2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.counterpunch.org/martens03162009.html video of Jon Stewart’s broadcast: http://tinyurl.com/c3ulk4 Jon Stewart’s Epiphany Has a Comedian Just Saved America? By PAM MARTENS As testimony to how Orwellian life has become under the outrages of Wall Street hubris, last week saw a comedian, who poses as an anchor on a fake news show, grab the reins of … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12735 The Financial Sector: “A House Burning Down” Ben Bernanke’s False Analogy By Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research, March 16, 2009 On the March 15 CBS show “60 Minutes”, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Speech. He likened the … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22221.htm Obedience to Authority in America  A Different Kind of Revolution:  By Mike Whitney My e mail exchange with Dr. Bede Vincent Curley  March 16, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — – Mike Whitney: I have been beating the same dead horse for three or four years now and many people are getting … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/chamberlin160309.htm Message To The Future By Peter Chamberlin 16 March, 2009Countercurrents.org This is written for you, the survivors. Two or three years ago, I decided to write this message to you. My only intentions were to find the best solutions to the nightmare visions and ease the suffering billions of souls who … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore But there’s even more to this swindle than that — much more. According to the Wall Street Journal: “Wall Street dealers, including J P Morgan Chase & Co. and Barclays PLC’s Barclays Capital, have created vehicles to participate in the TALF that would allow investors in the program to circumvent many of the … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=8079 OpEdNews July 8, 2008 Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement (Part 2) By Steve Windisch (jibbguy) Part 2 of the series: This installment examines Dr. T. Henry Moray’s work, the important energy savings technology known as “Rotoverter”, and an Open Source free energy device that nearly anyone can build … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.opednews.com/articles/Free-Energy-and-the-Open-S-by-jibbguy-080623-466.html http://tinyurl.com/d366vv OpEdNews June 24, 2008 Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement By Steve Windisch (jibbguy) Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement Part One   By jibbguy  6-2008 Free Energy? In this series of articles, we will attempt to examine several “Free Energy” devices, and explain their workings in a … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/031709A Winter Soldiers Speak Out in Europe Tuesday 17 March 2009 by: Maya Schenwar, t r u t h o u t | Report     Last March, a group of soldiers and veterans gathered in Washington, DC, to recount their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. They spent three days testifying, confessing and mourning. … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/031609D http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/former-guerrillas-win-power-in-el-salvador-1645867.html Former Guerrillas Win Power in El Salvador Monday 16 March 2009 by: Catherine Bremer  |  Visit article original @ Reuters     El Salvador’s former Marxist guerrillas, who fought one of the bitterest conflicts of the Cold War, finally won power through the ballot box after a tight election victory over their right-wing civil war … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore The report underscores a “worrying” trend toward protectionism as countries rush to shield their ailing domestic industries during the global economic crisis. … “Leaders must not heed the siren-song of protectionist fixes, whether for trade, stimulus packages or bailouts,” said World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick. Noting that protectionism is widely viewed … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore Bcc: interested parties ___ As with all of Obama’s agendas, this Open Government Initiative is accompanied by a very appealing PR message. Of course we all want more public participation in policy formation. And in the report below, we see that some very good organizations, well-meaning organizations, are signing up to participate … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore Humanity is facing “water bankruptcy” as a result of a crisis even greater than the financial meltdown now destabilising the global economy, two authoritative new reports show. They add that it is already beginning to take effect, and there will be no way of bailing the earth out of water scarcity. There … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore What makes the charter school movement so tricky is that, using the “start-up” charter school model, it may leave the playing field wide open for a swindler with ambition. According to Sue St. Denis, a Los Angeles lawyer who helped lead a grass roots opposition to a start-up charter school, “The charter … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/laec-m18.shtml Latin America hit hard by world crisis By Luis Arce  18 March 2009 Capital Economics—a leading macroeconomics research and consultancy firm that supplies analysis to institutional investors and clients across the globe—reports in its latest Latin America Chart Book that “Latin America’s five-year economic boom has come to an abrupt end.” “The drop … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/biny-m18.shtml Britain: Right-wing campaign waged against freed Guantánamo detainee By Robert Stevens  18 March 2009 Recently released Guantánamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed has given further details of his ordeal at the hands of his interrogators and torturers in Pakistan, Morocco, Afghanistan and the United States base in Cuba. Mohamed was initially arrested … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore When he signed into law a $410 billion omnibus spending bill on March 10, President Barack Obama included a “signing statement” weakening a rider in the bill that would have given protection to government officials who turn over information to Congress. … Obama’s signing statement on the omnibus spending bill suggests that he … Read more

