“..NEVER REALLY TOOK OFFICE AT ALL..” By Gordon Duff This is the hypothesis:  President Obama, taking office while America is drowning in debt, politically polarized and increasingly seen as a pariah nation, publicly dictated to and humiliated by the tiny state of Israel, at every turn, found himself imprisoned by the monstrosity he inherited. I [...]

Recently Senator Lindsey Graham has warned that America in Iraq could go on forever because Iraq will “go to hell” without a continued US military presence. By Philip Giraldi / Antiwar The killing of Osama bin Laden, which could have signaled an end to the global war on terror and a retrenchment from interventionism by Washington, [...]

The real story is Al-Qaeda chief managed to evade the powerful arm of the empire for 11 years By Aijaz Zaka Syed / Arab News SO America has finally managed to kill the monster it had created. And in one of those ironies that fate throws up, Bin Laden met his end at the hands [...]

Clearly the killing of bin Laden has absolutely no strategic or tactical importance in the major theaters of war and political revolt in the Arab world. By Prof. James Petras / My Catbird Seat The assassination of bin Laden has been celebrated as a great strategic victory by the White House, the European capitals and [...]

ED NOTE: Thanks to alawson911 for producing the video — This series is based on an article first published December 1, 2009, by Jeff Gates, who is a widely acclaimed author, attorney, merchant banker, educator and consultant to governments worldwide, who served for seven years as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. He [...]

“WE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH, SOME OF US ANYWAY” Gordon Duff  / Veterans Today America is in its 10th year of war in Afghanistan and losing.  Everyone there hates us, we haven’t won a single “heart” or “mind.”  We have succeeded in building an empire of opium and heroin on a scale never before imagined. [...]

Those who have protected and pampered the Mubaraks and Ben Alis all these years see no irony in coming forward to claim credit for the tide that has turned the Arab world around Aijaz Zaka Syed / ARAB NEWS SO it has come down to this. After Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, Libya now finds itself [...]

The ability to contact millions through films, TV, newspapers, magazines and the internet is reason to pause to examine the dangers of a growing psyops culture. by Paul  J Balles /My Catbird Seat One big story of the last few weeks has the US military playing “mind games” with civilian leaders in order to get [...]