NSA Spying and Two Framing the Debate

The Bush Administration is spying. Spying big-time. Not just on foreign calls, not just on suspected terrorists. They are spying on us. All of us. This story has been developing for years. It began with Iran-Contra luminary John Poindexter and his Total Information Awareness program. The TIA was initiated shortly after 9/11 and it was [...]

O.I.L. aka Operation Iraqi Liberation

Here’s a little vindication for the artificial scarcity thesis. Today on Democracy Now!, investigative journalist Greg Palast discussed his new book  Armed Madness. Palast is the guy who, after fleeing to Britain in search of a chance to actually report news, broke the story of over 50,000 names purged from voter lists in Florida before the [...]

Artificial Scarcity, Gas Prices and You

Iraq is a big success. Well, it is for US oil companies, defense companies, construction firms and Saudi Arabia. A ripping good, record profit bonanza. Dividend heaven. Which may account for the “investor” tax cut House and Senate GOPers just dreamed up. Don’t want those profits getting into the wrong hands, after all. But Iraq [...]

Colbert Exposed the Whores of Babylon

Revelations 17:13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. Last Saturday a one-man vice squad rolled into town and, using a killer set of elegantly written jokes, exposed the DC Media Scrum for what it is…a bunch of whores. The Whore of Babylon, a.k.a. Washington DC, thrives on [...]