September 14, 2012
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NSA: Jimmy Carter’s Controversial Nuclear Targeting Directive PD-59 Declassified
The National Security Archive is today posting – for the first time in its essentially complete form – one of the most controversial nuclear policy directives of the Cold War. Presidential Directive 59 (PD-59), “Nuclear Weapons Employment Policy,” signed by President Jimmy Carter on 25 July 1980, aimed at giving U.S. Presidents more flexibility in… Continue reading
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Video: Unearthing the Truth About the Bloodletting War on Drugs: Militarization and Economic Domination
Tens of thousands have died in Mexico (recent estimates, which will be discussed in a forthcoming Truthout article, indicate that the homicide total under the six year rule of Felipe Calderon may reach 120,000) and in other Latin American nations. As far as stopping drug flow goes, the war on drugs in Latin America is… Continue reading
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Dagestan—‘Syria comes to Russia…’ By William Engdahl
On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous Russian Republic of Dagestan, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate an explosive device. Continue reading
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Brought to You by…Big Oil?
The Washington Post had a two-page spread in its September 11 edition devoted to a “debate” on energy policy. But industry critics were missing from the picture. Why? Perhaps because the oil industry, undisclosed to Post readers, was sponsoring the discussion. Continue reading
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US-Backed Terrorists Murder US Ambassador in Libya By Tony Cartalucci
McCain’s “Libyan patriots” have now murdered US Ambassador John Christopher Stevens in the very city McCain spoke these words. An assault on the American consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the epicenter of not only last year’s violent subversion and destruction of sovereign Libya, but a decade’s old epicenter of global terrorism, left Ambassador… Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 13 September 2012: Israel Seeks Expansion Of 40 Settlements
13 September 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center After Seeing Video Footage, Judge Orders Release Of Palestinian DetaineeIMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that an Israeli Military Court Judge ordered the release of a Palestinian man who kidnapped and detained by the Israeli army three weeks ago, in the southern West Bank city of Continue reading
The New Dark Age 