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Sweatshops Won’t Save Haiti
By Escape The Illusion on March 15, 2010 | No Comments
The United Nations will host a Haiti donors’ conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year’s event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries. An agenda has already begun to take shape: It&#... -
Rove Says He’s ‘Proud’ US Used Wate...By Escape The Illusion on March 12, 2010 | No Comments
Karl Rove, former senior political adviser to President George W. Bush, says he is “proud” the U.S. used waterboarding to gain information from terror suspects. “I’m proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists,” he said in a BBC interview, addi... -
Iran’s Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a ‘b...By Escape The Illusion on March 6, 2010 | 2 Comments
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a “big lie” used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported. Ahmadinejad’s comments, made during an address to Intelligenc... -
Poor ObamaBy Escape The Illusion on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
What a mess he inherited. The Great Recession, Iraq, Afghanistan. No other U.S. president has ever faced such a mess. And Obama has to deal with this mess with fewer than 60% of the seats in both houses of Congress being held by his own party. Even knowing how terrible this inherited situation would... -
Intelligence In The Media: Reading Between The LiesBy Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
Has the media been hijacked by governments and intelligence agencies – the CIA, MI5, MI6 – to manipulate public opinion…? Intelligence In The Media: Reading Between The Lies By Jon King The Paradox, And The Shared Agenda To some, the phrase ‘Intelligence In The Media’ describes a paradox. ... -
Chile earthquake: Troops sent in to deter looting and...By Escape The Illusion on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
Armed soldiers are patrolling the streets to help quell unrest and protect shops and banks as the death toll rises to 723 Armed troops yesterday patrolled the streets of Chile for the first time in more than two decades as widespread looting in the south led President Michelle Bachelet to order 10,0... -
NASA radar finds ice on moon’s north poleBy Escape The Illusion on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
A US radar launched into space aboard an Indian spacecraft has detected craters filled with ice on the moon’s north pole, NASA scientists said Monday. The US space agency’s Mini-SAR radar found more than 40 small craters ranging in size from one to nine miles (1.6 to 15 kilometers), eac... -
Chile earthquake: death toll passes 200By Escape The Illusion on February 27, 2010 | No Comments
At least 214 have been reported killed and nearly a quarter of the globe put on tsunami alert after one of the most powerful earthquakes of modern times hit South America. A tremor with a magnitude of 8.8 devastated large parts of southern Chile and sent huge waves racing at up to 400 miles an hour... -
3 Homeland Security computers lost dailyBy Escape The Illusion on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
But officials confident no ’sensitive’ data lost. Federal documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that two divisions of the Department of Homeland Security – charged with assuring the integrity of U.S. borders and the safety of residents – lost nearly thr... -
200 Days After They Went Missing, Mothers of Jailed U...By Escape The Illusion on February 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
“We’ve had no contact at all … We haven’t even had a phone call.” AMY GOODMAN: We begin today with an update on the three Americans who have been held in Iran for over six months. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were detained on July 31st after accidentally cr...
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