By Bill Noxid It’s Time for Americans to stop making false proclamations about this Country that only demonstrate their ignorance and unwillingness to face what happened yesterday, much less the historical truth of the United States.  Since the brief shift of direction toward exposing truth during the end of the Bush era and 2008 Presidential [...]

By Beth Fouhy and Sharon Theimer  AP Dec 18 Former President Bill Clinton laid out a list of big-ticket donors to his foundation Thursday that is heavy with foreign governments and business interests sure to have a stake in the policies that Hillary Rodham Clinton carries out as secretary of state. Saudi Arabia and other [...]

Chicago circle nurtured him all the way to the top By Tom Hundley   Writer Toni Morrison famously dubbed Bill Clinton “the first black president”-a title he fervently embraced. Abner Mikva, the Chicago Democratic Party stalwart and former Clinton White House counsel, offers a variation on that theme. “If Clinton was our first black president, [...]

By Dr Leslie Sachs In the headlines are the appalling news stories of Americans carrying out murderous attacks on judges and their families. In a matter of days, one judge was shot and killed in his own courtroom, while another judge had family members brutally murdered in their home. These news stories are, however, related [...]

By Vincent Bevins Cajoled for years to take on Western-style economic liberalism there’s more than a wry smile on the faces of some of South America’s left wing leaders as George Bush and others step in to save collapsing financial institutions, writes Vincent Bevins The irony has not been lost on the political leaders of [...]

From Pravda. Ru In a recent article for the Miami Herald, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts discussed two “still-classified” government memos that not only revealed how the United States government, under George W. Bush, authorized and engaged in the use of torture, but also how Bush himself blatantly lied to the American people about [...]

The 2008 crash has been blamed on cheap money, Asian savings and greedy bankers. For many people, deregulation is the prime suspect. The Economist Link by link The autumn of 2008 marks the end of an era. After a generation of standing ever further back from the business of finance, governments have been forced to [...]