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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction / 15 American Insouciance / 18 August 7, 2008 Who Will Stand Up to America and Israel? / 20 May 28, 2009 Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated Color Revolution? / 22 June 19, 2009 Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the US? / 24 August 31, 2009 Another War in the Works: America Is Led and Informed by Liars / 28 September 29, 2009 Warmonger Wins Peace Prize / 31 October 10, 2009 The Evil Empire / 33 November 7, 2009 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed s Trial Will Convict Us All / 37 November 24, 2009 The Obama Puppet / 40 December 3, 2009 For Palestinians, Every Day Is Kristallnacht / 44 December 15, 2009 Americans Submit to Tyranny / 47 December 29, 2009 Liberty Has Been Lost / 50 January 6, 2010 Is Anyone Telling Us the Truth? / 53 January 8,

2 Insouciant Americans / 56 January 11, 2010 It Is Now Official: The U.S. Is a Police State / 58 February 10, 2010 The Road to Armageddon: The Insane Drive for American Hegemony Threatens Life on Earth / 61 February 26, 2010 American Naifs Bringing Ruin to Other Lands / 67 March 18, 2010 Washington Murdered Sovereignty at Home and Abroad / 70 March 23, 2010 Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty with It / 72 March 24, 2010 America s Complicity in Evil / 76 June 3, 2010 Hillary Clinton s Transparent Lies / 79 July 10, 2010 The Business of America Is War / 81 July 27, 2010 Death of the First Amendment / 83 August 26, 2010 The True Cost of the War / 86 September 3, 2010 The Collapse of Western Morality / 88 September 23, 2010 The War On Terror: Does Anyone Remember? / 92 October 15, 2010 Who Has the Crystal Ball? / 96 November 2, 2010 The New American Credo: Might Is Right / 99 November 3, 2010 America s Devolution into Dictatorship / 102 November 12, 2010 The Stench of American Hypocrisy / 105 November 18, 2010 Fabricating Terror: The Portland Bomb Plot / 108 November 29,

3 Who, Precisely, Is Attacking the World? / 112 November 30, 2010 Wikileaks II: A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies / 114 December 1, / 117 December 27, 2010 America Has Gone Away / 119 December 29, 2010 Egypt: Things Have to Change in Order to Stay the Same / 122 February 1, 2011 Obama s FY 2012 Budget Is a Tool of Class War / 124 February 17, 2011 War Über Alles / 128 February 26, 2011 Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs an Orwell / 130 March 13, 2011 Obama Raises American Hypocrisy to a Higher Level / 132 March 28, 2011 The New Colonialism: Washington s Pursuit of World Hegemony / 135 April 2, 2011 Libya: The DC/NATO Agenda and the Next Great War / 138 April 7, 2011 Osama bin Laden s Useful Death / 140 May 3, 2011 The Agendas Behind the Fabricated Bin Laden News Event / 143 May 6, 2011 Americans Are Living in 1984 / 146 May 11, 2011 The West Is Trapped in Its Own Propaganda / 150 May 12, 2011 Creating the bin Laden Reality / 152 May 14, 2011 The Ongoing bin Laden Saga / 154 May 16, 2011 The Strauss-Kahn Frame-Up: The American Police State Strides Forward / 156 May 18,

4 Dominique Strauss-Kahn: The Establishment Eliminates a Threat / 160 May 20, 2011 Does America Have a Culture? / 164 May 23, 2011 Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? / 166 June 5, 2011 Conspiracy Theory / 168 June 20, 2011 Who Does the Law Serve / 171 June 27, 2011 A World Overwhelmed by Western Hypocrisy / 175 June 29, 2011 Prosecutors Back Off From their Iron-Clad Case Against Strauss-Kahn / 180 July 1, 2011 Will Strauss-Kahn Be the Next President of France / 183 July 5, 2013 The Enemy is Washington / 185 July 22, /11 After a Decade: Have We Learned Anything? / 188 August 24, 2011 In America, the Rule of Law Is Vacated / 192 September 1, 2011 The Latest Orchestrated Threat to America: Pakistan and The Haqqani Network / 195 September 26, 2011 Is the War on Terror a Hoax? / 198 September 30, 2011 The Day America Died / 203 October 2, 2011 The Roads to War and Economic Collapse / 209 November 23, 2011 Misreading the Fight Over Military Detention / 212 December 4, 2011 Washington Moves the World Closer to War / 214 January 16,

