Results for "James Corbett"

Obama, Hiroshima, and the Politics of War Crimes

When it comes to American war crimes, there are no shortage of examples to choose from. For every well-known My Lai massacre there are a thousand lesser-known No Gun Ri massacres. For every Abu Ghraib that enters the lexicon there's a thousand Azizabads that barely...

The Greatest Blessing

We are programmed to look out for danger and respond to threats. It's instinctual, and well it should be. We live in a dangerous world and our family line wouldn't have made it this far if there wasn't an eternal vigilance against potential perils. But always focusing...

Serial Child Molester Denny Hastert Gets His Wrist Slap

Earlier this week Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House and second in line to the presidency, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. In his sentencing Judge Thomas Durkin spoke the plain truth: "The defendant is a serial child molester." All of this may...

The Theranos Scandal: Science, Charlatans and Globalists

If you've been following the Theranos scandal, you've probably heard the basic story by now: The miracle tech start up was founded by a 19-year-old Stanford dropout to revolutionize lab testing, reducing blood work to a finger prick device and a patented machine that...

As #TaxationIsTheft Trends, Bloomberg Rebrands the IRS

by James Corbett TheInternationalForecaster.com April 20, 2016 As you may have noticed, the #TaxationIsTheft meme has been making the rounds on the internet for the last few weeks. Well, it officially went viral this week, with the hashtag trending on Twitter on...

The (Second) Most Important Bank You’ve Never Heard Of

What is the most important bank the public has never heard of? My fine audience excepted, not one in a hundred people could name the Bank for International Settlements as the culprit, and fewer still could describe the BIS' role as "the apex of the system" of world...