Growing Hunger and Homelessness in America

By Stephen Lendman Cover of  America’s Youngest Outcasts: 2010 Millions of Americans now endure protracted Depression conditions at a time half the population is either poor or low income. Long-term unemployment is unprecedented, and federal aid is being cut, not increased.

Empires Don’t Apologize: Iran in the Imperial Crosshairs

by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… After first denying that the Iranian military had captured the CIA’s RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone, and then reluctantly acknowledging the fact only after PressTV aired footage of the killer bot, the Associated Press reported that “the Obama administration said Monday it has delivered a formal request to Iran” that they [...]

Obama, Congress back legalization of a police state

By Bill van Auken. Republished with permission from WSWS. The US Senate’s approval Thursday of legislation allowing the indefinite military detention of US citizens without charges or trials marks a new stage in a decade of uninterrupted assault on the most fundamental democratic and constitutional rights The Senate’s 86-to-13 vote in favor of the legislation [...]

Recovering from Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS): “Because the cops don’t need you and man they expect the same”

By Phil Rockstroh   Witnessing the acts and utterances of Republican presidential candidates can be regarded as a helpful psychological exercise, a type of “exposure therapy” involving the development of methods used to bear the presence of unbearable people who insist on evincing the history of human ignorance, duplicity and insanity. “I can’t go on; [...]

Masked in Gaza: The Untold History of Palestinian ‘Militancy’

By Ramzy Baroud Essam Al-Batsh and his nephew, Sobhi Al-Batsh, are the latest in a long line of reported Palestinian ‘militants’ killed by Israel. They were both targeted while driving in a car in downtown Gaza on December 8. According to an Israeli army statement, “(They) were affiliated with a terrorist squad that intended to [...]

Muslim Charity Principals Denied Justice

By Stephen Lendman On January 25, 1995, Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12947 – Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process. The same year, Hamas was declared a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). It’s still one today, so any individual or group charged with providing it material support (true or [...]

Don’t Kill the Messenger (Service)

By Rowan Wolf We are watching the destruction of an American institution which I feel needs to be saved. That institution is the US Postal Service. There has been an all out attack on the Postal Service to drive it out of existence. Why? I think there are two reasons the Republicans have gone after [...]

Slouching Towards Disaster: America’s Covert War Against Iran

by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… Legendary investigative journalist I.F. Stone famously observed: “All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.” Amongst Washington elites and the courtier press, it appears that more than a pipe or two has been passed around of late as the [...]

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