5 Drowning in Hypocrisy / 216 January 24, 2012 Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade? / 219 February 14, 2012 Washington s Insouciance Has No Rival / 222 February 15, 2012 Silencing the Critics / 224 February 20, 2012 Why Can t Americans Have Democracy? / 229 March 2, 2012 Empires Then and Now / 231 March 26, 2012 What is ObamaCare? / 233 April 10, 2012 Washington Leads the World into Lawlessness / 236 April 12, 2012 How Liberty Was Lost / 240 April 24, 2012 Trials Without Crimes or Evidence / 244 April 25, 2012 Brewing a Conflict with China / 248 April 30, 2012 Does the West Have a Future? / 252 May 10, 2012 The Case of the Missing Terrorists / 255 May 14, 2012 Washington s Hypocrisies / 258 May 26, 2012 Can the World Survive Washington s Hubris? / 261 June 28, 2012 Can Americans Escape the Deception? / 265 July 4, 2012 War on All Fronts / 270 July 16, 2012 Syria: Washington s Latest War Crime / 275 July 26,

6 The Neoconservative War Criminals in Our Midst / 277 August 1, 2012 The Next Election: High Stake Outcomes Based on Non-issues / 280 August 11, 2012 Is Washington Deaf to Russian Warnings? / 284 August 16, 2012 Correa Stands Up to the Jackbooted British Gestapo / 288 August 16, 2012 America s Future is Death / 290 August 20, 2012 Pussy Riot, The Unfortunate Dupes of American Hegemony / 294 August 22, 2012 A Culture of Delusion / 297 September 27, 2012 America s Moral Degeneracy / 300 October 10, 2012 The Special Interests Won Again / 303 November 7, 2012 Obdurate Washington / 305 December 11, 2012 Attack on Sovereignty / 307 January 15, 2013 The Institutionalization of Tyranny / 309 January 18, 2013 In America Law No Longer Exists / 312 January 31, 2013 Obama s Expanding Kill List / 314 February 11, 2013 While Left and Right Fight, Power Wins / 319 February 14, 2013 Hugo Chavez / 322 March 12, 2013 Iraq After Ten Years / 327 March 18, 2013 What is the Government s Agenda? / 331 June 11,

7 Washington Is War-Crazy / 334 June 17, 2013 Stasi in the White House / 337 June 21, 2013 A New Beginning without Washington s Sanctimonious Mask / 340 June 25, 2013 Washington Is Driving the World to the Final War / 345 June 28, 2013 Has Washington s Arrogance Undone Its Empire? / 349 July 1, 2013 Lawlessness Is the New Normal / 353 July 5, 2013 Putin Dresses Down the Gang of 8 / 355 July 10, 2013 Coup d état / 359 July 13, 2013 Role Reversal: How the US Became the USSR / 362 July 23, 2013 The Two Faux Democracies Threaten Life on Earth / 364 July 24, 2013 America Discredited / 367 August 1, 2013 Bradley Manning Verdict Convicts Washington / 369 August 1, 2013 Washington s Drive for Hegemony is a Drive to War / 370 August 8, 2013 Humanity Is Drowning in Washington s Criminality / 372 August 13, 2013 Gangster State US/UK / 378 August 21, 2013 Syria: Another Western War Crime in the Making / 380 August 26, 2013 Will Obama Doom Himself as a War Criminal? / 385 August 30, 2013 America Totally Discredited / 387 August 30,

8 The Isolation of America / 390 August 31, 2013 Will Congress Now Save Obama s Face by Selling Out Democracy? / 393 September 4, 2013 How to Stop Obama s Military Aggression Against Syria / 399 September 5, 2013 The West Dethroned / 400 September 7, 2013 Too Many Years of Lies: From Mossadeq to 9/11 / 404 September 10, 2013 Putin Steps into World Leadership Role / 409 September 12, 2013 What Happens If the Shutdown Causes the Treasury to Run Out of Money / 411 October 11, 2013 How America Was Lost / 413 November 7, 2013 What Is the Real Agenda of the American Police State? / 418 November 13, 2013 Bin Laden s Obituary Notice / 422 November 20, 2013 The Kennedy Assassination (November 22, 1963) 50 Years Later / 428 November 22, 2013 Protests in Ukraine / 430 December 4, 2013 Washington Drives the World Toward War / 433 December 14, 2013 Washington Has Discredited America / 437 December 19, 2013 No Need for NATO / 440 December 2013, Trends Journal Conclusion / 447 8

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