Congress Passes PATRIOT Act II In Secret
Capitalizing on the terrorism hysteria, pumped up by politicians and the media, Congress secretly added a new PATRIOT Act to the “must-pass” Omnibus funding bill. No debate. Now it’s law.
Capitalizing on the terrorism hysteria, pumped up by politicians and the media, Congress secretly added a new PATRIOT Act to the “must-pass” Omnibus funding bill. No debate. Now it’s law.
Today’s American politics sees demons everywhere – from “evil” foreign leaders to excessive fears about “terrorism” – while more mundane threats like crumbling roads, loss of good-paying jobs and inadequate health care get short-shrift, misplaced priorities addressed by ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller. By Graham E. Fuller It is depressing to witness the ongoing vitriolic…
In the political roundups of the year 2015, the event that kept coming up was the Tory win in the General Election. The mystery remains as to how it happened. In fact, it resulted from a deliberately engineered policy to divide the nation and leave a significant percentage of voters fearful of change.
Some of our special stories in November focused on the realities behind the Syrian crisis, Turkey’s dangerous provocations toward Russia, the many failings of the mainstream U.S. media, and disclosures about Ukraine Finance Minister’s self-enrichment at U.S. taxpayers’ expense. “Syria at a Crossroads” by Nicolas J S Davies, Nov. 1, 2015 “Rubio Follows the Big…
“Today sees the start of a new political era,” Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias told supporters gathered in Madrid after Sunday’s largely inconclusive elections in Spain. “The forces of change are making a historic advance.”
Iglesias is certainly correct that things have changed. Spain’s three-decade old political duopoly was toppled over the weekend with PP and PSOE garnering their lowest combined share of the vote since the eighties.