by Greg Palast | When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the … [Read more...]
Egypt May Not Need Fighter Jets, But The U.S. Keeps Sending Them Anyway
Every year, the U.S. Congress appropriates more than $1 billion in military aid to Egypt. But that money never gets to Egypt. It goes to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then to a trust fund at the Treasury and, finally, out to U.S. military contractors that make the tanks and fighter jets that ultimately get sent to Egypt. The U.S. started sending M1A1 Abrams tanks to … [Read more...]
State of Mind: The Psychology of Mind Control
If you don’t submit to control, if you’re a radical, you’re less likely to be loved. You’re not fitting in with society; you’re viewed as an outsider. There are a lot of social prohibitions about the outsider and the person who’s going to upset things. From the time we’re very young, we’re taught to worship authority, basically, because that’s our key to survival as young … [Read more...]
John Pilger: Real Journalism
Journalism is meant to be about truth. And that perhaps is the most important truth in the world today. John Pilger says journalism is meant to be about truth. In this video he reviews his career over more than 50 years as a campaigning journalist, filmmaker and author. Journalism, he says, has a part to play on behalf of humanity. But too many journalists and journalistic … [Read more...]
Empire of Secrets
As revelations of systemic snooping continue to hit the headlines, who is watching the watchers? As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised transparency and open government yet his administration is one of the most closed governments in US history, described as being worse than even the Nixon administration. The technology and information revolution allows the … [Read more...]