by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… During last spring’s run-up to the reauthorization of three expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) charged that the administration and the FBI was relying on a “secret” interpretation of law to vacuum-up exabytes of data, including cell phone location records and internet data mining that [...]
By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College You know that the debt kerfuffle is as staged as melodramatically as a World Wrestling Federation exhibition when Mr. Obama makes the blatantly empty threat that if Congress does [...]
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… Following revelations earlier this year by The Tech Herald that security firms with close ties to the Pentagon ran black ops for major U.S. banks and corporations, it became clear that proprietary software developed for the military and U.S. intelligence was being used to target Americans. Share on Facebook
By Greg Palast The Washington elite agree we must pay for tax holidays for hedge funds by closing health clinics. President Tiger Wuss will “compromise” with them by making the poorest pay the debts of the richest. In response to a bunch of economic terrorists – “Agree to all our demands or the economy gets [...]
By Stephen Lendman Frances Fitzgerald titled her 2000 book on Reagan’s Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative, “Way Out There in the Blue,” leaving unsaid but letting readers conclude that America during his tenure was run by right wing extremists. He and most others around him were ideologically hard right, their legacy including: – disdain for [...]
By Pedro Blas Gonzalez Dr Pedro Blas Gonzalez is a writer and philosopher who holds a PhD in Philosophy. He has written five books: Human Existence as Radical Reality: Ortega y Gasset’s Philosophy of Subjectivity; Fragments: Essays in Subjectivity, Individuality and Autonomy; Ortega’s The Revolt of the Masses and the Triumph of the New Man; Unamuno: A Lyrical Essay and [...]
Breaking the Lesser Evil stranglehold on the timid masses’ imagination takes a fresh look at the record and an understanding of how American power operates at the top—regardless of labels. In many cases a faux progressive can do far more damage to the nation than a recognized rightwinger. The old Fifth Column trick rarely fails [...]
ARCHIVES: Articles you should have read but missed the first time around— The complicated (and tragic) story between America and Korea goes farther into the past than many would have assumed… BY S. BRIAN WILLSON Originally posted at author’s site: July 1, 2000 The history of U.S. nineteenth century military intervention in Korea included the [...]
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