February 2013
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The Return of Empires (III) By Dmitry MININ
The dissociation of the United States from a number of international problems by shifting these problems onto allies and delegating authority to them, a result of the United States’ «imperial overheating», is based on the currently popular concept of «smart power», the very emergence of which suggests that America’s former sources of power have been… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘The Special One’ – Part 2: Looking Under The Lamppost By David Edwards
There is an emptiness at the core of our being. The ego’s great task is to fill that emptiness with evidence that we are ‘someone’ rather than ‘nobody’, that we are ‘special’. But no matter how hard we try, our achievements continue to fall and vanish into the void. Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (II) By Dmitry MININ
The process already taking shape in the world of consolidating «larger spaces», and the return of the empires of by-gone eras may not, at first glance, seem to respond to the spirit of the times. However, we are living in an age which, in view of its uncertainty in people’s minds, is indiscriminate to such… Continue reading
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Dead French Photographer was State Department-Funded – Embedded in Syria With Al Qaeda By Tony Cartalucci
Further indication of the depraved nature of the West’s campaign against Syria, and the depraved nature of its institutions, methods, and faux-NGOs, vindicating a growing trend of ejecting Western “journalists” and NGO’s from an ever increasing number of nations, it is revealed that a French photographer recently killed in Syria was embedded with terrorist militants… Continue reading
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Video: Mali and the Africa Land Grab
Sasha Ross: France wants to secure North Mali’s rice fields as a food supply for Libya; part of land grabs taking place all over Africa Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (I) By Dmitry MININ
The recent expeditions of the French in Africa clearly smack less of neoimperialism than they do neocolonialism, and have prompted many to wonder whether the events are the start of a new cycle of world politics in which an outgoing unipolarity is perhaps being replaced by a forthcoming multipolarity not hailed by everyone, or something… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 February 2013
24 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ma’an News Over 4,000 prisoners launch hunger strike in Israeli jails2/24/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Some 4,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails launched hunger-strike action on Sunday to protest the death of Arafat Jaradat, who died in Israel’s Megido jail a day earlier. A spokeswoman for Continue reading
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ICH 24 February 2013: Democrats’ Complicity in Political Murder
24 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Washington Backs Syrian Anti-Government Terrorism: By Stephen Lendman Make no mistake. Syria is Washington’s war. It was planned years ago. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34073.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 February 2013
23 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Four Injured, Two Seriously, In Aboud VillageIMEMC – Saturday February 23, 2013; Four Palestinians have been injured, two serious, by Israeli soldiers’ fire invaded the village of Aboud, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, the Palestine News Network (PNN) has reported. … Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 24 February 2013: The U.S. Criminal State and the New Cold War
24 February 2013 — Global Research Destroying a Nation State: US-Saudi Funded Terrorists Sowing Chaos in Pakistan 013 Continue reading
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Video: Pt 4: Du Bois and the Soviet Union
On the 145th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois, Anthony Monteiro looks at Du Bois’s relationship with the CPUSA and the Soviet Union Continue reading
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Excerpts from HLLN complaint against the US/Obama occupational forces for bringing cholera to Haiti | End the killing and illegal US occupation of Haiti behind UN guns
“The accused UN cannot investigate itself” – Ezili Dantò, Oct 30, 2010 interview with Yves Point Du Jour Continue reading
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Top U.S. Terrorist Group: the FBI By David Swanson
A careful study of the FBI’s own data on terrorism in the United States, reported in Trevor Aaronson’s book The Terror Factory,finds one organization leading all others in creating terrorist plots in the United States: the FBI.Imagine an incompetent bureaucrat. Now imagine a corrupt one. Now imagine both combined. You’re starting to get at the… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 February 2013: Palestinian students "surrounded by guns" at Israeli universities
22 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Child Injured In Bil’in Weekly Protests, Dozens Treated For Effects Of Teargas InhalationIMEMC – Friday January 22 2013; Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlement, and shot one child in the head, while dozens of protesters have been treated for the Continue reading
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ICH 22 February 2013: “I’m A Monster.” – ”I Can’t Forgive Myself”: US Veteran
22 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Brennan’s Loose Talk on Iran “Nukes” By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Brennan’s lumping Iran with North Korea as nuclear threats could be even more worrisome, recalling Iraq WMD exaggerations. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34066.htm Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-23 February 2013: Syria / Korea / Chile / Kosovo / Mali-France / Arctic / EU / Russia
23 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Syrian Rebels Get Arms from Kosovo and Bosnia 23.02.2013 | 11:35 | Dmitry MININ …The policy of the West in Syria is myopic. It goes on losing control over the events in this country. In fact it gives refuge to terrorists and faces the prospect of raging terror spilling Continue reading
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Too Fat to Vote By Greg Palast
You know why black folk in the south don’t vote? According to the New York Times and the experts at the Pew Charitable Trust, they’re just too damn fat! Continue reading
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Iraq and the Betrayal of a People – Impunity Forever? By Hans Christof Von Sponeck
Ethnic tension and sectarianism have become a major element in Iraqi politics since the US/UK invasion of 2003, a polarization of inter-group relations Iraqis had not known before. This explains much of the existing hideous crime including murder, kidnapping, property destruction and, most noteworthy, the deteriorating relationships between Baghdad and the three northern Kurdish governorates. Continue reading
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Palestinians Disqualify U.S. as Peace Broker By Nicola Nasser
The “unbreakable alliance,” which will be confirmed by the upcoming visit of President Barak Obama to Israel , will disqualify the United States as an honest broker of peace in the Arab – Israeli conflict in Palestine , a Palestinian veteran peace negotiator says. Continue reading
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