Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran (Ray McGovern)

Ray McGovern Oct. 24, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- You might think that by now I would be so used to infuriating neocon drivel that, to preserve my own sanity, I would avoid looking at the Wa ...

The lost bases of the US empire (Tarak Barkawi)

The US maintains permanent bases in South Korea, established in 1954, that house some 28,500 personnel The United States maintains more than 700 military facilities on foreign soil that may not be as ...

EU Bank Failures Will Crash Wall Street -- Again: 8 warnings for Washington and Occupiers (Paul B. Farrell)

Oct. 21, 2011 -- SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch ) -- Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea ...

BofA Said to Split Regulators Over Moving Merrill Derivatives to Bank Unit (Bob Ivry, Hugh Son and Christine Harper)

Oct. 18, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. (BAC), hit by a credit downgrade last month, has moved derivatives from its Merrill Lynch unit to a subsidiary flush with insured deposits, accordin ...

America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time (Nick Turse)

Predator drone Oct. 17, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) -- They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work inclimate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in ...

Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot (Ray McGovern)

Ray McGovern Oct. 14, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, in his accustomed role as unofficial surrogate CIA spokesman, has thrown light on how the CIA unde ...

Global Systemic Crisis -- First Half Of 2012: Decimation Of The Western Banks (LEAP/E2020)

Oct. 16, 2011 (LEAP/E2020) -- Public announcement GEAB N°58 -- As anticipated by LEAP/E2020, the second half of 2011 is seeing the world continuing its unstoppable descent into global geopolitical di ...

Follow the Money: Behind Europe’s Debt Crisis Lurks Another Giant Bailout of Wall Street (Robert Reich)

Oct. 4, 2011 (Robert Reich.org) -- Today Ben Bernanke added his voice to those who are worried about Europe’s debt crisis. But why exactly should America be so concerned? Yes, we export to Europe -- ...

Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee (Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada and Stuart Biggs)

Sept. 27, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangl ...

America’s 'worst enemy' -- The Latest Orchestrated Threat and The End of History (Paul Craig Roberts)

Sept. 27, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Have you ever before heard of the Haqqanis? I didn’t think so. Like Al Qaeda, about which no one had ever heard prior to 9/11, the “Haqqani Network” has ...

Can We Stop the Next Fukushima Times 10,000? (Harvey Wasserman)

Sept. 13, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media. Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the archipelag ...