Shame on the American Heart Association - Big Business' Interests Take Precedence Over Human Health

Gabriela Segura, M.D.
Sott

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion! "To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church" by Robert Burns Over the last few years an increasing number of publications have absolved saturated fat from being implicated in cardiovascular disease. I've lost count of how many studies I've read on...

The Truth Perspective: Explaining Postmodernism - Interview with Stephen Hicks

Sott.net

This week we're interviewing Professor Stephen Hicks. Stephen is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of two books: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault argues that postmodernism is best understood as a rhetorical strategy of intellectuals and academics on the far left of the political...

Australia - Goodbye Internet Privacy, Hello Police State

Ryan Jones
Sott.net

It hasn't been a Good News Week over the last seven days in Australia. You all remember us, right? We may be on the other side of the world, way down under, and not very significant politically, but as a vassal of the American empire, what happens down here is usually pretty indicative of what's happening in the rest of the "international community". So let's see what this latest week had in store for us. On Friday morning, the 14th of July,...

Pepe Escobar: 'US Army report about Post-Primacy World a classic piece of myopic Exceptionalism'

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik News

As a new report by the Army War College tracks the loss of "US primacy" around the world, it prescribes more of the same; propaganda, surveillance and war. It's public knowledge that, from the point of view of the Pentagon, the United States faces five existential threats: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and terrorism, in that order. Way beyond rhetoric, all Pentagon actions should be understood and analyzed under this framework. Now global...

James Corbett: Our Leaders Are Psychopaths - An Introduction to Political Ponerology (VIDEO)

James Corbett
The Corbett Report

They walk among us. On the outside. they're just like you and me, but on the inside they are unfeeling automatons who care only for themselves. They are the psychopaths, and they are in control of our governments, our corporations, our military and all of the positions of power. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we delve into Political Ponerology, a diagnosis of our politicians and a brief look at the bigger picture. NOTE: This is a...

The biggest meddler in American democracy is not Russia, it is Israel via foreign agent AIPAC

Grant Smith
AntiWar.com

Alleged Russian meddling in the US electoral process will be the subject of a Senate Judiciary Hearing on Wednesday. The hearing is titled "Oversight of the Justice Department's (Non) Enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act: Lessons from the Obama Administration and Current Compliance Practices." In 1938 the U.S. Congress passed the Foreign Agents Registration Act to mandate disclosure of the activities of non-diplomatic foreign...