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Cancer Capitalism By Mark Taliano Cancer Capitalism, decoupled from production, wants to own everything, including life itself. It is an ideology detached from life coordinates, and toxic to humanity. Read More >>

Americans Stand Naked Before Injustice By Paul Craig Roberts The percentage of Americans who have even the slightest comprehension of their loss of liberty is so tiny that the American people have no prospect of regaining their liberty. Americans are too absorbed with reality shows and spectator sports to see their rights disappearing before their eyes. Read More >>

"Yugoslavia break-up was planned in advance" By Ashish Shukla French Brigadier-General and famous geo-strategist Pierre Marie Gallois, 'father of French atom bomb," made the startling claim in a video before his death in 2010 that the "balkanization of Yugoslavia" was planned much in advance by Germany and United States than its actual occurrence in the 1990s. Read More >>

Not Everyone on the Benghazi Committee Was an Embarrassment By John Nichols The Republicans, Cummings said, "are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail Secretary Clinton's presidential campaign." And to confirm his point, the congressman recalled the admissions of partisan intent and manipulation by Republican majority leader Kevin McCarthy, Republican Congressman Richard Hanna, and the conservative Republican investigator for the committee. Read More >>

The Ideologue's Tunnel Vision By Lawrence Davidson Many Palestinians can understand Western Jewish history, including the Holocaust, and recognize how it shapes, though ultimately cannot excuse, Zionist behavior. Unfortunately, the Zionists can't reciprocate by understanding the history that drives Palestinian behavior. They cannot do so because their ideology precludes the possibility that they are in fact responsible for Palestinian suffering. Read More >>

Ukraine- Cyber Mercenaries Attack Antiwar.com By George Eliason The attack on Antiwar.com readers is only the symptom. Every news site that prints facts and not news with an agenda is getting treated the same way. Its time to stop this. Read More >>

The Water Is Boiling Now And The Frog Doesn't Know It By Dave Johnson The gerrymandered-into-office Republican Congress is completely dysfunctional for governing, and instead of addressing the country's problems we got this: An 11-hour long hearing asking a former first lady, senator and Secretary of State, "Were you alone all night?" Republicans have fallen SO FAR down into a hole of their own propaganda machine that reality is lost completely for them. Read More >>

Hey Democrats, Don't Pull an NDP -- Run as Progressives By Thom Hartmann Democrats win elections when they run as progressives. Unfortunately, a lot of establishment Democrats still buy into the right-wing myth that the US is a "center-right nation" when it's anything but. A recent poll by the Progressive Change Institute shows that Americans overwhelmingly agree with progressives like Bernie Sanders on key issues from education and healthcare to the economy. Read More >>

Latest Report from Lakatia, Syria By Lilly Martin Our contact in Syria sent this update, describing the stiuation in Lakatia province, where the Russian naval and nor airbase is located, from which daily sorties are flown against terrorist targets, This account includes behavior by our so-called allies. Read More >>

If Ever America Needed A People's Political Revolution It's Now By michael payne It's time for the American people to take back their government and restore this nation's democracy. In the America of today we have a government and a political system which is tightly controlled by corporate money and power. Read More >>

Deep-Sea Bacteria Produces An Enzyme that Helps Remove Carbon Dioxide in Organisms Deep-Sea Bacteria Produces An Enzyme that Helps Remove Carbon Dioxide in Organisms | The Market BusinessAccording to a recent study, a deep sea bacteria has been discovered at the bottom of the ocean which can neutralize industrial carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the Earth. The study was carried out by a group of University of Florida researchers and they found out that the bacterium is capable of producing an enzyme which can help convert c ... Read More >>

How Cat Stevens Made Bill Murray's New Film Happen By David Corn Competing with big-budget films, Rock the Kasbah may have a tough time finding its audience. But the Cat Stevens-imbued film is an unconventional attempt to depict this Muslim society in non-Hollywood fashion--while prompting plenty of laughs. (Murray nails the part of the dodgy former LA player who's living in a derelict motel and incessantly dropping the names of the big-time rockers he supposedly used to run with.) Read More >>

