USAID: The Soft Arm of Imperialism
Foreign aid is the opium of modern times No one pushes foreign aid better than USAID (the United States Agency for International Development). The agency operates in over 100 countries. New takers arrive all the time, the most recent one being Burma, which returned for a fix after a 24-year hiatus. Unlike the current celebrations […]
Will the Slaughter in Gaza Trigger a Real Arab Revolution?
Israel’s attack on Gaza: “C’est pire qu’un crime, c’est une faute.” The comment “C’est pire qu’un crime, c’est une faute!” (This is worse than a crime, it’s a mistake!), followed the execution of the Duc d’Enghien by Napoleon Bonaparte. Shortly thereafter, this was viewed by Napoleon’s own chief of police Fouché and French diplomat Talleyrand […]
Can Power by the People for the People Be Achieved?
By Joost van Steenis Jean-Paul Marat and People’s Power The French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was murdered before his revolutionary ideas could spread. Marat did not want misdeeds of members of the leading class to be judged by other members of that class. His goal was simple, “to stop corruption and other crimes of the leading […]
Vote Obamney to Keep Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex in Office
Two Faces of the Same Coin On November 6, 2012 or shortly thereafter, the farce will be over, as US citizens will have played along with this sad excuse for an electoral process. The “leader of the free world” will be crowned, but the policies, global state or corporate puppet masters will still have their […]
Halloween: Paganism Celebrates The Forgotten Divine Feminine
By Kit Kimberly As Halloween approaches, images of kids in costume, of Linus waiting for his Great Pumpkin, of ghosts and ghouls, the street decorations and signs of autumn fill the pop culture consciousness — at least in the USA and some other Euro-based cultures. In the US this year, All Hallows also falls on […]
