WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY!
Ellen Russell Rabble Capitalism is looking pretty mean these days. No amount of profit is enough, and no level of collateral damage to get that profit is unreasonable. And when capitalism on steroids runs amok, any extremes of public pain are justified to save the butts of those who made the mess in the first [...]
Press TV New research has revealed that the number of British people who die due to fuel poverty is three times more than what the government has estimated, with campaigners calling the number “horrifying.†A research study carried out by fuel poverty expert Professor Christine Liddell of the University of Ulster has revealed that nearly [...]
Press TV Taliban militants claim they have downed a US military helicopter in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nuristan, killing at least 10 people, Press TV reports. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said on Tuesday that the militant group was able to bring down a US chopper as it was flying over the volatile region where the [...]
Press TV Occupy London protesters, whose encampments were destroyed by police and bailiffs, have promised to hold official outdoor “general assemblies†on St Paul’s Cathedral doorsteps to continue their anti-capitalist movement. Around 300 riot police and 100 bailiffs staged a midnight raid Tuesday, dismantled the camp, and loaded the tents, placards into rubbish trucks. While [...]
Kurt Nimmo PrisonPlanet.com Former president Bill Clinton is among nominees for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, Reuters reports. Jan Egeland, the European director of Human Rights Watch, mentioned Clinton after the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was considering two hundred and thirty one names. In 2009, the current war criminal in chief, Barry Obama, [...]
David Blair Telegraph The recent bail-out, which imposes strict new austerity measures on the Greeks, will deepen a crisis that has already driven up the suicide rate by 40 per cent. David Blair reports from Athens on a nation that eyes the future without hope. If popular protest in the graffiti-stained heart of Athens is [...]
Consortium News Exclusive: By obsessing over Iran gaining a nuclear weapon “capability†– even with no actual bomb – while ignoring Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal, the U.S. news media proves the point of its own bias. There’s also the usual hostility toward dissenting voices, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern notes. By Ray McGovern When CNN [...]
Press TV Rupert Murdoch’ News International had paid large sums of cash for information to “a network of corrupt officials†in police force, military and government, Leveson inquiry heard. Metropolitan police deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, who is leading three operations regarding the phone hacking said that the News International’s Sun newspaper has operated a [...]
Press TV Bailiffs and police in London are forcefully dismantling the anti-capitalist camps outside the St Paul’s Cathedral, arresting the Occupy London Stock Exchange activists who resist to leave the area. The riot police are reportedly blocking hundreds of protestors who are trying to get to the cathedral in support of the movement amid reports [...]
Rowena Mason The Telegraph The Government ‘has run out of money’ and cannot afford debt-fuelled tax cuts or extra spending, George Osborne has admitted. In a stark warning ahead of next month’s Budget, the Chancellor said there was little the Coalition could do to stimulate the economy. Mr Osborne made it clear that due to [...]
MÃkis Theodorákis War Is Crime While the Western media point the finger at Syria, Russia and China, a financial government has taken over the power in Greece and in Europe. Composer and resistance icon MÃkis Theodorákis lambastes the joint strategy devised by Greek politicians and financial institutions with the objective of pillaging the country. He [...]
Tony Ortega The Village Voice Last June, we brought you the first review of The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion by Ohio State professor Hugh Urban, and then the first interview with the good professor himself. During that interview, Urban told us that he was planning to continue his research into [...]
Martin Iqbal Empire Strikes Black Angelina Jolie, Goodwill Ambassador to the UN and member of CFR, is now using her profile to promote NATO’s genocidal ‘humanitarian intervention’ war doctrine. In an interview with the Balkans branch of Al Jazeera (NATO’s ‘Ministry of Truth’), Jolie (whose father has been a staunch defender of George W. Bush [...]
Press TV Germany and France have withdrawn their staff from Afghan ministries after two US forces in Kabul were shot dead, as tensions over the desecration of the holy Quran by US-led forces intensify. “The Risk Management Office on Sunday morning ordered its German and international experts in agencies and ministries to be withdrawn” in [...]
Tyler Durden Zero Hedge Since the European colonial state of southern Bavaria Sachs (formerly known as the insolvent Hellenic Republic) no longer even pretends to be anything less than a pass-thru funding colony of its creditors, said creditors (European banks and various insurance companies) are about to send out the first group of colonial scouts [...]
Paul Craig Roberts In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI–the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plotsâ€â€“called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.†Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before grand juries as prosecutors set [...]
Alter Net Angry at the Wall Street banks that were at the center of the financial meltdown, Americans have spent the last six monthsmoving their money to credit unions and community banks in unprecedented numbers. More than 650,000 people moved to credit unions in one month last year, and 5.6 millionAmericans switched banks in the [...]
Press TV German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has said debt-stricken Greece should leave the eurozone because the country will have a better chance to make its economy competitive if it is outside the monetary union. In an interview with news magazine Der Spiegel, Friedrich said he did not mean Greece should be “kicked out†of [...]
Press TV US President Barack Obama has admitted his government’s inability to control the skyrocketing energy prices, as the Republicans continue blaming the White House for the inconvenience. “We know there’s no silver bullet that will bring down gas prices or reduce our dependence on foreign oil overnight,” Obama said in his weekly radio and [...]
Harry Wilson The Telegraph Royal Bank of Scotland “deliberately” doubled its loss for last year to £2bn in what Stephen Hester, the taxpayer-backed lender’s chief executive, admitted was a sign of “Alice in Wonderland” accounting. Mr Hester said the bank, which is 83pc owned by the state, had been “spooked” by the severity of the [...]
Dave Warner Reuters The highest ranking cleric charged in a Philadelphia child abuse scandal asked a judge on Friday to dismiss his case because his boss – the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua – ordered the shredding of a list he made of predator priests. Lawyers for Monsignor William Lynn, 61, filed the motion to dismiss [...]
Press TV Despite the recent US and Israeli hype created around Iran’s nuclear program, a report by American intelligence agencies indicates that Tehran is not seeking to build nuclear weapons. The most recent report on Iran’s nuclear program “represents the consensus of 16 US intelligence agencies,†the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The “highly classified†[...]
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