Multiculturalist Malaise — From South Africa To The Pacific Northwest
I call them English niceties. They are those mannerisms the English-speaking people share—idiosyncrasies that make life so very pleasant. You notice them not at all when they pervade the culture, and pine for them when they’re gone. And they are slowly disappearing in America, by and large due to th... <more>

Minorities Often a Majority of the U.S. Population Under 20
Foreshadowing the nation’s changing makeup, one in four American counties have passed or are approaching the tipping point where black, Hispanic and Asian children constitute a majority of the under-20 population, according to analyses of census figures released Thursday.

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Georgian Army Moves to Retake South Ossetia
Georgia launched a major military offensive Friday to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, prompting Moscow to send tanks into the region in a furious response that threatens to engulf Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, and Russia in all-out war.
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Evidence of U.S. Military Presence in Georgia
The CIA and Pentagon have played a big part in Georgia's "revolution."... <more>

Corporate America Preparing Another Onslaught Against Working People
There is nothing more terrifying to corporate America than the prospect of dealing with its workforce on an even playing field, and, along with allies on the Right, it's pulling out all the stops to keep that from happening. At stake is much more than the usual tax breaks, trade deals and relentless... <more>

Military Insists 'Segregation Boxes' for Iraqi Prisoners Are 'Humane'
Measuring 3 feet square and about 6 feet tall, the military claims that prisoners isolated in the chambers are checked frequently, but the practice is raising concern among human rights advocates.

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EU Expands Nuclear Sanctions
The European Union has approved new sanctions against Iran in protest at its nuclear program.

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The Anthrax Follies and the Bizarro Effect
What are they smoking over at FBI headquarters?

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Pictures from the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics in China
The ceremony portrays 5,000 years of Chinese history, cleverly highlighting achievements in art, music and science.... <more>

  A 'Choice' Between Two Identical Evils
During the 1980 presidential election, a common refrain regurgitated by the corporate media was what a “bad choice” Americans had between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. The establishment didn’t like Reagan, who was very good at making speeches designed to stir the hated white middle class, and the... <more>

  Night and Fog
. . . and the world stood up and stopped the bastard, but beware for the Bitch that bore him is in heat again. B. Brecht

Any comparison of our Imbecile in Chief to Adolf Hitler before 1940 is bound to make the German dictator come off looking like Albert Schweitzer. It is annoying that even my fav... <more>

  Why Inflation Will Continue to Rage
It is a foregone conclusion that the cost of oil and food is alarming us all. The question that we need to review is why and what can be done about the situation. Any consideration of this question must be based on what factors are responsible for these horrendous price increases.

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  The Real Wars
Many Americans have been misled into believing that our country is engaged in a “War on Terror” and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that these are not the real wars. The real wars are upon our American way of life, our standard of living, our economy, and o... <more>

  The Good News
We live in frightening, unrelentingly dark times, of that there can be no doubt. But the old saying about it being darkest just before the light is one of the wiser ones around.

America may continue to just sink into the morass, its former way of life and the European peoples that created it soon... <more>

  'Anchor Babies' -- An American Immigration Dilemma
The subject of massive non-white or Third World immigration into the United States is at once such a complicated one in certain respects and yet such a simple one in other respects that it is difficult to know where to begin. I am talking about a discussion that would lead to a solution satisfactor... <more>

  Flunking French
Variations of the “You Could Hear a Pin Drop” anti-French message have been traveling the Internet since 9/11. They usually involve Colin Powell or some U.S. official putting down a French general or diplomat at a cocktail party: “President Bush’s latest ‘dumb stunt’ – the sending of an aircraft c... <more>

  The Death of a Generation and Its Legends
Is the death of a generation necessary before the truth finally emerges? In the case of World War Two the answer appears to be yes. It has now been 63 years since the end of the war. That means that the youngest WWII veterans are now over 80 years old. Their numbers are diminishing rapidly and w... <more>

  INTELLIGENCE REPORT
pictured: Rozita Swinton

The “conservative” Bush regime inherited a string of budget surpluses from the Clinton administration, the only surpluses under either of the two identical political gangs during the past 40 years, only to quickly ring up the largest deficits in U.S. history. The deficit ... <more>

Do You Feel Safe Now? Proud?
If we are honest about who is actually murdering and abusing people, it is the U.S., Israel, and the UK. There's your "axis of evil."
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Bruce Ivins: The Movie
Anthrax mystery: the FBI/media narrative is laughable – and sinister.... <more>

Trillions Lost in Recent Economic Failures
Our politicians fit right into our new “smoke and mirrors” society, especially our presidents, who lead the pack with lies and false promises. ... <more>

Inflation and the New World Order
We drive through rural Pennsylvania and southern New York state. Homes and businesses look seedy, run down. What was once a vibrant and prosperous small-town culture in this part of the country seems exhausted. ... <more>

Pre-Crime and Pre-Emptive Civilian Disarmament
No portents of tragedy were apparent when Matthew Beck arrived for work at the Connecticut Lottery Corporation the morning of March 7, 1998. But barely an hour would elapse before an eruption of criminal violence would take five lives and imperil the rights of thousands.

