Can Americans Be Unplugged? (Paul Craig Roberts)

The ongoing bin Laden saga "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds ...

Rise of the Obamabots: Stifling Liberal Dissent Under Obama (Ted Rall)

May 17, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- After they called the presidency for Obama, emails poured in. “You must be relieved now that the Democrats are taking over,” an old college buddy told me. ...

The West Is Trapped In Its Own Propaganda (Paul Craig Roberts)

May 12, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- One of the wishes that readers often express to me came true today (May 11). I was on the mainstream media. It was a program with a worldwide reach -- the ...

China: The New Bin Laden (Paul Craig Roberts)

May 11, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- George Orwell, the pen name by which Eric Blair is known, had the gift of prophecy, or else blind luck. In 1949 in his novel, 1984, he described the Ameri ...

Human Intelligence and the Environment (Noam Chomsky)

May 10, 2011 (International Socialist Review) -- I’ll begin with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, and Ernst Mayr, the grand old ...

Americans Are Living In 1984 (Paul Craig Roberts)

May 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The White House’s “death of bin Laden” story has come apart at the seams. Will it make any difference that before 48 hours had passed the story had changed ...

Osama bin Laden’s Second Death (Paul Craig Roberts)

May 2, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pak ...

Enabling Acts (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust May 7, 2011 -- I’ve been watching a magic trick, just another of many that I’ve witnessed over the years. Funny thing about magic tricks is that even though you do ...

VIDEO: Daily Show -- Bernie Sanders Extended Interview

Apr. 29, 2011 (The Daily Show With Jon Stewart) -- In this unedited, extended interview, Bernie Sanders believes the Republican plan to cut social programs while extending tax cuts for the wealthy is ...

BOOKS: After Empire -- The Birth of a Multipolar World. By Dilip Hiro (Jim Miles)

After Empire - The Birth of a Multipolar World. Dilip Hiro. Nation Books, Perseus, New York, 2010. Apr. 25, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Modern history and current events are aligned in this excelle ...

Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System (Chris Hedges)

Apr. 11, 2011 (Truthdig) -- A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusem ...