—A short resume—— Early on I was interested in finance, the economy, world affairs & getting things done, many times undone. I’ve worked with all sorts of working class people (sometimes those with no class at all) but never for those at the very top, they…
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/10/nader_the_us_political_media_system Polls show Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are on pace to be the least popular major-party presidential nominees in decades. Will some voters look to cast votes with third-party candidates? We speak to former presidential candidate Ralph Nader about…
July 03, 2016 In this video the former finance minister of Greece and founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), Yanis Varoufakis, provides us an insight into why the European constitution does not represent the people of Europe and…
The group Friends of the Earth obtained a leaked EU document that details how the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would kill December’s Paris climate deal by making it harder for the nations to live up to their obligations to…
Published time: 10 Jul, 2016 13:26 Unidentified Royal Marines sit with a British Union flag atop of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s palace at Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003. © Jon Mills / Reuters The 2003 invasion…
Mike Adams, June 3, 2016 (NaturalNews) Think the Zika virus is responsible for all the cases of microcephaly in South America? Think again: There is no reliable scientific evidence linking the two. The developmental deformities are actually caused by exposure…
Published time: 1 Jul, 2016 17:50 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton © Rick Wilking / Reuters Releasing a new batch of documents from the Democratic National Committee, hacker Guccifer 2.0 mocked allegations he works for the Kremlin, praised Julian…
By Timothy Alexander Guzman July 1, 2016 The heroin epidemic resembles the days when “Crack cocaine” became the major drug that destroyed communities across the United States and other parts of the world including the Caribbean that began in the early 1980’s.…
Posted on June 23, 2016 by Ellen Brown The war on cannabis that began in the 1930s seems to be coming to an end. Research shows that this natural plant, rather than posing a deadly danger to health, has a…
Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of two to win British journalism’s highest award twice. For his documentary films, he has won an Emmy and a British Academy Award, a BAFTA. Among numerous other awards, he has won…
It’s vacation season – a time when families pack their cars, put their pets in the kennel, and take road trips to the beach and national parks. With gasoline prices at historic lows, motorists will pay less to travel this…
Will solar and wind farms take over parks and preserves? Posted at Jun 20, 2016 5:13 PM John Bicknell There is a civil war going on in the environmental movement. No blood will be spilled, but like the conflagration that…
By Andrew Cockburn, June 16, 2016 These days, lamenting the apparently aimless character of Washington’s military operations in the Greater Middle East has become conventional wisdom among administration critics of every sort. Senator John McCain thunders that “this president has…
Focus on climate change has raised profile of reactors, now viewed as reliable, carbon-free source of energy Some of the nation’s most influential environmental groups are softening their longstanding opposition to nuclear power, marking a significant shift in the antinuclear…
Exxon Mobil asked the Massachusetts Superior Court to bar Attorney General Maura Healey from continuing a probe. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Exxon Mobil went after Democratic attorneys general for a second day on Thursday for targeting the company over climate change.…
–Given the recent Orlando tragedy you can agree with some of what Hillary says about guns but be worried that the different U.S. agencies missed “something” 3 times (Trumps on to something there huh, forget politically incorrect profiling?). Worry about this folks: our government uses…
An editor at a major news magazine (not U.S. News) told me recently that Google can monitor people only when they sign in to a Google platform – Gmail or Google+, for example. Not so, I replied. Google can and…
Paul Craig Roberts, June 9, 2016 On the eve of World War II the United States was still mired in the Great Depression and found itself facing war on two fronts with Japan and Germany. However bleak the outlook, it…
27 May 2016 John Pilger Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I…
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 ClubOrlov We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO policies have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with…