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Lord Archer: 'Indians Are the New Jews and Are Taking Over Britain'
His comments were made following a number of Indian takeovers of major British companies, such as Jaguar, Land Rover, Corus Steel and the Scottish whiskey giant Whyte and Mackay. ... <more>

Murderer Medellin Executed At Last — No Thanks To Bush Administration
Not only was Medellin a depraved gangmember of the worst kind, he had become a poster Mexican martyr—revealing much that is wrong with the White House, where the Mexichurian President took the side of the killer and worked against the families of the murdered girls. ... <more>

Mugabe's Biggest Sin
And to the D.C. imperialists it's not his extermination campaign against whites.... <more>

Third World Watch -- Detroit Mayor Jailed
Judge Ronald Giles sent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to Wayne County Jail for failing to notify the court of his trip to Canada and violating the terms of his bond.... <more>

White Man Beaten by Negro Mob
Salisbury police said it was a racially motivated and gang-motivated crime. Dwyer is white. Dwyer said it all started when one of his assailants said he wasn’t allowed on the street, and then Dwyer was hit in the back of the head with a gun.

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Robber Baron Update -- Companies Tap Pension Plans to Fund Executive Benefits
At a time when scores of companies are freezing pensions for their workers, some are quietly converting their pension plans into resources to finance their executives' retirement benefits and pay.

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Suskind: Bush Ordered Fake Letter Linking Iraq to 9/11
A blockbuster new book from investigative journalist Ron Suskind adds another revelation to the growing canon demonstrating the lengths to which President Bush and members of his administration lied, misled and deceived the American people to pursue its invasion of Iraq.

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Money Over Morals: Obama’s the Candidate of the Hedge-Fund Partners
For all his supposed concern about regular folks, Obama’s sympathy for the beleaguered people who still do manual labor remains suspect, while his willingness to appease the wealthy elites who preach the benefits of “free markets,” low taxes and job-destroying trade bills appears entirely sincere.... <more>

Marching Off Into Tyranny
Many Americans find it too appalling that any part of “their” government, even a rogue operation, could possibly have been involved in any way in the 9/11 or anthrax attacks. No evidence--not even full confessions--could convince them otherwise. Many Americans have welcomed their brainwashin... <more>

Iran Threatens to Shut Gulf Shipping Lanes
Iran has warned it is ready to shut down the shipping lanes of the Gulf as it boasted of a new missile system designed to "prolong" war at sea.
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Shasta County Board of Supervisors Discusses Chemtrails
The Shasta County Board of Supervisors, acting as the Air Pollution Control Board, will hear at its 1:30 p.m. meeting a presentation by Dane Wigington and others about “heavy metal contamination” — referred to by some as the “chemtrails” conspiracy.

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At Abuse Shelters, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Hey girls, want to get skanky? Well, sashay down to your local abuse shelter and get buzzed! No, you don’t have to be a real victim of domestic violence. All you need is a convincing story. ... <more>

First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe
Research by a Valparaiso University geography professor and his students on the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, a discovery that overturns decades of classroom lessons that nomadic tr... <more>

Solzhenitsyn's Critical View of the U.S.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn may have come to hate the Stalinist Soviet Union, but the capitalist United States did not win his heart either.... <more>

A World Split Apart
Text of Address by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises, Thursday, June 8, 1978.

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Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act
Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.

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Will 'Returning Migrants' Remake Mexico — Or Take U.S. Southwest Back With Them?
Ending mass illegal immigration, and drastically reducing legal immigration is necessary for the survival of the United States as we know it. These things must be done. But reforming our immigration policy is going to involve a lot of Mexicans in the U.S. going back home to Mexico. What happens to M... <more>

The Three Amigos
As if having the two major-party Presidential candidates appear before La Raza isn't enough, the current occupant of the White House, President George W. Bush, is also on record as supporting the goals of La Raza. ... <more>

Can’t Win in Afghanistan? Blame Pakistan
The reason it is often difficult to tell whether Pakistan is friend or foe is because Washington has been forcing Pakistan’s government, military and intelligence services into supporting the US-led war in Afghanistan and rounding up and torturing opponents of Pakistan’s military dictatorship. Pakis... <more>

PNAC/Neo-Cons Pressured FBI To Blame Al Qaeda For Anthrax
Every time the corporate media pins anything on Bush/Cheney, just substitute PNAC/Neocon for their named culprit. Bush and Cheney are Neocons and Cheney was part of PNAC so it is 100% correct, in fact it is more correct because it includes all of the criminals.
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The Definition of Insanity -- Continuing to Support the Two Identical Parties
If great empires continued through perpetuity, then we would all be Babylonians. We know, though, that powers rise and fall and their civilizations eventually fade away. Their existences are only preserved for study by historians whose findings are reduced to little more than trivia questions for bo... <more>

