BY JOHN STEPPLING Jolie’s titillating real-life “bad girl” persona is a marketer’s dream. Her brand of eye-candy image in comic book hero roles is what a totally decadent culture does best: to serve big dollops of fantasy, violence and sex to a permanently stupefied public. (Promo shot from WANTED) MILITARISM REMAINS FRONT AND CENTER in [...]
The “Sacrifice” of Aldo Moro By Andrew G. Marshall Through NATO, [and] working with various Western European intelligence agencies, the CIA set up a network of stay behind “secret armies” which were responsible for dozens of terrorist atrocities across Western Europe over decades. This report will focus on the stay behind army in Italy, [...]
BY GAITHER STEWART The Motherland Calls, on the mouth of the Volga in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), commemorating the Soviet effort in The Great Patriotic War (WWII) against the Nazis. At 52 meters, the main figure (with the sword it reaches 85 meters) was at one time the tallest monument in the world (the Statue of [...]
This man supposedly killed the biggest bear, ever. But what for? On The Monstrosity of Animal Exploitation and Abuse, and the Causation of Slavery, Genocide, and War By David Irving SINCE THE ADVENT OF CIVILIZATION almost every nation from the smallest to the largest has struggled through periods of unbearable violence. Looking back the world finds [...]
Dateline: June 24th, 2008 This report is the first in a series of reports to examine the costs that extreme inequality place on the rest of us. As Americans prepare to pay extra for checked bags, wait in long lines, and endure crowded commercial flights this summer, super-wealthy private jet owners are enjoying tax breaks [...]
The great Honoré saw it all pretty clearly. DATELINE: July 14, 2008 BEHIND EVERY GREAT FORTUNE, the great French novelist Honoré de Balzac once pronounced, sits a crime. If you can’t see that crime, the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist David Cay Johnston suggests, you’re not looking hard enough.
Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship Concerns grow that Canada’s plan will wipeout alt news sites and spread to U.S. Time to strike back at these avowed enemies of the public interest, and throw their crooked political whores out, as well. Enough is enough. How long are we gonna take it? By Mike Finch A net-neutrality [...]
The departed but not to be imitated Russert. BY LOUIS PROYECT (Swans – June 16, 2008) TIM RUSSERT, the dean of inside-the-beltway television news shows, died on June 13, 2008, at the age of 58 from a massive heart attack. Notwithstanding the reverential coverage on television and in newspapers, his career was symptomatic of everything that [...]
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