News posts aggregated from alternative news sources.
‘Letters are apparently going out to some JPMoragnChase customers announcing that cash will be prohibited from being stored in the bank’s safety deposit boxes. At the Collectors Universe message board, a commenter reports: My mother […]
‘The Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil is being strangled by Israel. Within a few years, it could disappear altogether. Nabi Samwil overlooks occupied East Jerusalem on one side and Ramallah on the other. With approximately […]
‘The inability — or unwillingness — of both the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority and the Hamas-led administration in Gaza to provide a relatively acceptable example of good governance based on giving ordinary people a say in […]
‘While popular food markets such as Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Kroger and Safeway have made it clear that they do not intend to sell genetically engineered fish, Costco remains silent on the matter. Their hesitation […]
‘Now, however, it appears that advertisers are even beginning to influence the editorial judgment of some in the “new media” — such as BuzzFeed News. As reported by The New York Times recently, the website’s […]
“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter We have entered into a particularly dismal chapter in the American narrative, one that shifts us from a swashbuckling tale of adventure into a bone-chilling horror story. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, “we the people” have now come full circle, from being held captive by the British police state to being … Continue reading →
Iraq was an ugly place, but it was also a dismal time in my life. My memories of the country are colored by my emotions- both the fear, anger, and contempt I felt toward the Iraqis and the grief that recalling my time there brings to the surface now. In all the images I remember from Iraq, the common theme is how dirty and run down the whole place was. Garbage was strewn across every field and piled by the side of every road. Even the intact houses were homely and in need of repair, and wind-blown dirt gave everything … Continue reading →
Churchill as Icon Opportunism and Rhetoric Churchill and the “New Liberalism” World War I Between the Wars Embroiling America in War — Again “First Catch Your Hare” War Crimes Discreetly Veiled 1945: The Dark Side The Triumph of the Welfare State [This essay originally appears in The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories, edited with an introduction by John V. Denson.] Churchill as Icon When, in a very few years, the pundits start to pontificate on the great question: “Who was the Man of the Century?” there is little doubt that they will reach virtually instant consensus. Inevitably, the answer … Continue reading →
George Perrot has spent almost 30 years in prison thanks to a single hair. It was discovered by an FBI agent on the bedsheet of a 78-year-old woman who had been raped by a burglar in her home in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1985. Perrot, then 17, was put on trial, despite the absence of physical evidence tying him to the crime scene. There was no semen. There was no blood. And so there was no way to conduct a conclusive DNA test. Even the victim testified that the defendant looked nothing like her attacker: he had a short haircut and was … Continue reading →
Looking back on the American Revolution, John Adams (in 1813) wrote: “But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.” Those frustrated by the seemingly relentless advance of authoritarianism – especially those who’ve given up and are ready to “go down fighting” – might consider Adams’ words. I grant that it defensive force may become necessary at some point. Some of us, as individuals, may find … Continue reading →
Men are brilliant. Seriously, we are. We invented philosophy, medicine, architecture, cars, trains, helicopters, submarines and the internet. Not to mention the jet engine, IVF, electricity and modern medicine. We’ve led all the industrial revolutions and sent rockets into Space. We’ve fought wars with tin hats and bayonets and won them. The world we live in would be nothing without Alexander Graham Bell, Sigmund Freud, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare and Albert Einstein. The geniuses Leonardo da Vinci, Stephen Hawking, Michelangelo, Beethoven, Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday have all contributed immeasurably to our modern lives. So why is it … Continue reading →
Get a load of this big kerfuffle over Yemen! If you’d have asked most Americans where Yemen was a few years back, they’d have said something like, “Yemen? Hmmm…Yemen…Yemen…oh! I know where it is! It’s on Interstate 40 between Barstow and Needles! There’s nothing there but a gas station, an RV campground, and a Subway sandwich shop! What about Yemen?” And if you told them the U.S. was sending an aircraft carrier to Yemen, they’d have said, “Really?! Seriously?! Come on! How can they get an aircraft carrier up the Colorado River! Sending an aircraft carrier to Yemen…yeah, right!” But, … Continue reading →
US Representative Ed Royce (R, CA) is busy at work destroying the possibility of truth being spoken in the US. On April 15 at a hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs of which Royce is chairman, Royce made use of two minor presstitutes to help him redefine all who take exception to Washington’s lies as “threats” who belong to a deranged pro-Russian propaganda cult. Washington’s problem is that whereas Washington controls the print and TV media in the US and its vassal states in Europe, Canada, Australia, Ukraine, and Japan, Washington does not control Internet sites, such as … Continue reading →
Forty-five years ago today, the Left celebrated their first Earth Day. Nothing has come of it. But they still celebrate it. They take their anniversaries seriously. Lest we forget, this is how it happened. Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year.In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the … Continue reading →