Obama can still build 2nd term legacy

http://economicrisis.com/obama-can-still-build-2nd-term-legacy/8630 Obama can still build 2nd term legacy Many a modern president has lost momentum and suffered what are termed “scandals” in his second term. President Barack Obama‘s current problems are part of...

Obama’s Endgame

http://economicrisis.com/obamas-endgame/8478 Obama’s Endgame History demonstrates that the descent into war is preceded with a justification, real or contrived. As with all tyrants, if a legitimate justification for the impending conflict is not forthcoming, the...

Will the Benghazi and IRS Probes Do More Damage to Obama

http://economicrisis.com/will-the-benghazi-and-irs-probes-do-more-damage-to-obama-or-the-gop/7755 Will the Benghazi and IRS Probes Do More Damage to Obama or the GOP? Barack Obama put himself on the road to winning the 2008 Iowa caucuses, the Democratic nomination, and...

Nanny State Moves to Outlaw Anti-bacterial Soap

http://economicrisis.com/nanny-state-moves-to-outlaw-anti-bacterial-soap/6922 Nanny State Moves to Outlaw Anti-bacterial Soap It’s a chemical that’s been in U.S. households for more than 40 years, from the body wash in your bathroom shower to the knives on your...

Judge Orders Nixon Watergate Testimony Unsealed

Richard Nixon's Grand Jury Testimony Ordered Unsealed Chief U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the transcripts of President Richard Nixon's Watergate testimony to be unsealed. Nixon testified in 1975, a...

Cambodia: Survivor of S-21 Prison Camp Testifies Against Duch

Vann Nath, a survivor of prison camp S-21, took the stand today to testify against Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch.  Duch ran the prison camp S-21 in which all but 14 out of 15 000 captives were...

Formerly Classified Richard Nixon Tapes Available Online

Over 150 hours of formerly classified tape recordings at Richard Nixon's White House were made available online Tuesday. The tapes, along with 30, 000 pages of documents and smaller selection of the documents, were made public by the Nixon Presidential Library. The...

Why America Still Burns!

A History Lesson in American Firefightingby: Lou AngeliOrganized chaos. That's how the fire scene is often described. The adrenaline charged atmosphere feels like a battleground. But in this war zone there's no...

Stephen Harper Incarnates Richard Nixon and Watergate in Canada

In the British Guardian newspaper, Dimitry Anastakis and Jeet Heer compared Stephen Harper to former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. The article titled "The Canadian Nixon" documents a Prime Minister who pursues an ego-driven agenda, bereft of ethics, and that is in...

Inside David Frost's transformation from satirist to journalist

With the release of the movie Frost/Nixon, Clive Irving (books on Amazon) describes the transformation of David Frost from satirist to journalist. Irving was on the inside of this story, and the view is fascinating. In the summer of 1966, Irving was one of two people hired...

A Witness to History, He Served 36 years in the White House

  From Watoday.com: For more than three decades Eugene Allen worked in the White House, a black man unknown to the headlines. During some of those years, harsh segregation laws lay upon the land. Mr....

Letterman asks McCain about his relationship to criminal G. Gordon Liddy

Thursday night on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman, John McCain was asked about his relationship with convicted felon and watergate planner G. Gordon Liddy. G. Gordon Liddy has said he was prepared to murder...

Who is Billy Ayer? Terrorist or Revolutionary? You decide

Who is Billy Ayers? Born December 26th 1944, the Illinois born American radical is currently a renown Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education and a recent recipient of...

George McGovern on Bush, Cheney: Throw the bums out

""I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president," McGovern writes..."

Gerald Ford & his Role in the East Timor Invasion

President Gerald Ford passed away last night.  Well known as the man who replaced Richard Nixon after Watergate, and ended the Vietnam War, little is mentioned about his role in East Timor.  In 1975...

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