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Rogue America, the Quiet Mutiny

How privatization, religion and Constitutional abuses have created a 'shadow' state.

(CINCINNATI) - A little over 2 weeks ago, John Wheeler III, former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, a man whose Washington resume put him in contact with presidents, was found in the back of a garbage truck.

Two week later, there is no police investigation, no cause of death, no questions from the press, just silence, deafening silence.

Monsters Among Us (Videos)

To Live or Die for a Real America...

(CINCINNATI) - I talked with one of my good friends last night. He was in Vietnam in the 1960s, as was I. He spent much of his life working in intelligence, not a safe and warm occupation during the cold war, when there may have been honor in the word “intelligence.”

Before Wikileaks Released: `Israel Deliberately Choked Gaza Economy` We Got the `Joke`

"We have seen the enemy and he is US." - Pogo

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - On 5 January 2010, the AFP reported "that Israel deliberately maintained the economy of the Gaza strip 'on the brink of collapse' without 'pushing it over the edge,' a leaked US diplomatic cable from 2008 showed Wednesday.

"According to a cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv dated November 3, 2008 -- obtained by WikiLeaks and posted online by Norwegian daily Aftenposten -- Israeli officials told US diplomats of their intention to strangle the economy of Gaza.

Phony UFO Scare Wikileak`s `Coup de Grace`

“…it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs.”

(CINCINNATI ) - When CFR Director, Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the most feared power brokers in Washington or anywhere else, openly attacked Wikileaks as an intelligence operation, siding so many others of the independent alternative media, Wikileak’s days were numbered.

The failed UFO scare, whatever it was supposed to do, has backfired, putting a bullet in the heart of Wikileaks.

IF Obama Could Put America`s Own Real Interests First...

Obama (possibly at the risk of assassination) could create a whole new Middle East, one in which justice for the Palestinians and peace and security for all could flourish.

(LONDON) - The headline is not meant to imply that I think he will. As things are he can’t because of the stranglehold on American policy for Israel/Palestine of the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress, the mainstream media and many institutions of state including the Pentagon and intelligence agencies.

My purpose is only to offer an answer to this question: What could happen if President Obama was able to put America’s own real interests first?

Israeli Activist States: `I`ll Go to Prison With my Head Held High`

Jonathan Pollak is sentenced to 3 months in prison for speaking out against war crimes in Gaza.

(TEL AVIV) - Jonathan Pollak was sentenced to three months imprisonment this morning at the Tel Aviv Magistrates' Court for his participation in a 2008 bicycle in protest of the siege on Gaza. He will begin serving his sentence on January 11th.

Tel Aviv Magistrates court judge Yitzhak Yitzhak convicted Pollak of illegal assembly for his participation in a January 2008 Critical Mass ride against the siege on Gaza and then sentenced him to three months imprisonment...

The US National Image and its Contradictions

Lawrence Davidson analyzes the reasons behind the widening gulf between the US national self-image as “the world’s prime purveyor of good government, stability and progress” and the reality of imperial power, hypocrisy and double standards.

(LONDON) - Benjamin Disraeli once labeled Britain’s government "an organized hypocrisy". That was in circa 1845.

Things have not changed much and by now hypocrisy might well be seen as a common sin of democratic government.

Osama Bin Dead Awhile

I know this is old news to most of you, but I think it’s important to reiterate this fact.

(CINCINNATI) - The next time the CIA comes up with another Osama bin Laden videotape, you might want to compare their images of the alleged al-Qaeda leader to the photograph I’ve provided here. If he looks any healthier than that, then you’re probably looking at an imposter.

Yeah, Osama has definitely seen better days. But give the guy a break, huh? You wouldn’t look much better if you’d been dead for nine years.

Bankers, Oligarchs, Media Magnates and Leakers

In a recent interview with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, world-renowned British novelist John le Carré briefly touched the third rail of respectable political discourse:

(OSAKA, Japan) - Apparently, Amy Goodman was so eager to hear le Carré’s fictional account of international corruption that she hadn’t time to ask him about the very real connection between Nathaniel Rothschild and Oleg Deripaska—one of eight of the nine richest Russian oligarchs who qualify for Israeli citizenship.

With the help of an advisory team hand-picked by the pro-Israeli Larry Summers, Obama’s former top economic adviser, the oligarchs looted an estimated $1 trillion from Russia’s struggling post-Communist economy.

Gov. Jesse Ventura Proves There was a Cover-Up Over 9/11

Former VP Cheney accused of engineering Pentagon attack; Rumsfeld cited as possible accomplice.

(CINCINNATI) - Confirmed sources in the Nigerian government tell us, in order to keep former Vice President Cheney out of prison for crimes involving Nigeria, $500,000,000 in bribes have been promised, negotiated by former President George H.W. Bush.

Now, only days later, Cheney faces possible charges, so many charges they can only be imagined, for planning the Pentagon attack on 9/11.