August 2009
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Video: Battle for the Amazon: People vs the government Pt.1
Video: The largest indigenous movement in decades battles to save the Amazon Basin from oil exploitation Pt. 1 Continue reading
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Video: Gold, impunity, violence in El Salvador
A 37-year-old teacher, community center founder, and anti-mining activist is found tortured and assassinated in Northern El Salvador. Authorities, despite all evidence to the contrary, attribute the death to common gang violence. In the following weeks, other critics of mining are victims of death threats, attempted kidnappings and shootings. Communities plunged into fear not seen… Continue reading
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Three stories from 2005: Japan Linked Tamiflu to Sudden Deaths in Children
Three stories from Japan in 2005 concerning the deaths of children following taking Tamiflu. Disturbing reading. Continue reading
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The Myth of Policing By Consent By Kevin Blowe
The belief that the police are now our servants and their independence from the state guarantees their impartiality and accountability is an enduring one. It is summed up in the most often quoted maxim of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the Metropolitan Police, that ‘the police are the public and the public are the… Continue reading
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Obama Continues Bush Policies in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot
There were great hopes in Latin America when President Obama was elected. U.S. standing in the region had reached a low point under George W. Bush, and all of the hemisphere’s left-leaning governments expressed optimism that Obama would go in a different direction. These hopes have been dashed. President Obama has continued the Bush policies… Continue reading
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The New Great Depression Selected Articles 8-11 August, 2009
Global Research New Great Depression Selected Articles 8-15 August, 2009 Continue reading
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"Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela, Directed by Pablo Navarrete"
Video: February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office, following a landslide election victory, and launched his revolution to bring radical change to Venezuela. While wildly popular with many in the country, Chavez’s policies and his outspoken criticisms of the U.S. government have made him powerful enemies, both at home and abroad, especially… Continue reading
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Please sign the petition to free Ezra Nawi
This coming Sunday Ezra Nawi will appear in court again. And we will be there again, with signatures from concerned people from all over the world. Last time, we delivered 14,000 signatures of support that were collected through the Jewish Voice for Peace campaign. Continue reading
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Will Venezuelans be asking the same thing on August 11, 2049? I trust not! By Roy S. Carson
VHeadline editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: It was undoubtedly with a degree of trepidation that I read El Universal’s interview with former US ambassador to Venezuela, Jeffrey Davidow, puzzled as to how the cunning diplomat that he undoubtedly is could have allowed himself to be lured into such a situation in the sure… Continue reading
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A Giant Step for Mankind – Made in Haïti The Bwa Kay Iman uprising against slavery by Jean Saint-Vil
11 August, 2009 — Ezili’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network There was a time, not so long ago, when popes, kings and queens enriched themselves and built vast empires on the profits made with the sweat and blood of kidnapped men, women and children loaded on ships, stacked like sardines and reduced to slavery on plantations Continue reading
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Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings By Joe Bageant
Cognitive capitalism — just when we thought there were no new ways to get screwed. For all its pretense and manufactured consent, our government is just a corporate racket now, and probably will remain so from here on out. This is a white people’s thing, an Anglo-European tradition. Moreover, we no longer get real dictators… Continue reading
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9/11 Mind Swell By Joel S. Hirschhorn
As we approach the eighth anniversary of 9/11 consider this paradox. In the post 9-11 years the scientific evidence for disbelieving the official government story has mounted incredibly. And the number of highly respected and credentialed professionals challenging the official story has similarly expanded. Yet, to the considerable disappointment of the international 9/11 truth movement,… Continue reading
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Biological Warfare and the National Security State: A Chronology
From the Cold War to the War on Terror, successive American administrations have turned a blind eye on dubious research rightly characterized as having “a little of the Buchenwald touch.” While the phrase may have come from the files of the Atomic Energy Commission as Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eileen Welsome revealed in her 1999 book,… Continue reading
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The Downing Street memo Pt.2
Video: Ray McGovern: The person that leaked the memo did an “incredible” public service Ray McGovern talks with Paul Jay about the paper trail on the Iraq war, as revealed in the British “Downing Street memo”. Continue reading
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US strike on Iran 'feasible and credible': retired general
A devastating US military strike against Iran’s nuclear and military facilities ‘is a technically feasible and credible option,’ a retired general asserted in an article published on Friday. Continue reading
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Media Capitalism, the State, and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles: An Interview with Robert McChesney by Tanner Mirrlees
Robert McChesney: The media is one of the key areas in society where power is exercised, reinforced, and contested. It is hard to imagine a successful left political project that does not have a media platform. The media was not a major political issue for earlier generations of the Left. In the 19th century, a… Continue reading
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The Worldwide H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic collected articles
We bring to the attention of our readers a collection of in-depth reports and articles on the H1N1 Flu Pandemic, published by Global Research since the outbreak of the crisis in Mexico in April. The Worldwide H1N1 swine flu pandemic serves to mislead public opinion. The 2009 pandemic, which started in Mexico in April, is… Continue reading
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Sami, The Bedouin – Adam, “the Terrorist”
Today, my wife got up in down and prepared herself to go and meet her dad and sister in Jenin city before they go to the busses of the International Red-Cross to take them to the “israeli” jail. She went and took our baby and they all got in the busses and seemingly everything was… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 