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Battles of Kunduz: US/Afghan ‘friendly fire’ By Eric Walberg
For 45 minutes, like ominous clouds, the planes fired pot shots, as if warming up, taunting or warning the doctors and patients, who started to flee and were mowed down. Finally, the pilots of the gunships launched full scale fire at 2am, on both the hospital and civilians fleeing what was clearly the target of… Continue reading
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Media Roll Out Welcome Mat for ‘Humanitarian’ War in Syria
Beyond the opinion pages, media figures are pushing the “humanitarian” approach with varying degrees of subtlety. Meet the Press host Chuck Todd (10/16/16) recently pressed Vice President Joe Biden on the lack of a no-fly zone over Aleppo, suggesting that the Obama administration will “look back and wonder what if? What if? What if? What… Continue reading
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‘Drug Dependence Hasn’t Been Stopped by 45 Years of the War on Drugs’
Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States, a study from Human Rights Watch and the ACLU, is a multi-level, cradle-to-grave if you will, look at the myriad impacts of the criminalization—selective criminalization—of drug possession on the people caught up in the system. Continue reading
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“The Kremlin’s Playbook”: Russia-EU Cooperation, A Threat to US National Security? Selected Articles
20 October 2016 — Global Research “The Kremlin’s Playbook”: Washington Views Russia-EU Cooperation, A Threat to US National Security By Fort Russ, October 20 2016 Europe is dependent on financial and energy resources of Moscow, according to a report by the Washington Center for strategic and international studies. On October 13 in Washington, a study was published, “The Kremlin’s… Continue reading
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'Nothing to See Here' Is Pundit Takeaway on DNC Leaks
Leaks from Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails have been trickling in for the past week. The leaks—along with previous DNC emails—provide intimate details about the inner workings of the campaign that may well soon elect the most powerful person on Earth. The response from some journalists has been to analyse, dissect and find the most newsworthy… Continue reading
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Charges Dropped Against Amy Goodman–No Thanks to Corporate Media
After Goodman reported on the use of pepper spray and attack dogs against Native American demonstrators opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (Democracy Now!, 9/4/16), North Dakota State’s Attorney Ladd Erickson charged her with criminal trespassing. Realizing that he couldn’t make that charge stick, he sought to charge her instead with participation in… Continue reading
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US, Saudis to grant 9,000 ISIS fighters free passage from Iraqi Mosul to Syria – source
The US and Saudi Arabia have agreed to grant free passage to thousands of Islamic State militants before the Iraqi city of Mosul is stormed. The jihadists will be redeployed to fight against the government in Syria, a military-diplomatic source told RIA Novost Continue reading
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There Will Be Blood By S. Artesian
After 40 years “coding” for race, attacking social equality with words like “freedom;” after 40 years of presenting liquidation, asset stripping, decertification of unions, assaults on wages, increases in poverty as “entrepreneurship;” after 40 years of torturing language and meaning (along with persons of darker colors) such that the empty-suit empty-headed Reagan becomes a “revolutionary;”… Continue reading
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Hiding US Role in Yemen Slaughter So Bombing Can Be Sold as ‘Self-Defense’
US destroyers in the Gulf of Aden launched airstrikes against Houthi rebels, a Shia insurgent group currently withstanding a massive bombing campaign from a Saudi-led coalition in a year-and-half conflict between largely Shia rebels and the Saudi-backed Sunni government in Yemen. The Pentagon insisted that cruise missiles had been fired onto the USS Mason on… Continue reading
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“Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having: Selected Articles
12 October 2016 — Global Research “Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having By Adeyinka Makinde, October 11 2016 M.A.D. The concept of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ which posited the prospect of a global catastrophe in the event of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union was one which permeated the… Continue reading
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Book Review: Petras- The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire
The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire is his 68th book, and one of his most important. It should be read by anyone concerned with the looming disaster that will eventuate from the upcoming U.S. presidential election, no matter who wins. While not explicitly stating it, it is clear that Petras expects… Continue reading
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Video: 13TH
The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors… Continue reading
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Air Strikes against Syria: Who are the War Criminals? Who is Supporting Al Qaeda? Russia or America? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
America is coming to the rescue of Al Qaeda under a humanitarian mandate. The unspoken agenda is to undermine the Liberation of Aleppo. The pretext and justification for these actions are based on America’s “responsibility to protect” (R2P) the “moderates” in Aleppo from Syrian and Russian attacks and bombing raids. Continue reading
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Cheerleaders For US Aggression: Pushing The World Towards The Nuclear Brink By Colin Todhunter
As the US and its client states and terror groups keep pushing to destroy Syria, I’m reposting this piece from last year. Washington seems increasingly hellbent on direct conflict with Russia. Continue reading
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Video: ‘Neutral’ First Aid Responders in Syria Promoting Regime Change
Journalist Max Blumenthal shares his latest investigation into the public relations firm Syria Campaign and the USAID-backed White Helmets, both of which are calling for a no-fly zone in Syria Continue reading
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Barbarism in Words and Deeds. Barbarism of U.S. Imperial Wars is Unmatched By Global Research News: Selected Articles
4 October 2016 — Global Research Barbarism in Words and Deeds. Barbarism of U.S. Imperial Wars is Unmatched Continue reading
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Big Papers Want Foreign Companies, Not War Crime Victims, to Sue US
The New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today are saying that exposing American military and intelligence personnel to foreign liability is per se bad—a nativism so casual and matter-of-fact one might hardly notice it until circumstances force them to explicitly state it. No account is taken of the 7 billion non-Americans or their rights.… Continue reading
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A Cop Killed a Black Man–Then Things Got ‘Ugly’
23 September 2016 — FAIR From the New York Times (9/20/16): About 16 police officers in Charlotte, N.C., were injured when a standoff between law enforcement and demonstrators turned ugly overnight after an officer fatally shot a black man on Tuesday afternoon. Funny—some might say that the turn toward ugliness occurred in the afternoon, when… Continue reading
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Brazil Coup: ‘They Let Everybody Know the US Was on the Side of This Coup’
Janine Jackson interviewed Mark Weisbrot about the ouster of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff for the September 9, 2016, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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‘We Are Criminalizing Transparency to Protect Illegitimate Uses of Power’
Janine Jackson: If the expression “I can’t breathe” holds power for you, it’s because of Ramsey Orta. He’s the one who held his cellphone camera steady while New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo choked the life out of Eric Garner in July of 2014. Continue reading
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