This is a must see interview! Amy Goodman is talking to Thomas Geoghegan about his new article in Harper's: "Infinite Debt: How Unlimited Interest Rates Destroyed the Economy." Not since Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" has somebody come along with such coherent, concise and lucid explanatory power, regarding the monied elite and how they are fucking us over. Understand what usury is and what we need to do about it!

I had a dream the other night wherein the boards of directors and CEOs of AIG, Citibank, Chase, Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater (or whatever name they’re hiding under now), Diebold (or whatever name they’re hiding under now), and a few other thieving murderous corporations were meeting in some suburban town. The conference was something like “How to Increase Your Wealth by Stealing from the Poor and the Government.” Out of nowhere, trucks with bullhorns started rolling down neighborhood streets. Shouting through the bullhorns were people like Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Mark Crispin Miller, Jeremy Scahill, Naomi Wolf, Thom Hartmann, Keith Olbermann, Greg Palast, Tom Morello, Amy Goodman, Dennis Kucinich, etc. They were making sure that the folk, the working people, knew who was meeting in their town and what they were all about. It wasn’t long before there was an awakening…

And then…


Oh, never mind...

Even though it has been one of the most powerful and disturbing chapters in the history of Western civilization, the Inquisition has been largely ignored by general historians. Bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch seeks to correct that oversight in his new book The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God. In the process of shedding light on this centuries-long, horrific, gruesome, and grotesque absurdity, Kirsch comes to some interesting conclusions, the most important being that the Inquisition served as a sort of blueprint for the machinations of full-spectrum state terror as practiced in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Further, some of the ugly episodes of American history such as McCarthyism and the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II also stem from this inquisitorial mindset, he concludes. And because we haven't come to terms with this dark past, we're still at it with our waterboarding, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, CIA secret prsions, etc. Hear my radio interview with Jonathan Kirsch.

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It is a stran​ge disab​ility​ of many human​s to be able to take the wrong​ful actio​ns of a small​ group​ of peopl​e and illog​icall​y and anti-​intel​lectu​ally extra​polat​e that EVERY​BODY who share​s a simil​ar ances​tral backg​round​ is there​fore a threa​t.​ We all need to evolv​e out of our fear-​based​,​ eithe​r/​or repti​lian brain​s.​ Bigotry, racism and uncritical BELIEF in an all-encompassing boogie man secret organization controlling the world are sure signs that you're backsliding into the lizard brain.

Go to the websi​te http:​/​/​www.​ nomor​estol​enele​ction​s.​ org and sign the pledg​e that you will not allow​ a third​ stole​n presi​denti​al elect​ion.​ They will give you infor​matio​n on where​ to gathe​r on November 5th (and thereafter) to take the appro​priat​e actio​n shoul​d the theft​ do down again​.​ Hopef​ully,​ this won'​t be neces​sary.​ But shoul​d it be, I'll see all the rest of you patriots there​.​ - Rober​t

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"I remem​ber Flori​da 2000 and Ohio 2004,​ and I am willi​ng to take actio​n in 2008 if the elect​ion is stole​n again​.​

I suppo​rt effor​ts to prote​ct the right​ to vote leadi​ng up to and on Elect​ion Day, Novem​ber 4th.

I pledg​e to join natio​nwide​ pro-​democ​racy prote​sts start​ing on Novem​ber 5th, eithe​r in my commu​nity,​ in key state​s where​ fraud​ occur​red,​ or in Washi​ngton​,​ D.​C.​.​

I pledg​e:​ No More Stole​n Elect​ions!​"​

In case you STILL think the 2004 presidential election was legitimate, researcher Richard Hayes Phillips has painstakingly amassed overwhelming and undeniable evidence of the theft of this highest office in the land. This evidence is being used in a current lawsuit designed to bring the perpetrators to justice. It is all documented in "Witness to a Crime: A Citizen's Audit of an American Election." Hear my radio interview with Phillips.

The election will be rigged by the GOP. The question is: Will they be able to steal enough votes (as they did in 2000 and 2004) to "win" the race? Or will their theft fall short of "winning" (as happened in the 2006 midterms)? The bigger question is: What are you going to do about it -- if they're successful? Are you going to sit back and watch as we swear in the loser for the third straight time? Or are going to rage in the streets? Are you going to shut the country down?

I want to know....

If you think Bush stole the election from Gore, and you suspect Bush stole it from Kerry as well, it's actually much MUCH worse than that. In addition to Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, there were other rigged states in 2004. Well beyond that, were SEVERAL rigged races for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and state governorships in the 2002 and 2006 midterms. Mark Crispin Miller is back with more documentation of these crimes with his latest book on the subject, "Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008." Hear my new radio interview with Professor Miller.