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Big Banks Are Feeding Like Parasites on the Govt.R...
By Escape The Illusion on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
Big bank CEOs like to trumpet free-market ideology, but they depend on the government for survival in good times and bad. Wall Street bankers, along with the rest of the players in the financial industry, like to think of themselves as swashbuckling capitalists. They battle cutthroat competition wit... -
Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo’s Wounds
By Escape The Illusion on January 23, 2010 | No Comments
Task Force Announces Indefinite Detentions. With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president’s failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate of 196 prisoners. As... -
US Corporations, Private Mercenaries and the IMF Rush...
By Escape The Illusion on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
Source: Alternet.org In the midst of a colossal human disaster, Washington is promoting unpopular economic policies and extending military and economic control over the Haitian people. US corporations, private mercenaries, Washington and the International Monetary Fund are using the crisis in Haiti ... -
The U.S’s Hidden Role in the Disaster in Haiti
By Escape The Illusion on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
Source: Alternet.org By Carl Lindskoog, AlterNet. Posted January 15, 2010 Haiti’s many years of underdevelopment and U.S.-sponsored political turmoil made the Haitian government ill-prepared to respond to such a disaster. In the hours following Haiti’s devastating earthquake, CNN, the Ne... -
A new approach to China
By Escape The Illusion on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. Howev... -
Unemployment: The 2010 Time Bomb
By Escape The Illusion on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
New figures show jobs were lost in December at ten times the expected rate. American employers eliminated 4.2 million jobs in 2009 and sent unemployment soaring into double digits for the first time in more than a quarter century. Since the fall of last year, the official jobless rate has been over... -
While U.S. debates gay marriage, Uganda considers dea...
By Escape The Illusion on January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
KAMPALA, Uganda – Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to homosexuals. Gay rights activists say the... -
A Clothing Clearance Where More Than Just the Prices ...
By Escape The Illusion on January 7, 2010 | 4 Comments
Source: New York Times, and New World Order Report In the bitter cold on Monday night, a man and woman picked apart a pyramid of clear trash bags, the discards of the HM clothing store that reigns in blazing plate-glass glory on 34th Street, just east of Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. At the back entra... -
The Year In Pot: Top 10 Events That Will Change the W...
By Escape The Illusion on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
There has been a tidal shift in politics and on Marijuana laws in America, from Obama lightening up on pot prosecutions to the recognition of cancer prevention properties. #1 Obama Administration: Don’t Focus On Medical Marijuana Prosecutions United States Deputy Attorney General David Ogden issue... -
One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists
By Escape The Illusion on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo Bay, but also at the federal...











































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