Archive for February 17th, 2011

By MARK LANDLER NYTimes.com February 16, 2011 WASHINGTON – President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday. Mr. Obama’s order, known as a... »

By GREGORY L. WHITE WSJ.com FEBRUARY 16, 2011 MOSCOW – Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said he is “ashamed” with the way Russia is run today and warned the Kremlin could face an Egypt-style uprising. Nearly two decades after his reforms led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mr. Gorbachev denounced Russia’s “ruling... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com Everywhere you look today the mainstream news is talking about shortages. Authorities all over the globe are boldly proclaiming that the world is rapidly running out of food, water and oil. So are these doomsayers right? Well, it must be noted that some of the most famous “prophets of doom” of the past... »

by Washington’s Blog Global Research February 16, 2011 According to newly-declassified documents, an FBI translator filed reports titled “Kamikaze Pilots” with the Bureau warning of an al-Qaeda plot to attack America in a suicide mission involving planes within the next months. As Sibel Edmonds (herself a former FBI translator) wrote last month: The memorandum... »

by Susan Lindauer LewRockwell.com I confess that since November I’ve been holding my breath, watching the clock for how long Tea Party newcomers could hold out against the entrenched Republican elite on Capitol Hill. Collapse was inevitable, however I admit to feeling bitterly surprised at how rapidly they have thrown in the towel. For... »

by Paul Craig Roberts LewRockwell.com The United States government has overestimated the amount of shame that it and American citizens can live down. On February 15 “the indispensable people” had to suffer the hypocrisy of the U.S. Secretary of State delivering a speech about America’s commitment to Internet freedom while the U.S. Department of... »

by John W. Whitehead LewRockwell.com “We end up punishing honor students to send a message to bad kids. But the data indicate that the bad kids are not getting the message.” ~ Professor Russell Skiba What we are witnessing, thanks in large part to zero tolerance policies that were intended to make schools safer... »

By Cliff Kincaid February 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com Following the lead of David Gregory of NBC News, who wants Republican House Speaker John Boehner to publicly defend the legitimacy of the Obama presidency, the Los Angeles Times has now editorialized that Boehner ought to make it his business to rebut charges that Obama is a... »

By Chuck Baldwin February 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com It really wasn’t that long ago. With the way America’s clergymen act today, however, one would think that preachers such as James Caldwell, Jonas Clark, Joab Houghton, and John Peter Muhlenberg never existed. But they did exist; and without them, it is this country we call the... »