July 1, 2010
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Unanimous Conformity in the Senate By Norman Solomon
Every living senator voted Wednesday to approve Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Call it the unanimity of lemmings — except the senators and their families aren’t the ones who’ll keep plunging into the sea. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: MCCHRYSTAL – DEATH SQUAD POSTER BOY
In May 2009, Petras sampled from McChrystal’s CV. The general had played a central role in directing units involved in “extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions”. He was “the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies military-driven empire building”. Continue reading
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Jury clears activists who broke into Brighton arms factory By Bibi van der Zee and Rob Evans
Five activists who caused £180,000 damage to an arms factory were acquitted after they argued they were seeking to prevent Israeli war crimes. Continue reading
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Toronto G20: “IT WAS DEHUMANIZING… COMPLETELY”
Toronto G20- Reports from witnesses and subjects of police action – testimony #1 from Queen and Spadina Continue reading
The New Dark Age 