MEDIA ROOTS — Many of us notice our society’s shift away from the use of anonymous cash and toward the use of databeast-tracked digital money. But many are unaware that there are steps already being taken to outlaw cash in favour of debit/credit cards and digital transactions. In Louisiana, House Bill 195 of the 2011 Regular Session (Act 389) was … Read More
POLITICAL CORRUPTION
MR Transcript – Unpacking Mr. Global, Part 2
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MEDIA ROOTS — Earlier this month, we featured the Guns & Butter broadcast with Catherine Austin Fitts, “Unpacking Mr. Global, Part 1.” Today, we bring you “Unpacking Mr. Global, Part 2.” Last year, Washington D.C. national-security reporter, Sharon Weinberger wrote about the U.S. Military’s so-called Black Budget, “Not since the end of the Cold War has the Pentagon spent so … Read More
Bradley Manning Pretrial Hearing Set for December 16th
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MEDIA ROOTS — As scores of political prisoners languish in U.S. prisons and solitary confinement and California prisoners wage hunger strikes to call attention to inhumane conditions inside the prison-industrial complex, Bradley Manning, held by the U.S. military, ranks among the most high profile and highly targeted by the U.S. government. Various reports have directly confirmed Manning has endured cruel and … Read More
Supercommittee Deadlock: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
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MEDIA ROOTS — With the Occupy Movement rightly putting Wall Street and the ruling-class on blast, the Federal Reserve and the mechanics of our national money supply in relation to our national economic health and body politic, equally deserve scrutiny. Despite the complexities of finance, the money supply, and Congressional budgets, we must consider such questions of political economy, and … Read More
Tactics of Entrapment: The FBI’s Synthetic Terror
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MEDIA ROOTS — In order to justify the so-called ‘War On Terror,’ the U.S. Government state apparatus and its Federal Agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have been caught engaging in gross cases of misconduct, fraud, entrapment, and other heinous tactics to manufacture increasingly flimsy pretexts for furthering a police state within the U.S. and projecting imperialistic hegemony … Read More