I think it’s safe to say with some conviction that in the year of 2012 the concept of survival prepping is NOT an alien one to most Americans.  When National Geographic decides there is a viable market for a prepper TV show (no matter how misrepresentative of true preppers it may be), when Walmart starts [...]

Update: Tuesday July 31, 2012: Just one day after India’s power grid left 370 million residents of its northern provinces without electricity, the country is experiencing another massive crash of their fragile power grid with some 600 million people – about half its entire population – now going through widespread outages in what can only [...]

With the United Nations poised to sign an international arms treaty that would regulate global arms sales and ownership, and Congressional members just days ago attempting to sneak a nationwide restriction on “high capacity magazines” into a cyber security bill, the attack on firearmArticle source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SHTFplan/~3/S8KLAWCYtww/breaking-new-bill-threatens-to-ban-online-sales-of-ammunition-obama-evaluating_07302012

Emergency Central Bank Intervention Coming? – by Stephen Lendman Greece is a corpse. It’s waiting for its obituary to be written. Spain is on life support. Portugal and Ireland are wheezing. Italy is breathing hard. Britannia is sinking. America isn’t far behind. Progressive Radio News Hour regular Jack Rasmus said significant private sector job creation, [...]

Permanent War: Official US Policy – by Stephen Lendman Nations don’t wage permanent wars and survive. Imagine one calling itself a democracy trying. Washington spends more on militarism and imperial wars than the rest of the world combined. At the same time, vital domestic needs go begging. America lives by the sword. One day it’ll [...]

As power grids in emerging and developing nations take on more demand than ever before, it was only a matter of time before the strain became too much to bear. This morning the weakness in global grid systems became apparent when some 370 million residents in northern India were left without power: Northern India’s power [...]

Syrian ethnic, sectarian conflicts deepen as US plots to install client regime By Niall Green; 30 July 2012 – WSWShttp://wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/syri-j30.shtml Fighting intensified in the Syrian city of Aleppo over the weekend, with the government of President Bashar al-Assad deploying troops and aircraft to retake neighborhoods captured by opposition militants in a major offensive last week. [...]

Police Shootings Echo Nationwide By Stephan Salisbury; July 30, 2012 – Znethttp://www.zcommunications.org/police-shootings-echo-nationw… Source: TomDispatch.com Welcome to the abattoir — a nation where a man can walk into a store and buy an assault rifle, a shotgun, a couple of Glocks; where in the comfort of his darkened living room, windows blocked from the sunlight, he [...]

The Somalia Model Israel’s Plan for Syria By ISRAEL SHAMIR; July 30, 2012 – Counterpunchhttp://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/30/israels-plan-for-syria/ Moscow. Israel retains its ability to control the Syrian ‘Islamist’ rebels. Netanyahu is not worried about Syria’s possible disintegration. Despite the received wisdom claiming that Israelis prefer a stable and familiar Assad to the great unknown of Islamic guerrillas, the [...]

As power grids in emerging and developing nations take on more demand than ever before, it was only a matter of time before the strain became too much to bear. This morning the weakness in global grid systems became apparent when some 370 million residents in northern India were left without power: Northern India’s power [...]

High Stakes in Syria – by Stephen Lendman The region’s fate hangs in the balance. Perhaps much more. The potential ugly reality is chilling. Make no mistake. Washington orchestrated months of bloodbath. Obama officials bear full responsibility. They were last year against Libya. They are currently as violence wracks the country. The battle for Aleppo [...]

New York Times on Israel’s Democracy – by Stephen Lendman The Times is a long-time imperial apologist. It’s no different on Israel. On July 21, its editorial headlined “Israel’s Embattled Democracy.” Instead of discussing the real Israel, it did more to defend than criticize it. The Likud/Kadima divorce occasioned it. In early May, unity was [...]

The Neo-Liberal Games: Who Are the Real Winners from London 2012? By David Renton; July 29, 2012 – Znethttp://www.zcommunications.org/the-neoliberal-games-who-are-… Source: red pepper Long before John Carlos stood beside Tommie Smith to give their famous clenched-fist salutes on the podium at the 1968 Olympics, he was a boy growing up in Harlem. ‘When I first learned [...]

