Neocon take-over of National Public Radio

Once upon a time NPR (National Public Radio) was an alternative voice. That voice was discarded during the Bush administration when Republican fundraiser Gay Hart Gaines was appointed by George W. Bush as vice chair for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cheryl Feldman Halpern was appointed chair of the Corporation by Dubya, and Elizabeth Sembler […]

Cost of War: Weapons, Mercenaries and the ruin of an Empire

Washington spends $25 billion funding foreign armies, the bulk of which goes to the Mideast, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Aid to Islamabad will rise to $15 billion over the next five years, including secret ‘black’ payments. The US supports 168,000 ‘contractors’ in Iraq, many of them gunmen. CIA runs another 74,000 mercenaries in Afghanistan. The […]