The Ending of America's Financial-Military Empire
By MICHAEL HUDSON

The city of Yekaterinburg, Russia’s largest east of the Urals, may become known not only as the end of the road for the tsars but of American hegemony too; as the place not only where US U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down in 1960, but where the US-centered international financial order was brought to ground. (learn more at)

DoD Training Manual Describes

Protest As “Low-Level Terrorism”

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, June 15, 2009

Current Department of Defense anti-terrorism training course material states that the exercise of First Amendment rights in the U.S. constitutes terrorist activity.

The ACLU has written to the DoD regarding its Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course, which advises personnel that political protest amounts to “low-level terrorism”.

“It has come to our attention that the Department of Defense’s Annual Level I Antiterrorism (AT) Training for 2009 misinforms Department of Defense (DoD) personnel that certain First Amendment-protected activity may amount to “low level terrorism” The ACLU writes. ( learn more at)

Favors Jail Birds and Jihadis,

Ms. Sotomayor, unbridled bigotry Sotomayor: Exposed on tape; Rulings come to light

By Paul Williams Monday, June 15, 2009

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Supreme Court Candidate Sonia Sotomayor
President Barack Obama, describing Sonia Sotomayor as a woman of “fierce intelligence,” called for her confirmation as America’s next Supreme Court Justice before the Senate’s August recess.
Mr. Obama says that “no one could question” Ms. Sotomayor’s intellect since she was second in her class at Princeton and served as the editor of the Yale Law Review.
But facts are coming to light to support allegations that the selection of Ms. Sotomayor represents an example of unbridled bigotry - - and that the candidate would never have been chosen if she were not from the barrio.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has acquired a video tape in which Ms. Sotomayor admits that she is “an affirmative action baby” and that the admissions committee at Princeton overlooked her abysmal Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores because she was a Hispanic woman who had come from a housing project.( learn more at )