Saturday, October 20, 2012

The lame rules for presidential debates: a perfect microcosm of US democracy

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Click here to access article by Glenn Greenwald from The Guardian . The author describes the history of the so-called presidential debate...

Marketing Agency, Branding Hope: War, Kony, and "Three Cups of Tea"

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Click here to access article by Sarah Lazare and John Wesley Jones from Jadaliyya .  This is an excellent analysis of the use of current ...

Recovered History: How Wall Street-Funded Self Help Propaganda Greased the Real Estate Bubble

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Click here to access article by Yasha Levine from The Exiled .  The author finds an answer to a vexing question at a little bookshop in t...

Corporate Christianity Canadian Style

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Click here to access a book review by Jim Miles of The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy , authored by Yves Engler, poste...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Cameron and the celebration of slaughter

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Click here to access article by John Westmoreland from Counterfire (UK).  The author exposes the lies used to support the fake patriotis...

Wall Street issues its orders to Obama, Romney

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Click here to access article by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site . I must preface my comments on this article with a critical...

NYC: another bogus "terrorism" bust?

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Click here to access article by Bill Weinberg from World War 4 Report . Periodically the agents of the One Percent manage to entrap some...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Malala the Worthy Victim

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Click here to access article by Margaret Kimberley from Black Agenda Repor t.  US corporate media worked overtime to portray a recent vic...

NATO packs it in; Turkey on the verge of a nervous breakdown

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Click here to access article by Thierry Meyssan from Voltaire Network .  ...the signs of Western retreat from Syria are multiplying. The ...

Define 'Lesser' [evil]

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Click here to access article by Mickey Z. from World News Trust .  The One Percent's propaganda machines are so powerful that even pe...

Post-Revolution Tunisia: Still Fighting for Rights

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Click here to access article by Ghassan Saoud from Al Akhba r.  After reading this piece you may be convinced, as I was, that the so-call...

World’s biggest geoengineering experiment ‘violates UN rules’

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Click here to access article by Martin Lukacs from The Guardian . A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron s...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The Threat of Barbarism: US Imperialism Unleashed

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Click here to access article by Ben Schreiner from MR Zine .  Demand periodically is unable to keep up with supplies furnished by capital...

The teacher vs. the billionaire

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Click here to access article by Sarah Blaskey and Phil Gasper from Socialist Worker . The authors provide a very good summary of evidence...

Iraq records huge rise in birth defects

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Click here to access article by Sarah Morrison from The Independent (UK). I advise you not to read this shortly after consuming a meal--y...

Obama-Romney debate number two: Another stage-managed charade

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Click here to access article by Barry Grey from World Socialist Web Site . I am posting this as an antidote to the nausea you may have su...

NYT Coverage of 'Cuban Missile Crisis'

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Click here to access article by Michael McGehee from his blog Truth Addict . There is much to recommend this as clarifying some issues re...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The New "Golden Age of Oil" That Wasn't

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Click here to access article by Michael T. Klare from European Energy Review . The author offers an up-to-date review of the state of the...

Deniers cherry-pick in vain effort to prove up is down

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Click here to access article from Climate Code Red (Australia). The article illustrates how climate deniers in mainstream media deal wit...

Washington’s Salafist Quagmire in Syria.

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Click here to access article by Christof Lehmann from nsnbc .  The author provides a very interesting take on the current situation in Sy...