Why Kiev Silenced Ukraine's Biggest Opposition Newspaper Three articles published in this period would later be the basis for a criminal investigation into the media outlet by the Ukrainian Security Agency on charges of “undermining Ukrainian sovereignty.” These articles contain extensive quotes by pro-Russian activists and separatist supporters, which demonstrate both the sincere, comprehensible anger of the easterners and the dubious causes they had seized hold of to vent ... Read More >>

OEN Widget Makes It Easy For You To Post Links To Articles On Other Site-- and become a STIMULATOR of the conversation By Rob Kall We would love to have more people submitting links to articles they think OEN readers would enjoy reading / should read. We have a widget that makes it pretty fast and easy to submit them by cutting out at least half a dozen clicks. Read More >>

We're eating WHAT? Consumers Redress Big Food By Martha Rosenberg A reporter described black women "assigned to the chitterlings room, where they would scrape feces and worms from intestines," workers throwing "a piece of shoulder at a friend across the conveyor" just to get his attention, and prisoners who preferred their cells to work release at the slaughterhouse Read More >>

Advice from a Billionaire: Forget Charity, Do Good While Making a Profit Diane Ravitch says: "Please, someone, tell these fund managers that they should stick to selling stuff and leave the taxpayer money for the kids, not for investors and profits. They are getting rich, and they are hurting children.  If they can generate a profit, taking public money that should be paying for the arts, for raising teachers' salaries, and for reducing class sizes, they think they are doing good works. Bobby Turner, & ... Read More >>

Bernie Sanders Not the First Socialist Presidential Candidate By Martha Moffett A look at previous candidates who ran on the Socialist ticket. Read More >>

Imitating Realness: Art and Authenticity By Arlene Goldbard It's time to be fed up with a wildly misguided and rapidly emergent impulse in art and commerce, mounting an imitation of realness in which both art and authenticity are left lying on the studio floor. Why "canned parrot meat" is the last straw. Read More >>

Struggling Jeb Bush Downsizes Campaign, Cuts Payroll 40 Percent In a sign that the Bush campaign is in deep trouble, Bloomberg Politics reported on Friday that the Bush campaign was downsizing to remain competitive in the run up to the nation’s first presidential caucuses and primaries. The campaign is letting some workers go, and implementing drastic pay cuts for many of the workers who will stay. Jeb’s campaign plans to cut payroll by 40 percent within a week. The campaign is also downsizing th ... Read More >>

"Potentially catastrophic" Patricia becomes strongest hurricane ever recorded, to slam Mexico tonight Early Friday, monstrous Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever measured by the National Hurricane Center. Patricia is forecast to make landfall on Mexico’s west central coast Friday night with destructive winds, torrents of rain, and a devastating storm surge. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is describing the situation as “potentially catastrophic.” The Category 5 storm’s maximum sustained winds streng ... Read More >>

Army Identifies U.S. Soldier Killed in Anti-ISIS Raid in Iraq The Army has identified Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler as the American soldier who was killed during a raid by Kurdish and American forces to free hostages held by the Islamic State.  Wheeler, 39, died from enemy gunfire while in combat near Hawija, Iraq. He was born in Roland, Okla., and graduated in 1994 from Muldrow High School in Muldrow, Okla. Over the course of his military career, Sergeant Wheeler had earned 11 Bronze Star Medals, fou ... Read More >>

Vladimir Putin Says America Is Lying At the 12th annual Valdai Discussion Club Read More >>

Wait, Netanyahu said what? By Amer Zahr As a Palestinian, I am quite accustomed to seeing Israel and its leaders invoke the Holocaust to somehow justify terrible actions against my people. But in Netanyahu's twilight zone, policies of extrajudicial killing, house demolitions, massacres, land confiscations, and essentially everything Israel has done since 1948, are recast as some sort of "revenge" for the Holocaust. Read More >>

