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Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
The Department of Homeland Security is gathering massive funds for the possible civil unrest by the next economic collapse.
The Koch Brothers’ “Samson Option“
The fiscal crisis in Washington is not simply a threat to economic and government stability, it is a premeditated scheme to carve out a new constitutional structure that gives …
Is Western Civilization Becoming Criminal? The Case of the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean is nearly a locked sea between the continents of Africa, Europe and Asia. The fourteen kilometers-Strait of Gibraltar, the Greeks' Pillars of Hercules, connects the Mediterranean to …
The Data Hackers: Mining Your Information for Big Brother
Inside your mobile phone and hidden behind your web browser are little known software products marketed by contractors to the government that can follow you around anywhere.
Empire Under Obama: Political Language and the “Mafia Principles” of International Relations
Andrew Gavin Marshall draws upon Noam Chomsky's suggestion of understanding international relations as the application of ‘Mafia Principles’ to foreign policy.
Will Seniors Have to Pay for President Obama’s Victory on Budget Standoff?
As Republicans consider another
Zionism Versus Diplomacy and Peace
It primarily has been due to pressure from the Israelis and their Zionist lobby in Washington that U.S. politicians have refused to believe these Iranian assertions.
Bigger Than That: (The Difficulty of) Looking at Climate Change
If there is to be an effort to respond to climate change, it will need to make epic differences in economics, in ecologies, in the largest and most powerful …
Cruzonomics: The Problem of Free Market Psychology
Is Wall Street rationality deeply irrational?
The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government
While the radical religious right wants to lead a world based on conservative values, in reality it has no interest in promoting actual social values.