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Nailing Bin Laden: Was it a military or a media operation? Why now? By Danny Schechter
7 May 2011 — media channel The tip on bin Laden’s whereabouts came in back in 2010. You have to assume the house was under surveillance. If they thought they “bagged him” they would be watching closely and choosing the right time to deep six the target (I actually wrote this lead paragraph sentence before… Continue reading
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Osama bin Laden killing witness account
A local resident of Abbottabad has revealed that a helicopter was hovering low over the city before the operation in which Osama Bin Laden was killed. Continue reading
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The Sheikh who shook two Superpowers By Satya Sagar
Long after he is gone, in the mythology of the Western world, Osama Bin Laden will always remain the fanatical architect of 9/11, the evil man who brought down the World Trade Center, a long standing symbol of US power. On the Arab and other streets of the Third World he will pass into fable… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, May 5, 2011: Pakistan’s bin Laden Policy
As the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, raises fresh questions about U.S.-Pakistan relations, newly released documents show that as early as 1998 U.S. officials concluded the Government of Pakistan “is not disposed to be especially helpful on the matter of terrorist Usama bin Ladin.” Continue reading
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Killing Gaddafi’s Grandbabies By Glen Ford
When the U.S. and Europeans needed a way to get on the ‘right’ side of the Arab Awakening – and thereby crush it – they chose to re-demonize Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi as the evil from which the Euro-Americans would rescue North Africa. ‘Gaddafi was perfect, having long existed in cartoon form for western consumption.’ Continue reading
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Bin Laden-U.S.Partnership: Pakistan in Context; ISI and U.S.Connection part 2
4 May 2011 — The Burbank Digest U.S. FINANCE CAPITAL PARTNERS SAUDI BIN LADEN GROUP http://www.answers.com/topic/saudi-binladin-group-1 On the web: http://www.sbg.com.sa Sheikh Mohammed bin Laden, founder Bakr bin Laden, chairman Saudi Binladin group offices, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Saudi Binladin (or Binladen) Group (SBG) is a multinational construction conglomerate and holding company for the assets… Continue reading
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Communiqué by Elias Davidsson on Osama bin Laden’s murder
According to mass media, Osama bin Laden was murdered yesterday, on May 1st, 2011. He was murdered with “other family members”, whose identity is still unknown. The President of the United States of America took credit for this act of murder. Murder is prohibited in every jurisdiction. It is regarded as a criminal act both… Continue reading
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Osama bin Laden’s Second Death By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the… Continue reading
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The killing of Osama bin Laden By Patrick Martin and Alex Lantier
Obama’s speech and the press commentary was clearly an attempt to rally public support for wars that have become deeply unpopular. Obama asked Americans to ‘think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed.’ Media commentators repeatedly expressed the hope that the killing of bin… Continue reading
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Why Does America Go to War? Read "America's 'War on Terrorism'" to learn the truth By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In this expanded edition of Michel Chossudovsky’s 2002 best seller, the author blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by “Islamic terrorists”. Through meticulous research, the author uncovers a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of… Continue reading
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Deconstructing the US Military: America’s Global War against Planet Earth By Dana Visalli
In the mid-1960s, political scientist Hannah Arendt published a book-length study of how some of the great evils of history, such as slavery and the Holocaust, managed to occur. Her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, concluded that generally such crimes are not carried out by fanatics or sociopaths, but… Continue reading
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Inflation Hits Money and Lies By Joel S. Hirschhorn
How do the powerful keep the US population dumb and distracted? A key tactic has been using methodologies that produce totally misleading underestimates of key economic factors. First we learned that official unemployment figures are too low by a factor of two. Now, understand that the official rate of inflation hitting consumers is even more… Continue reading
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Herbie Hancock – ‘The Spook Who Sat By The Door’ – 1973
The film is about a Black CIA agent who takes his CIA training and goes back to his hometown of Chicago to train gang members into a revolutionary army that will go toe to toe with US forces. The film was so incendiary that the FBI went around to theater owners screening the film and… Continue reading
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MALCOLM X: Chickens Coming Home To Roost
MALCOLM X: Chickens Coming Home To RoostFollow my videos on vodpod A witness identified Robert Chambliss, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, as the man who placed the bomb under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. He was arrested and charged with murder and possessing a box of 122 sticks of dynamite… Continue reading
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Mel Rothenberg, “Mid-East Upheaval: What the Empire Sees”
However, despite the valiant and necessary efforts of the anti-war forces to mobilize against the increasing military intervention by the US and its imperial allies, our effect will be limited until we have an adequate understanding of the fundamental forces now in play in the Mid-East. Much of our current slogans and agitation are recycled… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Poet, Redneck Revolutionary, R.I.P. By Marc Campbell
Joe Bageant was an extraordinarily gifted writer and thinker. Author of Deer Hunting with Jesus and countless essays and editorials on politics and society, Joe was a champion of human rights and a fearless critic of our government’s mistreatment of its working class. Continue reading
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Rainbow Pie: Attention Must Be Paid By Bob Kincaid
Let me be up front about things: I want you to buy Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir. I want you to buy it not because I have any financial interest in it. I don’t. I want you to buy this book because it is a magnificent memorial both by and to one of the best… Continue reading
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Tea Party Organizes Islamophobic Hate Rally
Tea Party Organizes Islamophobic Hate RallyFollow my videos on vodpod The following video was shot at a Tea Party protest of a fundraiser for homeless and domestic abuse shelters. The reason the Tea Partiers are there is because the fundraiser was hosted by Muslims. As you can see, they scream some of the most hateful… Continue reading
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Libya : Oil, Banks, the United Nations and America’s Holy Crusade by Felicity Arbuthnot
George W. Bush embarked on the casual snuffing out of uncounted, unique, human lives in majority Muslim populations, chillingly called it a “Crusade.” President Barack Hussein Nobel Obama did not go that far, he left that to the French Minister of the Interior, Claude Gueant who, on 21st March, praised President Nicholas Sarkozy for having:… Continue reading
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The Martin Luther King Legacy and The Global Economic Crisis: Can One Influence the Other? By Danny Schechter
We live in a world of constantly redrawn battle lines where new generations displace the old ones and some of yesterdays leaders move to higher levels of consciousness while many others like Libya’s human rights abusing leader Gaddafi along with some civil rights leaders who, years ago, secretly joined Washington’s crusade against Malcolm. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 