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 [...]

The New American Plutocracy

by Paul Kurtz The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 20, Number 4. Plutocracy: (1) government by the wealthy, (2) a controlling class of the wealthy. From the Greek ploutokratia, from ploutos, wealth, and kratia, advocate of a form of government. I am deeply troubled by the fact that in the upcoming presidential and [...]

YAHOO: Preparing for the Worst

by Robert Kiyosak Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009, 12:00AM “Is the crisis over?” is a question I am often asked. “Is the economy coming back?”My reply is, “I don’t think so. I would prepare for the worst.” Like most people, I wish for a better future for all of us. Life is better when people [...]

Police to investigate News of the World phone-hacking claims

By: David Batty guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 July 2009 11.55 BST Article history The Metropolitan police is to examine allegations that journalists from theNews of the World and other newspapers repeatedly used criminal methods to get stories through mobile phone hacking. The assistant commissioner, John Yates, is to “establish the facts” about the claims and will report back later [...]

Dashing Fabricated Hopes: The Meaning of Ahmadinejad’s Victory

By Pierre Tristam June 14, 2009 “Pierre’s Middle East Issues Blog” — It’s been a little weird, if not embarrassing, to witness the reactions of the American press to the Iranian election in the last 24 hours. There was the initial rush of expectation–that “change” was as much in the Iranian air as it had [...]

How the spooks took over the news

This is an edited extract from “Flat Earth News: an award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media”, published by Chatto & Windus. In his controversial new book, Nick Davies argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale [...]

Do You Believe This Lady?

FactsNews – Get ready for a blitz of hard hitting financial news articles. Credit to  SurvivalBlog.com for posting such troubling articles on a daily basis… Reposted from The Market Ticker Now for some facts, after you watched the government propaganda.  All of these facts, unlike that propaganda, are in fact mathematical realities. From Bloomberg: The [...]

U.S. Dollar Only Down 2 Percent for the Year. Since the Crisis Started in August of 2007, the U.S. Dollar is Unchanged. Yet the Dollar is Down 33 Percent Since the Start of the Decade. The Currency Race to the Bottom.

May 27th 2009 From mybudget360.com People have a hard time grasping that given the tumultuous market of 2009 and all the liquidity being funneled into the market by the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve, that the U.S. Dollar has only fallen 2 percent for the year.  What is even more surprising to many is the U.S. [...]

Media Censoring Lethal Side Effects Of Flu Remedies

By Ralph Forbes Donald Rumsfeld’s Tamiflu pushers (just as they were in 2006) are set to be the big winners in the GSFS (great swine flu scare of 2009) lottery. Shares of Swiss drug-maker Roche Holding had fallen sharply after their latest cancer drug failure—but the GSFS came just in time to give their falling [...]

Obama White House to Waffling Law Firm: ‘Chrysler Deal an Offer You Can’t Refuse’

By Victor Thorn DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF MAY, Thomas Lauria, an attorney for top creditors, disclosed in an interview on Detroit’s WJR-AM radio that the law firm Perella Weinberg Partners was being strong-armed by Obama officials in regard to the Chrysler bankruptcy offer. On May 2, he told host Frank Beckmann that “one of [...]