Toronto Star / John Foster (2009-08-12) Why is Afghanistan so important? A glance at a map and a little knowledge of the region suggest that the real reasons for Western military involvement may be largely hidden. Rivalry for pipeline routes and energy resources reflects competition for power and control in the region. Pipelines are important [...]

Competent researchers have demonstrated that the official version of 9/11 is absurd, contradictory, and untenable – yet it is still being used to justify an international anarchy of preventive war, and liberticide police state measures. This process is fraudulent and must be opposed by real intellectuals and persons of good will.

GlobalResearch.ca / Andrew Gavin Marshall (2009-08-03) This essay is Part 3 of “Global Power and Global Government,” published by Global Research. Part 1: Evolution and Revolution of the Central Banking System Part 2: Origins of the American Empire: Revolution, World Wars and World Order

On July 18, 2009, another Trilateral Commission member has been nominated to a strategic post in the Obama administration, bringing the total number of Obama’s Trilateral appointees to twelve.

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama consistently promised Americans “change.” Such promises aren’t new to the voting public. When Jimmy Carter ran for president, he said: “The people of this country know from bitter experience that we are not going to get … changes merely by shifting around the same group of insiders.” And top Carter aide Hamilton Jordan promised: “If, after the inauguration, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I’d quit.” Yet Carter selected Vance as Secretary of State and Brzezinski as National Security Adviser; the “same group of insiders” had been shifted around; and Jordan did not quit.