We are responsible for overthrowing Iran’s first democratic government. In 1951 Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq demanded a share of the profits from Iran’s vast oil reserves. For this affront to western moneyed interests, he was deposed by a CIA backed coup.

Operation Ajax was the codename for the CIA’s plan. The agency paid Islamic clerics, dis-affected army officers, and employed mobs as demonstrators to foment unrest and carry out the military coup. Mossadeq was removed from power, imprisoned, and later died under house arrest.

The CIA installed the Shah as the ruler of Iran, and for the next 26 years the United States supported and funded his government. This included supplying Iran’s military forces with modern weapons and training for the Shah’s dreaded secret police unit, SAVAK. The Shah’s corrupt dictatorship created the revolution that took over the country in 1979. Continue reading →

There is always some reason that they will try to convince you not to believe what you feel in your gut. They will try to bamboozle you
– Barack Obama

I admit I was swept up in the national euphoria of President Obama’s election. I really believed that something would be done about the economic crisis, our unjust “War on Terror”, and the creeping fascism these wars have engendered. But by now it should be clear that President Obama has no plans to change anything. Continue reading →

The US economy as we know it has collapsed. This has happened before, twice, and history is repeating itself again. This is the Third Depression the United States has suffered, and it will be the worst. FULL ARTICLE

In his eighteen year term as Fed Chairman, Alan Greenspan orchestrated the greatest expansion of speculative finance in history. Through it all, he presented himself as a disinterested economist, as a scientist quoting the laws of physics. He wasn’t. FULL ARTICLE

We are bankrupt, and soon our creditors will stop lending us money. Our industries are defunct. We have lost the War in Iraq, and we will lose our war in Afghanistan as well. In short, America is not number one anymore. The success of Obama’s presidency will be determined by his ability to get that through our heads.  FULL ARTICLE