With the 25th anniversary of the attack on New York's Twin Towers days away, Osama bin Laden, along with Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, must be rolling in their graves. All their attempts to defeat America failed. Yet, in 20 months, Donald Trump has probably done more damage to this nation than many of our enemies. Despite his reference to being the "greatest American president ever," reminiscent of Muhammad Ali's boast, the opposite is the case. Trump has turned the presidency into a money printing machine. His wealth has increased by a few billion, largely through crypto. After accusing the Bidens of being a "crime family," how much money has been siphoned to his sons and son-in-law, with billions of Saudi and Gulf states money to manage? And how much is Donald Trump Jr. making from Pentagon contracts and work that would not be available to someone lacking the last name of Trump? Read more
On this day 53 years ago, CIA-backed General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of socialist Salvador Allende in Chile, leading to the deaths of an estimated 40,018 innocent victims during his 17 year Reign of Terror, including Nobel Prize laureate Pablo Neruda. Ten years prior on 2 Nov 1963, CIA overthrew the notorious Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon, South Vietnam. Exactly 28 years to the day after the bloody coup d'etat to prevent the nationalization of two enormous US copper mining companies in Chile, CIA-trained mujahadin based in Afghanistan conducted a kamikaze mega-attack on America, resulting in the deaths of 2,977 victims in the World Trade Center in NYC, the Pentagon, and a crash site in Pennsylvania.
In Chile, the Bosch kept busy rounding up defenseless victims of "the first 9/11."Read more
A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched to collect the personal and identifiable health data of Americans who visit emergency rooms.
The U.S. Supreme Court again rejected a push to use Missouri congressional maps backed by President Donald Trump on Thursday, a loss for Republicans trying to maintain control of the House in the fast-approaching midterm elections.
Trump bribes voters to keep Republicans in the majority. Read more
A North Texas man is charged with two counts of terroristic threat against a public servant after the Texas Department of Public Safety said he sent violent messages to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico in August. The affidavit says an Aug. 3 email to Talarico's campaign account threatened to kill him and "drag your body through the streets." An Aug. 11 Instagram message made a similar threat, KXAN reported, citing the warrant. Talarico's chief of staff notified DPS on Aug. 12.
Kalie Robins was driving along with one of her daughters in the back seat of her car last week, the two of them singing a song together. She posted the video to Instagram, with her child's face concealed so she isn't identifiable -- or so she thought.
Following the fall of the Third Reich, US Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower and US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr instituted a plan to De-Nazify the massive German industrial base. But the efforts of their ardent investigators, auditors, and analysts were stifled, halted, and blunted every step of the way. Opposed by Wall Street, US banks, corporations, and the oligarchs, as well as US Army General George S. Patton, the vast post-war German industrial base remained basically intact and rebuilt as a bulwark against Soviet Russia and a source of steady future profits for American and West German elites.
"The Fraternity" fought this plan tooth-and-nail.Read more
John Malkovich has canceled a planned performance in Israel after promoters circulated a quote attributed to the American actor that he said was completely false. A recent press release quoted Malkovich as saying: "I am thrilled to return to Israel and am looking forward to meeting the warm Israeli audience once again, to whom I feel a strong closeness and solidarity." The quote appeared in some Israeli and U.S. media outlets. Malkovich told The Hollywood Reporter that he "never made the statements that were quoted, nor was I consulted before they were printed." "I did not utter these phrases, and they most certainly are not approved by me, nor do they reflect my feelings," he said. "For this reason, I have decided I cannot participate in the Tel Aviv performance." Read more
In an affront to creeps everywhere, Meta has started remotely bricking the smart glasses of wearers who try to secretly record other people. Earlier this month, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company said it would crack down on customers who modified the spectacles to disable or cover up their lights that indicate when they're recording, amid incredible public backlash against how the glasses are being used to film people without their consent " girls and women especially " and harass them. Read more
Yemen's Houthis targeted Aramco facilities in the Saudi Arabian cities of Abha, Najran and Jizan, as well as an airbase in Khamis Mushait, with ballistic missiles and drones. The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia came after they accused Riyadh of an attack on a prison that killed 17 people, according to the Houthi Ministry of Health. The revived war between the Houthi rebels and pro-government forces in southwest Yemen has forced nearly 20,000 people to flee their homes, the International Organization for Migration says. Read more
The US Department of Labour has suspended permanent labour certification filings by technology services giant Cognizant as federal authorities investigate alleged fraud and possible harm to American workers. It impacts the company's filings under the Permanent Labor Certification program, commonly known as PERM, which is a key step for employers seeking employment-based green cards for foreign...
The American military's underwater drone that Iran claimed to capture near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday was an older Anduril Dive-LD model that was "defective and malfunctioning well before" the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced its so-called seizure, according to a source at U.S. Central Command. "The drone was essentially dead in the water for more than a day," Centcom spokesperson Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins told DefenseScoop. Hawkins discussed the command's early recap of the incident, after news reports surfaced from Iran's state media depicting an Anduril-branded unmanned undersea vessel that was allegedly caught by the IRGC Navy in waters around the entrance to the highly-contested strait.
American forces struck multiple Iranian tankers tied to the IRGC on Tuesday night, a US official told Al Arabiya English. The attacks were in response to more attempted missile attacks on a US Navy warship, the official added. Read more
The operating company that runs the Paris landmark said a Hindu religious delegation had requested that interactions with women' be limited during its visit. The Eiffel Tower has reopened after staff walked out over the removal of women staff during a weekend visit by a Hindu religious delegation. The operating company that runs the Paris landmark, SETE, acknowledged that the group had requested the Saturday visit be organised to limit "interactions with women" and said "these conditions should not have been accepted." Read more
Geno Auriemma has reached the twilight of his legendary collegiate coaching career with UConn women's basketball, racking up more wins than any other coach in the sport's history. However, even at 72 years old, Auriemma's concerns are focused squarely on the future of college athletics, which he says is "dying."
