of the world (not his mythical "international community" in reality only comprised of the FUKUS axis and its sycophants) sees right through the platitudes, the hypocrisy and total deception...

Mahmoud Abbas asks UN General Assembly to recognize Palestine as ‘non-member state’

Full TranscriptSeptember 27, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tells UN General Assembly in New York: Prevent the occurence of a new Nakba in the Holy Land. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyFull Transcript"I wish to begin by extending congratulations to the President of the 67tu session of the United Nations...

Video – Netanyahu Addresses the UN General Assembly

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America’s Pusillanimous Press

By Jim Hightower September 27, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Let us now access the state of the free press in this land of ... well, of press freedom. The assessment? Pathetic. Not because of any government clampdown, but because of increasing press pusillanimity.In recent years, newspaper reporting had already been severely weakened by drastic cutbacks...

Why Qatar Wants to Invade Syria

By Pepe EscobarSeptember 27, 2012 "Asia Times " -- Make no mistake; the Emir of Qatar is on a roll.What an entrance at the UN General Assembly in New York; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani called for an Arab coalition of the willing-style invasion of Syria, no less. [1]In the words of the Emir, "It...

US Calls Assange ‘Enemy of State’

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Julian Assange to UN: ‘US trying to erect national secrecy regime’ (Full…

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Humala government outlaws strikes by Peruvian teachers and doctors

By Armando Cruz 27 September 2012A pair of wildcat strikes by teachers and doctors has become the latest episode of class struggle to undermine the government of Peru’s nationalist president, Ollanta Humala.An estimated 14,000 to 15,000 doctors from hospitals throughout the country have joined a strike for a salary increase and to demand more government spending...

US elections conceal preparations for war with Iran

27 September 2012Within American ruling circles, it is well known that plans for war against Iran are far advanced, but there is a conspiracy of silence by both political parties and the media to keep this reality out of the presidential election. The intent is to drag the American people into yet another bloody war...

Qatar – Rich and Dangerous

By Felix ImontiSeptember 26, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The first concern of the Emir of Qatar is the prosperity and security of the tiny kingdom. To achieve that, he knows no limits.Stuck between Iran and Saudi Arabia is Qatar with the third largest natural gas deposit in the world. The gas gives the nearly...

AIPAC-Drafted US Aid to Israel Illegal

Israel's nuclear weapons render it ineligible for US aidBy Grant SmithSeptember 26, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The Israel lobby’s biggest and longest-running Washington boondoggles are the massive annual weapons and economic packages to Israel. Tightly coordinated campaign contributors (both individuals and political action committees) and the Israeli government’s own quiet demands manifest themselves within...

Fatah Israeli Collaborators

By Stephen LendmanSeptember 26, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Call it an open secret. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, unelected Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and like-minded Fatah officials collaborate with Israel's occupation harshness.At least since Oslo, they served Israel at the expense of their own people. Abbas is more Israeli sheriff than legitimate president. He suppresses...

Ralph Nader: Obama’s a ‘War Criminal’

By Patrick GavinSeptember 26, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - It’s no surprise that Ralph Nader isn’t a fan of former President George W. Bush. After all, the longtime activist ran against him in both 2000 and 2004. But Nader’s even less a fan of President Barack Obama, if only because he thinks Obama was capable...

None Of Us Are Free – If One Of Us Is Chained

None Of Us Are Free - If One Of Us Is ChainedBy Solomon BurkeWell you better listen my sister's and brothers,'Cause if you do you can hearThere are voices still calling across the years.And they're all crying across the ocean,And they're cryin across the land,And they will till we all come to understand. Continuefunction googleTranslateElementInit() {...

US Special Forces Deployed in Iraq, Again

By Tom Hayden September 26, 2012 "The Nation" -- Despite the official US military withdrawal last December, American special forces "recently" returned to Iraq on a counter-terrorism mission, according to an American general in charge of weapons sales there. The mission was reported by the New York Times, in the fifteenth paragraph of a story about...

