Dissent Mag

by Chris Floyd
(Empire Burlesque)

On Saturday, it was revealed that the Saudi Shura Council is preparing ”national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts’ warnings of possible attacks on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactors.”

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(National Expositor)

The first discovery of the new NSA access system was made two years ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren. But it was only a few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the access system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA.

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by Tom Engelhardt

TomDispatch

No one was prepared for the storm when it hit. The levees meant to protect us had long since been breached, and key officials had already left town. The well-to-do were assured of rescue, but for everyone else trapped inside the Superdome in a fast-flooding region, there was no evacuation plan in sight. The Bush administration, of course, claimed that it was in control and the president was already assuring his key officials that they were doing a heck of a job.

Note - video: “The Bush Debt: $7.7 Trillion” below the article

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How It Happened and What to Do About It
excerpted from the book No Mercy

by Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado
Temple University Press, 1996, hardcover

How should we see the extraordinary successes of the New Right in the last decade and a half? Many liberals profess astonishment, as though the string of victories happened by some sort of magic trick: “They stole our country.” But it was not a trick. Conservatives deployed a series of shrewd moves, orchestrating one campaign after another with the aid of money and brains.

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by Richard C. Cook

Global Research, March 27, 2008

“They make a desolation and call it peace.” -Tacitus

Was Alan Greenspan really as dumb as he looks in creating the late housing bubble that threatens to bring the entire Western debt-based economy crashing down?

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by Katherine Sciacchitano, Dollars and Sense
www.alternet.org, February 11, 2008

Which is closer to your vision of North America?

Vision A: Three interdependent countries with vibrant social movements, respect for labor rights, and environmentally sustainable economies anchored in provision of social needs and respect for cultural autonomy?

Or Vision B: An unequal alliance dominated by the United States, complete with pumped up oil and gas production, increasing militarization, corporate transnational planning groups, and guest worker programs to ensure cheap, vulnerable labor?

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by John Pilger
DemocracyNow.org, August 8, 2007

[The following is a transcript of a talk given by John Pilger at Socialism 2007 Conference in Chicago]

The title of this talk is Freedom Next Time, which is the title of my book, and the book is meant as an antidote to the propaganda that is so often disguised as journalism. So I thought I would talk today about journalism, about war by journalism, propaganda, and silence, and how that silence might be broken. Edward Bernays, the so-called father of public relations, wrote about an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

Note - video:”Gore Vidal on the media” below the article

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by Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus
www.commondreams.org/, February 21, 2008

Skyrocketing oil prices, a falling dollar, and collapsing financial markets are the key ingredients in an economic brew that could end up in more than just an ordinary recession. The falling dollar and rising oil prices have been rattling the global economy for sometime. But it is the dramatic implosion of financial markets that is driving the financial elite to panic.

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