Ex-CIA Asset Susan Lindauer

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Former CIA asset Susan Lindauer describes how the Department of Homeland Security locked her up on a military base for 1… Read full post »

Film Review

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97% Owned is a documentary by a British group called Positive Money. It’s an ideal film for people who have difficulty comprehending that the government doesn’t issue mon… Read full post »

Learning that Goldman Sachs is being sued for insider trading for their role in misleading investors about Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) is raising a lot of red flags here in New Zealand. Goldman Sachs is one of three investment banks New Zealand’s National government… Read full post »

Wenzhou: birthplace of Chinese capitalism

Last week I was surprised to learn that private lending is illegal in China. In view of the country’s economic miracle, I was even more surprised to learn that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up 90% of businesses, are inel/… Read full post »

Teena Borek

Florida farmer Teena Borek was on Radio New Zealand National last weekend. In the US, Teena seems relatively unknown outside of her own state, where she works tirelessly to support family farmers struggling to compete with factory farms and cheap imports from Latin America. Teena,/… Read full post »

Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) - sponsor of HCR 107

HCR 107 is a resolution of impeachment against Obama, based on the President’s history of circumventing Congress in launching wars of aggression, as well as Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s recent testimony that Obama doesn&… Read full post »

(If the above video fails to play, view it here:  NBC Chicago)

According to the National Lawyers Guild, the Chicago police have begun unlawfully detaining activists in anticipation of the protests planned at the NATO summit on June 22nd.  They have been breaking down doors w… Read full post »

Prime Minister Wen Jia Bao with President dos Santos

(This is the second of two blogs contrasting US and Chinese… Read full post »

Portuguese president Passos Coelho with President dos Santos

(This is the first of two blogs contrasting US and Chinese foreign policy in Angola and other oil-rich African countries.)

Forget China and India. The World Economic Forum predicts that six of the ten most rapidly growing economies i/… Read full post »

Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Film Review

The term “economical relocalization,” which has been around about four years, describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional e… Read full post »

Charles Eisenstein

Sacred Economics

Charles Eisenstein

2011  Evolver Editions

Book Review – Part II

This review is divided into two parts. The second half covers some exciting solutions Eisenstein proposes for our broken economic system in Part II: The Economics of Reunion and Part III:… Read full post »

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition

Charles Eisenstein

2011  Evolver Editions

(This review is divided into two sections. The first covers Part I: The Economics of Separation, describing the history of money and capitalist economics. The second half covers… Read full post »

Welcome to Your Bank of America

(from http://www.yourbofa.com/)

Dear Fellow American,

Welcome to your Bank of America.

Today, it’s time to acknowledge that our Bank isn’t working anymore—not just for the market, but for people, our real customers. We’ve paid $8.58 bil/… Read full post »

Location of US Drone Bases

Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area branch of the American… Read full post »

A Renegade History of the United States

by Thaddeus Russell

2010 Free Press

Book Review

(This book review is divided into three parts. Part III discusses Martin Luther King’s little publicized campaign to rid black people of “un-Christian” and “un-American” habi… Read full post »

19th century prostitute

A Renegade History of the United States

by Thaddeus Russell

2010 Free Press

Book Review

(This book review is divided into three parts. The second part discusses the debt of gratitude Americans owe prostitutes and ex-slaves for many of the liberties we currently take f… Read full post »

A Renegade History of the United States

by Thaddeus Russell

2010 Free Press

Book Review

(This book review is divided into three parts. The first traces white America’s puritanical work ethic and tradition of self-denial. The second discusses the debt of gratitude Americans owe prostitut… Read full post »

More good news this month. All signs suggest that ordinary Americans are winning the battle against Big Coal (see * below). However you won’t read it in the New York Times. The mainstream media is never eager to report on the victories of grassroots movements.  Thus the Times negle… Read full post »

Re-posted from the Tenth Amendment Center (NDAA nullification passes in Virginia)

Today, the Virginia legislature once again approved House Bill 1160 (HB1160), what many refer to as the NDAA Nullification Act. The support was overwhelming, again. In the House today the vote was 89-7 and… Read full post »

If you read/hear it in the US media, assume it's a lie.

Anyone who has followed the war in Iraq is aware of the bitter religious and political rivalry between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Thus it’s pity that the mainstream corporate media fails to enlighten us about the major sectarian co… Read full post »

One for Our Side

The one positive outcome of Trayvon Martin’s appalling murder, is the recent withdrawal of several well-known corporations from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Thus far the list of members that have terminated their membership includes Mars candy, Coca/… Read full post »

Andrew Gibbs, outside Dow AgroSciences

(This is the last of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1948 and 1987.)

“I have long dreamed of buying… Read full post »

Images from New Plymouth Maternity Hospital

from

http://www.dioxinnz.com/let-us-spray/L_U_S_part-02k.html

(This is the second of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences i… Read full post »