Category: American Empire

The CIA Made Google

Our Score Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet… INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of…

A Voiceless Left Faces History’s Monster

Our Score Despite all its armed might and long history of conquests, America remains a perpetually frightened country without a strong movement to protest this imperialism and warmongering, notes poet Phil Rockstroh. By Phil Rockstroh Rumors of war and the…

How Long, America?

Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker   — Empires die.  Some abruptly, by cataclysmic defeat and destruction; most in stages, over years, decades.  Our own meltdown–early in the fantasized “New American Century”–will not be exceptional… unlike our arrogance. When human injury results…

The Russian Hacking Story Continues to Unravel

Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker   — A new report by a retired IT executive at IBM, debunks the claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign by hacking Democratic computers and circulating damaging information about Hillary Clinton.  The report, which is titled “The…

The Possible Education of Donald Trump

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — Exclusive: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is ratcheting up war tensions in Syria again, but President Trump reportedly is not happy with the threats as he shifts again toward resisting the neocons, writes Robert Parry.…

Shall we fight them all?

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — Saturday, Kim Jong-un tested an ICBM of sufficient range to hit the U.S. mainland. He is now working on its accuracy and a nuclear warhead small enough to fit atop that missile that can…

America’s Militarized Police

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — The horrific execution by police of an Australian woman in her pajamas that took place last week in Minneapolis has again produced a torrent of criticism over killings initiated by law enforcement in situations…

Famine and Cholera Stalk Yemen

Our Score No country on earth is more devastated by US imperial viciousness – complicit with Saudi Arabia doing its dirty work. Yemenis are threatened by endless war, famine, cholera, and other horrendous issues, the lives of millions endangered. According…

Comey and Mueller: Russiagate’s Mythical Heroes

Our Score Mainstream commentators display amnesia when they describe former FBI Directors Robert Mueller and James Comey as stellar and credible law enforcement figures. Perhaps if they included J. Edgar Hoover, such fulsome praise could be put into proper perspective.…

Europe May Finally Rethink NATO Costs

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — Exclusive: By dunning NATO nations to chip more money into the military alliance, President Trump may inadvertently cause some Europeans to rethink the over-the-top anti-Russian propaganda, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. President Donald Trump’s…

The Death of the Republic

Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker  — The deep state’s decision in ancient Rome—dominated by a bloated military and a corrupt oligarchy, much like the United States of 2017—to strangle the vain and idiotic Emperor Commodus in his bath in the…