MEDIA ROOTS — Some of us will do our best to counter the two-party dictatorship, recognising they are both financed by the same Wall Street, corporate, paymasters with the obvious attendant consequences. Yet, due to the grip corporate media has on the minds of hundreds of millions of people in the U.S., the anger against non-two-party candidates isn’t just coming … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Paul Rockwood Jr. was a weather forecaster in King Salmon, Alaska who became highly critical of US foreign policy in a post-9/11 world. During his quest to understand the motive behind 9/11, he was drawn to the Islam religion and eventually converted. At the mosque he attended, he was approached by an undercover FBI operative who eagerly … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — As we look back on 2011, we feature an important and relevant interview many may have missed with Glenn Greenwald on a myriad of topics including the Occupy Movement, Obama co-optation, and the U.S. two-tiered justice system. The interview aired on KPFA’s Letters and Politics on November 4, 2011. (Please see transcript below.) The wake of the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — The private, unaccountable, Federal Reserve operates above the law, as it dictates monetary policy. That’s enough to spur Ron Paul followers into calling for an end to the Fed. Now, if you shared in the justified rage of thousands of Occupy encampments across the nation, protesting, ‘Banks got bailed out, We got sold out,’ at the thought … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Apparently, militarised platoons of riot cops repressing peaceful protesters with police brutality and intimidation wasn’t enough. As the Occupy Movement has been successful in powerfully impacting the U.S. body politic, Republican Senator John McCain and Democrat Senator Carl Levin have secretly written, in a closed-door session, a provision into this year’s Department of Defense budgeting bill, which … Read More