2009-03-18 Richard Moore We all knew the US was behind Latin American terrorism in the era of the disappeared, but it’s good to have the documentation.  rkm ___ Begin forwarded message: From: National Security Archive <•••@••.•••> Date: March 17, 2009 10:36:41 PM GMT Subject: Declassified documents show U.S. Embassy knew that Guatemalan       … Read more

2009-03-17 Richard Moore China’s state-run media outlets are calling the acquisition spree an opportunity that comes once in a hundred years, and analysts are drawing parallels to 1980s Japan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/16/AR2009031603293.html? China Gains Key Assets In Spate of Purchases Oil, Minerals Are Among Acquisitions Worldwide By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, March 17, … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore When I saw the title, The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment, I was eager to read this article. The signs of rising fascism have been clear for some time, and I was hoping this article would bring in an historical perspective. Unfortunately, Mr. Freeman’s interpretation of events in the 1930s is based … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore The campaign, which will be run under the aegis of the Democratic National Committee, will rely heavily on the 13 million-strong e-mail list put together during the campaign and now under the control of Organizing for America (OFA), a group overseen by the DNC. Aides familiar with the plan said it is … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore Education is one of the areas Obama is in the process of “reforming”. I’ve already published critiques of his reform plans, so I won’t repeat those arguments here: The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=940 Obama scapegoats teachers, continues Bush education policies http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/obam-m11.shtml       At the center … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12669 Financial Meltdown: The Doublespeak of a Discredited IMF By Eric Toussaint and Damien Millet Global Research, March 11, 2009 The international crisis that broke in summer 2008 demolished all the neo-liberal dogmas and exposed the deception behind them. Unable to deny their failure, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore Roundup Ready Soybeans Use 2-5 times more Herbicides than non-GE Varieties.  When you add royalties, fees and other costs the resulting profit for the farmer is $0.  The increase in production is negligible and usually less than a traditional crop.  These crops also require 2 to 3 times more water to grow. http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/monsanto’s-assault-on-agriculture/ Monsanto’s assault on agriculture … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/1020/1/ SECESSION? WE’RE ALREADY ON OUR OWN, By Jim Hogue Thursday, 12 March 2009 [For those who question the wisdom of secession from the United States, it is not so much a question of making a decision to secede but preparing for the disintegration of the Union as a result of unprecedented … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore http://links.org.au/node/938 First Victory’ in Guadeloupe general strike; Movement spreads to other French colonies By Richard Fidler March 8, 2009 — Life on the Left — The general strike in Guadeloupe ended March 4, when an accord was signed between the LKP Strike Collective and the local governments, the employers’ federation and the French government that … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-New-Dust-Bowl-From-Washi-by-Patricia-Stewart-090310-995.html March 12, 2009 A New Dust Bowl From Washington? By Patricia Stewart A new Dust Bowl faces America’s farms, only this one isn’t coming on the Jet Stream, like the Great One of the 1930’s. It’s coming from our government, threatening to bury our small farms under storms of paperwork, expenses … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman130309.htm Updating The Militarization  And Annexation Of North America By Stephen Lendman 13 March, 2009Countercurrents.org The title refers to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), also known as the North American Union – formerly launched at a March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas meeting attended by George Bush, Mexico’s President … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7941717.stm Switzerland eases banking secrecy Switzerland, the world’s largest offshore financial centre, has agreed to accept concessions on bank secrecy. However, while it will now abide by international rules on bank data sharing, it said it would only respond to “concrete and justified” requests. The government added that it would still protect … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690358175013837.html OPINION MARCH 13, 2009 Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN and SCOTT RASMUSSEN It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/pers-m14.shtml Obama at the Business Roundtable 14 March 2009 On Thursday, President Barack Obama spoke before the Business Roundtable, an organization of leading corporate CEOs. Obama used the opportunity to deliver a paean to American capitalism. The speech, delivered in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, had … Read more

