10/30/2004
The dismal failure of central bank monetary policy by Jack Crooks
We are now facing the stark reality of a country and its consumers swimming in debt (household liabilities rose 65% faster than nominal GDP between 2000 and 2003).
Private investors are turning their backs on US securities and the buck. The Asian central banks are still net buyers, for political reasons, but there are signs that ball game is in its late innings.
Private investors are turning their backs on US securities and the buck. The Asian central banks are still net buyers, for political reasons, but there are signs that ball game is in its late innings.
10/29/2004
BIN LADEN TRANSCRIPT
Newsreader: A new message from Bin Laden to the American people about the reasons and resulats of the 9/11 attacks.
Newsreader 2: The head of AL Qaeda says the continuation of us policy will lead to the repetition of what happened.
Newsreader 2: The head of AL Qaeda says the continuation of us policy will lead to the repetition of what happened.
10/28/2004
Seymour Hersh: Man On Fire by Lakshmi Chaudhry
For when Seymour Hersh speaks, he does so with unparalleled insight, passion, and candor. He is willing to say what most other star journalists rarely permit themselves to even think in this era of celebrity journalism, when image is king. When Hersh speaks, it's for two simple reasons: it's important and he cares. It's why we care to listen.
10/27/2004
Kerry on judges: 'No pro-lifers need apply!' by Pat Buchanan
Thirty-one years have elapsed since Roe v. Wade. Since that decision declaring abortion to be a constitutional right, 43 million unborn have been put to death. The equivalent of the population of Canada and Australia together has perished in the womb in "God's Country." Year in and year out, the death toll rises, with the equivalent of the population of Estonia done away every 12 months.
10/26/2004
Government Debt - The Greatest Threat to National Security by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Debt destroys U.S. sovereignty, because the American economy now depends on the actions of foreign governments. While we brag about our role as world superpower in international affairs, we are in truth the world’s greatest debtor. Like all debtors, we are not truly free. China and other foreign government creditors could in essence wage economic war against us simply by dumping their huge holdings of U.S. dollars, driving the value of those dollars sharply downward and severely damaging our economy.
The Myth of the Kerry Calamity by Lew Rockwell
Many bad things would happen under a President Kerry. But many horrible things have happened under the Bush presidency. . . . Kerry may be dangerous but he heads no cult and commands no army of deluded religious fanatics willing to celebrate him as he leads the country into a totalitarian hell of endless war and central administration.
10/25/2004
Old Right Nader by Justin Raimondo
As he stood on the stage, denouncing corporate socialism and foreign wars, that calm, clear voice ringing with modest sincerity, I thought: no wonder they’re so afraid of him that they’ve hired an army of corporate lawyers to deny him ballot status and shut down his campaign.
I know Ralph Nader is supposed to be a man of the Left, the Eugene Debs or the Norman Thomas of our times, but as I listen to him on the stump, I keep hearing the voice of the Old Right.
I know Ralph Nader is supposed to be a man of the Left, the Eugene Debs or the Norman Thomas of our times, but as I listen to him on the stump, I keep hearing the voice of the Old Right.
10/24/2004
China Dumps Dollars for Oil and Gold by T. Stein / S. McIntyre
As competition for diminishing oil resources threatens U.S. dollar hegemony over world oil transactions, expect to see increased Chinese political and military presence in the Middle East.
10/23/2004
Why Are Some American Christians So Bloodthirsty? by Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
Cleverly "working the room," pro-war politicians have infiltrated churches to such a degree that killings and torture are no longer within the province of morality.
10/22/2004
One Vote 2004
American teens have spoken, and they want George W. Bush for president. Nearly 1.4 million teens voted in the nation's largest mock election, and the Republican incumbent wound up with 393 electoral votes and 55 percent of the total votes cast.
10/21/2004
The Zionist Terror Network
Zionist terrorists openly proclaim an arrogant Jewish-supremacist ideology and acknowledge their readiness to use violence against those who disagree with them. With a well-documented record of bigotry and crime, they pose a serious danger to our society, and to men and women everywhere who treasure freedom.
