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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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Media Undermine Democracy by Speculating Wildly About Undermining Democracy
The relentless drumbeat of Trump–as–Russian agent takes hasn’t ceased since the news broke of a likely Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee in June—and it probably won’t stop until Election Day. One sub-genre of this line of thinking however—that Russia will literally hack our election process and throw the US into a dystopian constitutional… Continue reading
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Mayhem! what we are we doing? Adding political to military strikes.“UN, US, UK devastation, complicity and double standards”
These words of journalist Felicity Arbuthnot reverberated as the writer belatedly discovered Josie Ensor’s report from Istanbul that a US air strike killed nearly 60 civilians, including children, in Syria after the coalition mistook them for Islamic State fighters. Some eight families were hit as they tried to flee in one of the single deadliest… Continue reading
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Is Putin a Lousy Dancer? By Israel Shamir
Did Putin ask her to rake millions of dollars from Haim Saban, the Zionist billionaire, or from Wal-Mart, the scrooge of American trading companies? Did Putin beseech her to use a private email server and to mix official and personal business? Did Putin force her to swear she will destroy American coal mines if and… Continue reading
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The Zika Trigger: CDC Unveils Forced Vaccination and Quarantine Policy, Mass Aerial Spraying of Subject Populations By James F. Tracy
2775_604_Mosquito_illust On August 15, 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) invited “public comment” on an especially disturbing edict that will allow the federal agency alongside the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to quarantine entire geographic areas of the United States, restrict the movement and behavior of inhabitants in these areas,… Continue reading
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US-NATO-Turkey Invasion of Northern Syria: CIA “Failed” Turkey Coup Lays Groundwork for Broader Middle East War? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
29 August 2016 — Global Research In mid-July, President Erdogan pointed his finger at the CIA, accusing US intelligence of having supported a failed coup directed against his government. Turkish officials pointed to a deterioration of US-Turkey relations following Washington’s refusal to extradite Fethullah Gülen, the alleged architect of the failed coup. Continue reading
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CIA “Failed” Turkey Coup Lays Groundwork for Broader Middle East War? Selected Articles
29 August 2016 — Global Research US-NATO-Turkey Invasion of Northern Syria: CIA “Failed” Turkey Coup Lays Groundwork for Broader Middle East War? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 29 2016 In mid-July, President Erdogan pointed his finger at the CIA, accusing US intelligence of having supported a failed coup directed against his government. Turkish officials pointed to… Continue reading
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Stoking Russia Panic for Partisan Gain Will Have a Long-Term Price for Peace By Adam Johnson
According to leading pro-Democratic media, the US cannot possibly work with Russia; they are fundamentally adversarial. This type of macho posturing, previously the domain of Fox News, has become increasingly commonplace as the Clinton camp drives home the talking point that Trump is a Kremlin agent. Continue reading
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US Hawks Advance a War Agenda in Syria By Daniel Lazare
The U.S. government, having illegally sent American troops into Syria, is now threatening to attack the Syrian military if it endangers those troops, an Orwellian twist that marks a dangerous escalation, explains Daniel Lazare. Continue reading
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How We Know ISIS Was Made In The USA By Roger Stone
Judicial Watch proved it. Under a Freedom of Information Act request, Judicial Watch was able to obtain a (heavily redacted) copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) directive that initiated the creation of ISIS in 2012. the DIA report states: “THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY [WHO] SUPPORT THE [SYRIAN] OPPOSITION . . . [SUPPORT]… Continue reading
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Video: Who said it, Trump or Clinton? Democrats Can’t Decide By Rania Khalek
Got nothing else to do for five minutes? Check out this witty (but utterly depressing) video of Khalek interviewing Democratic Party members at their convention on who said what? The term ‘lesser of two evils’ was always stupid but now it’s totally meaningless. Continue reading
