Wealth Defense Industry: The Real Reason America’s Oligarchs Can Squeeze the Rest of Us
Jeffrey A. Winters Alternet How the richest of the rich stay on top. In 2005, Citigroup offered its high net-worth clients in the United States a concise statement of the threats they and their money faced. The report told them they were the leaders of a “plutonomy,” an economy driven by the spending of its [...]
Read More →A Courageous Former Naval Officer Stands Trial for Speaking Up for the 99%
Michael Levitin Alternet Leah Bolger, 54, could receive a six-month jail sentence for interrupting a congressional hearing with a message from the 99%: End the wars and tax the rich to fix the deficit. Consider the story of Leah Bolger, the latest American hero up on trial: She is a young female artist in the [...]
Read More →Further Crackdown On Dissent As The Elite Prepare For Mass Uprising
By Brit Resistance Radio As southern Europe erupts in protest at crippling austerity measures, imposed by corrupt puppet politicians at the behest of global financial loansharks such as the IMF, the Spanish authorities have announced plans to further criminalise and crush dissent. Spanish interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz yesterday announced in Congress planned reforms that [...]
Read More →Pardon Me, Your Food is Glowing
Daisy Luther Inalienably Yours If the one-gallon jugs of milk in the dairy case seem to be glowing, it may not be just from the fluorescent lights You won’t hear about this from the mainstream media, but the world’s food supply is becoming increasingly tainted by radiation emitted from the Fukushima disaster. Recently, on the [...]
Read More →24 Outrageous Facts About Taxes In The United States That Will Blow Your Mind
The Economic Collapse The U.S. tax code is a complete and utter abomination and it needs to be thrown out entirely. Nobody in their right mind would ever read the whole thing – it is over 3 million words long. Each year, Americans spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars trying to [...]
Read More →Green Police? DHS Launches ‘Environmental Justice’ Units
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Homeland Security commits to fight climate change and “melting Arctic ice” Audi’s 2010 ‘Green Police’ spoof commercial may not be far off becoming reality with the announcement that the Department of Homeland Security is creating new “environmental justice” units that will be empowered to oversee regulations in conjunction with local [...]
Read More →The greatest single threat to humanity – Fukushima nuclear reactor no. 4 raises new global worries
Adonai TheWatchers Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power plants accident. Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly stated that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4 — with 1,535 [...]
Read More →Is Turkey preparing for an intervention in Syria?
Michael Weiss TheTelegraph The short answer is yes. Although it won’t happen tomorrow or without assistance especially from the United States, which is evidently first going to allow Kofi Annan to try his luck getting Iran to broker a peace deal. But Abdullah Bozkurt, a columnist at Turkey’s Today Zaman newspaper, outlines the legal case [...]
Read More →Doctors in Uzbekistan say Government Forcibly Sterilizing Women
Joyce Hackel PRI´sWorld Journalist Natalia Antelava talks with Marco Werman about what she says is a secret program by the government of Uzbekistan to sterilize women against their will. Antelava, who was barred from entering Uzbekistan to report her story for the BBC , interviewed Uzbek women and doctors who had crossed the border into [...]
Read More →London wants to buy off Libyan dissident
VOR The British authorities have offered Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj one million pounds sterling in compensation, The Guardian writes citing unnamed sources. Abdel Hakim Belhaj filed a lawsuit against Sir Mark Allen, the MI6 officer responsible for counter-terrorism in 2004. The Libyan and his wife Fatima Bouchar claim that their hand-over to the Gaddafi [...]
Read More →Shocking extent of abused women across Britain revealed for first time
ANI For the first time ever the number of women and children being forced out of their homes across Britain due to vicious relationships has been revealed, which has raised new concerns regarding the impact of council funding cuts on local refuges. Around 19,000 women aged between 15 and 88 required state help to find [...]
Read More →JPMorgan CEO: A Greek Exit From the Euro Would Have Been Catastrophic
A. Papapostolou GreekReporter JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said Wednesday that the U.S. economy is on the mend, with businesses rich with cash after having weathered the worst of the financial crisis. “Corporate America is in great shape,” Dimon said during a talk at Rice University. “A lot of cash, a lot [...]
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