The Boston Marathon bombings, allegedly by two Chechen nationals, have revived the long-simmering questions: Why? Why us? These questions were raised in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by al Qaeda terrorists, who unleashed unspeakable violence on innocent people in the United States. There answers about how they …
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President Barack Obama’s double talk and outright lies about the sequester and related matters are the focus of this edition of Leid Stories. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.4MB) | Embed
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By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations. Financial critics have provided abundant …
World leaders have agreed on one thing at COP18—so called developing countries will suffer the most extreme effects of climate change; however, the world’s richest nations continued on Wednesday to refuse to help prepare these nations for their current and imminent disasters and, more pointedly, to help curb global warming …
Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United States. Every member of the government and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution–not to …
The recent hostilities between the Gaza Strip and Israel have to be viewed in context of a broader geopolitical chessboard. The events in Gaza are tied to Syria and the US’s regional maneuvers against Iran and its regional alliance system. Syria has been compromised as a conduit for weapons to …
When Major General David H. Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division met Lieutenant General William Wallace, commander of the U.S. Army’s V Corps on 27 March 2003 at a site near Najaf, only five days after American forces began the attack to Baghdad Petraeus and Wallace were deeply pessimistic. They concluded, “The …
Seems like everyone is calling for bipartisanship. Voters, Democrats, Republicans… well almost everyone. Apparently for Republicans, bipartisanship means do it our way. Witness Mitch Mc Connell’s take on the elections. After essentially calling the President a complete failure, and denying that he had a mandate of any kind, he said: Now it’s time …
Election rhetoric shuns the big picture in favor of the bigger platitude. Now that The Show is over, we are left with the equivalent of a Sunday morning hangover following a binge of promises and lies. We leave the theatre of political spectacle on steroids for the real world …
The presidential election exposed the liberal class as a corpse. It fights for nothing. It stands for nothing. It is a useless appendage to the corporate state. It exists not to make possible incremental or piecemeal reform, as it originally did in a functional capitalist democracy; instead it has devolved …
Tonight Gary discusses the nutritional benefits of ginger, the effects of fracking on the environment, and the words of progressive political theorists. Related articles The Gary Null Show – Lesser of Two Evils – 11/05/12 The Gary Null Show – Corporate Power – 11/08/12 The Gary Null Show – Significance …
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President Barack Obama’s first task as he launches his second term will be to fill a number of key vacancies expected in the White House, positions that will be instrumental in helping him tackle his legislative agenda as well as navigate conflicts around the globe. Already, a pair of high-profile …
President Barack Obama’s victory at the polls Nov. 6 is a definitive line of demarcation and departure, not just in American politics, but in the deeply entrenched racist narrative that governs practically all aspects of life in the United States. ”Experts” wax philosophic and scientific about why he won, but …
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The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us. And if we do not immediately engage in this battle we are finished, as climate scientists have made …
There is ample evidence that the Obama Presidency has pulled the US political spectrum further to the Right. On most domestic and foreign policy issues Obama has embraced extremist positions surpassing his Republican predecessor and in the process devastating what remained of the peace and social movements of the past …