Bailout Can’t Hide It – The United States Is Broke

 Even leading Republicans in Congress, including presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, recoiled from Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson’s proposal to take absolute power over $700 billion to be borrowed by the federal government and used to purchase every sort of bad debt without ever having to answer for it – not to the courts, not [...]

US Concerned About Potential For Instability in North Korea

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged US concerns about the potential for instability in North Korea amid reports its leader suffered a stroke.But Gates, who said it was unclear how seriously ill Kim Jong-Il is, foresaw no repercussions on US military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, even if conflict erupts on the Korean peninsula.
“In terms [...]

Russia Confirms Sending Warships to the Atlantic, Caribbean

MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian naval task force from the Northern Fleet will go on a tour of duty in the Atlantic Ocean and participate in joint naval drills with the Venezuelan navy in November, a Navy spokesman said on Monday. (Russian Navy modernized – Image gallery)
“In line with the 2008 training [...]

Will the U.S. Have a Droid Army?

The U.S. military may be 30 percent robotic by the year 2020, according to Doug Few and Bill Smart of Washington University in St. Louis.
“When the military says ‘robot’ they mean everything from self-driving trucks up to what you would conventionally think of as a robot. You would more accurately call them autonomous systems rather [...]

Dennis Kucinich – Wake Up America

A transcription of the speech below.
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/wake-up-america-by-dennis-kucinich-dnc-speech/
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War With Russia Is On The Agenda

Thinking about the massive failure of the US media to report truthfully is sobering. The United States, bristling with nuclear weapons and pursuing a policy of world hegemony, has a population that is kept in the dark–indeed brainwashed–about the most important and most dangerous events of our time.
 
The power of the Israel Lobby [...]

(CNN):Angry North Korea Threatens Nuclear U-turn

(CNN) – North Korea said Tuesday it has stopped disabling its nuclear plants and will consider restoring them because the United States has not removed it from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The communist nation said it halted the dismantling of the plutonium-producing plants on August 14, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) [...]

US Warship Anchors at Georgian Port

The guided missile destroyer USS McFaul has anchored at the Georgian port of Batumi, escalating tensions in the conflict-stricken region.
The US says the destroyer, which arrived at the Black Sea port on Sunday, contains humanitarian aid including baby food, diapers, bottled water and milk, AP reported.
This is while the USS McFaul is outfitted with an [...]

Stunning 62.4% of Americans Would Like to See Better Choices of Candidates, Parties in Future

WASHINGTON – A Zogby International poll commissioned by WND shows a surprisingly low 71.7 percent closely identifying with either of the two front-running, major-party candidates for president and a stunning 62.4 percent expressing their desire to see more viable candidate and party choices in future elections.
Unlike any other scientific poll conducted in 2008, this survey [...]

U.S. to take control of Georgian ports: Saakashvili

TBILISI (Reuters) – President George W. Bush’s pledge to send aid to Georgia means that the U.S. military will take control of the ex-Soviet state’s ports and airports, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Wednesday.
 
“You have heard the statement by the U.S. president that the United States is starting a military-humanitarian operation in Georgia,” Saakashvili [...]