You knew it would backfire. Whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO, it was bound to happen. The Bush Crime Family failed at virtually everything during it’s eight-year illegal reign of terror, but it did succeed in becoming a powerful recruiting tool for otherwise innocent Middle-Eastern (for the most part) citizens who were so brutalized by…
It’s starting, Truthseekers. Despite President Obama’s extreme efforts to make nice with the Neocons, they’re still aiming for the jugular, with state Governors leading the assault. First stop Idaho, where Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter issued an executive order prohibiting state agencies from implementing provisions of Obama’s Affordable Care Act health care reform law. According to…
It’s difficult to believe that it has been a year since the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 crew members and began the worst oil spill in history, with an estimated 5 million barrels (over 200 million gallons) of oil dumped into the Gulf of Mexico over a period of 91 days. And that doesn’t…
Is this it? Will the new budget spell the end to our most protected, humanitarian government programs – Medicare and Social Security? These two programs have come to define the compassion and equality for those less fortunate in our nation. We feed our hungry children, house the elderly, care for the sick. These essential social…
Have you read Christopher Hedges’ latest article about our education “system” in America? We hear a lot of complaints about how Americans are slip-sliding down the slope in terms of educating our young people as compared to all other developed nations. Much blame is shifted around from uninvolved parents to poorly paid teachers, underfunded public…
Reading this Sunday’s New York Times was incredible, especially the International news. Virtually every story headline dealt with some kind of crisis or uprising in the Mideast. A fresh uprising in Egypt the new military government, Muammar el-Qaddafi’s military forces in Lybia continue to attack opposition fighters, fresh violence in Syria and also in Yemen…
In New York Wall Street financial institutions paid themselves $20.8 billion in cash bonuses last year while almost 120,000 men, women and children spent at least one night in a city shelter, an all-time record. That’s just one city. Forty-five million Americans go to bed hungry in this country, but that’s not enough for the…
Seems Sec. of Defense Robert Gates is breaking ranks with the administration over Libya. Gates and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton visited David Gregory on Meet the Press on Sunday and shared decidedly different views on our latest excursion into the Mideast. Here’s a sample exchange from the program: MR. GREGORY: Secretary Gates, Is Libya…
Radio Host Mike Malloy Arrested in Washington, DC Hundreds Protest the Treatment of Alleged Wikileaks Whistle Blower Private Bradley Manning Status report: Reactor-by-reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant Snapshot: Japan’s nuclear crisis Workers exposed to radiation in water 10000 times normal level Breach suspected at troubled Japanese power plant Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare Is Our’s Too…
Come you masters of war/ You that build the big guns. You that build the death planes/ You that build all the bombs. You that hide behind walls/ You that hide behind desks. I just want you to know/ I can see through your masks. ~~Bob Dylan Saturday the 19th marks the 8th anniversary of…
