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Bush quietly authorizes opening of Americans’ mail

What else is there left to break after overcoming the taboos of phone tapping, “knock and announce”, posse comitatus, torture, the right to a proper legal defense and a great number of other “obstacles.” Opening mail just doesn’t seem like that big of a deal anymore, in the grand scheme of things. Oh well, [...]

Cubans forced to change hotels over US trade boycott

Apparently, US “law” is positioned to replace national legislation wherever American corporations are allowed a foot in the door. Or at least that is what US buffoons like to think. Of course, the abomination that Americans call law, we call racism, discrimination and terrorism.

Oslo - A Cuban business group visiting Norway that was forced to [...]

The Year In Cartoons

The wired world has been buzzing with the fear-mongering perpetrated by the most American of American organizations — the National Rifle Association (NRA). For a while, the authenticity was being questioned and NRA-folk would have had us believe it was all some disinformation campaign. Not so. So anyway, just in case anyone did miss the [...]

Torture in the US today

It is not entirely surprising that US citizens are increasingly being subjected to the very same abusive treatment, which we have come to know from America’s imperial armies overseas. In fact, it would be far too kind to denote this as simply a case of chickens coming home to roost. One could argue over chickens [...]

Truth or Consequences

Joe Mowrey writes for the Dissident Voice.

The United States’ most plentiful and seemingly inexhaustible national resource is collective denial. I have an acquaintance whose son, a senior in college (not high school mind you, but college) only recently found out about global warming. Another acquaintance, when asked what she thought of the war in Afghanistan [...]

Whose Apocalypto?

Mel Gibsons Apocalypto did fairly well at the box office, but do people get it? Some praise it for showing that Mayans still exist and some fear it will fuel prejudice and racism. How many will realize — and indeed appreciate — the apt parable about the modern, warring American civilization, not willing to give [...]

Opulent lifestyle

Statistics don’t lie — Americans are fat “There’s no polite way to say this: Americans are the fattest people on the planet.” They also waste an impressive amount of resources on bottled water.

News Culture

Daily Show and Samantha Bee on Al Jazeera English and everything that is wrong with Americanized “news” reporting. Unfortunately, most Americans can’t get Al Jazeera English since it is indirectly and directly censored by politically motivated cable operators. The clip juxtaposes Al Jazeera English to American media outlets in a humorous way and exposes the [...]

Plans for abducting Mullah Krekar

This week: “According to Newsweek, the Pentagon had planned to send elite troops to Oslo with orders to abduct Mullah Krekar, suspected of financing terrorist activities. ” Last week: Sweden agrees to take US information at face value and freeze another terror suspect’s assets. Again. The last time we did that, America’s word turned out [...]

US Military Wants To Test Blood Substitute On Unknowing Civilians

Trauma victims may be used as lab rats for new Hemopure blood substitute WITHOUT INFORMED CONSENT because it’s too dangerous to try in the field. Congratulations chumps of America, the chickens have come home to roost — again.





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