American Pendulum

News and Commentary / U.S. and World Perspectives

Collapse of the American Empire: swift, silent, certain

Harvard's Niall Ferguson, one of the world's leading financial historians, echoes Diamond's warning: "Imperial collapse may come much more suddenly than many historians imagine. A combination of fiscal deficits and military overstretch suggests that the United States may be the next empire on the Full Text

US – China: Provoking the Creditor, Hugging the Holy Man

By James Petras - The Obama Administration has heightened tensions with China through a series of measures which can only be characterized as major provocations designed to undermine relations between the two countries. These provocations include political support for separatist movements, such as Full Text

(VIDEO) Dennis Kucinich Says Obama is NOT for a Public Option

If You Listen To The President You'd Think He's For The Public Opition BUT HE'S NOT! Kucinich Full Text

The Washington Post on ‘Lunatic’ 9/11 ‘Conspiracy Theorists’

By Jeremy R. Hammond - Yet while serving out a hit piece against the global “9/11 Truth” movement, it is in fact the editors of the Washington Post who are demonstrably “fact-averse”. Full Text

Boeing Begins Building Phantom Eye Hydrogen Powered Vehicle

Phantom Eye is designed to maintain a persistent presence in the stratosphere over a specific area, while performing missions that could include intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance and communication. Boeing also is developing a larger HALE that will stay aloft for more than 10 days and Full Text

Economy

Max Keiser: March 9, 2010 Report

This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on the fake shop fronts making a "revived" economy in Northern England; the Chile quake causing Goldman Sachs's high frequency trading to lose 2.1 trades per day; and the mobs in Indonesia, a "revolution" in Ireland and online media preventing→

US Eases Sanctions on Cuba, Iran, Sudan to Allow Web Services

Since Cuba, Iran, and Sudan are all nations that have been threatened by Western nations, particularly U.S. and Israel, its no wonder they are leary of letting U.S. infested propaganda into their nations.→

Banking Propaganda and Using the Middle Class as a Credit Card for Wall Street Excess

How About we let the Average American Borrow from the Federal Reserve at 0 Percent and cut out the Loan Shark? The vultures are picking off every piece of what used to be the middle class. →

Andrew Gavin Marshall on Iceland Saying NO to Bailout

Iceland banks need a bailout but the citizens of the country say there is no chance. The people of Iceland voted against a deal that would have helped fix the economic problems, refusing to pay off any banks debt. →

Principal Writedowns and the Fake Stress Test

Mike Konczal - if the stress tests were done with terrible 2nd lien performance in mind, there would have been an extra $150 billion dollar hole in the balance sheet of the four largest banks. Major action would have been taken against the four largest banks if this was the case.→

Max Keiser Interviews David DeGraw — The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the USA [video]

David DeGraw appeared on the Keiser Report to discuss his new book, “The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America.” David DeGraw: “The American public needs to understand that we have been attacked. We are in an economic war right now and all economic indicators say that→

Will The U.S. Devalue The Dollar?

The US is trapped. Caught between rising expenditures and the need to borrow more, outstanding US debt is incapable of ever being repaid and should the credit rating of the US ever reflect its actual state, sovereign default, devaluation would be the result.→

IMF-STYLE AUSTERITY MEASURES COME TO AMERICA: WHAT “FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY” MEANS TO YOU

Ellen Brown: What the President seems to have missed is that all of our money except coins now comes into the world as “red ink,” or debt. It is all created on the books of private banks and lent into the economy. If there is no debt, there is no money; and private debt has collapsed. This→

Latest U.S. and World News

Science and Environment

How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies

New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provide evidence for powerful winds blowing away from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy. This discovery indicates that "average" supermassive black holes may play an important role in the evolution of the galaxies in [Read More]

World News

Religion-Based Violence Continues in Nigeria

'I think it is all Christians killed. The Muslims who were living with them in the villages I heard had left the village. We are hoping now that the government of Nigeria will see that we have a very, very big problem. The kind of cooperation that came into play - that could violate a curfew - that could take the law into their own hands - it is a very strong organisation. [Read More]

Spiritual News and Commentary

Jesus Was a Nazarean Essene

There were anciently two branches of Essenes - the Nazareans and the Ossaeans. Each of these two Essene branches had a deeper monastic level. The monastic level of the northern Nazarean was known as the B'nai-Amen or "Children of Amen." The Nazarean B'nai-Amen were, and are, a coed Monastic Order. [Read More]

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of American Pendulum. The contents of this article are of sole responsibility of the author(s). American Pendulum will not be responsible or liable for any inaccurate or incorrect statements contained in this article. FAIR USE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article.

American Pendulum

Translator

Archive

Latest Articles

Categories

Commentary

Collapse of the American Empire: swift, silent, certain