Bank Regulator's Speech Shows the Extent of Financial Reform Failure A speech given yesterday by Thomas J. Curry, Comptroller of the  Read More >>

Veto Corleone Already in White House By David Swanson President Barack Obama has vetoed a military authorization bill. Why would he do such a thing? Read More >>

A Vote for Justice Over Money at the FCC By Eric Lotke "In my sixteen years as a regulator," said FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, "this is the clearest, most egregious case of market failure I have seen." Read More >>

Bernie Sanders Greatest Fault By Timothy Gatto Let me begin by giving you some startling facts.In 1945, our defense budget, even though we were fighting WWII when they drew it up in 1944, was 962 million dollars.. Adjusting this number for inflation at 1221.9%the figure is 127.2 billion dollars. Today we spend 637 billion dollars! That is over five times what we spent in 1944! Read More >>

When the War Machine Was Young By David Swanson If you're into quaint, you can visit a historic village, restore some antique furniture, or for far less trouble pick up a mainstream analysis of the U.S. military from 40 years ago or so. Read More >>

The Empire of Chaos is in a Jam By Pepe Escobar the USS Think Tankland is advising the creation of a NATO-enforced no-fly zone along the Turkish-Syria border, supported by American, Turkish, British and French troops. Beltway, now we do have a problem. This no-fly zone is already in effect. And it's run by Russia. And you won't be able to jam it. Read More >>

Police murders waiting to happen: Time to Rein In the Casual Overuse of Undercover Cops in America By Dave Lindorff Musician Corey Jones died because of a the overused police practice of having undercover cops trolling for violators. It's a deadly police-state tactic that has to be halted, writes ThisCantBeHappening! journalist Dave Lindorff Read More >>

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Questions to Republicans Reflecting Chris Stevens' Values: The Perspective of a Friend The Republicans fail to see the values that Ambassador Chris Stevens upheld, instead choosing to use the congressional hearing for political purposes. Read More >>

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Puisseguin Crash: 43 Dead in Crash Between Bus, Truck in France At least 43 people — mostly elderly retirees — died in a fiery crash between a bus and a truck in southwestern France on Friday, authorities said. French President Francois Hollande called the accident near the town of Puisseguin, close to Bordeaux, an "immense tragedy." Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said firefighters were met with a "gigantic" blaze when they arrived on the scene and warned the "heavy" death toll could climb.  Read More >>

Pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli's very public temper tantrum continues: "I would destroy Bernie Sanders in a debate" Turing Pharmaceutical founder Martin Shkreli appeared on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria” Friday and declared that potential Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — who publicly rejected a campaign donation from the disgraced CEO earlier this month — is “a demagogue” who’s “afraid of the issues. I think I’d destroy him in a debate about pharmaceuticals,” said the man who’s spent weeks being repeatedly humiliated in every debate he’s participated in, be they about pharmaceuticals or otherwise. He later challenged “any other CEO in Big Pharma” to “a debate contest about science.”  Read More >>

U.S. "deceived" the world about Iran's nuclear program. If Russia knew that U.S. deceived the world about Iran's nuclear program, WHY did it go along?China had no choice to vote with the P5+1 because it needed and needs the world market, but why Russia went along?  The July nuclear agreement with Iran will go down in history as an international sham.  Read More >>

Whoever hires John Boehner post-Congress will make a terrible investment Politicians routinely snag lucrative corporate jobs after their stints as public servants, but that historically has a negative impact on a company’s bottom line.We looked at the hiring of politically connected directors – both members of the House of Lords, called Lords, and the House of Commons, called MPs – by British banks during the three decades before the first world war. We found that the appointment of connected directors – even high-profile MPs – did not increase shareholder value.In fact, the appointment of MPs to directorships had a negative effect on bank equity returns. To make matters worse, bank equity took a hit when its directors were elected to parliament – there were no rules against that sort of double dipping back then – but did not suffer when directors lost elections, or even when they died while in office.  Read More >>