The Patsy
Was Bruce Ivins the anthrax killer? ... <more>

Bush Must Go
If there is a hell, as Bush the Second claims to believe in his born-again fundamentalist naivete...then there is a special place reserved there just for those who do monumental evil, professedly in the name of good. And there is a special place within that particularly odious place, reserved just ... <more>

Establishment Economist -- Hundreds of Banks Will Fail
The banks will become insolvent because of mounting losses as a result of the housing bust and because they have only written down their subprime loans so far, he said. Still in front of them are their consumer-credit losses, for which they lack the reserves, Barron's reported.

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General Motors and the Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Wall Street
As punctuated by General Motors’ second quarter (6/30/08) loss of $15.5 billion, General Motors is a company in financial distress. In its attempt to survive the current economic milieu, management has been looking to throw excess weight overboard to keep the company afloat. GM is trying to ditch it... <more>

A Second, Far Larger Wave of U.S. Defaults is Building
The first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting, but a second, far larger one is building with alarming speed.
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Henry Paulson Has Lost Control Over the U.S. Economy
In an eerie echo of President Herbert Hoover in 1930, during a Presidential campaign against Roosevelt, following the stock market crash and collapse of numerous smaller banks, Paulson recently appeared on national TV to declare "our banking system is a safe and sound one." ... <more>

The Republic, Slip-Sliding Away
We are and always have been too large a country for a true democracy. That's why the Founding Fathers created a republic.... <more>

The Planned Collapse of America
Does anyone understand how much trouble the United States finds itself? I mean, folks, this nation stands on its tip-toes in a septic tank nostril-deep in trouble.

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McCain Considers Jewish Running Mate
Eric Cantor, 45, would be a dramatic choice for Mr McCain, who is running almost level with Barack Obama in national polls but whose aides believe he needs to shake-up the White House race if he is to prevail in November's general election.

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When Extremists Attack
I have now been called antisemitic and intellectually unstable and a whole bunch of other silly things by the folks over at the Commentary blog. They want Time Magazine to fire or silence me. This is happening because I said something that is palpably true, but unspoken in polite society.... <more>

From the Frying Pan. . .
For at least several hundred years, Afghanistan has been the place where "healthy" empires get defeated and where aging empires go to die – sort of an elephant's graveyard of decaying empires. ... <more>

Thou Shalt Not Disappoint Her
It’s sad that American men have reduced themselves to living in fear of women, causing women to feel that not being disappointed is an unalienable right.... <more>

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Algebra For Dummies
Last month, the former action hero persuaded the California Board of Education, all of whom he had appointed, to make California the first state to require that all public school students, no matter how slow, take Algebra I in eighth grade.

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Limit Foreign Players in Baseball
Not only are fans are unwillingly and unnecessarily subjected to "embracing diversity", but their suffering is made more acute because, as I wrote in my last column, my research indicates that foreign-born players are a zero-sum game as far as their collective performance is concerned.

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Rand Report Utterly Discredits Bush
Perhaps because it is still, basically, a conservative think tank, a favorite of the Pentagon, Rand has not stated the obvious conclusion: Bush's 'war on terrorism' failed because Bush never intended that it succeed. ... <more>

George Bush: War Criminal
Can Bush pardon himself? Under U.S. law, sure - and he will. But he can't pardon himself under international law. ... <more>

Jobless Rate Hits Four-Year High
July's reductions marked the seventh straight month where employers eliminated jobs. The economy has lost a total of 463,00 jobs so far this year.

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San Francisco Triple Murder Highlights Immigrant Crime Wave
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, there has been enormous shock and anger that a known MS-13 gangster with prior arrests for violent offenses could have been let loose on the streets by a grossly permissive sanctuary city policy.

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Schwarzenegger Orders Cuts Amid Fiscal Crisis
With California's cash dwindling and legislators still debating a new budget, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger eliminated 22,000 part-time and temporary state positions Thursday and ordered that 200,000 state workers receive the federal minimum wage.... <more>

Joe Klein Speaks Truth to Power
It's been just about a month since Joe Klein's column accusing "Jewish neoconservatives" of having "divided loyalties" appeared in Time magazine, and already the controversy surrounding it is taking on the grand scale of an opera – perhaps a stage adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." His o... <more>

'SS Liberty' Sails to Challenge Israel
Forty-one years after the American surveillance ship USS Liberty was napalmed, torpedoed and strafed by Israeli naval and air forces during the Six-Day War, another "Liberty" will be setting out from a Cyprus port in August to try to break through the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.... <more>

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