2011 October | American Pendulum

The Son of Africa claims a continent’s crown jewels

Posted by admin Top Stories Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

By John Pilger – With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way. Obama’s decision is described in the press as “highly unusual” and “surprising”, even “weird”. It is none of these things. It is the logic of American foreign policy since 1945.

Nasim Taleb on OWS, Banking System, and Coming Class Warfare

Posted by admin Economy, Top Stories Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Nasim Taleb, who penned the term “black swan” in economies, is interviewed on Bloomberg. He thinks class warfare is inevitable; the more violent variety. Hamarrabi’s code should be applied to Bankers, he says.

The Federal Reserve and Bank of America Initiate a Coup to Dump Billions of Dollars of Losses on the American Taxpayer

Posted by admin Economy Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

This is yet another joint effort by Washington and Wall Street to screw the American people, and to trample on the rule of law. The American people will be stuck in nightmare of a never-ending depression (yes, we are currently in a depression) and fascism (or socialism, if you prefer that term) unless we stand up to the overly-powerful Fed and the too big to fail banks.

An Education for Empire: The Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations in the Construction of Knowledge

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Andrew Gavin Marshall – The following is an excerpt from an upcoming book by Andrew Gavin Marshall on the historical, social, political, and economic examination of the institutions and ideas of power in our world, a product of The People’s Book Project. This excerpt is from a chapter on the birth of the American Empire. This is not a finished product, but rather a sample of some of the information contained within the book.

Occupy Wall Street Visited

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Joel Hirschhorn- Last Saturday while in New York City I went downtown to visit the Occupy Wall Street group and also ended up walking in their protest march around big bank buildings. A terrific experience with a huge group chanting things like “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!” My first impression was absolute amazement at how many police surrounded Zuccotti Park, as massive a police presence as any I had ever seen in countless news accounts of protests in other countries, including those trying to overturn awful regimes. No wonder that New York City has spent over $3 million so far on policing the Occupy events.

U.S. CAN DEMAND ARBITRATION OVER ALLEGED IRANIAN PLOT

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Sherwood Ross – Over the past several years three Iranian scientists involved in that country’s nuclear effort have been murdered, the most recent this past July. (An attempt on the life of a fourth scientist was foiled.) The Times said the killings are widely believed to have been the work of Israeli agents and were conducted “with tolerance from the United States.”

AzRmusic – In Dedication: Thank You, Steve

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

by AzRmusic on Oct 13, 2011 – I made this song using only sounds from Apple products and Steve’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech. Every instrument, including drums, has been sampled from a Mac product, tuned by ear, and replayed in the context of the song.

'Israelis, Saudis' behind Iran terror plot

Posted by admin Featured Media Sunday, October 16th, 2011

[VIDEO] ‘Israelis, Saudis’ behind Iran terror plot – Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:06:55

What Ever Happened to Women and Children First?

Posted by admin Top Stories Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Johnny Barber – In Kabul, the children are everywhere. You see them scrounging through trash. You see them doing manual labor in the auto body shops, the butchers, and the construction sites. They carry teapots and glasses from shop to shop. You see them moving through the snarled traffic swirling small pots of pungent incense, warding off evil spirits and trying to collect small change. They can be found sleeping in doorways or in the rubble of destroyed buildings. It is estimated that 70,000 children live on the streets of Kabul.

Obama vs Jobs – Hope vs Reality

Posted by admin Top Stories Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Last week, President Obama racked up several more broken campaign promises as he pushed through Congress three new job-killing corporate trade agreements. The Senate Finance Committee was quite open about the fact that these agreements will kill off more jobs and were eager to mitigate the damage with band aids attached to the treaties. Some of us who were in the hearing room felt an obligation to speak up and ask why in the world the senators — with perfect bipartisan harmony — insisted on causing the damage in the first place. And for that we were thrown in jail.