The Long Story: The British Establishment

Binoy Kampmark | Global Research | 3 Nov 2014 There have been stages in British history when the Establishment, a term popularised by Henry Fairlie in the 1950s, has come in for some rough treatment, if only in cranky press columns.  Structurally speaking, the Establishment – that group of individuals whose role is merely to…

Samsung ‘Smart TV’ Records “Personal” Conversations & Sends Them to Third Parties

by Paul Joseph Watson | November 3, 2014 Company’s new privacy policy causes consternation   Samsung’s new global privacy policy for its line of Smart TVs states that a user’s personal conversations will be recorded by the device’s microphone and transmitted to third parties [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svtm9BMcxCk?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] A 46-page privacy policy which is now included in…

War on Terror Increases Number of Terrorists

by Michael S. Rozeff | LewRockwell.com | November 3, 2014 Number of terrorists risen since 9/11   My hypothesis is that the war on terror has not decreased the number of “terrorists.” I use the term “terrorist” but one might substitute others such as jihadist or anti-western Muslims or pro-Islamic State Muslims. We are talking…

Empire or Republic: Imperial Wars and Domestic Epidemics

James Petras | 2 Nov2014 You Can’t Have Wars and Public Health November 03, 2014 “ICH” – Washington escalates its military interventions abroad, launching simultaneous air and ground attacks in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; multiplying drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia; training, arming, and financing proxy mercenaries in Jordan, the Gulf States, and Iraq;…

Gary Webb and Media Manipulation

Beverly Bandler | Consortium News | 2 Nov 2014 Many Americans still count on the mainstream media to define reality for them, but too often the MSM spins false narratives that protect the powerful and diminish democracy, as happened in the long-running denial of cocaine trafficking by President Reagan’s beloved Nicaraguan Contra rebels, writes Beverly Bandler.…