In the last few days, I was in the streets of New York and it was interesting to see how much news the East Coast is receiving about the murder trial of Johannes Mehserle, the trigger-pulling cop who killed Oscar Grant. Virtually everybody that I ran into had seen the murder on television in passing, but no one had any facts about the murder or what was going on minute by minute.

As a matter of fact, most people’s first question was “How did that case go?” because of the corporate media white-out on the everyday resistance to the murder of Oscar Grant, police terrorism and government sanctioned violence that was going on in Northern and Southern Cali, which is where Mehserle’s murder trial was moved.

A few recent news items help expose the true drivers of current wars around the world.

#1) Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in order to keep the wars raging and the profits rolling in. As former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell explained: “Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the US military machine to turn.”

Here’s an important glimpse of truth to seep through last week in the NY Times, via Raw Story:

US-backed ‘bribes’ in Afghanistan may be funding Taliban