Which nation rates the top prize as the stupidest country on Earth?

Article by John Kaminski. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Oh, what a contest it is! Humanity on parade; bring your barf bag. Which of the 196 recognized nations on our formerly lovely planet can rightfully claim the title of the stupidest country on Earth? One thing is certain — there is no […]

Samir Khan: Proud to be an American traitor

From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Samir Khan was proud to be a traitor. In a way, he was among the most dangerous of al Qaeda terrorists. By turning his back on the country he grew up in, he gained credibility and coupled that with his intimate knowledge of Western culture […]

The Day America Died: The only Future for Americans is a Nightmare

Article by Paul Craig Roberts. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Some of us have watched this day approach and have warned of its coming, only to be greeted with boos and hisses from “patriots” who have come to regard the US Constitution as a device that coddles criminals and terrorists and gets […]

It’s The Money, Stupid

From DumpDC.Com. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— “A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.” — Howard Scott (Editor’s note: I have written over and over and over about how secession cannot be successful without The Power of the Purse. But what you may not have […]

California governor signs law preventing male circumcision ban

From CNN.     ———————————————————————————————————————————————– (CNN) — California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Sunday a bill that prevents local governments from banning the practice of male circumcision. The legislation comes in response to an effort this summer by a San Francisco Bay Area advocacy group opposed to the […]

Death of the Classics

Article by Paul Gottfried.   ———————————————————————————————————————————————— My friend Daniel J. Flynn is publishing a book called Blue Collar Intellectuals. One chapter I’ve seen in proofs, “The People’s Professor,” got me to thinking about a development in post-WWII America it is hard to imagine taking place in the present age. […]

Is The War On Terror A Hoax?

Article by Paul Craig Roberts.   ———————————————————————————————————————————————- September 30, 2011 “Information Clearing House” —  In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions of Muslims in six countries, all in the name of the “war on terror.” Washington’s attacks on the countries constitute naked […]

The hunting of America….another treasonous Act

Article by Marti Oakley. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Who could imagine this day would come?  Obviously, the Pentagon, the Bush Administration not only imagined it, but put it in motion.  Our own government in collusion with the military are openly moving against the people of the United States.  It is more than […]

CIA contractor charged in Pakistan deaths arrested in Colorado

From Jim Spellman, CNN.   ————————————————————————————————————————————————–   Raymond Davis, seen here in a January 2011 photo, was arrested on charges that he killed two men in Pakistan. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Raymond Davis is charged with misdemeanor assault, a sheriff’s official says Davis is accused of getting into a fistfight […]

New Details On Al Qaeda Pentagon Lunch: Defense Dept. Was “Impressed” With Terrorist’s Presentation

More government efficiency for you.   ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Top Pentagon lawyer booked known extremist as featured guest speaker Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com May 20, 2011 New details have emerged in the case of the Al Qaeda front man who was invited to a Pentagon lunch just […]

Rick Perry’s Vulnerabilities with the Right

From the National Journal.   “The US ruling class has continually drifted leftward over the last century to the point where the “Old Left”, the Marxist/Trotskyist/New Deal intellectual Left of the 1930s, are now the ostensible conservative Republicans while the Marcusean cultural Marxists of the 1960s “New Left” […]

The Regionalist: Stormin’ Norman, Decentralist

Article by Bill Kauffman. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- In 1969, Norman Mailer, the dukes-up bard of Brooklyn and a self-proclaimed “left conservative,” undertook a campaign for mayor of the city that had, seven decades earlier, swallowed his borough of homes and churches. Competing in the Democratic primary against a quartet of […]

Anarchism

Article by Bill Kauffman. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Perhaps no political term is quite so misunderstood as “anarchy.” In the popular press, it is a synonym for disorder and chaos, not to mention looting and pillage: countries like Haiti are always being “plunged into anarchy.” The anarchist, meanwhile, is frozen into […]

Contentment Without Religion

Article by Russell Longcore. I don’t generally post articles about religion here, as I like to keep religion and politics separate. I also consider the militant atheism of some strands of classical anarchism (and today’s “New Atheists”) as archaic and largely irrelevant to modern societies. I also don’t […]

Are We At War With Pakistan?

Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– In the days before the Empire, generals – particularly Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs – kept their mouths shut. The Founders’ justified fears of military intrusion into the political realm were still present in the American consciousness, and the idea that an American […]

One Cheer for the DADT Repeal

Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————— With the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the U.S. armed forces ceased at least a major part of their official discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.  Since the Congressional deal last Fall — one of Obama’s promises he actually followed through […]

Thugs of the Organized Criminal Class

Article by David D’Amato. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– The fact that “we live in a post-9/11 world” has become a convenient refrain for law enforcement over the past decade — and one that can apparently be called upon to justify limitless growth of the American police state. This week, reporting on […]

Another Illinois Arrest for Recording a Cop

Article by Radley Balko. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— It’s interesting that the local DA dropped the charges in this case. But only after the guy spent a night in jail. “I’m just an ordinary citizen. I was on my way to the movies, and all of a sudden I’m facing a […]

Ralph Nader’s Grand Alliance

Article by Michael Tracy. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— It’s no secret that Ralph Nader has held the Democratic Party establishment in low regard for decades now: the marginally more palatable alternative in an ugly duopoly, he claims, is still quite ugly. But lately Nader’s disdain has reached a new high. “It’s […]

