Banksters: Wall Street Executives Are Still Getting Outrageous Pay
Despite the recession and the massive taxpayer funded TARP bailout, bank executives are still getting record compensations. The popular discontent with Wall Street during the financial crisis over how much money bankers were paying themselves has somehow faded, as if, once again general apathy replaced public rage. Wall Street’s culture of greed is back stronger […]
WikiLeaks: The Empire Is Naked And Governments Are In Damage Control
On Monday, governments worldwide scrambled to salvage the little dignity they have left however they could, after being exposed by Julian Assange’s Wikileaks. Government representatives voiced an overwhelming, and almost universal condemnation of the release of the US State Department secret communication files in France, Britain, Iran, Germany, Saudi Arabia etc. The leaked diplomatic documents […]
Egypt: An Autocracy Endorsed By The United States
By Anthony Zeitouni The results of the parliamentary election in Egypt are known even before election day, Sunday, November 28, because the ruling party of President Mubarak is once again manipulating the people of Egypt to win the race and to marginalize all others, from the Muslim Brotherhood group (an Egyptian political-religious party banned by […]
Weed Wars: Is This The Best You Can Do?
It’s been another pathetic week in the war on marijuana, in which the federal government makes a spectacle of itself by redefining the concept of “futile gesture” by — get this — busting 77-year-old music legend Willie Nelson for marijuana, and moving to ban fake pot.
Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Genocide of Native Americans
The sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundreds years it managed to rewrite its own history into a mythological fantasy. The concepts of liberty, freedom and free enterprise in the “land of the free, home of the brave” are a mere spin. The US was […]
