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Articles on US Policy
Moyers: ‘Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck’
Myanmar Cyclone: U.S. Hostility Hampers Relief
The Most Powerful People in America
Chalmers Johnson on Our Managed Democracy
Kiss American Security Goodbye
The Bush Presidency, History and the “United States of Amnesia”: Interview With Gore Vidal
Why Myanmar should fear us
Senate Moves Forward on Orwellian “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act”
Strategic Forecasts: Has the Battle for America Begun?
American Imperialism In the Name of Democracy Promotion Is Counterproductive
The Handy Reference Guide to Bush Disasters, Incompetencies, and Lies
Why the Propaganda Campaign For International Intervention In Burma?
Domestic Spying Far Outpaces Terrorism Prosecutions
Rebels Against Tyranny: An Interview with Howard Zinn on Anarchism
Taking a Stand Against War by Scott Ritter
The Truth About Veteran Suicides
Militarism and the Breakdown of Constitutional Government
Imperialism, American-style - CIA, Military Bases and Space Control
Rising Opposition In Europe: U.S. Plans For NATO Expansion Run Into a Wall
Why Does NATO Continue to Exist After the Soviet Union Collapsed?
McCain Embraces Bush’s Radical Views of Executive Power
Militarism and the Breakdown of Constitutional Government
Failure of Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time
Why Isn’t It the End of Hillary? Because she’s the War Party’s favorite
The Stolen Presidential Elections (updated version) by Michael Parenti
Endless War: Is the U.S. Trying to Set Whole World on Fire?
Democrats Prepare Sell-Out on Telecom Immunity: House Leaders to Give White House a Blank Check to Spy on Americans
Lessons from the Wright Saga - The End of Politics
People Want to Do Nation-building… in America
U.S. Foreign Policy is Designed to Enhance the Power of the Elites
America’s Chemically Modified 21st Century Soldiers
In the Last Gilded Age, People Stood Up to Greed — Why Aren’t We?
Are You Ready For Change?
Pentagon Expands Propaganda Reach With Foreign ”News” Websites
Divert, Distract, and Demonize: The War Party’s strategy to sink Barack Obama
Arrest Bush
U.S. Election: The Real Issues Are Hunger, Housing, Heating Oil…and the War
Who Gets Totally Obliterated, Us Or Them?
Military or Market-Driven Empire Building: 1950-2008
The RAND Corporation: America’s University of Imperialism
A Short Jeremiad Regarding That Affront to the Nation’s Dignity Known as the US Election Process
An Activist Uncovers the Pentagon’s Alternate Universe
2008 Election - Hope for Corporate America
John McCain’s Serious Foreign Policy
‘Western Leaders Are War Criminals’
The Republican Erosion of America
Averting World War III, Ending Dollar Hegemony And US Imperialism
Military Waste and Fraud: $172 billion/year
When the Pope Came to America
How The The Military Industrial Complex Invades Your Life
2008 Censored Foreign Policy News Stories
Psst! George Bush Has a Secret - The North American Competitiveness Council
Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses
What About the War, Benedict? By Ray McGovern
The Next Election or. . .What?
Barack Obama and the Democratic Party’s Holocaust Denial
Searching For Soul In The Progressive Wasteland
Robbing Us Blind - The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America
Robbing Us Blind - Stealing Our Livelihood
The Torture Agenda
Terrorphobia - our False Sense of Insecurity
When Change Is Not Enough: Seven Steps to Revolution
Police State America - a Look Back and Ahead
The Rise of the Imperial Class - McCain is Their Avatar and War is Their Mother’s Milk
The Left Has Lost Its Way
“Hero” John McCain as Phony and Collaborator: What Really Happened When He Was a POW?
Food - The Ultimate Weapon Of The Ruling Elite
Questions That Obama and Clinton Were Not Asked in the Debate
Torturers in the White House
Top Neocon Calls For Destruction Of Constitution
Why Americans Misunderestimate the Depravity of the President They Hate
Financial Meltdown And The Madness Of Imperialism
The Rise of Fascism in America
The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?
US Detention Camps and the Rex 84 FEMA Camp Martial Law Plan
McCain: The Man Who Would Be Bush
Cheney, Torture and the Chance to Restore the Rule of Law
American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed by Paul Craig Roberts
Will the Constitution Be Altered to Eliminate Key Liberties?
Is It Time For The Peace Movement To Start Protesting Senator Obama?
Seven Ridiculously Practical Recommendations For Curbing America’s Addiction To War
FBI’s “Quantico Circuit” — Still Spying, Still Lying
Would You Like Change With That? - An Analysis of Obamamania
New Documents Detail FBI Eavesdropping On Americans’ Emails, IMs and Phone Calls
Lobbyists Spend Record Sums to Influence Washington
When a Great Power Goes Mad
Russian Paranoia Is Understandable
Empire Or Humanity?
Cold War II by Noam Chomsky
Presidential Candidates: Serving the Dominant Elites
On Secular Fundamentalism
What Do Americans Stand For? by Paul Craig Roberts
The US Towards Monarchy
U.S.-China and a New Cold War
Challenging Authority: The Important Role of Disruptive Protest Movements
Will the Bush Administration’s New Nukes Program Bomb?
Saving the American Left: The Case for a New Progressive Creed
Meet Obama’s Top Foreign Policy Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Rage Fatigue, Plastic Dirt and Happy Hour in Techno-totalitarian America
Who Killed Martin Luther King?
NATO Marches Eastward
U.S. Media Defends Phony ”Al Qaeda”
A Submarine to Fight al-Qaida’s Navy
Imperialist Democrats
A Futuristic Nightmare: Pentagon’s Cyborg Insects
Bush’s Legacy Leads to Iran: Will Clinton or Obama Make Any Difference? Will You?
Crossing the Rubicon: OPPORTUNITY, EMPIRE AND DECLINE
Crossing the Rubicon: MEANS: 9/11
Crossing the Rubicon: MOTIVE: OIL
Blackwater’s World of Warcraft
If You Like Bush, You’ll Love McCain
George W. Bush: Accomplishments as President
U.S. Presidents Acting Like “Thugs”
Put Impeachment Back On The Table
NSA Had Access Built into Microsoft Windows
Trust the Government to Do for the Economy What It Has Done for Iraq
How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America’s Social Agenda
Toward a More Corporate Union of the Americas?
Taser Bracelet for Crowd Control
Top 5 Myths About America
Hillary’s Berserker Campaign … for 2012
The End Of The Bush Dynasty
Fascist America in 10 easy steps
Where Has All the Rage Gone?
The Iraq Money Trail - The Inexplicable Enrichment of Bush Cronies
An Election Without Meaning
One day you’re gonna wake up, America
In the Shadowlands: Listening to the War Coming Home
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
Exonerating Neocon Criminals
Video - The Doomsday Code
Why Bush’s America Feels Like Orwell’s 1984
A History of Secret U.S. Government Programs
Noam Chomsky - Interventions Interview
10 Reasons Why Russia Cannot Trust Uncle Sam
The 2008 Presidential Election - A Revolution or A Bust?
Bush’s Carefree Crash-and-Burn Presidency
The US-NATO Preemptive Nuclear Doctrine: Trigger a Middle East Nuclear Holocaust to Defend “The Western Way of Life”
The Election That Might Not Happen
Black Prison Gulag and the Police State
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Power resides in the hands of those that Madison called “the wealth of the nation.” The primary responsibility of government is “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority,” Madison declared. That has been the guiding principle of the democratic system from its origins until today.

Noam Chomsky - The Political system in the USA.

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