Redistributing Wealth Upward

By Harold MeyersonSeptember 26, 2012 "Washington Post ' - -Which is the more redistributionist of our two parties? In recent decades, as Republicans have devoted themselves with laser-like intensity to redistributing America’s wealth and income upward, the evidence suggests the answer is the GOP.The most obvious way that Republicans have robbed from the middle to...

Pakistan government breaks up protests against the US

By Sampath Perera 26 September 2012Last Friday, Pakistani police and paramilitary forces violently broke up protests by hundreds of thousands of people called by the Pakistani government against the anti-Islamic Innocence of Muslims video. Police left 23 dead and injured more than 200. The protests in Pakistan came as outrage erupted throughout the Muslim world over...

In fourth date with death, Texas inmate executed by lethal injection

By Kate Randall 26 September 2012Cleve Foster was executed Wednesday after the US Supreme Court refused to grant him a stay. The Texas death row inmate had faced three previous execution dates in the course of a year, but had been granted last-minute reprieves.The high court ruling came down about two hours before Foster was set...

Obama uses UN speech to threaten war against Iran

By Bill Van Auken 26 September 2012President Barack Obama postured before the United Nations Tuesday as the champion of peace and democracy, while threatening war against Iran and demanding a crackdown against the wave of anti-US demonstrations that have swept the Middle East.This, Obama’s fourth address to an opening session of the UN General Assembly since...

In Aleppo Once: Old Allies Reunite in Syria to Foment Future War

By Chris FloydThe anguished Othello -- fatally fouled in the puppeteer's strings -- pointed to his death-dealing work on behalf of empire in the Syrian city of Aleppo as one of the crowning achievements of his life. Indeed, he re-enacted this bloody imperial service -- against Muslim infidels -- in taking his own life: "And...

Full Show 9/25/12: The Obama/Hitler Comparison

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Peter Tchir on the Dangers and Pitfalls of a World Reaching for Holy Gra…

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Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Market 20 Times Global GDP

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The Crisis and Who Has Power

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Dumb and Hateful: The Consequences of US Islamophobia

Boykinism: Joe McCarthy Would UnderstandBy Andrew Bacevich September 25, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - First came the hullaballoo over the “Mosque at Ground Zero.” Then there was Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida, grabbing headlines as he promoted “International Burn-a-Koran Day.” Most recently, we have an American posting a slanderous anti-Muslim video on the Internet with...

Systemic Destabilization in Recent American History: 9/11, the JFK Assassination, and the Oklahoma City Bombing as a Strategy of Tension

By Peter Dale ScottSeptember 25, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Introduction: Structural Deep Events and the Strategy of Tension in ItalyFrom an American standpoint, it is easy to see clearly how Italian history was systematically destabilized in the second half of the 20th century, by a series of what I call structural deep events. I...

Thousands of Foxconn workers clash with security guards in China

By John Chan 25 September 2012Taiwan-based Foxconn, the world’s largest outsourcing electronics manufacturer, had to suspend production at one of its major facilities, in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan, on Monday following a protest during which 2,000 assembly line workers clashed with 1,500 security guards.The unrest is another sign of the rising social tensions in...

Romney’s “47 percent” video and the bipartisan assault on social reform

25 September 2012When Mitt Romney told backers at the Boca Raton mansion of a fellow corporate raider that 47 percent of Americans are freeloaders who believe they are “entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name it,” he was not just expressing the outlook of the Republican Party.The secretly filmed video of his...

Barbarians arrive as UN judges Syria

By Vijay Prashad "How would you cry when the spears of the enemies are broken on your waist? And your body is the battleground between your big murderer and your small murderer, where could you send the call?" - Mahmoud Darwish, "Fi Intizar al-barabira [Waiting for the Barbarians]," Al-Karmel, 1987 On September 24, as the UN General...

