[youtube=http://youtu.be/YaZIH3rz6ec] Produced by Dyan Ruiz and Joseph Smooke TheRealNews.com DYAN RUIZ, REPORTER: Hundreds gathered in the cold Toronto rain to oppose the proposal for the oil pipeline called Line 9B operated by energy company Enbridge. Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) has been asked to approve Enbridge's project that would enable them to bring oil from Alberta's More
The emperor has no clothes. The fact that anyone older than 3 years old really believes that something this big is "stealth" and can sneak up on the Chinese has those war contractors laughing all the way to the bank. Thank you for the vigil, bearing witness to this visible manifestation of insanity. Carol Carol More
Spending on "defense" in America accounts for almost five percent of GDP, and that's just the stuff on the books. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were funded via supplemental spending bills outside the federal budget, and that tab has twelve zeroes on it (Read: more than $1,000,000,000,000 and counting). Then there is the Black More
ALL DOWN HILL NOWposted by Bruce K. Gagnon | October 17, 2013To read other stories from the Maine Drone Peace Walk go to Bruce Gagnon's Organizing Notes We did 17 miles today from Waterville to Belgrade. We are staying at the country home of a group of great activists who work on water and other environmental More
Our collapse will take the whole planet with it. Illustration by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges Posted on Oct 14, 2013 truthdig.com The final days of empire give ample employment and power to the feckless, the insane and the idiotic. These politicians and court propagandists, hired to be the public faces on the sinking ship, mask More
Despite Obama's noble words, America has imposed vicious dictatorships and supported horrendous crime America's leading intellectual, Professor Noam Chomsky. (photo: MIT) By Noam Chomsky 08 October 13 ReaderSupportedNews.org This article originally appeared in Alternet.org he recent Obama-Putin tiff over American exceptionalism reignited an ongoing debate over the Obama Doctrine: Is the president veering toward isolationism? More
Democracy Now! looks at politics, money and the pursuit of oil, focusing on what’s known as the Oil Road, a series of pipelines stretching from the oil-rich Caspian Sea to Europe. [youtube=http://youtu.be/VFsaUihXWic] Published: Wednesday 9 October 2013 Democracy Now! via NationofChange.org We spend the hour looking at politics, money and the pursuit of oil, from More
Democracy Now! looks at politics, money and the pursuit of oil, focusing on what’s known as the Oil Road, a series of pipelines stretching from the oil-rich Caspian Sea to Europe. [youtube=http://youtu.be/VFsaUihXWic] Published: Wednesday 9 October 2013 Democracy Now! via NationofChange.org We spend the hour looking at politics, money and the pursuit of oil, from More
By Greg Palast for Truthout GregPalast.com Monday, 7 October 2013 On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi. But I don't believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife: The confessed killer is some twisted member of Golden Dawn, a political party More
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION DEFENDING YOUR RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD BY MAIRA SUTTON OCTOBER 4, 2013 | EFF.org President Obama was scheduled to meet with the leaders of the other eleven countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali, supposedly to plan the “end-game” for this massive trade deal. However, he has made More
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION DEFENDING YOUR RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD BY MAIRA SUTTON OCTOBER 4, 2013 | EFF.org President Obama was scheduled to meet with the leaders of the other eleven countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali, supposedly to plan the “end-game” for this massive trade deal. However, he has made More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/rICwOoWesz4] Published on Sep 25, 2013 In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama openly embraced an aggressive military doctrine backed by previous administrations on using armed force beyond the international norm of self-defense. Obama told the world that the United States is prepared to use its military to defend what he called More
