Surviving Is Your Personal Responsibility
By Brian Brawdy In his new book Obama’s Wars, Washington Post Columnist and perennial White House fly on the wall Bob Woodard writes that President Obama believes “We can absorb a terrorist attack.” As many in the media line up to slam him for his comments, there are now reports on the wire of a […]
Spying on Its Citizens: As American as Apple Pie
During the Bush-era, in the sweeping intrusive context of the “Patriot Act”, US citizens found out that their international communications were spied on with the generous complicity of their “trusted” telephone companies such as AT & T and Verizon. These actions were, until 2008, clearly outside the norms of the defined wiretap authorizations given by […]
Obama: Human Rights In The AM, State Secrets & FBI Raids In The PM
During the Vietnam war, the saying which illustrated the best the schizophrenic aspect of the US involvement there was “Candy in the morning, napalm in the afternoon”. Decades later, the US administration is still displaying the very same sign of this disturbing behavior where one hand takes away what the other hand has given. The […]
Global Land Grab: The New World Order Of The Shadow Market
Eric J. Weiner is a serious writer and journalist who has contributed for publications such as Dow Jones Newwires, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. His new book, “The Shadow Market: How a Group of Wealthy Nations and Powerful Investors Secretly Dominate the World” sounds a lot like a line New World […]
AfPak: NPR Confirms Obama’s Secret War In Pakistan
For quite a while, independent media, including the News Junkie Post (in February 2010), have reported on President Obama’s covert operations within Pakistan’s borders. The confirmation of this, is now coming simultaneously from Bob Woodward and National Public Radio. 2010 is already the deadliest year in Afghanistan for US and allied troops. So far 530 […]
