Obama Administration Approves Killing Americans Abroad

by Noel Brinkerhoff http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Obama_Administration_Approves_Killing_Americans_Abroad_100205 Friday, February 05, 2010 Being a U.S. citizen will not spare an American from getting assassinated by military or intelligence operatives overseas if the individual is working with terrorists and planning to attack fellow Americans. This policy was acknowledged by Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair while testifying on Wednesday before [...]

Enough With The Government Cover-Ups

Edward Harrison, 01.12.10, 04:20 PM EST What really happened to AIG and other bankrupt firms. It has come to light recently that American International Group withheld important information about its dealings with financial counterparties in the lead-up to its collapse and bailout by the Federal Reserve. What is most troubling about this episode is that [...]

Game Over for the American Middle Class – MYBUDGET360

JAN-28-2010 – Game Over for the American Middle Class – Inflation Adjusted Wages up 20 Percent in Last 20 Years While Housing Costs are up 56 Percent and Healthcare Costs are up 155 Percent. The struggle for average Americans to keep up is largely becoming an act of will power and force in this current grand [...]

FACTBOX-U.S. companies involved in Taiwan arms sales

Jan 30 (Reuters) – China said it would impose sanctions on companies involved in a planned $6.4 billon arms package for Taiwan that the Obama administration sent the U.S. Congress on Friday. Here are the main arms included in the package, and the companies that make them. Other weapons systems are to be opened to [...]

State Council: U.S. planned arms sale to Taiwan runs counter to sound development of cross-Strait relations

English.news.cn BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said Saturday that U.S. planned arms sale to Taiwan was in violation of its commitment to supporting the peaceful development of the cross-Strait relations. The move ran counter both to the sound development of the cross-Strait relations and to the fundamental [...]

World Trembles As US Prepares New Quake Test

Written By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers The reason for this new American quake test, these reports say, is due to the ‘catastrophic failure’ of their previous ones that have so destabilized our Earth’s inner magnetosphere that more earthquakes have been reported in the past 30-days then in the first 90-days of 2009 (including over 600 [...]

Osama bin Laden is ‘worth more alive than dead’, declares his son – UK TIMES ONLINE

Osama bin Laden is worth more to the United States alive than dead because his death could unleash “very,very nasty” attacks by militants, his son has claimed. In an at times rambling interview with Rolling Stone magazine, which was conducted in part in a Damascus strip club, the terror leader’s fourth-eldest son, Omar Osama bin Laden, [...]

The United States of Corporate America: From democracy to plutocracy

By Rodrigue Tremblay Online Journal Guest Writer “The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” –Plato, ancient Greek philosopher “The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a [...]

Engineered Earthquake? US is Occupying Haiti as Troops Flood In

http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article19515 2010 January 19 by Aislinn Laing, and Tom Leonard in Port-au-Prince The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to “clarify” the American role amid claims the military build up was hampering aid efforts. U.S. Air Force troops patrol downtown Port-au-Prince Monday January 18, 2010. Thousands more U.S. troops will [...]

The United States of Plutocracy

Posted on Sep 8, 2009 By William Pfaff The United States has for practical purposes been a plutocracy for some years now. American national elections usually function more or less correctly, except that they have become all but completely dominated by money. The contributors of money to Senate and House campaigns are dominated by the source of that [...]