Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and quantitative easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt every year via its budget deficits? Not long ago the Fed announced that it was...

Operation Northwoods: Syria 2012 (New York 2001?) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31122 Killing Innocent Civilians as Part of a US Covert Op. Plan to Mobilize Public Support for War Against Syria, by Professor Michel Chossudovsky The Northwoods 1962 document was titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba". ”The Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These...

The US government is the second worst human rights abuser on the planet and the sole enabler of the worst--Israel. But this doesn’t hamper Washington from pointing the finger elsewhere. The US State Department’s “human rights report” focuses its ire on Iran and Syria, two countries whose real sin is their independence from Washington, and on the bogyman- in-the-making--China, the country selected for the role...

The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of Europe, like the police, no longer serves a useful social purpose. In the US the police have proven themselves to be a greater threat to public safety than private sector criminals. I just googled “police brutality” and up came 183,000,000 results. (Here are two recent brutal assaults, one deadly, by police on hapless individuals: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/kelly-thomas-video-dad-they-are-killing-me-.html...

Never Give Up Don’t be discouraged by the heavy hand of the tyrannical state and the private interests served by the government. Soviet dissidents faced the most powerful state in human history, and they did not give up. Now we have had a victory. Read this and renew your hope. A Victory for All of Us http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_victory_for_all_of_us_20120518/ Posted on May 18, 2012 By Chris Hedges...

In response to the question in the title I can report that most of my readers are. Almost everyone got the point of the last column. They see the absurdity of the government’s claim that the identity of the tough, macho Navy Seals, who allegedly murdered Osama bin Laden, has to be kept secret in order to protect our fierce warriors from reprisals from Muslim...