Stew Webb: The Big One Holder's El Cid US Attorney Ron Machen Jr.

Why There Will Be No Grand Jury on Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the AP and Fox Wire Taps, or Judicial Corruption. At the center of today's headlines, the point man on the ground for the government is United States Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. US Attorney Machen obtained the AP and Fox News subpoenas and timed the leak of the AP surveillance to be the same day as the preplanned leak of IRS disclosures about Tea Party processing delays. The real story is bigger, and USA Machen holds the career futures of both Attorney General Eric Holder and Chief Supreme Justice Roberts in his capable hands. Like my Veterans' Today readership, I have been paying special attention to the news leading up to Memorial Day, that time when we remember our fallen comrades, and can't help but measure our own lives since leaving the service of our nation USMC. All of us wonder from time to time, but especially on the national holiday dedicated to the ones that sacrificed all, if we have upheld the values, the constitution, and the America they died defending. In the weeks leading up to Memorial Day, articles in this publication and others have revealed the top brass in all branches of the military having a Major General Smedley Butler-esque crisis over the lawfulness of their ordered prosecution of America's armed conflicts and the mass human suffering it caused. MCNBC's Rachael Maddow reported last week that other leader, that civilian General, Attorney General Eric Holder admitted for the first time, that the US killed 4 Americans with drone strikes,, despite having only targeted one. The following day, the Commander in Chief, President Obama, directed that operations of the drones will mostly be returned to military control, and never used against Americans on American soil. As Americans, we can be proud of a military that has always remained loyal to the constitution and the rule of law, and a national leadership that reflects openly upon its efforts and failures in measuring up to the legacy passed on to us. However, in this article, I am going to be calling your attention to something more related to the roots of Memorial Day. Decoration Day, as it used to be known, when our grand parents and great grand parents carried on the tradition of decorating the graves of America's civil war dead. A great way to memorialize why we never can tolerate such a conflict again. Because there were so many fallen.

Allen L. Roland: Prophet For A Dying Empire, Chalmers Johnson!

Every dying Empire has its truth telling prophet, and America had its own with Chalmers Johnson. Johnson correctly compared the decay of the American empire, with its well over 600 overseas military bases, with the fall of the Roman Empire, whereas the Senate becomes a wealthy corporate club and irrelevant compared to the ruling Military Industrial Congressional Complex. Chalmers Johnson was a truth teller and prophet in a political environment, where few would stand up to the interests and secrecy of the Pentagon and to the intelligence community, and since his passing in November of 2010, many of his prophetic fears have been realized in the Obama administration. Johnson, author of Blowback, Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis, The Last Days of the American Republic, talks in this video interview about the similarities in the decline of the Roman and Soviet empires and the signs that the US empire is exhibiting the very same symptoms, overextension, corruption and the inability to reform. Johnson's main points were: The United States is trading the same three steps as the former Soviet Union: Inability to deal with corporate corruption. Imperial over stretch is leading to fiscal insolvency, with 600 plus bases throughout the world. Inability to reform, thus accelerating the inevitable fall. Chalmers offered the solution, but suspected that it was already too late for America: Reform Congress, Reform corrupt election laws. Re-division of electoral college. Cutback funding of intelligence agencies and department of the defense and take steps to break up the Military Industrial Congressional Complex. Chalmers expected considerable resistance, but also said that only the truth could avoid the inevitable fall of the American empire, as it did in bringing down the Soviet Union. Thus, only the role of the alternative media in exposing the truth can rescue a crumbling Republic that has rapidly become a corrupt plutocracy. It is my opinion, that there is one central truth that can bring down America's Berlin wall of denial along with the deceit of the War on Terror, it's the big, big lie and America's greatest act of treason, it's the monstrous lie of 9/11 along with its unchallenged official story. America's present day prophet for our dying empire is Chris Hedges, America In the Time of Empire, who wrote in 2007, that all great empires or nations decay from within. By the time they hobble off the world stage, overrun by the hordes at the gates or vanishing quietly into the pages of history books, what made them successful and powerful no longer has relevance.

