Years after recession, many in U.S. still struggling, polls showCredit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson A girl looks at a food stand at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, California September 4, 2013. Twenty percent of U.S. adults – one in five – polled last month said that at times in the past year they did not have enough money to buy food for themselves or their families, according to Gallup’s findings.

How the Syrian Chemical Weapons Videos Were StagedHow the Syrian Chemical Weapons Videos Were Staged Detailed Video Analysis on GRTV In the wake of the Syrian chemical weapons attack, shocking footage of the victims of that attack were widely circulated in an effort to raise the ire of the public and spur support for military intervention.

Financial Armageddon is Building in the Shadows, And You Bear the RiskIncreased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow banks, although free of government regulation, are propped up by a hidden government guarantee in the form of safe harbor status under the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act pushed through by Wall Street.

Making the World Safe for Banksters“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” – Prof.

Pope bluntly faults church’s focus on gays and abortionChallenging the church: putting the emphasis on being more accepting of people, Pope Francis says “this church with which we should be thinking is the home of all”.

CCHR InternationalThere is overwhelming evidence that psychiatric drugs cause violence. 22 International drug regulatory warnings cite violence, mania, hostility, aggression, psychosis and even homicidal ideation. Fact: Despite 22 international drug regulatory warnings on psychiatric drugs citing effects of mania, hostility, violence and even homicidal ideation, and dozens of high profile shootings/killings tied to psychiatric drug use, there has yet to be a federal investigation on the link between psychiatric drugs and acts of senseless violence.

Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into WarFaking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War The GRTV Backgrounder on Global Research TV This GRTV production by James Corbett was first released in January 2012. In the light of the recent media disinformation campaign in relation to Syria, we bring this carefully researched video-documentary report to the attention of GR readers.

Group behind 9/11 bus ad responds to criticismThe group behind an ad campaign questioning the official explanation of 9/11, which is running on OC Transpo buses, says its message should be protected as free speech. The group called Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth have launched a global ad campaign called “ReThink911,” which is running in other cities including New York and Toronto.

Turkish police use tear gas as protests resurfaceOfficers backed by armored vehicles and water cannon played cat and mouse into the early hours of Friday with groups of youths in the streets of Kadikoy, on the Asian side of Istanbul, dismantling their makeshift barricades of garbage and rubble.

Households On Foodstamps Rise To New Record High: More Americans Live In Poverty Than The Population Of SpainThere was much discussion of Friday’s “disappointing” non-farm payrolls goal-seeked, seasonally adjusted, X-13-ARIMA conceived jobs “number.”The conclusion was that it showed an economy which one year after the start of QEternity was growing nowhere near where the Fed has projected and hoped it would be at this time.

‘Flooding the Zone’ with Bullshit on SyriaIn philosophy circles, is a technical term denoting a claim presented as “fact” although its veracity has not been established. The truth value of bullshit is largely irrelevant to its propagators. Bullshit is disseminated in the service of particular ends, typically opaque to the audience.

UN: press should not be ‘intimidated into silence’ over state secretsTwo senior UN representatives have warned the British government that the protection of state secrets must not be used as an excuse to “intimidate the press into silence” following the detention of David Miranda under the Terrorism Act.

Your Labor Day Syria Reader, Part 2: William PolkMany times I’ve mentioned the foreign-policy assessments of William R. Polk, at right, who first wrote for the Atlantic (about Iraq) during Dwight Eisenhower’s administration, back in 1958, and served on the State Department’s Policy Planning staff during the Kennedy years. He now has sent in a detailed analysis about Syria.

How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syriautilizes misleading language evocative of the infamous Iraq estimate’s deceptive phrasing. The summary cites signals, geospatial and human source intelligence that purportedly show that the Syrian government prepared, carried out and “confirmed” a chemical weapons attack on August 21. And it claims visual evidence “consistent with” a nerve gas attack.

Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concernOn 21 August, hundreds – perhaps over a thousand – people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France to raise the spectre of military strikes against Bashir al Assad’s forces. The latest episode is merely one more horrific event in a conflict that has increasingly taken on genocidal characteristics.

CNN Caught Staging News Segments on Syria With ActorsAnderson Cooper and CNN have been caught staging fake news about Syria to justify military intervention. The primary “witness” that the mainstream media is using as a source in Syria has been caught staging fake news segments.

Hungary Sheds Bankers’ Shackles | American Free PressAccording to a report on the German-language website “National Journal,” Orbán has now moved to unseat the usurers from their throne. The popular, nationalistic that Hungary neither wants nor needs further “assistance” from that proxy of the Rothschild-owned prime minister told the IMF Federal Reserve Bank.

Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons AttackMilitants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com August 30, 2013 Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.

Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concernOn 21 August, hundreds – perhaps over a thousand – people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France to raise the spectre of military strikes against Bashir al Assad’s forces. The latest episode is merely one more horrific event in a conflict that has increasingly taken on genocidal characteristics.

The Global Political Awakening and the New World OrderThe Global Political Awakening and the New World Order The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom, Part 1 There is a new and unique development in human history that is taking place around the world; it is unprecedented in reach and volume, and it is also the greatest threat to all global power structures: the ‘global political awakening.’