In an age of 'realists' and vigilantes, there is cause for optimism By John Pilger

19 September 2013 — John Pilger

The most important anniversary of the year was the 40th anniversary of 11 September 1973 – the crushing of the democratic government of Chile by General Augusto Pinochet and Henry Kissinger, then US secretary of state. The National Security Archive in Washington has posted new documents that reveal much about Kissinger’s role in an atrocity that cost thousands of lives. 

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Information Clearing House 20 September 2013: Obama’s Grotesque Hypocrisy over Cluster Munitions

20 September 2013 — Information Clearing House

America’s Afghan Victims

By Bob Dreyfuss and Nick Turse

When an American soldier dies in Afghanistan, his death is not anonymous. – But when an Afghan dies in the war-especially an Afghan civilian-her death is rarely noticed by the outside world. Often, it’s not even recorded by Afghan hospitals or morgues.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36294.htm

 

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New at SCF 14-21 September 2013: Syria / Russia / Brazil-NSA / Ghouta / Libya

21 September 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation

World Balance Reshaped

21.09.2013 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN

The United States has a custom of putting the countries, which have fallen out of its favor, on the “rogue states” list. Now it risks itself to be subject to international isolation.  The Washington’s world political center status is being lost, the Obama’s policy on Syria has happened to be short-sighted and strategically wrong. The America’s game with “foes of convenience” like Syria and Iran, has failed.  Nobody wants to join the United States in their fight against these states and the US claim to Middle East domination is being rejected more resolutely…

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