White House Press Secretary Refuses To Talk About Syria

U.S. forces attack civilians in Syria

This is a new BBC follow-up to the story I posted yesterday evening. U.S. forced crossed the Iraqi border into Syria and kill 8 unarmed civilians in a ‘raid’. Many questions still surround this event. Given that the attack was coordinated and that the military knowingly launched the operation in a nation we are not [...]

U.S. forces instigate Syria–October Surprise?

This BBC story scares the hell out of me. There is a lot of mystery surrounding this story. I’ve seen several variations of the story as time progresses. I thought nothing much of this story this morning, but now it seems that there may be something larger at work.
“U.S. troops” crossed the Iraqi border into [...]

School may actually be detrimental to my learning.

I think I’m more productive and learning more during my free time than during school. These are the books I’ve read between July 5th and August 30th:
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Inventing A Nation; Washington, Adams, Jefferson – Gore Vidal
Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power – Joseph Marguilies
On Democracy – [...]

Steve Forbes: Federal Reserve is Intentionally Causing Economic Crisis!

In case you don’t know, Steve Forbes is the editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes as well as president and chief executive officer of its publisher, Forbes Inc. He was a Republican candidate in the U.S. Presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000.

- Sal

Apparently 2/3 of us live in the “Constitution-free” zone.

I want the borders secure and I want the flow of unrestricted illegal immigration ended, but this is not the way. It allows for way too much government abuse. Hold on a sec–this has already been abused. Silly me for giving the government the benefit of the doubt.
Read more about this story right here.
- Sal

Banks have no intention of lending out the money they received to do just that.

It seems like all the money the banks received from the bailout bill to, you know, unfreeze credit by making loans are not doing that. Instead, they are using the opportunity to buy up smaller banking institutions.
More information and better explained at firedoglake’s article and the New York Times article.
- Sal

WashingtonWatch.com: Bailout Scandal

Just two weeks after the passage of the bailout bill, and one day after a Treasury Department official declared, “we are committed to transparency and oversight in all aspects of the program,” the Treasury Department began covering up the amount it would pay to New York Mellon Bank to act as a financial agent in [...]

From Russia, With Love?

52 years ago, Soviet tanks marched into Budapest. In less than 20 days, Hungarian’s short-lived struggle for freedom was crushed, leaving 1,500 killed and 13,000 wounded.
40 years ago, Soviet tanks marched into Prague, nipped the blossoming democracy during the Prague Spring. Alexander Dubcek, then the leader of Czechoslovakia, was forced to make the most humiliating [...]

Third Party Presidential Debate (Full Video)