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US Justice Department protocols include sweeping attacks on press freedom By Eric London
Last year, the administration announced it was preparing a series of “reforms” after it was caught wiretapping the phone lines of journalists with the Associated Press. In what has become the standard practice of the administration, however, the banner of “reform” has been used to obscure the establishment of the legal foundations for a police… Continue reading
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US Government Caught Funding The Coup In Ukraine
Just hours after last weekend’s ouster of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, one of Pierre Omidyar’s newest hires at national security blog “The Intercept,” was already digging for the truth. Continue reading
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Obama’s War Against Civilization By Glen Ford
The U.S. is in a frenzy of regime-changing aggression, aimed at destabilizing or destroying sovereign states. Obama’s signature is written in blood around the world, as he pursues “full spectrum, no-holds-barred, war-without-boundaries against all potential resistance to U.S. imperial rule, anywhere on the planet.” Continue reading
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Obama’s War Against Civilization By Glen Ford
The U.S. is in a frenzy of regime-changing aggression, aimed at destabilizing or destroying sovereign states. Obama’s signature is written in blood around the world, as he pursues “full spectrum, no-holds-barred, war-without-boundaries against all potential resistance to U.S. imperial rule, anywhere on the planet.” Continue reading
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Worst Man for the Job : What the Hell is Obama Thinking? By Daniel Patrick Welch
How oblivious or arrogant do you have to be to spend $5 billion dollars destabilizing a country (the actual total is undoubtedly much higher), have your diplomats caught on tape planning a coup, bring a gang of fascist thugs to power on Russia’s doorstep—whose first order of business is to outlaw the Russian language, conduct… Continue reading
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The costs you are about to pay in Ukraine, President Obama
Yesterday the United States lost the propaganda war on Ukraine. President Obama made a reluctant and senseless statement which Washington Post entitled “There will be costs”. Continue reading
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War, “Regime Change” and the Globalization of “Austerity Economics” By Hossein-Zadeh Ismael
While not new, social convulsions seem to have become more numerous in recent years. They have become especially more frequent since the mysterious 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 and the 2008 financial collapse in the United States, which soon led to similar financial implosions and economic crises in Europe and beyond. Continue reading
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Roundup In 75% of Air and Water Sampled … Causes Kidney Failure
A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey – soon to be published in the journal Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry – finds that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (technically known as “glyphosate”) and its toxic degradation byproduct AMPA were found in over 75% of all air and rain samples in Mississippi in 2007. Continue reading
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‘Ukraine will only get a pittance from the US and the EU’
The US government is saying it will help Ukraine’s new government with money, but the US Treasury is not in any political shape to give billions of dollars to the Ukrainian economy which requires $35 billion, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT. Continue reading
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Obama’s TPP Negotiators Received Huge Bonuses from Big Banks
A controversial trade deal being touted by the White House is expected to give American corporations broad new authority if approved. Now according to newly released documents, big banks gave millions to the execs that are now orchestrating the agreement. Continue reading
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Looks Like US Played Hardball in the Ukraine…and Against the EU
In parsing the circumstances of Yanukovich’s downfall, it is interesting to look for the machinations of Victoria Nuland, the State Department neo-con (wife of Robert Kagan) who was apparently given a free hand in matters Ukrainian by President Obama. Continue reading
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The Same High-Level U.S. Officials Who Ask Us to Trust Them On Protecting the Constitution Want to Assassinate Snowden Without a Trial
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers and former CIA/NSA chief Mike Hayden “joked” at a hearing that Snowden should be put on the U.S. government’s “hit list” and murdered. Last month, BuzzFeed quoted several anonymous Pentagon and intelligence community officials as they laid out their fantasies for how they would like to murder Snowden (“Going… Continue reading
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Ukraine: Sick Fascist Filth, Gangland Violence As Political Opposition By Richard Rozoff
With the release of a recent conversation between the US ambassador to Ukraine and Victoria Nuland plotting the downfall of the current legitimate elected government in Kiev, it is clear who is behind the attempted coup in Ukraine. US backed “activists” with sniper rifles and hand guns are openly firing on police something that would… Continue reading
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Police State UK/US: Authoritarian Regimes (Like the U.S. and Britain) Treat Reporters Like Terrorists
It is widely known that authoritarian regimes use “anti-terror” laws to crack down on journalism. But this extreme tactic is becoming more and more common. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported a year ago that terrorism laws are being misused worldwide to crush journalism: Continue reading
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Ukraine: U.S.’s revenge on Russia for halting war against Syria By Richard Rozoff
19 February 2014 — Stop NATO A roundup of stories on events in the Ukraine and the US role in provoking disorder. Continue reading
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Cold War CIA Coup Templates Back in Business around the World By Wayne Madsen
The greatest collection of status quo enthusiasts can be found at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. As nations around the world attempt to distance themselves from Washington’s financial, military, and political grip, the CIA is reaching into its past playbook to deal with wayward governments. Continue reading
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Snowden’s lawyer: ‘Lawyers targeted in ‘democratic countries’ on the basis of who they represent’
Questions must be raised about the integrity of a judicial system that allows attorneys working on someone’s case to be harassed and intimidated on the basis of whom they represent, Jesselyn Radack, Snowden’s lawyer, told RT. Continue reading
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Russia Under Attack. “Neocon Ideologues are Pushing the World toward Destruction” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
In a number of my articles I have explained that the Soviet Union served as a constraint on US power. The Soviet collapse unleashed the neoconservative drive for US world hegemony. Russia under Putin, China, and Iran are the only constraints on the neoconservative agenda. Continue reading