Make Sure the Bunker is Well Stocked (Mike Whitney)

Aug. 29, 2010 -- (Information Clearing House) -- Robert Herz was forced to resign from his job as as chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) because he insisted that the banks ass ...

Our Redeemer (David Glenn Cox)

Machiavelli David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2010 -- I was recently rereading Machiavelli and he said, when you acquire lands where the prince is unpopular you come as a redeemer. When yo ...

BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)

Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...

Not Tits but Horns! (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 28, 2010 -- Alan Simpson broke the cardinal rule in Washington; he said what he really thought. Turn about is fair play so here’s what I really think. His com ...

Deconstructing the Official Narrative on the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq (Jeremy R. Hammond)

Aug. 20, 2010 -- (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Iraq is back in the news, at least for a moment. The occasion is "A truly historic end to seven years of war," in the words of Lt. Col Mark Beiger, quoted ...

Trapped at Ground Zero (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2010 -- The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, ter ...

Wake Up Obama (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Aug. 15, 2010 -- If the United States is not kaput it is certainly withering away even as a rich upper class enjoys all the things that money buys. There is mas ...

The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous (Glenn Greenwald)

Aug. 9, 2010 (Cato Unbound) -- It is unsurprising that the 9/11 attack fostered a massive expansion of America’s already sprawling Surveillance State. But what is surprising, or at least far less und ...

Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for Meaning in a Refugee Camp (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 12, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Two young girls stood, as if frozen, staring below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house and ...

This Economy Stinks, Yes it Does (Dean Baker)

Aug. 10, 2010 (Truthout) -- If there were any doubts about the health of the economy, two reports issued in the last ten days should have eliminated them. First the second quarter GDP showed the econ ...

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know (Laurence Kotlikoff)

Aug. 10, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, he ...