U.S. Veto: Speaking With Forked-tongue.

February 21 2011 by rowan wolf in FEATURED, IMPERIALISM, INEQUALITY, MIDDLE EAST AND/OR ISLAM |1 Comment

By Jim Miles Based on article from Al Jazeera US vetoes UN draft on settlements (2/18/2011). It is common within early U.S. history to describe the communications from the white settlers to the indigenous population as being done with a “forked tongue,” as described clearly by Wikipedia: “The phrase ‘speaks with a forked tongue’ means [...]

BUYING BRAND OBAMA / By Chris Hedges

May 6 2009 by Greanville Patrice in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, FEATURED, LIBERALS & FAUX LEFT |2 Comments

What Is Reality?  What Is Illusion?  Can We Still Distinguish Fact From Fiction? BARACK OBAMA IS A BRAND. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media [...]

Goodbye, Bill of Rights / By Philip Giraldi

April 9 2009 by Greanville Patrice in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |No Comments

HITLER WOULD HAVE PROMPTLY RECOGNIZED THE SLIPPERY SLOPE AMERICA’S ON NOW, AND REGARDED IT AS A GOOD OMEN FOR FURTHER MOVES TOWARD A FASCIST REGIME.
“Those who hoped that the change promised by candidate Barack Obama would include repeal of the various acts that have stripped Americans of their constitutional rights should be disappointed. Benjamin Franklin supposedly wrote, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” The citation is likely apocryphal, at least in terms of its attribution to Franklin, but it is useful shorthand for the unfortunate abandonment of many of the liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution as a consequence of 9/11.”

The Cost of Running a Global Empire / By James Quinn

April 6 2009 by Greanville Patrice in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |1 Comment

“The U.S. war machine keeps turning. As we enforce our will on foreign countries, we produce more people who hate us. Just when you think the U.S. government is beginning to make sense by withdrawing troops from Iraq, they make the terrible decision to shuttle 21,000 more troops into the Afghan calamity. At a cost of $3.2 billion per month, we will throw another $38 billion down a rat hole in a country that has no vital strategic importance to the United States. Barack Obama is doing this to prove that he is a true statesman….”

WHO IS REALLY "WINNING" AMERICA'S IMPERIALIST, MIDDLE EAST WARS? / By Gareth Porter

March 6 2009 by Greanville Patrice in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |No Comments

“The decision by Sunni insurgents to cooperate with the U.S. military in 2006 and 2007 was not the result of U.S. military prowess but of their defeat at the hands of Shi’a militias and the realisation that the Sunnis could not oppose three enemies (the U.S., the Shi’a militias and al Qaeda) simultaneously.”