2009-03-16 Richard Moore The fact that today’s neoliberals claim to be the intellectual descendants of Adam Smith make it necessary to restore a more accurate historical perspective. Their concept of “free markets” is the antithesis of Smith’s. … Economic writers from the 16th through 20th centuries recognized that free markets required government oversight to prevent monopoly … Read more

2009-03-15 Richard Moore http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45200 VENEZUELA: Human Rights Watch Report Under Fire  Humberto Márquez  CARACAS, Dec 22 (IPS) – A Human Rights Watch report on alleged setbacks in human rights in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez first took office 10 years ago has been severely questioned by 118 academics from the United States and several other … Read more

2009-03-15 Richard Moore Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 Italian directors Franco Farcassi and Francesco Trento      http://tinyurl.com/cv73sp http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2296490368603788739&ei=Jyi9ScTpHYL8rgL2tOxJ&q=zero+911&hl=e ___ http://zero911movie.com/site/ April 28th, 2008 ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis – that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This brand new feature documentary from Italian … Read more

2009-03-15 Richard Moore http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/world/taliban-operate-freely-from-quetta-us–za http://tinyurl.com/clhaxm WORLD Taliban operate freely from Quetta: US  By Anwar Iqbal  Thursday, 12 Mar, 2009 | 11:10 AM PST | WASHINGTON: The central nervous system for the next major terrorist attack on the US soil lies in Pakistan, say senior US officials and lawmakers.    Pakistan came under immense pressure at … Read more

2009-03-15 Richard Moore Using Iran as a base for U.S.-NATO resupply may already apply to more than “non-strategic goods.” Although diesel fuel for allied forces is brought in from Pakistan, one U.S. intelligence source said that some 10,000 tons of jet fuel per month is already entering Afghanistan via Iran. http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2009/03/09/us_eyes_iran_for_resupply_of_afghan_forces/2901/ U.S. Eyes Iran for … Read more

2009-03-13 Richard Moore http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1399 Clean Energy Mythology By Carlton Meyer    Mar/12/2009 It is no surprise that renewable energy projects produce profits. This attracts corporations and associated university research departments anxious to promote their products. They simplify many complex challenges to attract funding. Many “proven” technologies are not economically viable while other concepts defy reason. … Read more

2009-03-13 Richard Moore Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner yesterday unveiled a sweeping plan that calls on the United States and other nations to offer billions more to bail out economies in crisis and prods a reluctant Europe to prop up the reeling world economy with more aggressive government spending. But the campaign is triggering controversy … Read more

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/031209J http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/investigative_reporter_seymour_hersh_describes_executive_assassination_ring Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Describes “Executive Assassination Ring” Wednesday 11 March 2009 by: Eric Black  |  Visit article original @ MinnPost.com     At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged … Read more

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/hassan130309.htm Obama’s Manufactured Troop’s Withdrawal By Ghali Hassan 12 March, 2009Countercurrents.org On February 27, 2009, President Barack Obama announced to withdraw U.S. troops occupying Iraq by September of 2010. However, Obama’s withdrawal is nothing short of a colonial Occupation of Iraq, and a betrayal of Mr. Obama’s promise to end the U.S. … Read more

2009-03-12 Richard Moore There was nothing inevitable, unavoidable or unforeseeable about the current crisis. http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2009/000313.html robert weissman •••@••.••• Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:04:00 -0400 We Told You So By Robert Weissman March 12, 2009 Is it fair to complain about the actions of the financial deregulators? Could anyone reasonably have foreseen the consequences of a decades-long regulatory … Read more