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How America Became an Oligarchy
by Ellen Brown
The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. . . . You have owners. — George Carlin, The American Dream
According to a new study from Princeton University, American democracy no longer exists. Using data from over 1,800 policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page concluded that rich, well-connected individuals on the political scene now steer the direction of the country, regardless of – or even against – the will of the majority of voters. America’s political system has transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where power is wielded by wealthy elites.
The Washington Times Removes Legacy Article On Fox News Investigative Reporter Martin Burns
Award-Winning Journalist Martin Burns Was A Champion Against Child Abuse
“His death has been added to a growing list of prominent child justice campaigners who all died just ahead of a planned release of either, a documentary containing highly sensitive information, or a bid for new legislation to contain child trafficking and abuse.”[1]
Martin Burns was a courageous advocate journalist who campaigned mightily for the protection of vulnerable children, especially those caught within the system. His brand of investigative journalism was known for its fearlessness and ferocity. He left no stone unturned in his quest to know what was really happening to children who wound up in the custody of Child Protective Services.
The quote above comes from The Washington Times (TWT) article written about the Martin Burns’ story that was published on Friday, October 18, 2013 under the title Fight against child abuse loses another prominent voice. What is particularly suspicious is that every single post of this particular report on the internet has been scrubbed except the two versions that are found at State of the Nation.
The link below from the internet archive service known as Wayback Machine captured the front page of The Washington Times on October 18th, 2013.
US-Sponsored Slow-Motion Genocide in Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
Washington planned war on Yemen months ago - preemptive naked aggression by any standard with Saudi-led proxies doing Obama's dirty work.
Plus direct US involvement. Reports indicate one or more American warships shelled Yemeni targets. Israeli warplanes are involved.
Millions of Yemenis are experiencing the horrors of Obama's terror wars - including willfully targeting residential areas, hospitals, schools, power facilities, Yemen's largest food storage center and largest dairy plant, and other nonmilitary sites.
Noncombatant men, women and children are being murdered and maimed in cold blood. Bodies are piling up in streets.
Ukrainians Protest U.S. Police-State the Only Available Way
Eric Zuesse
The racist-fascist (or “nazi”) anti-Russian regime that the U.S. installed in a February 2014 coup does not permit protest (except from its small right: the few overt nazis demanding even more militancy); so, the only way that thousands of Ukrainians were safely able to express their loathing of the U.S. Embassy in Kiev on April 1st was by mooing as a non-verbal expression against the regime-controllers inside the compound, telling them, in effect, “We are not cattle.” However, at the end of the protest, someone managed to throw cow-dung at the compound.
Ukraine's Car-Production Plunges 96%; Many Banks Also Fail
Eric Zuesse
On Tuesday April 7th, Ukravtoprome (the Ukrainian Association of Automobile Manufacturers) reported that, in the three-month period January-March 2015, as compared to the same three months of 2014, production of passenger cars plunged 96%, commercial vehicles 23%, buses 43%, for an overall decline of 92%.
In March alone, as compared to March 2014, passenger-car production plunged 94.3%, commercial vehicles fell 31%. The figure for buses was not shown.
March figures were a considerable improvement over the month before: "compared to February, the number of cars produced has doubled.”
On April 2nd was reported that “Sales of new cars in Ukraine fell to the lowest in 15 years,” and that March’s sales-volume (number of cars sold) was 23% less than that in February. Furthermore, “The general decline in sales of vehicles in Ukraine in January-February 2015 compared to the same period in 2014 was 67%.”
Obama's Wars Murder Noncombatant Men, Women and Children
by Stephen Lendman
In the 1960s, Vietnam war protesters chanted "Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?"
Obama way exceeds his ruthlessness - murdering and maiming noncombatants in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Donbass, Palestinians complicit with Israel and now Yemen.
Who's next? Everywhere he shows up, mass slaughter and destruction follow. So does horrific human suffering words can't explain.
Make no mistake. Yemen is Obama's war. Months of preparation preceded hostilities. Detailed planning chose targets now terror-bombed.
Saudi-led forces are US proxies, serving American regional interests over the corpses of likely many thousands before conflict ends.
Ukraine: Banning Communism and Donbass Autonomy
by Stephen Lendman
All police states operate the same way. Their rules alone apply. International laws, norms and standards are ignored.
Anyone opposing their authority is targeted for elimination. State terror is official policy.
So are one-party rule, rigged elections when held, wars against invented enemies, media control, concentrated wealth and power, and government serving monied interests exclusively.
Kiev's regime is Nazified, ruthless, belligerent and illegitimate. Elections when held are farcical. They mock real ones.
Ukraine's US-installed regime reflects the reemergence of Nazism in Europe's heartland for the first time since WW II.
Kiev officials lie denying it. Their claims don't wash. They intend passing legislation banning communism, its ideology, symbols, influence and message.
War with Russia Now Much Likelier: Ukraine’s Leading Nazi Gets American Weapons & Support
Eric Zuesse
The Ukrainian army has appointed the right-wing Dimitri Jarosch as official adviser to the army leadership. His militias are officially part of the army -- under the leadership of the independent Jarosch. Thus, the right-wing extremists also gain access to US weapons, and weapons that are financed by European taxpayers.
Russia will interpret this as a threat.
The militias of the "right sector" in Ukraine are now greatly enhanced by this appointment, which was made on Sunday, April 5th. The chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, General Viktor Muschenko, is thus incorporating the far-right militias into his army. Muschenko announces that the Ukrainian army has become one of the strongest in Europe. The soldiers of this army have proved that they know how to fight. [Whereas the regular army of Ukraine has, thus far, performed poorly, top to bottom, the forces under Yarosh’s control, and under his fellow-nazi Andrei Biletsky’s, have been on a par with the local forces of the Donbass, against whom they’ve been fighting. But now, with the military expertise of the nazis and of their American advisors, training everyone starting on April 20th (which is Hitler’s birthday), this will be a different war, and could have a radically different outcome, which will then force a Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially because both Yarosh and Biletsky are lifelong-committed to conquering Russia.]
Iran: The Leading Proponent for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
by Stephen Lendman
As long as these weapons exist, humanity's survival remains up for grabs. Sooner or later they'll be used. Armageddon may follow.
The world's entire nuclear weapons stockpile must be eliminated to prevent it. The consequences otherwise are too potentially catastrophic to ignore.
Albert Einstein deplored nuclear weapons. "I have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan," he said.
Five months before his November 1954 death, he stressed:
"I made one great mistake in my life…when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made…"
Bashing Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' Moscow Visit
by Stephen Lendman
Media scoundrels are relentless. So are Western officials.
Tsipras arrived in Moscow Tuesday night ahead of his Wednesday meeting with "Kremlin strongman" Vladimir Putin, some reports headlined.
The Wall Street Journal said he didn't come for money. He's feigning an independent streak.
He's playing to the home crowd. He's faking defiance of EU/IMF creditors.
So far he's saying one thing and doing another. He's business as usual masquerading as a populist leader.
"Analysts say Mr. Tsipras’s trip is unlikely to yield any tangible benefits but risks augmenting the mistrust between Athens and other EU capitals, including Berlin," said the Journal.
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