Typical headline from the corporate media: “Hugo Chavez Nuttily Claims the U.S. Gives South American Leaders Cancer“. The article explains: Yep, it’s another controversial statement from Hugo Chavez — but he really seems to dial up the Nut-O-Meter to 11 with this cancer conspiracy theory. Late yesterday Chavez decided to go on national TV and drop the mild suggestion (not an outright allegation, he insists!) that the U.S. maybe, just
It appears that Ron Paul did well in the Iowa caucuses tonight. On one hand, I am rather delighted by this, but on the other, I am also very concerned that a lot of people are seeing only one side of Ron Paul’s ideology. There is, however, a much darker side to Ron Paul, one which we all must have the courage and intellectual honesty to look at and not
Check out what I found in my email box today: ——- Dear NJDC Supporter, Jewish Republicans and Jewish Democrats disagree about so much, but there’s one thing on which we see eye-to-eye: Ron Paul is bad news when it comes to Israel. The New York Times reported Sunday about some of Paul’s fringe following, which also includes white supremacists and anti-Zionists — and how Paul would “not disavow
by Steve Lendman Russia’s December 4 elections filled 450 State Duma seats, Russia’s Federal Assembly lower house. Claims of electoral fraud followed. All elections have irregularities. At issue is whether results are comprised. Election monitor Golos accusations were spurious. America’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funds it. It supports regime change in non-US client states. It backs opposition groups, conducts propaganda campaigns, and does openly what CIA operatives do covertly
By James Petras for Information Clearing House The economic, political and social outlook for 2012 is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists is pessimistic regarding the world economy. Although, even here, their predictions understate the scope and depth of the crisis, there are powerful reasons to believe that beginning in 2012, we are heading toward a steeper decline than what was experienced during the Great
Dear friends, Today I though I would turn to you to ask you for some assistance. Believe it or not, but I have a relative who sincerely doubts the fact that the West is behind the so-called “color revolutions”. Nope, she sincerely believes that all this is the expression of a “deep longing for freedom” by “the people”… For me this has never been even an issue, so I have
I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to my friends and colleagues, but it is difficult in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my lawyer yesterday, and on his advice I wish to say the following : Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, nonaddictive, gender neutral
The Daily Star Reports: Hezbollah accused the United States Friday of orchestrating the suicide bombings that ripped through the Syrian capital earlier in the day killing over 40 people and wounding scores more. “These bombings which resulted in the deaths and wounding of tens of people, mostly women and children, is the specialty of the United States, the mother of all terrorism,” Hezbollah’s press office said. “[The U.S.] specializes in
“God is dead!” Nietzsche. “God never existed!” Hitchens. “Nietzsche and Hitchens are both dead!” God.
…President Obama Speaking at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism:
by Joe Vinson for the Pensacola Digest: So, a priest walks into a city council meeting — stop me if you’ve heard this one — and is nearly hauled away by the police for speaking calmly to his elected officials. Hilarious, right? Father Nathan Monk wasn’t laughing at last night’s City Council meeting. During the Boyd Forum, an open comment period named in honor of the late civic activist LeRoy
By Economic CollapseEven though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don’t make dramatic changes immediately. If we do not educate the American people about how deathly ill the U.S. economy has become, then they
By M K Bhadrakumar for the Asia Times The United States-Pakistan relationship has reached a turning point reminiscent of the run-up to October 1958, when Washington encouraged General Ayub Khan’s coup, apprehending the coming into power of an elected government in Pakistan that might have refused to collaborate as the US’s Cold War ally against the Soviet Union. An innocuous-looking thing happened on Sunday – Pakistan regained possession of the
By Michael Hudson for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung via Information Clearing House The easiest way to understand Europe’s financial crisis is to look at the solutions being proposed to resolve it. They are a banker’s dream, a grab bag of giveaways that few voters would be likely to approve in a democratic referendum. Bank strategists learned not to risk submitting their plans to democratic vote after Icelanders twice refused in 2010-11
The BBC is reporting that: Moscow is braced for what the opposition claims will be the biggest demonstration in Russia for 20 years. Tens of thousands are expected to gather in a square south of the Kremlin, in the latest show of anger over disputed parliamentary polls. Smaller rallies are due to take place in cities across the country. The protesters allege Sunday’s elections – which gave Prime Minister Vladimir
In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Most Merciful. May Allah reward you and us generously for our great catastrophe which afflicted us by the martyrdom of Abi Abdullah Al Hussein (Peace be upon him). Peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings. I liked to be among you for a few of minutes. They allowed me to do so for that long only or else I would
Sure looks like in my first post about the elections in Russia I missed the obvious “Russian Mousavi”: the good old Mikhail “Gorbi” Gorbachev – the man which the West loves so much for wrecking the Soviet regime and country – now is calling for new elections. Which makes me wonder if George Soros wants to be the (not quite Russian) ‘Russian’ Rafsanjani. So far, he has kept a low
With around 95% of votes counted, here are the results in terms of seats in the next Duma (for percentages, see previous post, update 3) United Russia: 238 seats Communist Party: 92 seats A Just Russia: 64 seats Liberal Democratic Party of Russia: 56 seats This is what the Western press calls “Voters punish Putin”, “Putin Setback”, “Putin barely hangs on to majority” or “Poor results”. That, and of course,
Elections in Russia are talking place and already the Western corporate media is doing exactly what it did with the recent elections in Iran: ‘reporting’ about fraud ‘allegations’. And again, these reports are clearly prima facie idiocy. Here is why: Fist, just as Iran, Russia is a very large country and, at this moment in time, not ever the Russian government has any meaningful results or any kind of measure