I Secretly Recorded Mitch McConnell, And Now the FBI is After Me

Earlier this year, I secretly made an audio recording of Sen. Mitch McConnell, the most powerful Republican on the planet, at his campaign headquarters in Kentucky. The released portion of the recording clocks in at less than 12 minutes, but those few minutes changed my life.
I leaked the recording to Mother Jones, which published it with a transcript and analysis in April, and over the days that followed, blogs and cable news shows lit up with the revelations from that one meeting. At the time, McConnell was prepping for a race against the actress Ashley Judd — it was “the Whac-a-Mole stage of the campaign,” McConnell said smugly — and the recording captures his team in some Grade-A jackassery, including plans to use Judd’s history of depression against her.
But also up for debate was the the ethics of the audio recording itself. Here’s the latest: An assistant U.S. attorney, Brian Calhoun, telephoned my attorney yesterday, asking to meet with him next Friday as charges against me are being presented to a grand jury.
In a technology age marked by vigilante heroes like Julian Assange and Anonymous, the line between journalism and espionage has grown thin. McConnell was quick to frame himself as the victim of a crime, which was to be expected. It was the guilty repositioning of a politician who has been caught being craven.
What I never expected was the pushback from my own political side. One day in April, I turned on MSNBC and saw U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat from Louisville and one of my personal heroes, rip me a new one (reference site here http://www.alternet.org/print/media/i-secretly-recorded-mitch-mcconnell-and-now-fbi-after-me")

William Boardman: Kennedy Assassination. No One Knows the Full Story!

of what happened. Fifty Years Later, Kennedy Shooting Less Certain than Lincoln Conspiracy. 50th anniversary commemorations of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will include a tickets only memorial at the scene of the crime, Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, Texas. No doubt there will be celebrations in some places, just as there were in the aftermath of the November 22, 1963 killing. Whatever events are held, whether formal or impromptu, they will all have one thing in common: no one knows the full story of what happened. The official version put out by the Warren Commission is long since discredited, but independent investigations have yet to present a coherent alternative narrative. That there is such a narrative is certain, since that would be the event as it happened. One reason we don't know what happened is that our government has kept assassination related material secret, protecting national security secrets say secrecy defenders. Others say stonewalling. Polling in April 2013 suggests a waning interest in the Kennedy assassination, since only 59% of Americans now believe the official version is false. That number is considerably lower than a 2003 Gallup poll, in which 75% of Americans said the Kennedy killing was a conspiracy. In 1978, the US House Select Committee on Assassinations lengthy inquiry concluded that JFK was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. In 1978, the US House Select Committee on Assassinations lengthy inquiry concluded that JFK was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The official version holds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and fired only three shots. The House Committee produced evidence that at least four shots were fired. While coming to the inevitable, evidence-based conclusion that a conspiracy killed Kennedy, the committee did not reach a conclusion as to who was part of the conspiracy. We know it was a conspiracy, but not who were the conspirators. Myriad books have been published arguing various versions of events, but for the most part, the big money from publishers has gone to writers, Gerald Posner, Vincent Bugliosi. But other, conspiracy centered writers, Mark Lane, Jim Marrs, Anthony Summers have far out sold the official version.

Allen L Roland: Prophet For A Dying Empire, Chalmers Johnson!

Every dying Empire has its truth telling prophet, and America had its own with Chalmers Johnson. Johnson correctly compared the decay of the American empire, with its well over 600 overseas military bases, with the fall of the Roman Empire where the Senate becomes a wealthy corporate club, and irrelevant compared to the ruling Military Industrial Congressional Complex. Chalmers Johnson was a truth teller and prophet in a political environment where few would stand up to the interests and secrecy of the Pentagon and the intelligence community, and since his passing in November of 2010, many of his prophetic fears have been realized in the Obama administration. Johnson, author of Blowback, Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis, The Last Days of the American Republic, talks in this video interview about the similarities in the decline of the Roman and Soviet empires, and the signs that the US empire is exhibiting the very same symptoms, over-extension, corruption and the inability to reform. Johnson's main points were The United States is trading the same three steps as the former Soviet Union: Inability to deal with corporate corruption. Imperial over stretch leading to fiscal insolvency: 600 plus bases throughout the world. Inability to reform, thus accelerating the inevitable fall. Chalmers offered the solution, but suspected that it was already too late for America: Reform Congress. Reform corrupt election laws. Re-division of electoral college. Cutback funding of intelligence agencies and department of the defense, and take steps to break up the Military Industrial Congressional Complex. Chalmers expected considerable resistance but also said that only the truth could avoid the inevitable fall of the American Empire, as it did in bringing down the Soviet Union. Thus, only the role of the alternative media in exposing the truth could avoid the inevitable fall of the American empire, as it did in bringing down the Soviet Union. Thus, only the role of the alternative media in exposing the truth can rescue a crumbling Republic that has rapidly become a corrupt plutocracy. It is my opinion that there is one central truth that can bring down America's Berlin Wall of denial along with the deceit of the War on Terror, its the big, big lie and America's greatest act of treason, its the rationale for the cloak of secrecy, torture, Guantanamo and illegal spying that now erodes our Republic, its the monstrous lie of 9/11 along with its unchallenged official story.

