Sunday, 8 May 2011


By Noam Chomsky

We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Continue


By RT

More speculation has been raised on the reasons for NATO's intervention in Libya. As RT's Laura Emmett reports, the organisation may have been trying to prevent Gaddafi from burying the American buck. Continue



By James Petras

In the face of major strategic losses, as evident in the astonishing assassination of top military officials, Obama had to mount a political spectacle a "military success story" the killing of unarmed bin Laden, to buoy the spirits of the American public, military and its NATO followers. Continue


Extrajudicial Executions


By David S. Cloud

The special operations mission targeted Anwar Awlaki, a cleric suspected of involvement in terrorist plots. He escaped but two other terrorist suspects were killed. Continue



By Bob Ellis

There was no rejoicing in Times Square when Hirohito died, though he ordered the killing of 2350 Americans in Pearl Harbor. Continue



By Cindy Sheehan

Cindy telling it like it is in an interview with Dr. Drew on CNN. Continue



By Stephen Lendman

Past US false flags provided pretexts for militarism, wars, occupations, domestic repression, and national security state extremism, antithetical to democratically free and open societies. Continue

Greek PM denies euro exit; says leave Greece alone: Ministers from the euro zone's biggest economies met in Luxembourg to discuss Greece's debt crisis on Friday but Athens and senior EU officials denied a report by Germany's Spiegel Online that the Greek government had raised the prospect of leaving the 17-member euro zone.

China pushes U.S. on debt ahead of high-level talks: China, wielding its huge dollar holdings, on Friday pressed Washington to tackle its huge fiscal deficit and said it would raise the issue of discrimination against Chinese investors at high-level talks next week.

Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Jump : Applications for jobless benefits jumped by 43,000 to 474,000 in the week ended April 30, the most since August, Labor Department figures showed today

Fannie Mae seeks $8.5 billion from taxpayers Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) on Friday said it would ask for an additional $8.5 billion from taxpayers as it continues to suffer losses on loans made prior to 2009.