Eric Zuesse

Currently, the U.S. has exactly 900 military bases in foreign countries, in addition to the 749 bases inside the U.S. itself. The U.S. Government minimizes and tries to hide this reality from the public. Furthermore, although the U.S. is officially estimated to spend around 36% of the entire world’s military expenditures, the actual figure is around 50% of the world’s military expenditures, and the added approximately 14% is being paid-out through federal U.S. Departments other than the ‘Defense’ Department, so as to make the total U.S. figure appear to be only 36% of the global total. Moreover: on November 15th, the U.S. Department of ‘Defense’ announced that “The results of the fifth annual DOD [Department Of Defense] wide financial audit will be a disclaimer of opinion for DOD” and used other such obtuse phraseology, so that the reality that — as one of the…

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8 Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Happy, Healthy Holidays

Focusing on having healthy holidays and a season of joy and celebration allows you to enjoy good times when friends and family come together to celebrate another year gone by. This is atimely reminder after the last few years of how wonderful it is to get together, enjoy face-to-face contact and hug someone.

Unfortunately, this time can also become a time when we overextend ourselves and neglect our health, usually, with the idea we’ll get back on track after the holidays and make health one of our new year’s resolutions.

It doesn’t need to be like this. With simple planning and mindfulness, your health can stay a priority, and you can end the year feeling just as good as you’ll be starting a new healthy year ahead.

1. Good planning supports healthy holidays

A successful holiday season that is…

Nash Landesman

The GrayZone

Dutch farmers are in open struggle against a cartel of multinational corporations, Davos-aligned parties and NGO’s seeking control over the global food supply. “They are sweeping the culture from the land,” a farmer laments.

HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS –– The Netherlands is a patchwork of quaint towns and cities interwoven with flat expanses of immaculately-kept green agricultural pasture. The road and rail infrastructure are near-flawless. You could search for weeks without finding a pothole. It is one of the most expensive countries in the world, and makes some of the best steak, cheese, yogurt and milk on the planet. The land is fertile, valuable, and strategically located with easy access to the north Atlantic coast.

So, for these reasons and more, legions of committees composed of unelected, largely unknown figures serving on the boards of an interwoven network of even lesser known private and multilateral bodies, insists on…

Today’s view from the PamCam is a bit of an emotional one. It’s nothing major, just the view of the main road near my house, but it’s what it represents that makes it so emotional.

You see, I have been in hospital for a little while and today was the first time I was able to walk outdoors for over two weeks. I am still in quite a bit of pain, and I can only walk with the aid of a stick at the minute, but boy, was this sight a welcome one!

I have been suffering with increasing back pain for a number of months now, and it was getting more and more difficult to move my right leg properly. I went to my GP (had to wait 2 weeks for an “emergency” appointment) and he sent me for a series of scans. In the space of about 4…