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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... -
Watch this video and thinkBy Escape The Illusion on March 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
Powerful video that is very thought provoking ... -
15 Reasons Why We Need a Revolt in This CountryBy Escape The Illusion on March 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
Government works quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people. It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations,... -
Outrage in San Francisco: City Gives Residents ‘...By Escape The Illusion on March 6, 2010 | No Comments
The city’s actions are a wake-up call that the entire nation regularly consumes foods grown on fields fertilized with sludge. When San Francisco, one of the greenest cities in America, offered its residents free compost, many were excited to take it. After all, purchasing enough compost for ev... -
Pentagon Shooter Saw Vast Gov’t ConspiraciesBy Escape The Illusion on March 5, 2010 | No Comments
The gunman who opened fire at police outside the Pentagon before being shot to death had a history of mental illness and believed the federal government was behind the “September 11 demolitions” there. John Patrick Bedell lightly wounded two officers who returned fire, killing him. Bedel... -
How the DEA Scrubbed Thomas Jefferson’s Montice...By Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
Visitors to Monticello don’t learn how Jefferson cultivated poppies, and his personal opium use may as well never have happened. Thomas Jefferson was a drug criminal. But he managed to escape the terrible sword of justice by dying a century before the DEA was created. In 1987 agents from the D... -
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... -
Totally Corrupt TV: Corporate Lobbyists Pose as Disin...By Escape The Illusion on February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Covert corporate influence-peddling is taking over cable news. President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours later, the state’s former governor, Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC’s Hardball With... -
Profiting From Immigration InjusticeBy Escape The Illusion on February 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
When an architect named Norman Pfeiffer designed the Evo DeConcini Federal Courthouse in Tucson, Ariz., he claimed to have been inspired by its natural surroundings. “From afar,” Pfeiffer told Architecture Week, “the desert tells little of what it knows. … But upon closer scrutiny it rev... -
Endangered Species on the Grill: The US’s Shock...By Escape The Illusion on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
Millions of fork-twirling gourmands — many of them in the U.S. — are eating endangered wildlife trafficked by international criminal networks. Can shellfish cry? Ask the 4,756 abalone bagged by smugglers and confiscated in a single recent raid on a house in Cape Town, South Africa. It...
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