Source: Ny Times

By Greg Smith



Greg is resigning today as a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.



TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at…

By Barbara Minton

Spices do a whole lot more than liven up food. Research has found…

Source: Digital Journal



A teenager has been arrested for allegedly making comments on Facebook about the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan last week.

Amid persistent speculation over a possible Israeli military attack against Iranian nuclear facilities in the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, a detailed new public opinion survey released Tuesday suggests that such a…

Source: Zero Hedge



Today at noon Eastern, the storied aircraft carrier Enterprise, aka CVN-65, left its home port of Naval Station Norfolk one final time for its final voyage with a heading: Arabian Sea, aka Iran. There in a week it will join…

Global Research

The Western governments' and mainstream media’s narrative of a one-sided humanitarian crisis in Syria is rapidly unwinding to reveal a self-serving deception to justify a re-run of Libya-style NATO conquest. In reality, it is the Western powers and their Israeli and Arab henchmen who are fuelling a humanitarian crisis and creating the…

By Agence France-Presse

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said in an…

Global Research

While all the incessant warmongering directed toward Iran at the annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington was grabbing the headlines, the momentum for Western intervention into Syria continued to steadily build.  All those neo-con "real men," it appears, just might prefer to go to Tehran via Damascus.

Taking to…

Published: 14 March, 2012, 21:35

A Palestinian woman and her child walk next to a solar panel in the southern West Bank village of Imneizil on November 16, 2011. (AFP Photo / Menahem Kahana)…

by Keith Johnson

    Why do they hate us? Why are they upset at us for burning their Holy book? Why would they be mad at us for pissing on their dead countrymen? Why are they making a big deal about our soldiers collecting dead body parts? Why? Why? Why?

    Here’s the latest:

    A lone American serviceman slipped away from his base in southern…

Source: National Journal

Global Research

In a pattern of propaganda now well-established in the mainstream media, fear-mongering against Iran is reaching an all-time peak. A case in point includes ongoing accusations that Iran is in violation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, despite statements to the contrary from U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta as well as a number of…

Linette Lopez

Business Insider



That’s because, as Bloomberg reports,…

Activist Post



A peace coalition known as the European Antimilitarist Network is planning a nonviolent humanitarian intervention at the NATO headquarters in Brussels this April 1st, 2012.  This network of antimilitarist groups is fed up with NATO using the "humanitarian" excuses to justify…

by Tom Valentine

The educational video “Roots of Christian Zionism” presented here, is illustrative of teaching by example. I wish fervently that this great education will go viral over the Internet.

It teaches me that my own bombast can never be effective in convincing others that they…