Submitted by: ButtCracker — Two new studies from Europe show that the number of birds in agricultural areas of France has crashed by a third in just 15 years, with some species being almost eradicated. The collapse in the bird…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — As I was putting the finishing touches on my new book, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America’s war on…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — As the U.S. moves closer toward all out war in Syria, a lot of what our government seems to base its intelligence on, especially claims of chemical weapon use by they Syrian government, is from an…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — t was a sad spectacle to see U.S. brass rubbishing the Constitution and trying to silence critics of the U.S. strike on Syria, says Ray McGovern in this commentary. The U.S. Constitution and international law suffered…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — US media outlets are recklessly promoting war with help from neocons, including Arab American right-wingers who do not represent the views of the region they are demanding Trump bomb. American media outlets can’t help themselves. They…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — On Sunday, President Trump announced his intention to make those responsible for an alleged chemical weapons attack on Douma, including the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies, pay a “big price” for their continued disregard for…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — [Note for TomDispatch Readers: This is your last chance to get your own signed, personalized copy of James Carroll’s moving new novel, The Cloister, his vivid retelling of the medieval love story of Abelard and Héloïse,…
“All our lauded technological progress – our very civilization – is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein Submitted by: ButtCracker
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Blitzkrieg Overseas, Sitzkrieg in the Homeland Overseas, the United States is engaged in real wars in which bombs are dropped, missiles are launched, and people (generally not Americans) are killed, wounded, uprooted, and displaced. Yet here…
The censorship is ramping up as YouTube has begun deleting channels at a rapid rate including more recently a friend of Activist Post, Health Ranger Mike Adams of Natural News. I spoke to YouTube alternative BitChute for their opinion on…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Joseph E. diGenova, Former US Attorney Over the past year, facts have emerged that suggest there was a plot by high-ranking FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials in the Obama administration, acting under color of…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start,…
Submitted by ButtCracker — On this Presidents’ Day weekend, in honor of the president we have, I decided to repost this old piece of mine. I wrote it in a white heat of shock, just after learning that Donald Trump…
he irony that is most gagging is that America’s power elite is destroying the nation’s social order by its concentration of wealth and abuse of power. The irony of the Deep State’s obsessive focus on “Russian meddling” in the precious…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — They say Propaganda! In the West, both the mainstream media and even some of the so-called progressive outlets are shouting: “Those Russians and Chinese and the others like them, they are at it again! Their vicious…
On February 6 PCR asked if the Plunge Protection Team had stepped in and prevented a stock market correction by purchasing equity index futures. Sure enough, the daily exchange volume chart shows an increase in futures activity on February 2…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Both parties line their pockets with profits from the arms trade. In recent budget negotiations, Senate Democrats agreed to a boost in military spending that exceeded the cap for fiscal 2018 by $70 billion, bringing the…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has come and gone, and nothing has really changed. The wonderful people of the world struck again – blowing hot air to the four corners of the world. When…
The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept—it is that he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites. They get what they want. They do what they want. Although the president is…
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The roundups are getting worse. The checkpoints are getting worse. The harassment is getting worse. The things we were worried would happen are happening. —Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York No one…
