Ronald McDonald and Other Clowns (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Mar. 9, 2010 -- Libya's Muammar Qaddafi announced the other day that the problems in Libya were being caused by, are you sitting down? Al Qaeda. It sounds absurd, ...

Obama's Guantánamo Policy: Legally and Morally Corrupt (Karen Greenberg)

A US flag waves within the razorwire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Photograph: Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters) The White House insists it's making the best of a bad lo ...

How to Read Gates’s Shift on the Wars (Ray McGovern)

Mar. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- In Establishment Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates enjoys a charmed life based on a charming persona. The Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) is always ...

Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger)

Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Feb. 24, 2011 (truth-out.org) -- Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers w ...

America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President (Ray McGovern)

Feb. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk of ...

BOOKS: A World Without Islam. By E. Fuller (Jim Miles)

A World Without Islam. Graham E. Fuller. Little, Brown, and Company, N.Y. 2010 Feb. 1, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- A title for a book is frequently the set of few words that creates a significant f ...

America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director warns (Nathan Diebenow)

Jan. 10, 2011 (RawStory) -- The Obama administration's $78 billion cut to US defense spending is a mere "pin-prick" to a behemoth military-industrial complex that must drastically shrink for the good ...

America Has Gone Away (Paul Craig Roberts)

Dec. 29, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). Instead ...

Whitewashing Defeat: Obama’s Indecisiveness Defines His Presidency (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 23, 2010 -- He may still possess the poise of a confident leader and an eloquent intellectual, but the presidency of Barack Obama is now suffering its most diffi ...

Cables Reveal Background of Pro-Dictator U.S. Policy (Ted Rall)

Dec. 8, 2010 -- NEW YORK (CommonDreams.org) -- After the Soviet collapse in 1991 U.S. policy toward Central Asia was transparently cynical: support the dictators, screw the people. As the United Stat ...

Western Civilization Has Shed Its Values (Paul Craig Roberts)

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State t ...