How Do You Take Your Poison?

By Chris Hedges  "Information Clearing House" - We will all swallow our cup of corporate poison. We can take it from nurse Romney, who will tell us not to whine and play the victim, or we can take it from nurse Obama, who will assure us that this hurts him even more than it hurts us,...

Jim Grant offers his Observations on QE to Infinity and the Great Levita…

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Lebanon Next? Sectarian split in Syria makes neighbors nervous

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Egypt Dilemma: US puppet or independent state?

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“War on Iran Will Trigger World War III”

By Prof Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, September 24, 2012“Our defensive power has been created on the basis of our defensive strategy and the presumption ruling our defensive strategy is that we will enter an massive battle with a US-led coalition.” Brigadier General Hossein Salami, IRGC Deputy Commander, September 2012)* * *Both the US and Israel have threatened...

Iran and the "Red Line" Debate

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New Quebec Government Cancels Tuition Hike

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Canada’s hostility to Iran is overblown

function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element'); } By Ardeshir Ommani Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing. On Friday, September 7, 2012, the Canadian government at the order of Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut down the...

Melting ice in the Arctic unleashes race for profits

By Ernst Wolff 24 September 2012Arctic sea ice extent dropped to the lowest level ever recorded, bottoming out at 3.41 million square kilometres (1.31 million square miles) on September 16, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). That is 49 percent below the average minimum recorded during the 1980s and 1990s.“Things are developing...

International Day of Peace: Some kind of joke?

24.09.2012So, the United Nations Organization celebrated the International Day of Peace on Friday September 21. What a noble ideal... but looking around us, is this not some kind of a joke? The UNO is powerless to prevent conflicts, it is powerless to implement international law, it is powerless to uphold the terms of its own...

Strike on Iran would trigger ‘World War III’: Guards

By Farhad Pouladi September 23, 2012 "AFP" -- TEHRAN — Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike if Israel prepares to attack it, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander told broadcaster Al-Alam on Sunday, a day after his boss warned that conflict was inevitable.Should Israel and Iran engage militarily, "nothing is predictable... and it will turn into World...

"When Will We Come To Our Senses?" Is Threatening Iran With A Pre-emptive Strike Responsible?

By Deepak ChopraDeepak Chopra provides a thoughtful exploration of the consequences of threats by politicians about pre-emptive strikes on Iran to curb its nuclear program.* Is it responsible to make these types of threats? What are the various repercussions of this posture?Video Posted September 23, 2012http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32536.htmfunction googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element');}

MEK Decision: Multimillion-dollar Campaign Led to Removal from Terror List

Revealed: the steady flow of funds to members of Congress, lobbying firms and former officials in support of Iranian groupBy Chris McGrealSeptember 24, 2012 "The Guardian" -- September 21, 2012 -- Supporters of a designated Iranian terrorist organisation have won a long struggle to see it unbanned in the US after pouring millions of dollars...

The Innocence of U.S. Foreign Policy

By Robert KoehlerSeptember 23, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The Saturday headline in the Wall Street Journal was: "Anti-U.S. Mobs on Rampage."The next day, a NATO airstrike killed eight women collecting firewood in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, an event that garnered virtually zero mainstream U.S. headlines.Somewhere in the gap between these two phenomena --...

Egypt’s New Leader Spells Out Terms for U.S.-Arab Ties

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEVEN ERLANGERSeptember 23, 2012 "New York Times" - - CAIRO — On the eve of his first trip to the United States as Egypt’s new Islamist president,Mohamed Morsi said the United States needed to fundamentally change its approach to the Arab world, showing greater respect for its values and helping...

Houston Cop Shoots and Kills Double-amputee in Wheelchair

In a World Gone CrazyBy Anne SewellSeptember 23, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Houston - In an incident outside of a group home in Houston, a police officer shot and killed a wheelchair bound, double-amputee after the man threatened his partner.Unfortunately the object with which the man was threatening the officer's partner turned out to...

