October 27, 2009
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Music video: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
I came across this album on my one and only Internet ‘radio’ station, Rootdownfm.com and was blown away by it. I don’t think since the likes of Gil Evans/Miles Davis have I heard such an original sound, combining ‘classical’ big band sound with well, he self describes his work as “steampunk big band”. Unique and… Continue reading
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Bring ALL British Troops Home By William Gladys
Although Prince Harry failed to march with the Anti-War Majority on the streets of London recently, a fearless Peace Seeking Lance Corporal bravely hoisted a Flag of Peace to the mast for the entire world to see. To observe a serving soldier marching in opposition to the Queen’s foreign policy in the Middle-East was heartening… Continue reading
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Pranksters Fixing the World By Mark Engler
21 October, 2009 — Foreign Policy In Focus Over the past 10 years, the Yes Men have emerged as an infamously daring and creative duo of anti-corporate pranksters. In their new movie, The Yes Men Fix the World, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (known in their non-activist lives as Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos) explain Continue reading
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The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt2
27 October, 2009 — The Real News Network Wilkerson: From US debt to the geopolitics of oil, the US empire will come to an end Bio Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the Continue reading
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Obama: Manufacturing A Savior A Case Study In Social Engineering – Fabricating Myths, Mantras, Consent and Dissent, for Imperial Mobilization By Zahir Ebrahim
Why does the newly elected President of the United States representing the most fanatically militarized and barbaric sole-superpower as its Commander in Chief – a dysfunctional nation on perpetual aggressive war-footings which has decimated both Iraq and Afghanistan over the past eight years in the quest for its own ‘preeminence’, and which continues to threaten… Continue reading
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Insanity and the Nobel Peace Prize: Obama and the Rule of Law By Felicity Arbuthnot
The ‘folly bordering on insanity’ of the Afghan invasion has entered it’s body-littered eighth year. The gulag that is Bagram (and its counterparts dotted around the globe) remain. The uncharged, condemned, rotting in Guantanamo, may be moved to rot in prisons in the US. Will the world know if any go missing to be spirited… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 