The last thing the GOP field of candidates would have wanted was Donald Trump continuing to make headlines and confronting them with such bread and butter issues of prejudice as what to do with Islam in the United States. Then there was that issue that had shadowed Trump like a storm of doubt: Is Obama really “American”? Has a follower of the Prophet been occupying the White House all this time?

“Collateral Damage” From America’s De-Stabilizing, Endless, Post-911 “Wars on Terror”. The Rebirth of Fascism

By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, September 20, 2015

“Show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care.” […] [Hopkins] was probably just paraphrasing what she had been hearing from a multitude of ultra-nationalist xenophobic racists around the world have been saying. Many of them are revealing their true colors these days.

The Fundamentals of US Surveillance: What Edward Snowden Never Told Us?

By Janet Phelan, September 20, 2015

Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations rocked the world.  According to his detailed reports, the US had launched massive spying programs and was scrutinizing the communications of American citizens in a manner which could only be described as extreme and intense.

Mumia Denied Life-Saving Treatment

By Stephen Lendman, September 20, 2015

The state of Pennsylvania is slowly murdering longstanding political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal by willful neglect. He’s seriously ill with hepatitus C.  […] Prisoners in America receive deplorable medical treatment, denied access to proper medications able to help them.

US-China Relations: the Pentagon versus High Tech

By Prof. James Petras, September 19, 2015

Obama has ordered a major naval build-up in the South China Sea and embarked on extensive cyber-espionage of Chinese industries and the government via major US high-tech companies, as revealed by Edward Snowden in his release of confidential NSA documents.