Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

The Creeping Villainy of American Politics By Chris Hedges This extremism, expressed by Glenn Beck and many others, is moving with terrifying speed to the center of American political debate. And the mainstream press, which prizes sensationalism over news and truth, has abrogated its role as an arbiter of fact and rational discourse to peddle spectacle and sensationalism. Read More >>

Chuck Collins -- Wealth Inequality. Billionaires and Psychopaths; Interview Transcript By Rob Kall He discusses an important new report on wealth inequality. Then we discuss billionaires, psychopaths and their threat to humanity Read More >>

What If Jesus Had Been Born 2,000 Years Later in the American Police State? By John Whitehead What if Jesus, the revered preacher, teacher, radical and prophet, had been born 2,000 years later? How would Jesus' life have been different had he be born and raised in the American police state? Read More >>

UN resolution papers over deep divisions on Syria By Bill van Auken The name "Assad" is not mentioned in the draft resolution, much less any demand that he be removed from office, or, for that matter, that he be defended against foreign powers seeking to overthrow him. Nor does it specify whether the Syrian president would be eligible to run for re-election. Read More >>

Syria: The break for the border By Pepe Escobar The Sultan will go no holds barred to prevent it. ISIS was never an "existential threat" to Ankara. On the contrary; it was always a very useful indirect "ally." Ankara will continue to plug the myth that the road to Daesh's defeat goes through Assad regime change. Read More >>

The IMF Changes its Rules to Isolate China and Russia By Michael Hudson The nightmare scenario of U.S. geopolitical strategists seems to be coming true: foreign economic independence from U.S. control. Instead of privatizing and neoliberalizing the world under U.S.-centered financial planning and ownership, the Russian and Chinese governments are investing in neighboring economies on terms that cement Eurasian economic integration on the basis of Russian oil and tax exports and Chinese financing. Read More >>

Partnering with the Devil By Jim Hightower The wrongdoings of major corporations, and even entire industries, are now so commonplace that one hardly has to root them out at all. Their corruption is constantly oozing to the surface of today's fetid corporate swamp on its own. Not content with merely making a profit, CEOs are out to make a killing -- no matter what it costs the rest of us. Read More >>

Eight More Years of Plutocracy By Marc Ash Hillary shows all the classic characteristics of a plutocratic enabler. She's a dedicated corporatist and a devout global imperialist. She really believes that we can lead the world by achieving military victory in the Iraqi-Syrian Frontier despite all evidence to the contrary. The Wizard of Oz was on TNT at the same time as the ABC debate. It was by comparison "reality TV." Read More >>

Left-Right Overlap: Putin's The Man, Bestriding the World Stage By Robert S. Becker What active and celebrated world leader draws such praise not just from conservative circles (Limbaugh, Drudge, Breitbart, Palin, PC Roberts) but adulation from the other side as well. For leftists who staunchly hate the west's imperial militarism, Putin is the hero battling the west ("noble" for journalist Finian Cunningham), the strongest moral and political bulwark against the spreading Evil Empire. Read More >>

The One Percent Rallies Behind IMF Director Christine LaGarde By Paul Craig Roberts Christine LaGarde serves only the One Percent. She overturned the decision by the IMF's professional staff that the Greek debt had to be written down to a sum that the country could afford to service. Instead, LaGarde enabled the One Percent to loot the Greek nation and the Greek people, forcing many young Greek women into prostitution in order to have money for food. Read More >>

Good-night gun By Gary Lindorff Poet-pacifist looks inside the mind of a gun that can't sleep. Read More >>

A Wonderful Christmas Gift: Loving Where You Live, Living Where You Love, And A Hidden Garden In San Francisco By Rev. Dan Vojir The author's garden in San Francisco was created for Good Will Toward Men and (hopefully) encapsulates the Christmas Spirit all year round. Read More >>

Compassionate approach leads to more help and less punishment " Seeing a child steal a toy from a fellow playmate. Watching a stranger cut in line at the grocery store. When we witness something unjust, our emotions often shape our behavior both toward the person wronged and the wrongdoer.Compassion -- and intentionally cultivating it through training -- may lead us to do more to help the wronged than to punish the wrongdoer, new research suggests. Understanding what motivates people to be altruistic ... Read More >>

A Healthy Planet Awaits Us, If We Open Our Eyes By Burl Hall According to many biologists and earth scientists, we are witnessing the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We are the root cause of this mess due to our technology and life styles! Is this a doom and gloom prediction? What do we do as individuals, families and communities to turn this around? Hope lies in the reader herself. Are you up to the challenge? Personally, I have faith in you! Read More >>

