Democracy?

US: Congress considers bill to regulate college football playoffs.

(It is comforting to know that government is looking after such vitally important issues. Once collectivism is accepted as the political model, it always grows until it controls even the most inconsequential aspects of human activity.) AP | Yahoo.com Dismissing complaints from some members that Congress had more pressing matters, a House subcommittee approved legislation [...]

FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Subpoenaed, Set to ‘Break’ Gag Order Unless DoJ Intercedes

Former agency translator called to testify in Ohio election case this Saturday on Turkish infiltration of U.S. government. Brad Friedman | BradBlog.com Unless the Dept. of Justice re-invokes their twice-invoked “state secrets privilege” claim in order to once again gag former FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, her attorneys have notified the department by hand-delivered, sworn letter [...]

Democracy Now! Broadcast Exclusive: Declassified Docs Reveal Military Operative Spied on WA Peace Groups, Activist Friends Stunned

DemocracyNow.org Watch Democracy Now Segment online Now Newly declassified documents reveal that an active member of Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance in Washington state was actually an informant for the US military. The man everyone knew as “John Jacob” was in fact John Towery, a member of the Force Protection Service [...]

Government by Goldman Sachs

Rolling Stone: The Great American Bubble Machine 1 of 5

Dr. Robert M. Bowman (In-Studio) on Alex Jones Tv 1/5:America Is Artificially Divided July 8,2009

Alex welcomes in-studio Robert M. Bowman, former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions, and presidential candidate for the Reform Party in 2000. http://thepatriots.us/ http://prisonplanet.tv/

The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free

Chris Hedges | TruthDig.com The ability of the corporate state to pacify the country by extending credit and providing cheap manufactured goods to the masses is gone. The pernicious idea that democracy lies in the choice between competing brands and the freedom to accumulate vast sums of personal wealth at the expense of others has [...]

Jack Bauer can’t stop ‘The Goldman Conspiracy’

10 reasons why Wall Street has absolute power over America’s democracy Paul Farrell | MarketWatch.com ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Two mind-numbing fast-paced dramas. Two parallel worlds. One real, one fiction, both deadly. Jack Bauer, mythic hero of “24.” Dying from a deadly bio-pathogen leaked from weapons developed by Starkwood, a rogue mercenary army attacking [...]

Dean: DNC Uses Credit Card Data to Predict Votes

What’s in your wallet? Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean would like to know. Dean and Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan were speakers at a luncheon at the National Press Club Nov. 5, where both reflected on what went right and wrong with their efforts during the 2008 election cycle. Dean revealed his party [...]

Hope for Change or Change Your Hopes? – by Michael Collins

Michael Collins | 911blogger.com “Some say” that no matter who gets elected we’re still going to be in Iraq, the bailout will continue, and there will be no drawdown of the bloated budgets, particularly the military, that feed the defense contractors their daily ration. We’re not getting national health, rather an electronic exchange and so forth [...]

Stolen Elections and Media Blackouts

An Interview With Mark Crispin MillerCarolyn Baker | GlobalResearch.caShortly before a public lecture presented at Champlain College, I sat down with Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Studies at New York University, to ask him a number of questions regarding stolen elections-a subject Miller has researched and written about extensively. Greg Palast, Robert F. Kennedy, [...]

Secret Bush Administration Plan to Suspend US Constitution

  Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… October 7, 2008 Ten months before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved an updated version of the U.S. Army’s secret operational Continuity of Government (COG) plans. A draft document published by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks entitled, “Army Regulation 500-3, Emergency Employment of Army and [...]

Zeitgeist – Addendum

October 4th, 2008 Zeitgeist – Addendum , exploring the Federal Reserve System, IMF, World Bank, debt based finance and more, has just been released and made available at Google video, YouTube, and of course the official Zeigeist website. Considering recent economic events it is sure to be watched by millions of outraged citizens worldwide and [...]

Labor Board Limits Political Strikes

truthout.org Wednesday 01 October 2008 by: Robert Schwartz, Labor Notes An overlooked order by the Labor Board’s lead lawyer this summer dealt a serious blow to the rights of U.S. workers to protest government policies.     On May Day 2006, hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers walked off their jobs to protest restrictive immigration legislation. Some [...]