12 January 2013 — Greg Palast
This is a must-see video if you want a hands-on guide to ‘democracy‘-imposition, US-style in the failed coup of 2002. Palast is up close and personal. Click on the image and it’ll take you to the free download page which will be active for just a few more days. Continue reading
12 January 2013 — Information Clearing House
AFRICOM’s Imperialist Quest
By Burkely Hermann
Since 2003, the modern American ‘scramble for Africa,’ has begun, as “…in quiet and largely unnoticed ways, the Pentagon and the CIA have been spreading their forces across the continent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33597.htm
January 12 2013 — Washington’s Blog
The U.S. is sending troops to 35 African nations under the guise of fighting Al Qaeda and related terrorists.
Democracy Now notes:
11 January, 2013 — Global Research
On January 11, eleven years to the day after George W. Bush sent the first detainees to Guantanamo, the Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty is making its national debut. Zero Dark Thirty is disturbing for two reasons. First and foremost, it leaves the viewer with the erroneous impression that torture helped the CIA find bin Laden’s hiding place in Pakistan. Secondarily, it ignores both the illegality and immorality of using torture as an interrogation tool.
11 January 2012 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Peres: “We Should Not Have Assassinated Arafat, Abbas Is A Partner In Peace”
IMEMC – In an interview that was conducted by the New York Times five months ago, and was only published Wednesday, and was republished by the Israeli Radio, Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated that Israel should not have assassinated late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, adding that “without Arafat, the current situation is more complicated.” …
11 January 2013 — Russia 24
A documentary about the human cost of the Syrian conflict and the scale of the devastation. No politics — only people telling their story. Caution: previously unseen facts of brutality (16+).
10 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report
“The 2nd Brigade’s deployment is a much larger assignment, aimed at making all of Africa a theater of U.S. military operations.”
2013 is the year the U.S. kicks off its wholesale military occupation of Africa. The escalation should come as no surprise, since the Army Times newspaper [8] reported, back in June, that a U.S. brigade of at least 3,000 troops would become a permanent presence on the continent in the new year. Continue reading
12 January 2013 — Global Research – Land Destroyer
12 January 2013 — Global Research – Land Destroyer
12 January 2013 — Global Research
Granting impunity to the torturers combined with propaganda films like Zero Dark Thirty, which may well win multiple Oscars, dilutes any meaningful public opposition to our government’s cruel interrogation techniques.
9 January 2013 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
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[The following presentation was delivered to launch La Alternativa Socialista, the Chilean edition of The Socialist Alternative, in Concepcion, Santiago and Valparaiso, November 2012.]
By Michael A. Lebowitz
Every <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>socialist in the 21st century should try to answer two questions.
12 January 2013 — WSWS
British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has intensified his party’s promotion of anti-immigrant chauvinism. In two speeches now, Miliband has decried what he terms are uncontrolled levels of <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>immigration, while advocating a strengthening of national identity.
12 January 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
12.01.2013 | 00:00 | David KERANS
The economic hardships of the past few years and the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement have made Americans more aware than at any time in living memory of the extraordinary inequalities of wealth that have built up in their society. From bloggers’ datapoints to professors’ treatises, a steady stream of publications has been feeding the nation’s growing appetite for information on inequality and explanations for its emergence… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 