Libya, Green is Back

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Taking Stock of the Occupy Movement

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QE3 Another Fed Give Away to the Banks

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Mexican Drug War Victims Denounce US Complicity

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Quebecois win yields death of tuition hike

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U.S. Economic Freedom Plummets to 18th Place Globally

By Alex NewmanSeptember 22, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Due in large part to an explosion of government spending and less secure property rights, the United States plunged to its lowest ever ranking on the Economic Freedom of the World report, dropping from second place out of 144 nations in 2000 to a humiliating 18th...

Italy Sentences 23 CIA Agents in Rendition Case

Torture and ImpunityObama Refuses to Prosecute Anyone for TortureBy Democracy Now!Alfred McCoy, professor of history at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation.As a candidate four years ago, Obama unequivocally denounced torture and extraordinary rendition.SEN. BARACK OBAMA: We have to be clear and unequivocal:...

Saudi Millions and Special Forces Expertise Turn Syria’s Rebels Into a Fighting Force

Syria's ragtag rebel army is being turned into a disciplined military force, with the help of tens of millions of dollars of funding from the Middle East and under the watchful gaze of foreign former special forces. By Ruth Sherlock, Idlib Province, SyriaSeptember 22, 2012 "The Telegraph" - Hidden under olive groves in the rolling countryside...

The American War Machine

Must Watch 9 Minute VideoBy Joe RoganWhen people say "support the troops" but aren't fighting to bring them home and get the criminals who run things in check, I wonder how serious they are about helping anybody. Joe Rogan speaks for those who can't.-WARNING -This video contain language that some people may find offensive.Posted May...

13 Powerful Images of Muslim Rage

By Max ReadSeptember 22, 2012 "Gawker" --  "MUSLIM RAGE," screams Newsweek's new cover story about last week's violent anti-American protests. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the well-known anti-Islam activist, is here to tell "us" (The_West) how to "end it." And it's true, isn't it? All Muslims are constantly raging about everything. So to pay tribute to Ali's article...

Senate Reaffirms US Commitment to Stop Iran from Obtaining Nukes

Resolution — passed 90-1 By The Associated PressSeptember 22, 2012 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a resolution that reaffirms US efforts to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and says containment of a nuclear-capable Iran is not an option.By a vote of 90-1 early Saturday, the Senate backed the nonbinding measure...

‘Cranks and Crazies’ Have Taken Over US Republicans, Says Australian Minister

Wayne Swan, the Australian treasurer, says greatest threat to US economy is the 'cranks and crazies' in the Republican partyBy Reuters in Canberra September 21, 2012 "The Guardian" - - The Australian treasurer, Wayne Swan, in an unusually blunt criticism of US politics weeks before the presidential election, said "cranks and crazies" had taken over the Republicans...

Top Hedge Fund Manager Warns on Hitler Scenario

By Robert WenzelSeptember 22, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio appeared on CNBC this morning and warned of potential social unrest and what it could mean.Dalio said (via BI):I don't know whether we're beyond the point of being able to successfully manage this. And I worry then about – social...

US Ambassador Killed by Gaddafi Supporters

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The Neocons and 9/11

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Is the Arizona Mexico Border a War Zone?

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Obama moves to overturn court ruling invalidating indefinite detention law

By John Andrews 22 September 2012Obama administration lawyers have appealed last week’s court ruling invalidating the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed by Congress and signed by Obama last New Year’s Eve.Section 1021, a single paragraph buried within the 565-page NDAA, gives the president express authority “to detain covered persons…...

Life expectancy falling for the poorest Americans

By Patrick Martin 22 September 2012According to a study conducted for the professional journal Health Affairs, life expectancy is falling for significant sections of the working class in the United States, and in some cases has reverted to levels not seen in half a century.The figures reported are stark. The gap in life expectancy between the...