What is there about the Iranian election of June 12 that has led to it being one of the leading stories in media around the world every day since? Elections whose results are seriously challenged have taken place in most countries at one time or another in recent decades. Countless... » read this article

Based in part on a recent article by Chris Hedges.  See link to his article at the end.  This week marks the end of the dollar's reign as the world's reserve currency.  It also, therefore, marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United... » read this article

Buried on page 83 of the 89-page Report on Financial Regulatory Reform issued by the U.S. Administration on June 17 is a recommendation that the new Financial Stability Board strengthen and institutionalize its mandate to promote global financial stability. Financial stability is a worthy goal, but the devil is in... » read this article

The US media, led by the New York Times , is continuing its concerted propaganda campaign against Iran over charges that the government stole the June 12 presidential election. There is not even a semblance of objectivity in the media coverage, which parrots the charges of the opposition headed by... » read this article

In Mortal Hands – A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age.  Stephanie Cooke.  Bloomsbury, New York, 2009.   In an era when the corporate media and the corporate politicians and the corporate military men gang up together and denounce and threaten other countries because of their nuclear related activities, they... » read this article

As US troops and private contractors surge in Afghanistan, a new report reveals a system rife with abuse. Also, why is an executive of a major war contractor on the commission investigating contractors? Jeremy Scahill reports.   I’ve been reading through the hot-off-the-presses, exciting 100+ page report from the Commission... » read this article

The praise heaped on President Obama for his speech to the Muslim world by writers on the left, both here and abroad, is disturbing. I’m referring to people who I think should know better, who’ve taken Politics 101 and can easily see the many hypocrisies in Obama’s talk, as well... » read this article

The Anti-Empire ReportThe United States is "facing a nuclear threat in Iran" — article in Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, May 26 "the growing missile threat from North Korea and Iran" — article in the Washington Post and other major newspapers, May 26 "Iran's threat transcends religion. Regardless of... » read this article

5 June 2009 The speech delivered by US President Barack Obama in Cairo yesterday was riddled with contradictions. He declared his opposition to the “killing of innocent men, women, and children,” but defended the ongoing US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US proxy war in Pakistan, while remaining... » read this article

Editor's Note: Important written updates on the Wiwa v. Shell trial follow this video. - LMB Update, June 3, 2009: The court hearing scheduled for today, June 3, 2009, has been canceled by Chief Judge Kimba Wood. The court order can be found on the Attend the Trial page of... » read this article

"There ain't no rest for the wicked, money don't grow on trees, I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, there ain't nothing in this world for free. I know I can't slow down, I can't hold back though you know I wish I could, oh no there... » read this article

The country that was The United States is sinking deeper and deeper into the poisoned slough of their own making. Moral turpitude goes hand-in-hand with naiveté and arrogance. And nothing seems to have changed if it's not that there is now a president with acute intellectual abilities rather than an... » read this article

What the following interview broadcast on PBS with William K. Black on the Bill Moyers Journal show is a real eye-opener. Black was the lead investigator from the 1980's Savings and Loans scandal. The S&L scandal cost the US taxpayer more than US$160 billion and was also sparked by Thatcherite and... » read this article

Scientific American has at times been very harsh on economists1 and as one would expect it does well with its articles on science, many of which I understand to a certain degree and others that are too technical for my knowledge.  A recent article on global food shortages rests in... » read this article

The Anti-Empire Report Okay, at least some things are settled. When George W. Bush said "The United States does not torture", everyone now knows it was crapaganda. And when Barack Obama, a month into his presidency, said "The United States does not torture"1, it likewise had all the credibility of... » read this article

Editorial comment: The comment by Donald Forbes (at the end) is interesting, but I tend to believe that John Pilger is pretty close to the truth of the matter. Barack Obama has manipulated us from the very beginning. To quote another source where the writer, the highly respected William Blum... » read this article

Lichi D'Amelio responds to the charge, sadly made in a left-wing newspaper, that the  boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid is anti-Semitic. "PART OF the deepening pattern of Jew-baiting and anti-Semitism in the middle-class left worldwide." You might think that such an ugly and provocative statement had to... » read this article

In an April 7 article in The London Telegraph titled “The G20 Moves the World a Step Closer to  a Global Currency,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote: “A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order.   “‘We have agreed... » read this article

The activist filmmaker Robert Greenwald has tried for years to speed up the production process for his documentaries. Now, he says, he is creating one he can release almost immediately, in stages. Mr. Greenwald is showing “Rethink Afghanistan,” a skeptical view of America’s war strategies, in five parts on the... » read this article

An investigation into the murder of Ilaria Alpi who was investigating arms trafficking and the illegal disposal of toxic waste off the coasts of Somalia. (Report and Photos below the video) Somalia’s secret dumps of toxic waste washed ashore by tsunami Source:Timesonline From Jonathan Clayton in Johannesburg THE huge waves... » read this article