Radical Healthcare Reform: An Anarchist Approach

Professor Gary Chartier on: ‘promoting access, affordability, and choice by ending privileges for corporations, professionals, and the otherwise politically connected’.

Chicago Corporation Sells $100 Million in Arms to Georgia

As Georgia has committed more troops to the U.S.-led Afghanistan occupation, Barrington Alliance, Inc.—a collaborator within the military industrial complex, based in the Chicagoland area—will send $100m in small arms and ammunition with a ‘sophisticated’ surface-to-air strike system to the war criminal regime.

Fort Hood Mystery

Michael Gaddy on the inconsistencies in the reckless media coverage of the Ft. Hood Massacre and how it serves the health of the War Party State.

Chomsky’s Lectern: The Elite-Manufactured Sectarian America (Video)

Prof. Chomsky discusses: e-media; the hypocritically selective nuclear hysteria; “sensibility” and “tragedy” within the ‘tea party movement’; cynical scapegoating, the natural inclinations of the human species; the business propaganda against government by those who embrace government; a world without war or a world without people; the evolution of the antiwar movement; the immoral elite debate on the Afghanistan occupation, campaign funding predicting policy; and the manufactured sectarian America.

Pak President on Refugees: ‘Fault Lays’ With Them, ‘Suffering Could Serve Useful Purpose’

Seymour Hersh’s most recent article features a sick peek into the mind of a relatively honest president and explores the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.

Sam Donaldson: ‘Better Throw Bernanke and Fed Out Before They Do Further Damage’; ‘Audit the Fed’ Bill ‘Gutted’

On ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous”, George Will of The Washington Post points to India’s recent run on the dollar as an indicator for a coming fall in the subjective greenback in favor of “other better stores of value”. Veteran White House correspondent for ABC, Sam Donaldson, says if that’s the case, “then, we’d better throw Ben Bernanke and the Fed out… Let’s get rid of them now before they do further damage.”

The Health Care Reform Bill: Herding Doctors at Gunpoint

The “Affordable Health Care for America Act”: some facts and falsehoods about the latest push towards socialized medicine.

Obama ‘Leaning Toward’ 34,000 U.S. Troop Increase in Afghanistan

Against the assessment of his national security adviser, the president will reportedly increase the U.S. military footprint in Afghanistan by 34,000 in 2010.

Italy Convicts C.I.A. Agents for Kidnapping

The Obama Administration was “disappointed” with an Italian court convicting 23 Americans—including 22 C.I.A. agents—tried in absentia for the 2003 illegal kidnapping of Osama Mustafa Hassan, a Muslim cleric known as Abu Omar. The imam was shipped to Egypt, held without charges and tortured until his release in 2007.

Celente: Real Unemployment Over 22% (Video)

A report stated ‘real unemployment could be around an all-time high 17.5%. Gerald Celente, a trends forecaster and economist, tells Russia Today that under the algorithm used before the Clinton Administration, ‘real unemployment could be around 22.1%

Declassified F.B.I. File: AIPAC Staffer Spied for Israel

Think tank discovers after file released from an FOIA suit that an Israeli intelligence agent was a staffer for the Israel Lobby. Prosecutors recently dropped espionage charges from two high-level AIPAC staffers.

Focusing on Ft. Hood Killer’s Beliefs an Easy Out to Avoid Deeper Reasons for the Massacre

“It is possible that having been at Walter Reed and having heard all these stories and been an Army psychiatrist and then knowing that he was going to deploy, that all of that caused him to snap.”

A Brief History of Ethics: Part I

An overview of the four major approaches to ethical reasoning, from Aristotle to Rand—and why they doth sucketh…

Chomsky’s Lectern: War, Peace and Obama’s Nobel

Professor Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize at a time when the U.S. is drumming up false threats posed by Iran and escalating the war in Afghanistan.

U.K. Ambassador: Renditioned Detainees ‘Raped With Broken Bottles’ in ‘Soviet-Style Gulags’

The U.S. and U.K made extensive use of Uzbekistan’s the torture regime in its extraordinary rendition program, Craig Murray says, exporting interrogations to a country that “left the Soviet Union in order to maintain the Soviet system” of Gulag oppression.