Banksters:Changing The Rules & Putting The Squeeze On Consumers
It doesn’t seem that the US banking industry has learned anything from last year financial meltdown. Do they care about the overall health of the US economy? No. Do they care about American consumers? Even less. Despite having received an astronomical amount of money from the tax payers in 2008 & 2009, a lot of […]
Afghanistan:Defining An Overall Post Election Strategy
Paris is currently hosting international talks on Afghanistan with the participation of 25 countries and organizations, in the context of a contentious election aftermath. The meeting comes 2 days after General McChrystal presented a gloomy assessment, yet to be made public, of the situation after an 8 years war. McChrystal is calling for a shift […]
CIA Withholds Key Torture Documents From ACLU
Judge Hellerstein had ordered the government to turn over the documents by August 31, following an ACLU lawsuit, or else to provide justification for continuing to withhold them. However, in a court filing late Monday, the CIA said if will not release the documents, claiming that disclosing details about the enhanced interrogation program would harm […]
Europe Marks 70 Years Since The Start Of WW II
Seventy years ago today, Germany attacked Poland in what would end up being the darkest chapter in European history. Britain and France were bound to Poland by an alliance and a military pact and promptly declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, each pulling their large empires into the conflict. The Polish army, ill […]
Cindy Sheehan: The Soul Of The US Peace Movement
It seems that Americans spent most of the summer “debating” health care, of course it was not much of a debate but more an irrational screaming contest duly orchestrated by various media megaphones and echo chambers. Between that, the death of Michael Jackson, the absence of Paula Abdul on American Idols next season, and trying […]