Ralph Nader Hearts Ron Paul, Hails Potential Left-Libertarian Alliance

Article by Matt Welch. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Michael Tracey, who wrote about restrictive teen-driving laws in the June issue of Reason, catches up with the consumer crusader for The American Conservative: Looking ahead to the 2012 presidential race, one might assume that Nader has little to be cheerful about. Yet […]

Man, 26, charged in plot to bomb Pentagon using model airplane

From CNN. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Model planes used as attack drones? STORY HIGHLIGHTS Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, a U.S. citizen, is charged in plot to bomb Pentagon and Capitol He was allegedly going to use a $6,500 remote-controlled plane laden with explosives He is accused of pledging jihad against the United […]

7-Eleven stores in Taiwan pull Hitler lookalike items

From CNN. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— These items were pulled from 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan after complaints about their resemblance to Adolf Hitler. In Taiwan, 7-Eleven stores have pulled products featuring a cartoon vampire that bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler after receiving complaints from the Israel Economic and Cultural […]

A $64 million runway for no one in Alaska?

From CNN. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— A $64 million runway for no one in Alaska? The route a hovercraft would take between the village of Akutan and the runway on Akun Island. September 28th, 2011 12:56 PM ET   Remember Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere,” a $400 million span that was supposed […]

South Florida ICE official arrested on child porn charges

From CNN. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– updated 2:51 PM EST, Wed September 28, 2011 Anthony Mangione faces three charges related to child pornography, the Justice Department says. STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Report: Anthony Mangione will undergo a psychological evaluation NEW: He pleaded not guilty to the charges in federal court Mangione’s indictment […]

Banned in the US: the Film You Won’t See

Article by Stuart Bramhall. ——————————————————————————————————————— Banned in the US   Film Review The War You Don’t See Produced and directed by John Pilger Americans now have the opportunity of seeing John Pilger’s critically acclaimed The War You Don’t See as a free download at http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/war-you-dont-see/ The groundbreaking documentary […]

The Nazi Obession: It's Time to Move On

Hear, hear! Article by Simon Jenkins. —————————————————————————————————————————————— What is the matter with us? We seem unable to get the Nazis out of our system. Earlier this summer the curtain rose on Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust at the London Coliseum, and my heart sank. The stage was alive […]

War Pigs

One of the greatest rock tunes ever. The first time I ever heard this when I was a kid, I thought it sounded like some kind of satanic orchestra. And its message is still as relevant as ever.

Jose Padilla and how American justice functions

Article by Jose Padilla. —————————————————————————————————————————————— (updated below – Update II) The story of Jose Padilla, continuing through the events of yesterday, expresses so much of the true nature of the War on Terror and especially America’s justice system.  In 2002, the American citizen was arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, publicly […]

Mearsheimer resists urge to say ‘I told ‘em so’

Article by Kelley Vlahos. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– John Mearsheimer wears his vindication well. The 63-year-old University of Chicago professor and co-author of The Israel Lobby and U.S Foreign Policy (with Harvard Professor Stephen Walt) never said he felt vindicated, per se, but the glint in his eye and that smile […]

U.S. to build new massive prison in Bagram

Article by Glenn Greenwald. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- As the Obama administration announced plans for hundreds of billions of dollars more in domestic budget cuts, it late last week solicited bids for the construction of a massive new prison in Bagram, Afghanistan.  Posted on the aptly named FedBizOps.Gov website which it uses […]

Ahmadinejad: Good, Bad, and Ugly

From Taki’s Mag. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Thursday bore the ripely rotten fruit of a now-yearly autumnal Manhattan ritual—Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke before the United Nations General Assembly, vilifying the West and being vilified by the West in return. He said “hateful” things and in turn was hated for it. […]

Walkout at U.N. as Ahmadinejad speaks

From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————– United Nations (CNN) — Delegations from the United States and several European nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly Thursday during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech, in which he repeatedly condemned the United States and said some countries use the Holocaust as an “excuse […]

Wings of Death – US Builds Global Drone Base

Watch the video. ————————————————————————————————————————————— Relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have hit a new low, after a top American military chief accused Pakistan’s Intelligence service of supporting a group behind last week’s attack on the American Embassy in Kabul. Islamabad has strongly denied the claims. One of the […]

Kidnap victim files complaint, blasting feds' 'inexcusable' lack of oversight

From CNN. Interesting. Maybe this will start a trend of suing the state every time it fucks up. The shear volume of lawsuits alone should bring the system to a halt. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— A picture of Jaycee Dugard before she was kidnapped sits framed in her stepfather’s home. STORY […]

Capitalists Never Sleep

Article by Stuart Bramhall. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— TPPA Protest in Chicago (Sept 2011) My fifth and final post about the antiglobalization movement – and why it’s more important than ever in 2011. Activists mustn’t be lured into a false sense of security by the collapse of Doha round of WTO […]

Christians Fined for Bible Study

Article by Matthew Heimbach. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Say goodbye to the days when you could have your friends, family, or members of your Church over to your house to read the word of God. A married California couple were fined $300 dollars because their bible study “violates a city zoning […]

Elbowed Out of Spotlight by 9/11, Anti-Globalization Movement Endures

Article by Mark Engler. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Did the attacks of 9/11 end the movement against corporate globalization? A number of reflections written for the ten-year anniversary of the attacks have raised this question. And I think it presents some interesting challenges for those of us who think about social […]