Eagle: Pentagon report says Defense Department whistleblowers have been left vulnerable to reprisals

Pentagon report says Defense Department whistleblowers have been left vulnerable to reprisals By R. Jeffrey Smith and Aaron Mehta | Center for Public Integrity, 5 May 2012 The Defense Department has inadequately protected from reprisals whistleblowers who have reported wrongdoing, according to an internal Pentagon report, and critics are calling for action to be taken …

Mini-Me: Call to Arms Occupy 2012 Hits West Coast & Paulistas

Huh? CULTURE | A Call to Arms from the Author of ‘The Open-Source Everything Manifesto’ By  RobertSteele – April 27, 2012 North Atlantic Books Communities As much as I love all that it represents, Occupy is struggling. The dirty little secret of Occupy is that it is moderately organized in NYC, Chicago, Boston, and Oakland …

Robert Steele: Call to Arms Occupy 2012

Below the line is a 1,200 word essay with two graphics and multiple links including YouTube links  that can be reprinted at will by anyone anywhere.  The author’s biography includes a graphic of the author and his new book cover.

Mini-Me: How the US Struck Back to Strangle the Arab Spring

Huh? Revolution vs. Counterrevolution: Whatever Happened to the Arab Spring? by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH CounterPunch, Weekend Edition April 13-15, 2012 Within the first few months of 2011, the U.S. and its allies lost three loyal “friends”: Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Zine el-Abbidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Saad Hariri in Lebanon. While Mubarak and Ali were …

2012 Reality Sandwich: The Battle for the Soul of the Republic

The Battle for the Soul of the Republic Reality Sandwich, 10 April 2012 Robert David Steele Vivas The National Security Agency (NSA) mega-data center, combined with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) special relationship with Google, and the federalization of local police using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds to pay for monitoring both the locations …

Joshua Kilbourn: ShadowStats Truth on Unemployment versus USG Lies

John Williams – Unemployment Rate at a Staggering 22.2% John Williams, of Shadowstats, notes that manipulated government statistics are not changing the fact that the true SGS Unemployment Measure now sits at a staggering 22.2%.  Williams also demonstrates that despite the hype from Wall Street about a recovery, parts of the economy remain collapsed.  Here …