Chuck Collins: Wamt the American Dream?

Get Rich Parents or Move to Canada! Two 21 year old college students sit down in a coffee shop to study for an upcoming test. Behind the counter, a barista whips up their double shot lattes. In the back kitchen, another adult washes the dishes and empties the trash. These four young adults have a lot in common. They are the same age and race, each has two parents, and all grew up in the same metropolitan area. They were all strong students in their respective high schools. But as they enter their third decade, their work futures and life trajectories are radically different, and largely determined at this point. The culprit is the growing role of inherited advantage, as affluent families make investments that give their children a leg up. Combined with the 2008 economic meltdown and budget cuts in public investments that foster opportunity, we are witnessing accelerating advantages for the wealthy and compounding disadvantages for everyone else. One of the college students, Miranda, will graduate without any student loan debt, and will have completed three summers of unpaid internships at businesses that will advance her career path. Her parents stand ready to subsidize her lodging with a security deposit and co signed apartment lease, and will give her a no interest loan to buy a car. They also have a network of family and professional contacts that can help her. While she waits for a job with benefits, she will remain on her parents' health insurance. Ten years later, Miranda will have a high paying job, be engaged to another professional, and will buy a home in a neighborhood with other college educated professionals, a property that will steadily appreciate over time because of its location. The parental down payment assistance program will subsidize the purchase. The other collegiate, Marcus, will graduate with more than $55,000 in college debt, a maxed out credit card, and an extensive resume of part time food service jobs that he has taken to pay for school, both during summers and while in college, reducing the hours he can study. Though he will obtain a degree, he will graduate with almost no work experience in his field of study, lose his health insurance, and begin working two part time jobs to pay back his student loans and afford rent in a shared apartment. Ten years later, Marcus will still be working in low paying jobs, and renting an apartment. He will feel occupationally stuck and frustrated in his attempts to network in the area of his degree.

Gordon Duff: South Africa's Racist Policies!

World News Tomorrow, Washington DC. Does White People or European decedent people have any future in South Africa, we can ask? According to BBC film, the answer is Yes, if they could put the embittered past behind them and embrace the country's new realities, but this is far from being the case, according to Policy experts. World News decided to look at white poverty, something which scarcely seemed to exist a few decades ago, and at the continued murders white farmers. When an article based on the film appeared on the BBC's website, there was a strong reaction in South Africa with mixed feeling. Few denied that there was indeed a growing poverty among white South Africans and most avoided speaking about the white farmers that were being murdered at an alarming rate. Few denied that there was indeed a growing poverty among white South African, and most avoided speaking about the white farmers that were being murdered at an alarming rate. Global genocide recently confirmed that more than 3700 white farmers were murdered since 2004, and the same were confirmed by some opposition political parties within the Country. Farmitraker has kept good count, and records of these murders, with some of them including whole families with children as young as 3 month. It seems that the figures are in question according to some. The civil society organization AfriForum consulted a charity which works with poor Afrikaners, Solidariteit Helpende Hand, and estimated a figure of up to 400,000 white people living in poverty. Real figures indicate that its closer to 670, 000 and that is rapidly increasing. The source of the estimate and they stand by their figures. Other estimates vary wildly, and any figure is inevitably only an estimate, but certainly is getting more by the day. The false figures released by the 2011 census in South Africa said that only 7,754 white households lived in informal settlements. That would indicate that something like 31,000 people lived this way. It now becomes clear that billions of rand's is wasted in producing figures that is influencing the World Bank decision on financial aid, is in fact false and inaccurate. It seems that there is a dispute about about numbers, and according to BBC, it was the numbers that seemed to have upset people in South Africa. However, the question should be asked at which point do murders become genocide, if they are proofed to be linked to political motives. Is it one farmer two three or 1000. More dangerous is the question not haw many, but when Genocide watch is going to react if they will react at all?