Zealously seeking issues to use against the Obama White House, the reactionary Republicans of the US House of Representatives last week once again dredged up the Benghazi incident of September 11, 2012 in the form of a full-blown media circus centering on hearings by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Congressman Darrell Issa.
Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:31AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
Margaret Thatcher’s first high-profile political job came in 1970 when she was appointed to serve as education and science minister in the cabinet of the liberal Tory Edward Heath.
Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:6AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
Last Wednesday, April 10, marked a day of infamy for the Obama administration and an ominous watershed in contemporary American history.
Mon Apr 1, 2013 11:11AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
To the extent that the modern world thinks at all about the problem of fascism, there is a tendency to regard this form of bankers’ totalitarian dictatorship as something which happens suddenly and all at once.
Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:22AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
It has been about a month since the Italian elections, and no new government has been formed to replace the hated IMF austerity regime of economics professor and Goldman Sachs consultant Mario Monti.
Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:56AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as head of the Roman Catholic Church marks a watershed, since this is the first time that a prelate from a third world or developing country has become Pope.
Sun Mar 10, 2013 7:34PM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
Austerity psychosis grips this capital, as the US government lurches from fiscal cliff to sequester and soon from budget resolution to debt ceiling.
Sun Mar 3, 2013 10:2AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
John Forbes Kerry, the current United States Secretary of State, is a blue-blooded patrician oligarch and member of the infamous Yale Skull and Bones secret society.
Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:29PM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
This coming Sunday and Monday, Italians will go to the polls to choose a new parliament and thus a new prime minister, while setting the stage for the election of a new president of the republic shortly thereafter.
Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:58AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
Benedict XVI resigned as Roman Pope last week. Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005, at the height of the Iraq war. Papal names often reflect a symbolic message, and his choice of Benedict XVI was widely seen as being in this tradition.
Sat Feb 9, 2013 7:53AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
A reform of the absurd and obsolete immigration laws of the United States is long overdue, and is now finally under discussion.
Tue Feb 5, 2013 8:18AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
After the horrific massacre of 20 little children at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut in December, US society is undergoing another phase of acute polarization pitting right wing gun fetishists against what we may call centrist and leftist gunophobes.
Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:42AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
This past Monday marked the beginning of Barack H. Obama’s second term in the White House. The centerpiece was Obama’s second inaugural address. This speech merits a few minutes of close attention since, although the essence of Obama’s method is deception, dissembling, and fakery, he often telegraphs in his formal statements a veiled version of what he actually proposes to do.
Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:19AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
When the history of the NATO destabilization in Syria finally comes to be compiled, this past week may be regarded as the turning of the tide against the foreign death squads and in favor of the Assad government.
Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:15PM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
Military intrigues swirl around Obama at start of second term: The drone gang confronts the gulf of Tonkin cabal.
Sun Jan 6, 2013 7:27PM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
The first round of Washington haggling over the US federal budget and taxation policies has ended with a tactical victory for Obama, but one which risks becoming a strategic defeat in short order. The central issue at the end of the old year was the so-called “fiscal cliff,” a combination of automatic tax increases and budget cuts ( called the “sequester”).
Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:27AM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
In the annals of international criminal aggression, the destabilization, dismemberment, and ultimate annihilation of independent Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939 by Hitler’s Nazi regime has come to occupy a place of particular infamy.
Mon Dec 24, 2012 7:21PM
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
In Charles Dickens’ celebrated short story A Christmas Carol (1843), the Malthusian miser and London stock exchange speculator Ebenezer Scrooge is told by the ghost of his deceased partner Jacob Marley that “it is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men, and traveled far and wide” for the purpose of doing good works of charity and thus alleviating human suffering.
