“The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent. “Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and […]
Corporate Corruption
There are two conspiracy theories of what happened on 9-11. The government side has been told by the Bush and Obama administrations and by all five Democrats and all five Republicans on the 911 Commission as well as the corporate news media. Their version is well known. An alternative […]
Nearly five years after they snuck onto the BBC as Dow Chemical and took full responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe (sending Dow’s stock plunging – see https://theyesmenfixtheworld.com), [youtube]ZzpJk47U3Os[/youtube] the Yes Men are interviewed by the BBC. [youtube]A7DzR11FRg8[/youtube]
The mainstream finally gets around to asking why no banksters have been jailed for the 2008 meltdown; the G20 moves on its aim of establishing a world financial order; and the puppets-in-chief admit it’s all about regime change in Libya. [youtube]av9akS59EAM[/youtube]
The US bombing of Libya in support of rebel clients in the spring of 2011 is part and parcel of a sustained policy of military intervention in Africa since at least the mid 1950’s. According to a US Congressional Research Service Study [1] published in November 2010, Washington has dispatched […]
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An insightful and intelligent documentary, What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007) by producer, Adam Curtis (The Power of Nightmares). The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, “how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led […]
The regime of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in Bahrain, which the Obama administration backs to the hilt, is continuing its violent repression of political opposition. The Khalifa regime imposed a state of emergency, after its security forces, backed by troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, […]
In “Private Warriors,” FRONTLINE (2005), correspondent Martin Smith travels throughout Kuwait and Iraq to give viewers an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at companies like Kellogg, Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, and its civilian army. [youtube]YZ0WJJ0v3xQ[/youtube] “Private Warriors” also explores a very different kind of contractor – the private world of […]