July 2009
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Germany And NATO’s Nucleus Nexus By Rick Rozoff Part 4
NATO membership was the gateway for Germany to send troops, warplanes and warships outside its borders and overseas for the first time since the end of World War II; to date to Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Sudan and off the coast of Somalia as well as deploying AWACS, Tornado warplanes and tanks to the… Continue reading
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Video: Dmitry Orlov – Seizing the Mid-Collapse Moment
A recording of the public lecture by Dmitry Orlov on 9 June 2009, at the Davenport Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. This was the opening talk to the 3 day conference ‘The New Emergency: Managing Risk and Building Resilience in a Resource Constrained World.’ Continue reading
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COUP REGIME REJECTS PROPOSED SOLUTION TO CRISIS IN HONDURAS; ARIAS CALLS FOR 72 MORE HOURS TO RESOLVE OR FACE CIVIL WAR By Eva Golinger
The talks are finished for now, with no resolution. The coup regime in Honduras, which ousted President Zelaya exactly 3 weeks ago, has rejected the 7-point proposal put forth by designated mediator Oscar Arias, president of Costa Rica. Zelaya’s delegation in Costa Rica had earlier stated they had accepted the proposal, but later said they… Continue reading
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Beyond the Hype: Cronkite and the Vietnam War By Norman Solomon
But facts are facts, and history is history — including what Cronkite actually did as TV’s most influential journalist during the first years of the Vietnam War. Despite all the posthumous praise for Cronkite’s February 1968 telecast that dubbed the war “a stalemate,” the facts of history show that the broadcast came only after Cronkite’s… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution
Many of the revolution’s promises remain unfulfilled? On July 19, 1979, the Sandinista revolution removed what many considered to be one of Latin America’s most brutal dictatorships. Thirty years later, and with the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega once again in power, Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visited Nicaragua and found that many of the revolution’s promises… Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: “Big Trouble in Little Paradise: the Turks and Caicos Islands takeover”
WikiLeaks has released a suppressed report laying at the center of UK plans to seize direct control of the Turks & Caicos Islands, a popular Caribbean tourist destination and tax haven. A British warship on patrol in the Caribbean sea, the HMS Iron Duke, is expected to support the takeover once the report is released. Continue reading
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24 Hours in Gaza By Soozy Duncan
Allowed only 24 hours in Gaza under threat of not being allowed to return to Egypt, the Viva Palestina convoy has been a whirlwind of activity since crossing the border at Rafah Wednesday night. Organizers have attempted to compress 3 days of planned activities into a single day. Continue reading
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America’s White Underclass By Joe Bageant
‘White underclass’ is a term I’ve used often in my writing, and most American readers seem to know what I mean. They’ve got eyes and live in the same nation I do. But in a sudden burst of journalistic responsibility, I decided that if I am going to throw around the word underclass, then I… Continue reading
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VIDEO: The 1976 Swine Flu Pandemic and Vaccine – Government Propaganda Causes Many Deaths + Transcript of CBS ’60 minutes’
The flu season is upon us. Which type will we worry about this year, and what kind of shots will we be told to take? Remember the swine flu scare of 1976? That was the year the U.S. government told us all that swine flu could turn out to be a killer that could spread… Continue reading
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Dailymotion – Swine Flu 1976 & Propaganda
CBS ” 60 MINUTES” documentary on the swine flu epidemics of 1976 in the U.S. It went on air only once and was never shown again. Please look at this, it talks by itself. Continue reading
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This politicisation of swine flu is bad for our health By Tim Black
This unrelenting, myopic focus on swine flu, regardless of the content, cannot help but decontextualise what is in effect a strain of flu. It doesn’t matter if the statement contains the ‘don’t worry’ caveat; what is problematic is the announcement at all. As Rob Lyons has previously pointed out on spiked, the obsession with swine… Continue reading
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GLOBAL RESEARCH SELECTED ARTICLES 10-17 July, 2009
I rate Global Research as one of the most comprehensive and authoritative sources of analyses available to the left. There are obviously others but only a few are as productive eg, MRZine-Monthly Review. The titles below link to 78 essays, all published within just one week and many are unique to Global Research. The Ed. Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – King, Malcolm X and Obama
Video: Chuck D and wife Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson discuss rap, Obama and Black political tradition Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – Terrorism “suspect” talking with Karzai
It’s unclear how lists, identifying former GITMO detainees as “returned terrorists,” are made? Continue reading
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Video: IN THEIR BOOTS: VETS FOR HIRE
Video: After serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, three veterans discover the value of their service as they search for employment in the midst of a troubled economy. Watch the documentary that tells their story below or at InTheirBoots.com. Continue reading
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Honduras coupsters’ big fat Cuban exile family By Dr. Néstor García Iturbe
According to the criteria of these people, who acted in coordination with the extreme U.S. right wing in the Pentagon and the CIA, it was necessary to impede at all costs any further movement by Zelaya’s government toward the left, since that represented a danger to the ‘National Security of the United States.’ The fastest… Continue reading
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Cynthia McKinney and Charles Barron Enter Gaza on Relief Convoy By BAR Editors
After days of maddening delays by Egyptian and U.S. authorities, on Wednesday the Viva Palestine US caravan crossed from Egypt into the Gaza strip, home to 1.5 million besieged Palestinians. Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, New York City Councilman Charles Barron and Dead Prez rapper M-1 are among the 200 delegates who attempted to deliver… Continue reading
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Honduras: Coup Leaders Hire Top Democrat Lobbyists to Justify Their De Facto Government By Eva Golinger
The coup government has hired top-notch Democrat lobbyists in Washington to make their case before Congress and the White House and convince the US people to recognize them as a legitimate government. The New York Times has confirmed that Clinton lobbyist Lanny Davis, former Special Counsel for President Bill Clinton from 1996-1998, and close advisor… Continue reading
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The Honduran Coup, the Media and Obama The African World By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
While the response to the coup by the Obama administration was at first glance admirable, i.e., a condemnation of the coup and a failure to recognize the usurpers, there remain some very strange aspects to the events. First, the US government knew that the coup was being plotted. Various sources report that the US did… Continue reading
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