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USA: Freedom of the press behind bars
Should journalists be given more freedom than ordinary people on the streets, especially when it comes to covering protests? That is the question Lori Harfenist, also known as “The Resident”, asks people in New York, following the arrest of an RT crew reporting on a demonstration at Fort Benning military base in the US state… Continue reading
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What the TSA is NOT Telling You about Full Body Scans…
There are about 350 full-body scanners being used in close to 70 U.S. airports, and that number is expected to increase to 1,000 scanners by the end of 2011. Dubbed “naked” scanners because they give a graphic image of your body, including genitalia and other personal effects like sanitary napkins, the devices are raising privacy… Continue reading
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“US has unprecedented imperial military presence in the world”
The American military presence in the world is global, blogger and author Tom Engelhardt told RT. Continue reading
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George W. Bush can’t fight for freedom and authorise torture By Boris Johnson
It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog us his memoirs, but if I were his PR people I would urge caution. As book tours go, this one would be an absolute corker. It is not just that every European capital would be brought to a… Continue reading
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US Imperial Military Presence Unprecedented | Global Research TV
US Imperial Military Presence Unprecedented | G…Follow my videos on vodpod US Imperial Military Presence Unprecedented by grtv. The American military presence in the world is global, blogger and author Tom Engelhardt told RT. “The Pentagon usually admits yearly to about 800 military bases or sites from macro to micro, but in their account they… Continue reading
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Jury Appears Deadlocked in Landmark Civilian Trial of Gitmo Prisoner
A federal jury in New York is deliberating in a landmark trial of the first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in the civilian court system. On Monday, the jury appeared deadlocked after a juror asked to be excused, saying she was being attacked for her conclusions about the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. A Tanzanian… Continue reading
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US elections: Public policy privatized, ‘democracy’ bought and sold
This is a special election year in the US. For the first time, corporations are allowed to funnel as much money as they want into political campaigns – and they are definitely not missing out on the chance to buy influence on Capitol Hill. The election system in the US is such that it is… Continue reading
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How Safe Is Your Ballot? Tracking Voter Suppression, Intimidation on Election Day
As millions of voters head to the polls, Democratic and progressive groups are concerned with reports of voter intimidation and efforts to suppress minority and poor voters from casting their ballots. They point to the mushrooming of Republicans and Tea Party-affiliated groups who are raising the specter of voter fraud in states across the country.… Continue reading
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Iraq War Logs: Secret Files Show How US Ignored Torture
A grim picture of the US and Britain’s legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes. Continue reading
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Obama Continues Most of Bush’s Wiretap Policies
Shayana Kadidal: Government refuses to disclose possible wiretapping of civil rights lawyers Continue reading
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US is devil in Afghanistan– writer – RT
It can be said that the US plays a devil’s role in Afghanistan, said journalist and author Ann Jones. Continue reading
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Race, Class and Crisis: What New Possibilities for the U.S. Left? – with Adolph Reed
The economic crisis that started in U.S. housing markets in 2007 quickly swept across the world market. A long period of stagnation and austerity now seems to be the order of the day. While all working class people have felt the impact of the crisis on their lives and work, the crisis has also been… Continue reading
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‘Redneck’: Tea Party just a Spectacle By Joe Bageant
More than 43 million people are living below the poverty line, but who are these people? For some reason, in this country, there’s always been an assumption that the poor, or the underclass, are the non-white people that live in this country, and the fact that there has always been a white underclass has become… Continue reading
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New Orleans: Rebuilding on People’s Bones
16 September, 2010 — The Real News Network Jordan Flaherty: Thousands of people are not able to return to New Orleans. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4456756 New Orleans: Rebuilding on People’s Bones, posted with vodpod Bio Jordan Flaherty is a New Orleans-based journalist and works with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring the story… Continue reading
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Doug Henwood: Austerity in the face of weakness Pt.3 – Wages and the Crisis
28 August, 2010 — The Real News Network Henwood: Aside from a period of four or five years in the late 1990s, real wages have been either flat or down for most of the last 3, 3.5 decades. That’s not good http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4326056 WAGES AND THE CRISIS, posted with vodpod Bio Doug Henwood is the founder… Continue reading
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SENIOR LAWYER SAYS “BEWARE OF COMING POLICE STATE”
Clayton Ruby defends Charlie Veitch, second person charged under Public Works Protection Act Continue reading
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Ben Werschkul and Tom Zeller, Jr., “The Fight for a Mountaintop”
“Someday coal’s gonna run out. And we’re going to have to have jobs, we’re going to have to have energy, when that happens. So, why not start now?” — Lorelei Scarbro, Coal River Mountain Wind Project Continue reading
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Japan urges ban on nukes 65 years after Nagasaki bombing
[“src”:”http://rt.com/s/swf/player.swf?file=http://rt.com/v/2010-08-15/589744_atomic-legacy.flv&image=http://rt.com/s/obj/2010-08-09/peace-memorial-park_afp.jpg&controlbar=over&skin=http://rt.com/s/swf/skin/stylish1.swf&streamer=lighttpd”,”allowfullscreen”:”true”] The Japanese city of Nagasaki has remembered those killed by the second atom bomb dropped by the US in 1945. A minute of silence was observed on Monday to commemorate the moment when the bomb wiped out most of the city. Tens of thousands of people were incinerated instantly as the bomb nicknamed ‘Fat… Continue reading
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Is My Neighbor Latino?
15 August, 2010 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4236693 Continue reading
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Taras DYACHENKO Hiroshima and Modernity
If the nuclear bombings – which, moreover, mostly targeted the civilian population – did not play the key role in winning the war, what could be the objective behind them? A. Vert, a British journalist who lived in the USSR in the 1940s answered the question clearly over three decades ago: Washington meant to intimidate… Continue reading
