Prediction of the United States collapse in 2010 (Wikipedia)

(Wikipedia) -- In the summer of 1998, based on classified data about the state of the U.S. economy and society supplied to him by fellow analysts at FAPSI, Russian professor and political scientist I ...

A Yard Sale in Chernobyl (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 3, 2009 -- "It's only a system," she said, as we floated through the sprawling supermarket's gleaming commodity lined indoor ...

Clinton Outlines Continuation of Bush Policies Under Obama at CFR (Jeremy R. Hammond)

Obama’s foreign policy parallels Bush’s. The train may have switched tracks, but it’s still headed in the same direction

Tamil Death Doll 'Is 1,400 A Week' At Manik Farm Camp In Sri Lanka (Rhys Blakely)

July 10, 2009 -- Mumbai (The Times) -- About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war, ...

Has the U.S. Played a Role in Fomenting Unrest During Iranâ€™s Election? (Jeremy R. Hammond)

There is ample reason to believe that the United States likely had a hand in fomenting the chaos that has plagued Iran since its June election, which many commentators have compared to the 1979 revol ...

Global Systemic Crisis In Summer 2009: The Cumulative Impact Of Three Rogue Waves (LEAP/E2020)

As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 as early as October 2008, on the eve of summer 2009, the question of the U.S. and UK capacity to finance their unbridled public deficits has become the central question o ...

Interview: Journalist Files Suit Alleging H1N1 'Swine Flu' A Hoax To Sell Vaccines (Kathlyn Stone)

Credit: Public domain (CC0) Interview with Jane Burgermeister, a science journalist who has filed criminal charges against the World Health Organization, U.S. officials and business executives. She a ...

What Obama Isnâ€™t Going to Change About Military Commissions (Jeremy R. Hammond)

Obama’s proposed revisions to the military commissions pretty much exemplify his administration’s rather limited conception of what “change” means for the foreign policy of the United States.

Western Media Propagandize Iranâ€™s Missile Test (Jeremy R. Hammond)

Iran announced Wednesday that it had successfully tested its Sejil 2 surface-to-surface missile, and Western media sources took the opportunity to portray the Middle Eastern nation as a threat to wor ...

After Pressuring Pakistan to Act, U.S. Offers Aid for Resulting Displaced (Jeremy R. Hammond)

The United States has announced $110 million in aid to Pakistan as the number of refugees fleeing the fighting in the country’s Swat district is quickly approaching 1.5 million. Jeremy R. Hammond -- ...

Constitutional Rubbish (Joel Hirschhorn)

If prominent people tell a lie enough times, again, and again, and again, then the public lie becomes accepted fact, a cultural myth. So it is with the three coequal branches of government lie. It wi ...