'Cabbing' for Israel?

The latest revelations come only a few months after another Channel 4 “Dispatches” report, by Peter Oborne, showed how large numbers of MPs were stooging (or "cabbing") for Israel.

Mr Oborne reported that a majority of Conservative MPs and half the shadow cabinet are signed-up Friends of Israel, and millions of pounds flow into the bank accounts of MPs and parties, although only a fraction of these “contributions” are visibly accounted for. Sir Richard Dalton, a former British diplomat who served as consul-general in Jerusalem, observed: "I don't believe, and I don't think anybody else believes, these contributions come with no strings attached".'

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'Why we fight': The Nature of Modern Imperialism

Alan McKinnon shows that the UK and US 'defence' policy is in fact a 'projection of power' policy with the primary purpose of defending the commercial interests of transnational companies.'

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Money - The Ultimate Addiction

The Devil does indeed 'lie in the details' of this finalizing moment of the federal government's insertion of itself, into the previously most-private interests of the major banks and US financial institutions. As early as today it is becoming clear that these banks and institutions are not yet "interested" in loaning out the $250 Billion that they got in exchange for letting the government into their private dens-of-monetary-iniquity: "NOT interested".

So, the owners are going to keep the money to "earn" more illicit interest, at the expense of those in crying need for what that investment of capital was supposed to solve? That's what we get for not making the loaning of that money immediately mandatory! Analysis's say that the money just inserted will not be available for several months: which translates to "AFTER the Elections."

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US National Debt Limit Raised Ahead of Budget Busting Bailout Legislation

With President Bush no longer threatening a veto, the subprime mortgage and Fannie and Freddie “bailout” bill is now sailing through Congress. In anticipation of its enactment, Congress had the foresight to raise the national debt limit to $10.6 trillion. Who says that politicians don't plan ahead?

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