2011 May | American Pendulum

US & UK: Next Phase of World Domination?

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

US, UK form joint security council Obama will announce on his first state visit to Britain this week that the White House is to open up its highly secretive National Security Council to Downing Street. The move aims to show the US still values the trans-Atlantic ‘special relationship.” A joint National Security Strategy Board will be established to co-ordinate senior officials on both sides in dealing with challenges such as terrorism and rogue states.

The 'Baseball' Economy: The Fed Strikes Out

Posted by admin Economy Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

It feels like we’re entering the eighth or ninth inning of the Fed’s perversely destructive game, and all we need is an umpire to call “STEE-RIKE!” and end the doomed-from-the-start “extend and pretend” game the Status Quo has been playing since 2008.

Prime Minister Netanyahu's Address to the American People and Congress (Full Speech)

Posted by admin National News/Opinion, Top Stories, World Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

PM Netanyahu Addresses the American people and Congress and uses the “people’s floor” to disseminate Israeli Propaganda. MUST WATCH…Includes full transcript of speech.

Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrested in US Protests

Posted by admin National News/Opinion, Top Stories Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Bill Quigley – Arrests at protest have been increasing each year since 2009. Those arrested include people protesting US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Guantanamo, strip mining, home foreclosures, nuclear weapons, immigration policies, police brutality, mistreatment of hotel workers, budget cutbacks, Blackwater, the mistreatment of Bradley Manning, and right wing efforts to cut back collective bargaining.

NATO steps up Libya airstrikes

Posted by admin World Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

NATO warplanes have hammered Tripoli with some of the heaviest airstrikes yet, as US president Barack Obama and British prime minister David Cameron said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would “inevitably” be forced from power.

Joel S. Hirschhorn: Thank You Cornel West

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

It is not that Obama is not black enough, as some think West was saying. It is about the dishonesty, deceit and corruptness of Obama. What everyone should be praising West for is that he correctly made the point that Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats have stolen the US government by using vast sums of money to corrupt both Democrat and Republican politicians.

Dennis Kucinich: Saying No to Permanent Global War

Posted by admin National News/Opinion, Top Stories Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

The Bill in Congress will hand over to the President Congress’ constitutional authority to declare and authorize war, substantially altering the delicate balance of powers… – The annual re-authorization of the Department of Defense contains unprecedented and dangerous language that gives the President virtually unchecked power to take the country to war and keep us there. This bill significantly undermines the Constitution, the institution of Congress and sets the United States on a path of permanent war.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: The Colonial Predator Legacy

Posted by admin Top Stories Monday, May 23rd, 2011

The French Socialist Party has a long and sordid history of supporting bloody colonial wars: Indo-China, Algeria and dozens of military interventions in Africa. Today they support the wars against Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. As always, there are “dissidents”, left-wingers, “critical” intellectuals and “Trotskyist” factions who speak for the “rights” of the accused, as well the victim, but who looked to DSK, the head of the IMF and his millionaire backers, as their ticket back to the Palace Elysee, the Presidency and the spoils of office.

Obama's Secretive U.S. "Kill/Capture" Campaign: Frontline

Posted by admin Top Stories Monday, May 23rd, 2011

PBS Frontline: The kill/capture campaign that JSOC is executing targets enemies on a secret list called JPEL [Joint Prioritized Effects List]. According to Matthew Hoh, a former Foreign Service officer who resigned in 2009 because he felt U.S. tactics were only fueling the insurgency, the list includes bomb makers, commanders, financiers, people who coordinate the weapons transport and even PR people.

Emily Schwartz Greco: 'Womanizer' Isn't a Synonym for 'Sexual Predator'

Posted by admin World Saturday, May 21st, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s not in trouble because of his libido.Sadly, the IMF squandered an opportunity three years ago to ditch Strauss-Kahn before this incredibly ill-timed embarrassment, which coincides with such weighty things as Egypt’s pursuit of a $4 billion loan, and Europe’s debt crisis. In 2008, the Fund’s executive board merely reprimanded him for carrying on an inappropriate relationship with Piroska Nagy, a Hungarian economist who at the time was his subordinate.