10/20/2004
Potshots at Home Schooling by Jodie Gilmore
Critics of the home-schooling movement continue to snipe at parents who teach their children at home, portraying them as paranoid radicals and, now, potential terrorists.
10/18/2004
Ariel Sharon's Worldview by URI AVNERY
What is really important is the Weltanschauung, the world-view of Sharon as it emerges from Weisglass' long interview. When he exposes Sharon's ways of thinking, this sheds light on the basic beliefs and perceptions of his master.
Sharon's world is one-dimensional, as limited as the flat world before Galileo.
A world where brute force, and only brute force, reigns supreme.
Sharon's world is one-dimensional, as limited as the flat world before Galileo.
A world where brute force, and only brute force, reigns supreme.
'Paid Politicians' Targeting Christian Boycott of Israel by Michael Collins Piper
Joining the members of Congress in slamming the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches is Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, the “interfaith affairs director” of the Israeli lobby group known as the Anti-Defamation League. Bretton-Granatoor said: “The Presbyterian divestment could potentially create a snowball effect and resurrect what had been a moribund issue. Now it has provoked the Anglicans [the Episcopal Church—Ed.], and we know it will not end there.”
Honor the Country by Distrusting the Government by Sheldon Richman
Today political philosophers and others believe that restraining government amounts to restraining “the people.” Jefferson knew better — restraining government liberates people.
10/16/2004
Bush Supporters Vindicate the President by James Bovard
Bush supporters respond to Bovard's book, The Bush Betrayal. Sample: You are nothing but a piece of trash. You and the other scum of the earth who enjoy being called the "elite media" will receive a lot of appreciation from the left-wing activists who, like you, harm the USA with your dribble and made-up sources.
New book breaks censorship on Palestinian issue
In a groundbreaking departure, a recently released book by a major progressive institution dedicated to exposing "censorship" in the American media reveals that the organization itself also omitted information on the Israeli-Palestinian issue over its 20-plus years of operations.
10/15/2004
Roth’s Counter-History & Mine by Taki
But leave it to fat Frank Rich of the New York Times to give the game away. “In truth, we’ve only just begun to be tested. The war in Iraq has already been pinned on Jewish neo-conservatives by Senator Fritz Hollings and by right-wingers like the unrepentant Pat Buchanan ...” What, pray fat Frank, does Buchanan have to apologize for? We were always against the war, but most Jewish neoconservatives were for it. Roth and Rich should be apologizing to American Jews in general and everyone who has ever served in this country’s armed forces in particular.
10/14/2004
Soros is buying the White House
Learn who George Soros is, what he has done, what he is doing, what RightMarch.com is doing to counter him, and most of all -- what YOU can do!
LETTER FROM CONGRESSMAN TOM TANCREDO
Team America PAC has identified and endorsed outstanding conservative Republicans running for Congress this year on solid pro-immigration reform platforms in Arizona, California, Georgia, Kansas, North Carolina and Utah.
Each of the candidates we endorsed faced tough GOP primaries, and were opposed by candidates supported by the "open borders" GOP establishment. You can read about the candidates we supported on our website.
Each of the candidates we endorsed faced tough GOP primaries, and were opposed by candidates supported by the "open borders" GOP establishment. You can read about the candidates we supported on our website.
10/13/2004
Breaking the Demopublican Monopoly by Nelson Hultberg
The reality is that America is now a one-party state. The Democratic and Republican parties have become nothing but two divisions of the same party -- the Central Leviathan Party. Both divisions are corrupted to the core, lap dogs for the special interests. No matter who wins, we always get more spending, more taxes, more inflation, more bureaucracies, and LESS FREEDOM.
