fort hood guns galoreThe Guardian

Guns are wall-to-wall at the Guns Galore shop near Fort Hood, and so are posters: No Idiots Allowed. This Isn’t a Place for Children to Play. Firearm Trafficking is Illegal.

But now that a second mass shooting at the Texas military base has been linked to guns bought at the squat brick store, which promises “3,000 Guns In Stock,” the message Guns Galore clerks are emphasizing is don’t blame them.   Continue reading “Fort Hood: Guns Galore reportedly sold guns to both shooters”

Information Liberation – by Chris

In Lake Central High School in St. John, Indiana students staged a sit-in over the school’s failure to acknowledge a student’s suicide. Of note is the fact the principle responds to their protest by saying he’s “in charge” and ordering everyone to get out their IDs, basically acting like a two-bit thug cop. After one student makes a snarky comment that he’s “disappointed” in the principle, he then orders the student be arrested, to which the lackey cops present immediately oblige.    Continue reading “High School Student Arrested For Telling Principal He’s “Disappointed” In Him”

TLAXCALA

Considering the relative lull which seems to be taking place in the Ukraine, this might be a good time to look at the impact which the dramatic developments in the Ukraine have had upon the internal political scene in Russia and what that, in turn, could mean for the international (dis)order.  In order to do that, I would like to begin by a short summary of a thesis which I have already mentioned in the past (for a discussion please see here, here,here and here):   Continue reading “A new Cold War has begun – let us embrace it with relief!”

People hold a banner reading "Barack Obama, Chief of the Permanent War" as they protest against the visit of US President Barack Obama near the US Embassy in Rome on March 27, 2014.Press TV – by Finian Cunningham

A first step for world peace is for the American people to rein in their reckless government from the international stage and to stop it making misery for so many.

Americans need democratic government like the rest of the world needs rid of Washington’s thuggish global policeman.   Continue reading “How Americans can help world peace”

Vietnam corruption executionGlobal Post – by Patrick Winn

BANGKOK — For the most part, American bankers whose rash pursuit of profit brought on the 2008 global financial collapse didn’t get indicted. They got bonuses.

Odds are that scandal would have played out differently in Vietnam, another nation struggling with misbehaving bankers.

The authoritarian Southeast Asian state doesn’t just send unscrupulous financiers to jail. Sometimes, it sends them to death row.   Continue reading “Vietnam is sentencing corrupt bankers to death, by firing squad”

Press TV

It is high time that the American people learnt about CIA’s torture methods under former President George W. Bush, an analyst tells Press TV in an interview.

Mike Gravel was talking to Press TV after US Senators Susan Collins and Angus King pushed for the release of crimes committed under Bush.   Continue reading “Time ripe for Bush crimes revelation: Analyst”

A law enforcement officer enters a drug tunnel found in a warehouse in Otay Mesa, California April 3, 2014, in this handout photo released to Reuters April 4, 2014. REUTERS-Immigration and Customs Enforcement-HandoutReuters – by DAN WHITCOMB

U.S. federal agents have uncovered two drug-smuggling tunnels underneath the U.S.-Mexico border, both surfacing in San Diego-area warehouses and equipped with rail systems for moving contraband, officials said on Friday.

The discovery led to the arrest of a 73-year-old woman accused of running one of the warehouses connected to a drug smuggling operation, according to a joint news release by four federal agencies.   Continue reading “Two drug tunnels, with rail systems, found at U.S.-Mexico border”

Reuters – by KEVIN MURPHY

Detroit’s mayor and city council president on Friday called for calm and condemned the severe beating that bystanders gave to a motorist who stopped to help a 10-year-old boy he had struck with his vehicle.

Steven Utash, 54, who was surrounded by a group and beaten on Wednesday afternoon, remained in critical condition on Friday in a Detroit hospital, police said. The child he hit, David Harris, was released from a hospital on Thursday, they said.   Continue reading “Detroit leaders decry beating of driver who hit, tried to aid boy”

New York Times – by MANNY FERNANDEZ, ERIC SCHMITT and SERGE F. KOVALESKI

KILLEEN, Tex. — The Army specialist at Fort Hood who killed or wounded 19 of his fellow soldiers on Wednesday had a dispute with his superiors over their denial of a leave request shortly before the shooting rampage, a law enforcement official said Friday.

The law enforcement official said Specialist Ivan Antonio Lopez met with Fort Hood officials about the denial on Wednesday shortly before the shooting started and had been clearly agitated and disrespectful after the meeting. It was unclear why he wanted to take time off, but it appeared to involve his family.   Continue reading “Soldier in Fort Hood Attack Was in Dispute Over Leave”

Mind Body Green – by Jessica Cooper

Turmeric grows wild in the forests of South and Southeast Asia. It’s one of the key ingredients in many Pakistani, Indian, Persian and Thai dishes and has incredible medicinal value, too.

Here are some of the benefits when ingested with your food as a spice:   Continue reading “25 Reasons Why Turmeric Can Heal You”