The Cosmic Story: Cancer Full Moon 2015 Christmas Gifts and Surprises By Cathy Lynn Pagano Winter Solstice and Christmas celebrate the return of the Light during the darkest time of year. We light up our Christmas tree to invoke the Light to return while we decorate the tree with our hopes for the new year. 2015 has been an intense year,a turning point, a year when we had to face our collective shadows--not just foreign terrorists but our own violence and prejudice. May our hopes for a better world become reality. Read More >>

Dutch newspaper: Corruption in Ukrainian Secret Service Taints MH17 Investigation THE HAGUE–The reliability of evidence in the investigation of the crash last year of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine is at issue because of the sinister role of the Ukrainian secret service SBU in corruption and crime scandals.  Criminal law experts predict problems for criminal proceedings against the murderers of the passengers who died in the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 now that it appears that everything ... Read More >>

Simple Truth: No Simple Solutions By Marcello Rollando Progressive solutions battle it out with Conservative denial, while we melt away. Read More >>

How the Conservatives won the UK 2015 General Election By Peter Kellow In the political roundups of the year 2015, the event that kept coming up was the Tory win in the General Election. The mystery remains as to how it happened. In fact, it resulted from a deliberately engineered policy to divide the nation and leave a significant percentage of voters fearful of change. Read More >>

Sanders data breach: Two more staffers suspended Bernie Sanders' campaign suspended two more staffers directly involved in the data breach that has roiled the party, a Sanders aide confirmed to POLITICO after the Democratic debate on Saturday night. Pending an investigation, the two aides join data director Josh Uretsky in leaving the campaign following the revelation that they accessed and downloaded voter information from Hillary Clinton's team during a technology glitch on Wednesday. Sander... Read More >>

Bernie Sanders Just Made Presidential Campaign Contribution History By Common Dreams The Bernie Sanders campaign announced Sunday that the campaign has now received over 2.3 million contributions. That means Sanders now holds the record for highest number of contributions for a White House bid, breaking the record held by President Barack Obama in 2011. Read More >>

Four Russian Fighter Jets to Escort President Assad's Plane in Visit to Tehran Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's plane will be escorted by four Russian fighter jets during his upcoming visit to Iran, reports said, adding that the US coalition has been alerted to stand down as the Russian jets will have the permission to fire at will at any incoming aircraft. "Four strategic Russian fighter jets will accompany the plane carrying the Syrian president during the visit to and from Iran," the Lebanese al-Diyar daily reported ... Read More >>

Sarah Palin Compares Grassroots Conservatives To Battered Women Well, this is one hell of an analogy. In a guest column Saturday on Breitbart, Sarah Palin likened GOP lawmakers backing the federal spending bill to domestic abusers battering their wives. "The GOP establishment in Congress is our abuser," the former Republican Alaska governor wrote of the relationship between Republican lawmakers and conservative voters. "We can’t hide the black eyes any more. The whole neighborhood knows ... But like a... Read More >>

The Nerds Weigh In On the DNC 'Data Breach' By Daily Kos This whole thing stinks, it stinks because the co-owner of NGP VAN was Clinton's chief technology officer for her 2008 campaign. Read More >>

War On Terror Has Created More Terrorism By Dan Wright Has the U.S.'s anti-terrorism program worked? Nope. In fact, terrorism has dramatically increased since the war began. Read More >>

Bernie Sanders Says What Republican Cowards Won't: Trump Is A Pathological Liar During an interview on ABC’s This Week, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had the guts to do what Republicans are too afraid to do. Sanders called Donald Trump a pathological liar. Trump is winning the Republican primary because his opponents are too afraid alienating his voters to call him out. The fact that Sanders called him out so easily demonstrates that Donald Trump will be in for a very rude awakening if he wins the R... Read More >>

War and peace: Congress must exercise its Constitutional role By Robert Weiner As Congress now considers the pros and cons of new military action against ISIS in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, both the House and Senate are reluctant to pass any war authorization despite the Constitution's requirement to do so. Not adhering to this process set forth by the Constitution can result in colossal failure. History does repeat itself. Read More >>

The Learning Curve of the LAUSD Shutdown By Carl Petersen Thankfully, the threat against the Los Angeles Unified School District proved to be a hoax. What can be learned from the experience? Read More >>