Newly declassified FBI documents reveal, since 2006, “a broadening US military presence overseas” led to an 11 percent uptick in plotted terror attacks — and those attacks were orchestrated by Americans, not foreign nationals. As MuckRock reports, a records request to the Los Angeles Police Department disclosed the Intelligence Assessment written by the Los Angeles division of the FBI Read More…
Foreign Policy
Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost Nearly $5 Trillion (and Counting): Report
As nation remembers 9/11 victims, report calculates cost of military response to attacks. The U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost taxpayers nearly $5 trillion and counting, according to a new report released to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the attacks. Dr. Neta Crawford, professor of political science at Brown University, released Read More…
Prominent Scholars Decry TPP’s “Frontal Attack” on Law and Democracy
“Today’s letter from top legal experts makes clear: ISDS undermines the American judicial system and tilts the playing field further in favor of big multinational corporations.” More than 200 legal and economic scholars—including President Barack Obama’s Harvard Law School mentor Laurence Tribe—have penned a letter to Congress warning that the pro-corporate Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Read More…
Organic Rice Yields Debunk Myth GMOs Are Needed to Feed the World
In India’s poorest state, farmers are setting world-breaking records growing rice and other staple foods, without the help of genetically modified organisms, and none of Monsanto’s billion-dollar herbicides. With the biotech industry claiming that the world can only be fed with heavily-doused herbicidal crops coming from genetically modified seed, it’s astonishing to see a region Read More…
Hungary Becomes First European Nation To Ban Rothschild Banks
The head of Hungary’s central bank has called for the International Monetary Fund to close its office in Budapest. The name Rothschild is literally associated with wealth. This is because for over 200 years, the family has remained the most powerful and wealthy family in the world. Most of the Rothschild fortune has been made in Read More…
Experts Raise Alarms as US War Hawks Push for Deeper Syria Intervention
‘We should be wary of pundits who use the horrors of Aleppo to rush Washington into bombing.’ As the civil war in Syria deepens, American war hawks are using recent atrocities to push for direct U.S. military intervention against the Syrian government, according to observers who warn that further escalation will only worsen what has Read More…






