Obama’s 100 Days: The Mad Men Did Well

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the power of advertising — from the effects of smoking to politics — as he reaches behind the facade of the first 100 days of Barack Obama.
The BBC’s American television soap Mad Men offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The [...]

While ‘Big Dick’ Cheney is Free, America is Not!

War Is Crime note: While the new American administration hesitates whether or not they have enough reasons to prosecute their predecessors as criminals, here is a shocking picture of the ex-U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Forget the ‘legal’ aspect of the issue: this scum tortures for pleasure!
 

The Most Dangerous Game
During Christmas vacation of 1974, my [...]

Has America become Fascist?

If it hasn’t gone the way of Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, it sure is teetering on the brink. America is a nation in deepening crisis, a nation whose leaders repeatedly plunge their citizens into, and make them pay for, serial wars abroad, while stealing their liberties at home. USA has become a country that [...]

Rice admits officials approved use of torture

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently became the first Bush administration official to admit that high-level discussions of the use of torture had taken place in 2002 and 2003.
 

 
According to a written statement provided to the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month and released on Wednesday by committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), officials [...]