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This is part 1 of the transcript of my interview with Paul Craig Roberts and Noam Chomsky on the future of capitalism. More parts will follow in the coming days.
By understanding why a state legislature won't bring up an animal cruelty bill, you can better understand the behind-the-scenes workings of government.
By Eric Zuesse
Ukraine Government Officially Introduces Slavery, with Vague Terms Will the 'news' media report on this?
It's official! The resistance forces of Donetsk and Lugansk are the winners in the conflict in Ukraine. Bloomberg News just announced it. Now, it's off to another candidate for endless war as we await the presidency of the ultimate neocon war monger, Hillary Clinton - destroyer of Libya and Syria.
The fear has come round again: another war, more mountains of dead, more cities in ruins, more hatred spread, more extremism created. Yet even if ISIS is forced back from the territory it now occupies in Syria and Iraq (thanks to the hellholes of chaos and instablity that Western actions have induced in both those countries), the question will be hanging in the blood-flecked mist: are we free now?
Here are 11 predictions you can count on--because they happen every time we start an overseas war.
An analysis of why people refuse to seek the truth about important political and social issues
A comment on the coming resignation of Eric Holder and his mixed legacy.
It's beginning to become clear that ISIS was created by the West - but the reason is not spelled out.
By Daniel Geery
Bank of America, Reaching Out to You! I have a tale to tell, a bit more personal than the usual avalanche of articles condemning the Bank of America (BOA, my preferred acronym, since it well describes their snaky, predatory behavior). It is also 100% symptomatic of how America has gone awry, when spineless petty bureaucrats get an ounce of power and run the show.
By Mike Rivage-Seul
(Sunday Homily) U.S. Doublespeak Is More Threatening to the World than ISIS or Khorasan 
One of these days Khorasan's heat-seeking missiles will find the rear end of your plane, and that will be the end of you. And those firing the rockets will be justified in doing so -- if they follow the insane logic behind Mr. Obama's latest justification for bombing his seventh Muslim country in six years.
FDR recognized that his ability to push progressive legislation through Congress depended on the pressure generated by protesters - workers, World War I veterans, the jobless, the homeless, and farmers - even though he did not always welcome working closely with these constituencies. The well-worn story that ends with FDR telling a group of activists, "I agree with you. Now, go out and make me do it," has never been documented, but it is emblematic of the New Deal era. As protests escalated throughout the country, FDR became more vocal, using his bully pulpit to criticize big business and to promote policies to jump-start the economy, protect the needy and expand workers' rights.
A Texas college is mourning the deaths of four students after a semi-truck slammed into a bus carrying the school's female softball team as it headed home from a game Friday night in Oklahoma. The team's bus was traveling southbound on I-35 near the town of Ardmore in southern Oklahoma at around 9 p.m. CT (10 p.m. ET) when a northbound semi-truck crossed a "wide" median and slammed into the bus, causing it to roll, authorities said. Three team members were killed at the scene and a fourth teammate died in the hospital, said Capt. Ronnie Hampton of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
James A. Traficant Jr., an iconoclastic nine-term Ohio populist in the U.S. House of Representatives who was convicted on corruption charges in 2002, becoming the second member of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War, died Sept. 27 at a hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. He was 73.
The rapid push to war leaves our heads spinning from the shifting narratives and alliances and our minds worrying about the violence that resulted from regional intervention. It's time to acknowledge our past mistakes and the complexity of the situation and pursue a path of diplomacy, de-militarization and humanitarian assistance.
China's president Xi Jinping aims at resurrecting Confucianism.
An on the ground look at the People's Climate March in New York City.
A Ferguson, Mo., police officer was shot in the arm Saturday night, authorities say. Police say the shooting occurred while the officer was at the Ferguson Community Center checking the building. Tim Zoll of the Ferguson Police Department said the officer was shot in the arm. The officer's identity and condition is unknown at this time. The St. Louis Post-Dispatchreported that the officer is female. The suspect is still at large. No further information was immediately available.
The journey to the ICC is complicated, as are all things in the Middle East. But making the journey at a time of Palestine's choosing should keep Israel from an early return to periodically "mowing the grass," in Gaza, as Israelis have obscenely described these invasions. Only the dumbest politicians keep committing their crimes with a set of indictments hanging over their collective heads.
Former one-term Republican Congressman and current Fox News conservative pundit Allen West demanded that the military not follow orders from its commander-in-chief. On Friday morning, West wrote on his Facebook page that President Obama has ordered the military to enlist "illegal aliens." He then claimed that, since Obama cannot make laws regarding naturalization, the order he signed is illegal, and those serving in the military shouldn't follow it. West then complained about Obama's tyranny and said all Democrats who support Obama need to be voted out.
Clinton should issue an apology to Ray McGovern. She was in charge of the State Department and bears the ultimate responsibility for what was done to McGovern. The least she can do is take responsibility and issue an apology.
The White House is preparing a directive that would require federal agencies to publicly disclose for the first time where they fly drones in the United States and what they do with the torrents of data collected from aerial surveillance. The presidential executive order would force the Pentagon, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to reveal more details about the size and surveillance capabilities of their growing drone fleets -- information that until now has been largely kept under wraps. The mandate would apply only to federal drone flights in U.S. airspace. Overseas military and intelligence operations would not be covered.
This article discusses the useless killing of 650,000 Iraqi children that occurred because of the US imposed sanctions on the people of Iraq and questions how a nation can convince itself that the deaths of so many innocent children was "worth it". Nothing is worth the loss of 650,000 innocent children.
"The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness." (Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN Secretary-General). The rejection of diplomacy as the framework for relationships among nations has led to an international (dis)order of conflict and chaos. Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, is an old school diplomat, a vanishing breed. Calm and unflustered, with a wry sense of humor and the ability to call a spade a spade without being abrasive, Lavrov demonstrates the lost art of diplomacy as few can on the international stage today. This fascinating interview offers rare glimpses of the man and his mind. Western diplomats should envy him. If only the world had more Lavrovs...
By Josh Mitteldorf
Symposium on the JFK Assassination: Day One The JFK assassination fundamentally changed American politics. Presidents from LBJ through Obama have understood that they serve at the pleasure of the CIA, and demands placed on them have been increasingly audacious and destructive. Kreig goes further to assert that every recent presidential candidate (both parties) has been pre-vetted, trained and promoted by the CIA.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren called for congressional hearings into allegations that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been too deferential to the firms it regulates. A program "This American Life" released the transcript of a broadcast that includes excerpts of conversations it said were secretly recorded by Carmen Segarra, a former New York Fed bank examiner who was fired in 2012, with some of her colleagues and her supervisor. Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat who's also on the banking committee, backed Warren's call for a probe.
The seven-million strong Muslim American community remain under pressure, 13 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Alarmingly, mainstream American opinion of Muslims is getting worse. According to the July survey of Arab American Institute (AAI) there has been a continued erosion in the favorable ratings Americans have of both Arabs and Muslims.
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