Eric Zuesse: NYT Dangerous Lies About Ukraine & Russia

(PREFACE: Right before this went to press, Britain’s Guardian headlined “Moscow May Walk Out of Nuclear Treaty,” and Washingtonsblog bannered “Senior U.S. Intelligence Officers: Obama Should Release Ukraine Evidence.” The latter newsflash is a memo to the President signed today by 9 senior retired U.S. intelligence professionals who gently lay out the evidence that President Obama has been lying about …

Chuck Spinney: Robert Rubin, ROOT for the Collapse — With Bill Clinton as Active Enabler of Wall Street Crime — None of the “Advisors” Show Deep Integrity

Attached herewith is an important report in the Guardian.  It places the deregulation of Wall Street during the Clinton Administration into a particularly smarmy perspective by examining documents just released by the Clinton library.  Note the connections to players now in the Obama Administration. This report paints a revealing albeit depressingly familiar portrait of how …

Worth a Look: Creating a Sustainable and Desireable Future

Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future : Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski (eds) The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future …

Veterans Today: Suppressed 2002 German Report on 9/11 — Probable Fabrication But Pulls a Lot Together

Suppressed 2002 German Report on 9/11 (Translated from German.  The original document, after careful forensic examination is considered “inconclusive.”  It has not been proven fake in any way. Ed.) On Monday 6, August, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador Ischinger personally  notified the President of the United States that information developed by the  Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz …

Chuck Spinney: Uri Avner on Greatest Danger to Israel – Meddling Idiot “Leaders”

The author of this incisive — and entertaining — analysis of (1) Israel’s political condition and (2) its arrogance with regard to pernicious meddling in the domestic politics of it friends is a former member of the Knesset, a hero of the 1948 War, and perhaps Israel’s leading (and most rational) peace activist.  He is …

Review: The Price of Inequality:How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future

Joseph Stiglitz 5.0 out of 5 stars Ethical Economist Confronts Two-Party Tyranny — Defines 70% of the Way Forward, November 26, 2013 I have admired this economist, one of a tiny handful who are not bought and paid for by the banks, for quite a long time. I’d like to see him at Director of …