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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...

Interview 1165 – Higherside Chats: Big Oil Breakdown

Interview 1165 – Higherside Chats: Big Oil Breakdown

via TheHighersideChats.com: The story of the Rockefeller family is more than a cautionary tale, it’s an example of an oligarch’s potential to dominate. On this episode of The Higherside Chats, James Corbett joins us to discuss the far reaching control of the...

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...

Who Fired the Shot(s) Heard Round the World?

WATCH THIS VIDEO ON ODYSEE On April 19, 1775 the shot(s) heard round the world began the War of Independence. But who fired the shot(s)? Today we talk to James Perloff of JamesPerloff.com about the hidden history and context of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the...

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...