10/12/2004
An Open Letter to the American People by SECURITY SCHOLARS FOR A SENSIBLE FOREIGN POLICY
We, a nonpartisan group of foreign affairs specialists, have joined together to call urgently for a change of course in American foreign and national security policy. We judge that the current American policy centered around the war in Iraq is the most misguided one since the Vietnam period, one which harms the cause of the struggle against extreme Islamist terrorists. One result has been a great distortion in the terms of public debate on foreign and national security policy-an emphasis on speculation instead of facts, on mythology instead of calculation, and on misplaced moralizing over considerations of national interest.
The Baghdad Bulletin by Anthony Lappé
Recently, GNN’s Anthony Lappé sat down to talk to Enders about gonzo journalism, America’s fatal mistakes and the ever-elusive exit strategy:
10/11/2004
Homage to Truthtellers by Gordon Prather
Duelfer's principal findings are these:
Frantic to get the UN sanctions lifted, Iraq had "essentially destroyed" all illicit weapons – as well as most weapons-usable materials and precursors – by the end of 1991.
By 1996, "nothing remained," not even a production capability.
Saddam never attempted to reconstruct any of those capabilities.
Frantic to get the UN sanctions lifted, Iraq had "essentially destroyed" all illicit weapons – as well as most weapons-usable materials and precursors – by the end of 1991.
By 1996, "nothing remained," not even a production capability.
Saddam never attempted to reconstruct any of those capabilities.
10/10/2004
Diary Faked to Lure U.S. Into WW II
The best selling wartime diary of a 12-year-old Dutch boy who survived the German invasion of Rotterdam before escaping to America was an elaborate fake by the British secret services designed to draw the US into the war, according to a new book.
10/07/2004
Blogs For Peroutka
Michael Peroutka is the Constitution Party's candidate for U.S. President. The purpose of Blogs For Peroutka is to keep online Peroutka supporters in touch with each other, to attempt to influence undecided and pro-Bush voters to support Peroutka, and to keep people informed about what is happening with the Peroutka campaign.
Stealing a Nation
John Pilger’s new documentary is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base. The base, on the main island of Diego Garcia, was a launch pad for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
10/06/2004
The Wars We Can't Afford to Lose by Paul Craig Roberts
Hise writes that "the female propaganda machine is relentless." Men are sitting ducks, in part because they have been demonized and lack "a national organization, similar to the National Organization for Women, that will aggressively advance men’s positions, interests and needs." Hise suggests a catchy name: "No Ma’am" – National Organization for Men Against Anti-Maleness.
10/05/2004
Ex America: The 50th Anniversary of The People's Pottage - Reviewed by Ryan McMaken
There once was a time when liberty was the language of the right, and with the release of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Garet Garrett’s The People’s Pottage, it is possible to once again read the eloquent prose of one of the greatest intellectuals of an American right that had not yet made its peace with the dismantling of free and republican government in America.
10/04/2004
Who Owns the Fed? by Bill Woolsey
As of July 2004, the Fed held government bonds worth $693 billion.40 Contrary to the claims by some conspiracy theorists that the entire national debt is associated with the issue of currency, the Fed's holdings are about 9% of the $7.5 trillion gross national debt. After subtracting securities held by various federal government trust funds, the Fed's holdings are about 15% of the remaining $4.5 trillion net national debt.
10/02/2004
Heart of Darkness by Taki
The good news about Equatorial Guinea is that it’s the third-largest oil exporter in Africa and has only 500,000 inhabitants, the rest having been driven out or murdered by Teodoro and his uncle, the first president, Francisco Macias. This is a kind of country whose heart of darkness Joseph Conrad could not do justice to.
Terrorism, Justice and You by Jim Rissman
What Nader means is that instead of taking marching orders from the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobbyists, the White House and Congress should start listening to peace advocates. "Congress" includes the Democrats, and in an Democracy Now interview, Nader says of Kerry's position paper ("Strengthening Israel's Security and Bolstering the Special U.S.-Israel Relationship"), "that's an example of a puppet."
10/01/2004
Bush Wars interview with Sibel Edmonds
The FBI translation department whistleblower talks about her case, the extraordinary gag order imposed on it - and hints at an October Surprise for the Bureau and the Bush administration.
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