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Lendman: Obama’s ‘War on Terror’
By Stephen Lendman The language is softened and deceptive. The strategy and tactics are not. The “war on terror” continues. Promised change is talk, not policy. Just look at Obama’s “war cabinet,” discussed in
Read More »Torture, Secret Detention, Abduction and Repeated Raping
By Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, the “war on terror” has been a jihad against Islam, the colonizers v. the colonized, or what Edward Said called “the familiar (America, Europe, us) and the strange (the Orient,
Read More »Excess Debt and Deflation Equals Depression
By Stephen Lendman | Irving Fisher (1867 – 1947) was perhaps the most noted economist of his day. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics calls him “one of America’s greatest mathematical economists and one of”
Read More »Venezuelan Elections: The Media Response
By Stephen Lendman | On November 23, Venezuela held regional and local elections for governors, mayors and other municipal offices. Over 5000 candidates contested in 603 races for 22 state governors, 328 mayors, 233
Read More »Extrajudicial Assassinations As Official Israeli Policy
By Stephen Lendman | Extra-judicial killings are indefensible, morally abhorrent, and illegal under international laws and norms. Article 23b of the 1907 Hague Regulations prohibits “assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting
Read More »Targeting Hugo Chavez
By Stephen Lendman | Since taking office in February 1999, America’s dominant media have relentlessly attacked Chavez because of the good example he represents and threat it might spread in spite of scant chance
Read More »The age of George Bush is over
By Stephen Lendman | On November 4, the world exhaled. The age of George Bush ended, and a new one under Barak Obama began. With high hopes he’ll reverse the toxic legacy of the
Read More »Lendman: The Wages of Sin
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | “Reaping the whirlwind” for money manager and market strategist Jeremy Grantham in his latest no-nonsense commentary. Worlds different from most in the mainstream. Cheerleaders in upturns. Downplaying risks.
Read More »The End of Prosperity
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | From too much of a good thing. From the 1980s and 1990s excesses. From the longest ever US bull market. Heavily manipulated to keep it levitating. From August
Read More »Remembering Edward Said Five Years On
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Born in West Jerusalem in 1935. Exiled in December 1947. Said was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 1991, a malignant cancer of the bone marrow and blood.
Read More »Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Danny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, TV producer as well as an author of 10 books and lecturer on media issues. Some call him “The
Read More »A High Stakes US Gamble with Russia
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Prior to entering WW II, US strategists had a clear aim in mind at its conclusion – to hold unchallengeable power in a new post-war global system: military,
Read More »Reinventing the Evil Empire
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once
Read More »The Bush Admin’s Biowarfare Agenda
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it’s: – spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament
Read More »Supreme Court, Inc.: Supremely Pro-Business
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Pro-business Supreme Court rulings are nothing new, and it’s likely most damaging one ever occurred in 1886. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railway, the High Court granted
Read More »Exposing Bush Administration Corruption
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Information for this article comes from long-time business, finance and political writer and analyst Bob Chapman who publishes the bi-weekly International Forecaster. It’s power-packed with key information and
Read More »Potential Future Hyperinflation
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Walter “John” Williams thinks out of the box. He makes disquieting reading, but you won’t find him in the mainstream. At least not often. He runs a “Shadow
Read More »Chavez Revamps His Intelligence Services: The Corporate Media React
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Reports keep surfacing about new threats against Hugo Chavez. Given past ones, they can’t be taken lightly. Chavez is alerted and reacts accordingly. Case in point: revamping Venezuela’s
Read More »“Immoral Hazard” – A review of Jeremy Grantham’s book
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | So says Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of Boston-based investment firm Grantham, Mayo and Van Otterloo, now known as GMO. Some call him the philosopher king of Wall Street because
Read More »‘Challenging Authority’
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Frances Fox Piven is a Canadian-born Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Her career is long and distinguished.
Read More »Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
By Stephen Lendman | Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world’s poorest ones people are starving. The reason – soaring food prices, and it’s triggered riots around the world
Read More »The BBC as an Imperial Tool?
Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print ones are credible. One of the world’s most
Read More »Oil, Gas and the New World Order
Large Potential Albanian Oil and Gas Discovery Underscores Kosovo’s Importance By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News On January 10, Swiss-based Manas Petroleum Corporation broke the news. Gustavson Associates LLC’s Resource Evaluation identified large prospects
Read More »‘A Century of War’ Part I
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News F. William Engdahl is a leading researcher, economist and analyst of the New World Order who’s written on issues of energy, politics and economics for over 30 years.
Read More »Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdock Empire
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News For Big Media, truth is a scare commodity and in times of war it’s the first casualty, or as esteemed journalist John Pilger noted: “Journalism (not truth) is
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