Media Miss Bigger Picture in Healthcare Debate

There’s one thing more outrageous than the American health care system, and that is the way the utterly prostituted professional politicians and mainstream media help to perpetuate it. [Also see: Insurance Paperwork Wastes Big Chunk of Healthcare Cost]   DATELINE: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) \ http://www.fair.org Extra! May/June 2008 SURPRISE!! Media Miss Bigger Picture in [...]

The Day of the Bullies

By David Irving • [RELATED ARTICLE: HE WHO SAYS SPECIESISM SAYS FASCISM] Conservatively speaking, approximately 100 million vertebrates in the world are experimented upon annually by the animal research industry of which approximately 22 million animals belong to the United States.  Most of the animals are killed after research.  While the animal research industry has [...]

Good Bye, George

George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) In contemporary comedy, he was in a class by himself. GEORGE CARLIN, the fierce, imaginative and uncompromising social critic who spent decades castigating America’s colossal hypocrisy behind the comedian’s mask, has died at 71. His passing, in contrast to the mawkish outpouring of grief routinely engineered by the corporate media on [...]

Innuendo as a weapon of war

By Stephen Gowans Original dateline: August 2, 2002 / Reposted as a classic essay, since “anti-semitism” continues to be used as a cudgel to beat opponents of Israeli policy into submission.  How comforting to know my local newspaper, the Ottawa Citizen, is on the lookout for undesirables, striking an alarm whenever a persona non grata pays [...]

The Supreme Court, Habeas, John Yoo and Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal

By Stephen Lendman Dateline: MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008 Rupert Murdoch has a corrosive effect on whatever he touches, and this writer once tangled with him in an article called Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire. Former Chicago columnist Mike Royko also did and remarked that “no self-respecting fish would (want to be) wrapped in [...]

HUGO CHAVEZ’S NEW WORLD VISION

  By Stephen Lendman [This is a republishing of a classic but necessary article. (Original dateline: 9/2006)] The Venezuelan leader’s New World Vision puts to shame the treacherous policies followed by “Western” governments- that’s why the permanent Washington mafia wants him dead. After agreeing to supply discounted oil to the richest city in Europe – [...]

Religion—the cruelest fraud

We know what this crook would. He’d reach for your pocketbook. From the Pope to Joel Osteen, king of the megachurch phenomenon in America (where else?) modern religion presents us continually with jokers selling fanatical mental rot, or just some snake oil. Religion is by and large the main an enduring product of human ignorance [...]

The War, the Truth, and the New York Times

By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring Now that every one and Charlie’s aunt knows of the crimes of America’s ruling cabal, how about finally asking to bring out the hangman’s ropes? So finally the truth is acknowledged by the mother of all main stream media, the New York Times. The June 6 editorial, ‘The Truth About the War’ [...]

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