Obama's Budget Revealed:
Money for Wars and Weapons, While More Americans Face Joblessness and Hunger

By Jo Comerford

The latest federal budget opens the American public to yet more pain, while shielding the military and the rest of the national security establishment from the same. Continue

Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama

By Chris Hedges

We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives. Continue

The Traitors Among Us

Sibel Edmonds Has Named Names. Why Isn't The Media Reporting The Story?

By Brad Friedman

Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator, claims that the following government officials have committed what amount to acts of treason. Continue

The Case against Greenspan and Bernanke

By Mike Whitney

Greenspan and Bernanke are either criminally negligent in failing to execute their regulatory duties or complicit in aiding and abetting the banks and other financial institutions in the sale of fraudulent loans to investors and homeowners. Which is it? Continue

Is The Recovery Real?

By Paul Craig Roberts

A desperate government, which has wasted $3 trillion invading countries that pose no danger to the U.S. and wasted more trillions of dollars combatting a crisis brought on by the government’s failure to regulate the financial sector, is likely to steal people’s pensions as well as to gut Social Security and Medicare. Continue

America's 30 Year War On Afghanistan

By: James A. Lucas

The U.S. was the main force that created the conditions that allowed the Mujahideen and the Taliban to come to power because of the support it gave 20 to 30 years ago to the most violent and anti-democratic forces within Afghanistan who ruled ruthlessly. Continue