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In the space of a mere eight years, the former US Federal Reserve Bank Chair Ben Bernanke has managed to achieve what Lenin could barely conceive. He's convinced the US, the UK, Japan and Europe to embark on a revolutionary journey to completely subvert free market instincts, writes Ian Verrender.

Mad men in power use mad men amongst the rank of decent folks to sow terror and fear. This is not new. Even the scale of the damage is not knew. What could be new is the size of disinformation needed to sustain the madness. 

The public release Friday afternoon of a section of the Congressional report on the 9/11 attacks, which had been kept secret for 13 years, has provided fresh evidence of a deliberate coverup of the role played, not only by the Saudi government, but US intelligence agencies themselves, in facilitating the attacks and then covering up their real roots.

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Less than a day after becoming the U.K.’s unelected leader, Prime Minister Theresa May closed the government’s climate change office, a move instantly condemned as “shocking” and “plain stupid.”

‘Democracy, freedom and the rule of law’ have no value, Erdogan says

Remember Valmy...

The coalition of the willing needed "reasons" to go and attack Iraq. WMDs sounded a good excuse at the time.

Inspector Hans Blix did not find a speck of WMDs in Iraq.

The explanation was that these WMDs were being moved around and the CIA, etc, did not know where.

The US, UK and Australian "intelligence" agencies manufactured FALSE INTELLIGENCE.

General Powell did a PowerPoint presentation at the UN with BLATANTLY FALSE information.

The French and the Germans knew that AND SAID SO.

Every day, we watch television, we read newspapers and visit websites on the net. Everyday we are fed bullshit, half-truths, mediocre explanations, stupid ideas, erzatz of condensed conundrums about life out-there — and controlling information in triplicate about our work. We are "communicated" to...

Coming from a party with a long history of frightening people the conservative’s accusation of a scare campaign on Medicare is an affront to ones sensibilities.

Barroso is criticized for joining the Wall Street bank that helped set off the 2008 financial crisis. Goldman has also been blamed for assisting Athens in hiding its financial situation in order to enter the eurozone in 2000.

The "scandalous" move raised questions about the EU's conflict of interest rules, according to French European Affairs Minister Harlem Desir, who said they should be tightened.

LONDON — After a startlingly swift transfer of power, Theresa May became Britain’s prime minister on Wednesday, promising to honor last month’s referendum to leave the European Union, but also to heal divisions that the vote exposed, and to preside over an economy that benefits everyone, not just the “privileged few.”