November 2009
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Everything About Nidal Malik Hasan Screams “Patsy” By Paul Joseph Watson
The Empire strikes back – right when when public support for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan sinks to all time lows, an anti-war Islamic extremist with links to suicide bombers goes on a shooting rampage at a U.S. army base, reinvigorating support for the war on terror and demonizing opposition to it as anti-American… Continue reading
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PAUL MCGEOUGH IN KABUL: US fed up with troops dying to prop up Karzai
When Hamid Karzai breasted the microphone at the presidential palace on October 20, to make an oblique admission that he attempted to steal the election and would go along with the second poll which he had resisted for weeks, he was flanked by a high-powered international posse – lest he depart from the agreed script Continue reading
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Alan Hart – How Zionist lobby stooges in Congress brought shame to their institution
As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives voted, on Tuesday 3 November, by 344 votes to 36, to urge the Obama administration to oppose endorsement of the Goldstone Report. But for those who are interested in truth and justice, not to mention democracy, the highlight of what passed for debate was the two-minute contribution of… Continue reading
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Adam Shapiro speaks about Gaza’s suffering from Israel
7 November, 2009 — Palestine Think Tank http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3857356 more about “Adam Shapiro speaks about Gaza’s suff…“, posted with vodpod Adam Shapiro is an American co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Continue reading
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Yuriy RUBTSOV Two Decades of Hopes and Disillusionments at the Ruins of the Berlin Wall
The whole picture, however, does not look so cloudlessly optimistic two decades after the event. It became a prologue to the violation of the global balance of forces and the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the XX century — the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bipolar world. The loss of one of its pillars… Continue reading
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U.S.: “War Comes Home” with Ft. Hood Shootings By Dahr Jamail
While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident “brings the war home”. Continue reading
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Mass Shooting Indicates Breakdown of Military By Dahr Jamail
The soldier says that the mood on the base is “very grim,” and that even before this incident, troop morale has been very low. “I’d say it’s at an all-time low – mostly because of Afghanistan now,” he explained. “Nobody knows why we are at either place, and I believe the troops need to know… Continue reading
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NYC Mayoral Race: The best ‘democracy’ money can buy
The New York City mayoral race has ripped the mask off of this country’s “democratic” system. The race has been all about money from the very start. For one, in the biggest economic crisis in decades, the Democratic and Republican parties are offering New Yorkers a choice between a former banker (William Thompson) and a… Continue reading
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Cunning Micheletti Determined to Outfox Zelaya, Insouciant U.S. Diplomats; Meanwhile, Clinton Delivers a Likely Fatal Blow to Ousted Honduran President Zelaya’s Already Grim Prospects
After adamantly rejecting all attempted negotiations, the Honduran de facto government signed an agreement on October 29th ostensibly opening space for a potential resolution to the country’s four-month standoff. The agreement called for the formation of a unity government that will assume power and oversee the November 29th presidential elections. But even under the most… Continue reading
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Cartoon: The Carbon Supermarket By Kate Evans
Don’t know about carbon trading? Don’t care? Here, have a copy of my latest comic. You will. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS: THE BBC’S JEREMY PAXMAN ON IRAQ – “WE WERE HOODWINKED”
Does not government submission of evidence mark the point where serious journalism +begins+ rather than ends? What is the reason for journalism at all, if the responsibility is simply to accept what a US Secretary of Defence says because we “know” he “is an intelligent, thoughtful man, and a sceptical man”? Continue reading
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Video: Nothing resolved in Honduras
Video: Widely-celebrated, US-brokered agreement looks to have strengthened coup instead of reversing it Continue reading
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Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires or just a graveyard with a pipeline running through it? By William Bowles
Come on folks, it’s just good sense, there is no way the Empire can actually win the war in Afghanistan. As I have stated before it’s about being there, not ‘winning’. Afghanistan is basically a stepping stone on the way to some place else and leaving an oil pipeline behind with a friendly government in… Continue reading
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Maoist Martyrdom Vs State Barbarism By Satya Sagar
Is Maoism in India really the only response to poverty and lack of development? Is an armed rebellion the only way to change the way the Indian State operates? Will such a movement lead to a better future for underprivileged people in this country? Are other forms of mass democratic struggles an alternative option at… Continue reading
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Daniel Machover: No Safe Haven for Suspected War Criminals
London – The Jerusalem Post recently quoted Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the US, as lamenting the “tactical” problem of Israel being unable to defend itself without facing prosecution. He added that “no one in Israel buys” that the Israeli military targeted civilians during Operation Cast Lead last winter.” It goes not just against all… Continue reading
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Reports state CIA “extraordinary rendition” flights landed in UK By Robert Stevens
A US registered plane named in a 2007 European Parliament report into alleged Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ‘extraordinary rendition’ flights was observed to land at Birmingham Airport in England on October 2 of this year. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 75 How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?
The Obama administration, like the Bush administration, behaves like the world is one big lawless Somalia and the United States is the chief warlord. On October 20 the president again displayed his deep love of peace by honoring some 80 veterans of Vietnam at the White House, after earlier awarding their regiment a Presidential Unit… Continue reading
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Israel’s Right To Exist? By Alan Hart
On Monday 12 October, Prime Minister Netanyahu opened the Knesset’s winter session by blasting the Goldstone Report that accuses Israel of committing war crimes and vowing that he would never allow Israelis be tried for them. But that was not his main message. It was an appeal, delivered I thought with a measure of desperation,… Continue reading
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The nerve of these guys! Karzai ‘wins’ anyway By William Bowles
Have you ever seen anything more outrageous? Talk about double standards! For weeks the BBC bombarded us with outrage concerning the elections in Iran with wall-to-wall coverage of the protests and predicting some other kind of ‘colour’ revolution, a green one this time (what will USAID, NDI, Freedom House, George Soros et al do, when… Continue reading
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Freddie Freeloader – Jon Hendricks & Friends
Jon Hendricks founder of the incomparable Lambert, Hendricks & Ross vocal trio, singing his translation of the classic Miles Davis track, accompanied by Bobby McFerrin, George Benson… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 