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On Wednesday evening, July 14, 2010, David Swanson spoke at the National Press Club, at an event sponsored by the “McClendon Group.” His subject was: “How We Fund Wars!” After his talk, I had a chance to interview him about his speech. Mr. Swanson is the author of ‘Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union,’ published by Seven Stories Press (2009). For more on Mr. Swanson’s popular book, go to: http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/65972

The following story could be true. Some names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Nobody knew when Spinn Dreck was born that he would eventually become a man amongst men.
Like many Americans, Spinn Dreck was influenced by events that occurred during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. As a child, his little heart pulsated with excitement when he read about George Lincoln Rockwell and his followers driving a “hate bus” through the American South, and his adrenaline flowed when (…)

The elite will need to find another vacation spot. Cancun will be affected soon. New Satellite Images of Gulf: Oil reaches Mexico’s Yucatan, near Cancun (PHOTOS)
Envisat Wide Swath VV, University of Miami, CSTARS, July 11, 2010:
July 11 (CSTARS, U. of Miami)
Analysis of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Area, Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting System, July 12, 2010:
The water south of the Deepwater Horizon site now appears to be moving more southward toward 88°00-90°30’W between 28°30’N (…)

Another Australia soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the 17th Australian to be killed in the Afghanistan War. However the pro-war and pro-Zionist Australian Labor Government under the post-Coup leadership of pro-war and pro-Zionist PM Julia Gillard is firmly in favor of continuing the Afghan War, even though the Obama Administration clearly wants to get out (see "Pro-war Gillard commits to more Afghan War on post-coup Day 1 even though the US wants out", Open Forum: ).
The (…)

Chinese "Dagong Global rating" down grades the United States to "AA".
Wang Xin Long
One of the lessons from China known as the financial crisis has drawn the People’s Republic, is that that the large, mainly American, rating agencies is not to be trusted.
the German system, press habitually hushed up by, were now in the Chinese state television, the three great American Ratingesellschaften Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poors and Fitch Ratings in the public media pillory (…)

Israel is a strategic US ally in the Middle East: When the American Empire falls, Israel will be Weakened
Interview with Joshua Frank
by Kourosh Ziabari
Global Research, July 12, 2010 2010-07-11
Joshua Frank is an American progressive journalist and noted anti-war columnist. His articles and commentaries have appeared on CounterPunch, Z Magazine, AntiWar.com, Truthout and Alternet. He is author of "Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush" and co-editor with Jeffrey St. (…)

July 12, 2010
IS ISRAEL A NORMAL COUNTRY?
Critique of an article with the same title in Toronto’s Globe and Mail by Ian Buruma
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/is-israel-a-normal-country/article1635159/
John Chuckman
This article starts with a brave question, and I think for most people the answer is apparent with the asking of the question.
But like the famous line of T.S. Elliot, the piece ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
After asking a question which would (…)

On Sunday afternoon, July 11, 2010, Maria Allwine, a peace and social justice activist, discussed why she is running for Governor of Maryland. Ms. Allwine is member of the Green Party. Her remarks were made before a meeting of the Baltimore chapter of the party. If Ms. Allwine gets the Green Party nomination in the state, she will be on the ballot in the General Election, which is set for November 4, 2010. For background on the Green Party, see: http://www.baltimoregreens.org/

Video: US Failing to Adjust to New Reality
by grtv
The US empire may be in decline, but Andrew Gavin Marshall says that the US government doesn’t seem to realize this. Military policies are working to expand the empire and foreign policy fails to recognize the new powers rising. Where does this leave the United States? And how long can it hang on?
Watch the Video here:
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/content/us-failing-adjust-new-reality

Historian warns of sudden collapse of American ‘empire’
by Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Harvard professor and prolific author Niall Ferguson opened the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival Monday with a stark warning about the increasing prospect of the American “empire” suddenly collapsing due to the country’s rising debt level.
“I think this is a problem that is going to go live really soon,” Ferguson said. “In that sense, I mean within the next two (…)