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The Lies Of Democracy and the Language Of Deceit By Colin Todhunter
In an increasingly media-driven age, language is everything and is often used by officialdom to tyrannise meaning. With the deaths of millions on its hands since 1945, the US has become the world’s number one terror state. By the 1980s, former CIA man John Stockwell had put the figure at six million. Continue reading
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Mali and the Scramble for Africa By Ben Schreiner
The French military intervention into Mali on Friday — France’s second in as many years into a former African colony — was reportedly “seconded” by the United States. This ought to come as no great surprise, given the Pentagon’s deepening penetration into Africa. Continue reading
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Video: US-led NATO and its Puppets Ignite Factional Violence in Syria
Analyst Michel Chossudovsky believes that the objective of the United States and its NATO partners is “to create factional violence, ethnic cleansing, promote divisions within Syria between Alawite Shi’ites and Christian communities.” Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Zero Dark Thirty”: Torturing the Facts By Marjorie Cohn
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. Continue reading
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The Geopolitical Reordering of Africa: US Covert Support to Al Qaeda in Northern Mali, France “Comes to the Rescue” By Tony Cartalucci
A deluge of articles have been quickly put into circulation defending France’s military intervention in the African nation of Mali. TIME’s article, “The Crisis in Mali: Will French Intervention Stop the Islamist Advance?” decides that old tricks are the best tricks, and elects the tiresome “War on Terror” narrative. Continue reading
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The Geopolitical Reordering of Africa: US Covert Support to Al Qaeda in Northern Mali, France “Comes to the Rescue” By Tony Cartalucci
A deluge of articles have been quickly put into circulation defending France’s military intervention in the African nation of Mali. TIME’s article, “The Crisis in Mali: Will French Intervention Stop the Islamist Advance?” decides that old tricks are the best tricks, and elects the tiresome “War on Terror” narrative. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 8-12 January 2013: Dr. Drone Heads the CIA, Hollywood “Nominates” the CIA
12 January 2013 — Global Research “Zero Dark Thirty”: Torturing the Facts, Marjorie Cohn, January 11, 2013 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. Continue reading
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Democracy, Terrorism and the Secret State By Makinde Adeyinka
The nature, necessity and scope of the miscellany of powers exercised by the state over the nation is in one sense arguably as contentious in the contemporary circumstances of the Western world as it was in the distant pre-democratic medieval past. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 29 December 2012 – 6 January 2013: America’s Death Squads and Dirty Tricks
6 January, 2013 — Global Research Bolivarianism in Venezuela. “With or without Chavez, it’s institutionalized”, Stephen Lendman, January 06, 2013 Continue reading
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From Iran Sanctions To US 'Dirty Tricks' By Dr. Ismail Salami
In what can be seen as a blatantly overt interference in Iran’s affairs, US President Barack Obama has recently enacted a law “aimed at countering Tehran’s alleged influence in Latin America” through a new diplomatic and political strategy to be designed by the State Department. Continue reading
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From Iran Sanctions To US ‘Dirty Tricks’ By Dr. Ismail Salami
In what can be seen as a blatantly overt interference in Iran’s affairs, US President Barack Obama has recently enacted a law “aimed at countering Tehran’s alleged influence in Latin America” through a new diplomatic and political strategy to be designed by the State Department. Continue reading
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Terrorism with a “Human Face”: The History of America’s Death Squads By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US military-intelligence agenda. There is a long and gruesome US history of covert funding and support of terror brigades and targeted assassinations going back to the Vietnam war. Continue reading
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“Wiping Countries Off the Map”: Who’s Failing the “Failed States” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
“This is a [Pentagon] memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” (General Wesley Clark, Democracy Now, March… Continue reading
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“Wiping Countries Off the Map”: Who’s Failing the “Failed States” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
“This is a [Pentagon] memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” (General Wesley Clark, Democracy Now, March… Continue reading
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Books: Understand the Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In this expanded edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. The result as his detailed examples from all parts of the world… Continue reading
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GR Week in Review: 9/11 Revisited and Financial Conspiracies
28 December, 2012 — Global Research Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts, Washington’s Blog, December 28, 2012 Continue reading
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Washington’s Dilemma: The “Good Terrorists” versus the “Bad Terrorists” By Dr. Ismail Salami
Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy. Continue reading
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The Sandy Hook School Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information By Prof. James F. Tracy
Inconsistencies and anomalies abound when one turns an analytical eye to news of the Newtown school massacre. The public’s general acceptance of the event’s validity and faith in its resolution suggests a deepened credulousness borne from a world where almost all news and information is electronically mediated and controlled. Continue reading
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Unlimited Imperialism and the Threat of World War III. U.S. Militarism at the Start of the 21st Century By Francis Boyle
The Origins of the First and Second World Wars currently hover like Twin Swords of Damocles over the heads of all humanity. It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign policy. Continue reading
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The Spirit of Christmas: George W. Bush and Tony Blair banned from the Birthplace of Jesus Christ By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
War criminals George W. Bush and Tony Blair were banned for life in April 2003 from the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, widely believed to be the birth-place of Jesus Christ. The ban was announced at the height of the illegal US-allied bombing and invasion of Iraq. Continue reading
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