If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on…
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Introduction Democracy, a form of representative government where regional segments of a population choose their leaders, has been generally defined as “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. But this is all…
The Syrian government has outlined a plan to solve the country´s conflict, starting with halting international support of ”al-Qaeda-linked terrorist groups”. The plan proposes a new constitution and government as well as national reconciliation, including…
Assad at the Opera House Easy walking distance from this observer’s hotel near the city center, the Damascus Opera House, the site of yesterday’s Presidential address, was inaugurated in May of 2004 by the President…
For years activists and researchers have been predicting that the ruling class would begin coming out of the shadows when the world was on the verge of economic collapse, to offer the preplanned solution to the problem that they themselves created. Interestingly enough, in the past week two different members of the Rothschild family have come forward in rare media appearances and editorials to give their comments on the global financial crisis and its implications. They have not yet announced the establishment of a one world currency or massive tax hikes yet, but that’s what many are expecting. Right now though, it seems as if they are just getting warmed up to the media and setting the tone for future political action. Just afew days ago I reported on an interview that Sir Evelyn de Rothschild had with a well established British news source. In the interview, Rothschild discussed the need to “reinvent capitalism”, referencing the work of John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx in a positive light.
The US spends $1.3 trillion a year on a military it does not need. Politicians won’t talk about cutting it down to size. I was asked earlier this week by an reporter for PressTV, the…
Last month, outgoing pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on Terror must, at some point, come to an end: “Now that efforts by the…
Year of the Snake(s) by Anthony Freda Violence and Threats Being Used to Intimidate and Coerce the American Public for Political Purposes We’ve documented that – by any measure – America is the largest sponsor of…
133 Children Die a Day in Afghanistan According to available figures, about 73 percent of people in Afghanistan lack access to clean drinking water and 95 percent do not have access to sufficient sanitation. As…
Since the kindling of the conflict inside Syria in 2011, it was recognized, by friend and foe alike, that the events in that country were tied to a game plan that ultimately targets Iran, Syria’s…