Preventing More Middle East Wars Tops All Priorities – by Stephen Lendman Washington’s dirty hands control regional belligerence. Long-standing policy unleashed a regional bloodbath. It advances America’s imperium. Willing partners include NATO and Middle East allies. They’re serial killers for their own self-interest. Post-9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya were ravaged. Destroying Syria is underway. Expect [...]

Torturing Children: Official Israeli Policy – by Stephen Lendman Israel treats children like adults. Only two countries impose life without parole (LWOP) sentences on minors – America and Israel. Israel is a signatory to the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It’s explicit and binding provisions state: • “every human being” below [...]

The ‘Wazzock’ Mitt Romney Is Wrong About the London Olympics, and This Is Unfortunate By Dave Zirin; July 27, 2012 – The Nationhttp://www.thenation.com/blog/169125/wazzock-mitt-romney-wro… So much for that shared “Anglo Saxon heritage.” Mitt Romney is getting roasted across the British press and political establishment for arriving on the shores of the United Kingdom armed with a [...]

An EMP can be caused by the detonation of a large bomb, nuclear or otherwise, in the atmosphere, miles above land. Its pulse wave can easily cover a continent and destroy electronic components in computers, engines, power plants, and solar panels alike. An event like this has never happened on a large scale, and there are differing opinions as to [...]

Syria, the Arab revolutions and the ‘war on terror’ By Alex Snowdon; July 27, 2012 – rabble.cahttp://rabble.ca/news/2012/07/syria-arab-revolutions-and-war… To understand Syria it is necessary to consider both the ‘war on terror’ (which can be traced to 2001) and the Arab revolutions (a more recent phenomenon, emerging first in Tunisia in December 2010). One of those contexts [...]

The “cost of doing business”: Court rules on Toronto construction worker deaths By Carl Bronski; 28 July 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/cana-j28.shtml Earlier this month, Ontario Justice Robert Bigelow rejected submissions for a $1 million penalty and fined Toronto company Metron Construction just $200,000 after it pled guilty to a charge of criminal negligence causing death. The [...]

The Rise of the Police State and the Absence of Mass Opposition By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya; July 25th, 2012 – Dissident Voicehttp://dissidentvoice.org/2012/07/the-rise-of-the-police-sta… One of the most significant political developments in recent US history has been the virtually unchallenged rise of the police state. Despite the vast expansion of the police powers of the [...]

“An Officer Involved Shooting” The Real Crime in Anaheim By GARY LEUPP; July 26, 2012 – Counterpunchhttp://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/26/the-real-crime-in-ana… “He was a documented gang member,” say the Anaheim police of Manuel Diaz, a 25 year old unarmed man they shot dead around 4:00 pm Sunday. They shot him in the buttocks as he ran, and as he [...]

Though standing ovations and applause are forbidden by Congressional rules, that didn’t stop the House of Representatives from applauding and chanting “USA! USA! USA!” after a rousing speech by Mike Kelly (R-PA) in which he took aim at the trillions of dollars in red tape surrounding government regulatoryArticle source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SHTFplan/~3/g3whWxrrsFQ/video-usa-usa-usa-take-the-heavy-boot-off-the-throat-of-americas-job-creators-and-let-them-breathe_07272012

Global elite descend on East London for Olympics By Paul Stuart; 27 July 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/olym-j27.shtml The Royal Dock complex, adjacent to London’s financial district at Canary Wharf, is hosting up to one hundred super yachts, including twenty of the world’s most opulent, as the Olympic Games begin. Its transformation into a Monaco-style marina playground [...]

Chavez Riding High in Polls – by Stephen Lendman Bolivarianism remains overwhelmingly popular. So is Chavez. He heads the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). In 1999, he transformed the nation into a Bolivarian republic. It’s based on “solidarity, fraternity, love, justice, liberty and equality.” He changed it politically, economically and socially. He established participatory [...]

Lawless Domestic Spying – by Stephen Lendman Years ago, domestic spying was common. Post-9/11, it became institutionalized. Police states do it. So do faux democracies. America is no exception. In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established a new domestic spying operation. It’s called the National Applications Office (NOA). It’s described as “the executive [...]