Mini-Me: Cash, and Time, Runs Out for Afghanistan’s Wi-Fi City

Huh? Cash, and Time, Runs Out for Afghanistan’s Wi-Fi City It was a project that symbolized America’s grand ambitions to rebuild Afghanistan: a DIY Wi-Fi network, free for Afghans to use, powering the aid projects and business ventures of the eastern city of Jalalabad. But now funding for the JLink network has run dry, and …

David Swanson: Colin Powell’s Treason – Lest We Forget

Colin Powell’s Tangled Web “I get mad when bloggers accuse me of lying — of knowing the information was false. I didn’t.” — Colin Powell. Can you imagine having an opportunity to address the United Nations Security Council about a matter of great global importance, with all the world’s media watching, and using it to… …

Bin Laden Show 00: Taliban Offer Pre-9/11 and Post-9/11, US Rejection

Interview with Mullah Omar, Arnaud de Borchgrave (June 2001)  – Very important and rare interview with Mullah Omar the head of the Taliban almost three months before 9-11 on the front page of the Washington Times (June 18).  Omar suggested Osama bin Ladin was a problem he wanted to resolve.  Bush Administration showed no interest …

Chuck Spinney: Neo-Liberalism Actually Neo-Serfdom

One of the pillars of the neo-liberal economic policies adopted by Republicans and Democrats alike in the UK and the US is privatization of government services on the theory that free market pressures will generate greater economic efficiencies.  The UK is a case study of how neo-liberal privatization policies promoted by Thatcher, Blair, and Cameron, …

David Isenberg: Thomas Powers on Ike Eisenhower – He Got the Big Things Right

He Got the Big Things Right Thomas Powers New York Times, April 26, 2012 Eisenhower: The White House Years by Jim Newton Doubleday, 451 pp., $29.95 Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith Random House, 950 pp., $40.00 Bettmann/Corbis When the youngest man to be elected president of the United States was inaugurated …

Paul Craig Roberts: Disinformation (Lies) From Left to Right — Why the Military-Industrial Complex Consistently Assassinates or Impeaches Presidents Who Cross Them….

Disinformation On Every Front Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, propaganda from the right, the left and the middle are all part …