A MILITARY DRONE BASE RIGHT HERE IN BROOKSVILLE! “A PARANOID PORTION” OF THE POPULATION PROTESTS. With the support of Senator Bill Nelson, an aviation authority applies to Hernando County FL to locate there one of the 6 drone sites slated for development in the U.S. Protests are launched by a Nature Coast peace group [...]
Congress was able to cobble together a temporary patch for the self-imposed fiscal cliff in a series of late-night votes featuring intra-party bickering and a widespread sense that the final deal was imperfect and nothing more than a painful necessity. Well over a year since the artificial deadline for the “cliff” was concocted by the [...]
NO IFS OR ANDS OR BUTS: THE BUILDINGS TAKEN DOWN IN “TERRORIST” ATTACKS ON 9/11/01 WERE ”CONTROLLED DEMOLITIONS.” This is the unanimous conclusion of a group of structural engineering experts, many with career experience with the deliberate demolition of buildings. Although the evidence of same was always there in the debris of these explosions, [...]
ALL THE NEWS THAT EVEN THE BBC FEELS COMPELLED TO AIR. The BBC, whose coverage of the Syrian “crisis” practically amounts to cheerleading for the Syrian opposition, is seemingly forced into one of its occasional “lapses” in that role when it airs a piece documenting what may well be a “war crime” involving that [...]
US AND BRITISH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICIES: THE NEW BOSS IS LIKE THE LAST BOSS IS LIKE THE NEXT BOSS. (John Pilger) This is the essence of a new essay by British journalist John Pilgar. Moved by the death of a long-time protester of the Anglo-American decision in the 1960s to “clear” the Indian Ocean [...]
President Obama announced on Friday that all US troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year in compliance to the “status of forces” agreement previously arranged between the Iraqi government and then-President George W. Bush. The move will bring a formal end to the nearly eight-year war and American occupation that [...]
HOW DOES THE EMPIRE “WIN” THE WAR ON TERRORISM? IT TOPPLES ANOTHER WEAK COUNTRY REGIME, STUPID! (Antiwar.com) Reviewing U.S. military operations since 9/11/01, Anthony Gregory presents the engaging thesis they do not accomplish their stated aims of democracy, safety against terrorist attack, humanitarian disasters, etc. These conditions—in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewhere—go on and are [...]
Trillions of dollars spent on two major wars. An unknown amount of money dedicated to global military intervention and counterterrorism activities. Over half a trillion dollars spent on “homeland security.” The numbers are startling. As America marks ten years since the 9/11 attacks this weekend, these figures are what has come to represent the legacy [...]
President Barack Obama has decided to risk the lives and well-being of thousands, potentially millions, of Americans at risk by deciding to quash efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency to put in place stronger air quality regulations targeting the nation’s dirtiest industries and regions. The order is is especially unexpected given that the clean air [...]
NOTHING LIKE A NASTY HURRICANE TO RAMP UP BUSINESS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL. (New York Times) Think of it if you will as the hedge funders of the weather world; the TV channel that specializes in weather news is making some “disaster capitalism” out of the current interest of people being “entertained” by the “live” [...]
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