Conspiracy and Truth News

America’s overpaid corporate execs have plenty of people to thank for their good fortune, including average American taxpayers.

By Michael Cambray | It seems that most people are finally awakening to the fact that it is not a good idea to blindly accept the manipulating lies with which we are daily brainwashed, particularly by the communications media. It is totally acceptable and sensible nowadays to be cynical and critical of any source of [...]

By Robert Scheer | Just great! Nuclear-armed Pakistan is falling apart, Iran’s nuclear program is unchecked and congressional legislation on cooperation with the Russians on controlling nuclear proliferation is now dead in the water. Horrid news except for Sen. John McCain, who thrills to a repeat of the danger lines of the Cold War, and now [...]

The Pentagon: Some-Things-Never-Change Department
Tomgram | What a difference four and a half years makes. When I first penned “The Wild Weapons of DARPA,” in March 2004, I was a new TomDispatch writer; the war in Iraq was not yet a year old; the war in Afghanistan had been bubbling for less than two and a half [...]

Fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for.
By Laurence W. Britt  | The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the [...]

By Ruth Conniff | If the all-too-familiar sight of a slightly paunchy Joe Biden jogging to the podium, his white comb-over waving gently in the breeze (think “energy!”) to accept the job as Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential pick wasn’t enough to give you pause, there was the Bidenesque speech that followed. The “change” campaign is [...]

The Masher reveals inner secrets and social linkages, while exposing the media misbehaviors of the corporate bad guys.

The Masher reveals inner secrets and social linkages, while exposing the media misbehaviors of the corporate bad guys.

By George Monbiot |
If you want a glimpse of how the movement against climate change could crumble faster than a summer snowflake, read Ewa Jasiewicz’s article, published yesterday on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site(1). It is a fine example of the identity politics that plagued direct action movements during the 1990s, and from which [...]

The failure to expand the WTO shows that the ideology of “free trade” has lost its luster.

Corporate-government fraud has gotten a major boost ever since Iraq became the latest colony of the failing American Empire.
“Iraq is fast becoming one of the United States’ top customers for military sales,” reports USA Today in an article called “Iraqis buy billions in U.S. arms.”
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“Since January 2007, Iraq has spent $3.1 billion on U.S. weapons. [...]

The Guardian | It’s a novel way to take your own life. Just as Russia demonstrates what happens to former minions that annoy it, Poland agrees to host a US missile defence base. The Russians, as Poland expected, respond to this proposal by offering to turn the country into a parking lot. This proves that the [...]

Facial recognition scanners are being trialled at an airport as part of government efforts to improve security and reduce passenger congestion.
The system has been introduced at Manchester Airport. It can be used by adult biometric passport holders from the UK and European Economic Area.
It works by scanning passengers’ faces and comparing it to the photograph [...]

Among the interesting references to 9/11 that were released before 9/11 is a passport for ‘Neo’ in blockbuster film The Matrix (released in 1999) which expires ‘11 SEP 01.’

By Kevin Carey | On November 16, 2005, Willie “Bo” Mitchell and three co-defendants — Shelton “Little Rock” Harris, Shelly “Wayne” Martin, and Shawn Earl Gardner — appeared for a hearing in the modern federal courthouse in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The four African American men were facing federal charges of racketeering, weapons possession, drug dealing, and [...]

Want to learn how to make $50 million and not pay taxes? More than a quarter of large U.S. corporations do it every year.

By Richard Rubin | Most corporations, including the vast majority of foreign companies doing business in the United States, pay no income taxes, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday.
During the eight-year period covered by the report, 72 percent of foreign-owned corporations went at least one year without owing taxes, and the same [...]

It’s basically what you would expect: Appoint a national cyber security advisor, invest in math and science education, establish standards for critical infrastructure, spend money on enforcement, establish national standards for securing personal data and data-breach disclosure, and work with industry and academia to develop a bunch of needed technologies.
I could comment on the plan, [...]

By Dave Lindorff  | We Americans got a graphic illustration of the demise of any independent American corporate news media these past few days as the coverage on TV and in print was saturated with reports about John Edwards’ infidelity and, equally important, Russia’s invasion of Georgia.
In the first case, we had the completely pointless [...]

By David Miller | Those who say that they favour science and rationality can end up supporting the opposite.  Science and rationality retain a very significant force in public debate and is thus worth exploiting by vested interests.  The strategic use of science is a well used part of the armoury of the public relations [...]

Big business has prepared a war chest of at least $150 million to stop progressive economic legislation that would seriously tax the rich.

Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.

Corporations make billions while our fuel prices rise over 20 percent, writes Sadie Robinson

Millions of people across Britain are struggling with soaring household energy bills. The government could act to ease the pain by taxing oil and gas firms, or imposing a limit on price rises. Instead it refuses to do anything that would harm [...]

Former Gov. Ventura made the rounds on Howard Stern and Fox News yesterday where he revealed that his decision not to run for Senate was ultimately left up to chance– flipping a coin just an hour before the Minnesota filing deadline.

A leading British energy company blitzed the newspapers with full page colour advertisements this weekend which encourage children to sign up as “climate cops” and keep “climate crime case files” on their families, friends and neighbours.

Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader claimed that liberals and Democrats who will vote for Sen. Barack Obama as the “least worst candidate” are actually trapped in “political slavery.”

By Joseph Zacune | During the climate talks in Bali last December, NASA scientist James Hansen presented new data showing that serious climate change impacts are already happening more rapidly and at lower global ttemperature rises than previously projected, indicating that the atmosphere is more “sensitive” to greenhouse gases than previously assumed. (1)
Based on this [...]

How important is your diet to your overall health? A recent study suggests that a healthy diet can add as many as 14 years to your life. This mindset is largely ignored by most people. The good news is that even small changes can make a big difference, though. And kids are one of the [...]

Real Women, Real Voices | Last week, leaders of the world’s richest countries, the Group of Eight (G8), met to chart the course of the global economy at the luxurious Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa in Toyako, Japan. While President Bush and his colleagues discussed world hunger over a six-course lunch, women in Haiti [...]

Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama has called for a “civilian national security force” as powerful as the U.S. military, comments that were compared by one journalist to the Nazi Hitler Youth.