The United Loony Bin of America

Sherwood Ross – “Have we as a nation gone mad, waging war in the Persian Gulf while society crumbles?” Seymour Melman asked rhetorically when I interviewed him for The Progressive 19 years ago.

Debt Ceiling Set For Progressive Repealing

Michael Hudson – Mr. Obama has come to bury Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, not to save but them. The U.S. Government has spent $13 trillion in financial bailouts since Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008. But Mr. Obama warns that thirty years from now, the Social Security fund may run a $1 trillion deficit. So Mr. Obama is doing what any good demagogue does: delivering his constituency to his campaign contributors on Wall Street.

Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists

Peter Dale Scott – Only the American public can stop them. But in order for the people to rise up and cry Stop! there must first be a better understanding of the dark alliances underlying America’s alleged humanitarian interventions…Until the public takes notice, that concealment of collusion will continue.

Disastrous Outcomes From An Orchestrated Economic Crisis

The US has become such a ridiculous collection of fools that no real crisis can be recognized. Instead, the country is mesmerized by a fake crisis.
The fake orchestrated crisis can easily turn into a real one. If income support programs are slashed, so will be consumer demand, and the US economy will decline further, widening the budget deficit and national debt.

Ron Paul & Dylan Ratigan: Cancelling Debt Held By The Fed

Gerald Celente on Coming Economic 9/11

Gerald Celente on Ed Taylor Radio 26 July 2011

Tim DeChristopher ( Bidder 70) to Be Sentenced to Jail Time

I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me

Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for ‘disrupting’ a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge immediately before his sentence was announced. This is his statement:”… those who write the rules are those who profit from the status quo. If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don’t make any substantial change.”

Ron Paul: Freeze Spending Instead of Increasing Debt

Ron Paul on Fox news today, July 28, 2011.

Dylan Ratigan: Cognitive dissonance in America

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