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Mass Shooting Indicates Breakdown of Military By Dahr Jamail
The soldier says that the mood on the base is “very grim,” and that even before this incident, troop morale has been very low. “I’d say it’s at an all-time low – mostly because of Afghanistan now,” he explained. “Nobody knows why we are at either place, and I believe the troops need to know… Continue reading
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NYC Mayoral Race: The best ‘democracy’ money can buy
The New York City mayoral race has ripped the mask off of this country’s “democratic” system. The race has been all about money from the very start. For one, in the biggest economic crisis in decades, the Democratic and Republican parties are offering New Yorkers a choice between a former banker (William Thompson) and a… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 75 How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?
The Obama administration, like the Bush administration, behaves like the world is one big lawless Somalia and the United States is the chief warlord. On October 20 the president again displayed his deep love of peace by honoring some 80 veterans of Vietnam at the White House, after earlier awarding their regiment a Presidential Unit… Continue reading
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Organizing for the poor Pt.2
Williams: Articulating demands and needs of working class people is what’s required from the movement Continue reading
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Organizing for the poor Pt.3
Williams: Over the last several years the left has been suffering from demoralization and demobilization Continue reading
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UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture Craig Murray
Former Brit ambassador Craig Murray says UK and USA sent prisoners to Uzbek to be tortured http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3780714 Watch Part 2 Here more about “UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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War Is a Hate Crime By Chris Hedges
Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is wrong. So is violence against people in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in the bizarre culture of identity politics, there are no alliances among the oppressed. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the first major federal civil rights law protecting lesbian, gay,… Continue reading
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Steve Williams: Organizing for the poor Pt.1
Video: Williams: For over two decades poor people in the US have been criminalized and vilified. Continue reading
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The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt3
28 October, 2009 — The Real News Network Lawrence Wilkerson: Will the empire end with good leadership or blood? This talk by Larry Wilkerson was the keynote speech given at an event sponsored by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, American University History Department, American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute on Oct 21,2009 at… Continue reading
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The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt2
27 October, 2009 — The Real News Network Wilkerson: From US debt to the geopolitics of oil, the US empire will come to an end Bio Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the… Continue reading
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Obama: Manufacturing A Savior A Case Study In Social Engineering – Fabricating Myths, Mantras, Consent and Dissent, for Imperial Mobilization By Zahir Ebrahim
Why does the newly elected President of the United States representing the most fanatically militarized and barbaric sole-superpower as its Commander in Chief – a dysfunctional nation on perpetual aggressive war-footings which has decimated both Iraq and Afghanistan over the past eight years in the quest for its own ‘preeminence’, and which continues to threaten… Continue reading
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Insanity and the Nobel Peace Prize: Obama and the Rule of Law By Felicity Arbuthnot
The ‘folly bordering on insanity’ of the Afghan invasion has entered it’s body-littered eighth year. The gulag that is Bagram (and its counterparts dotted around the globe) remain. The uncharged, condemned, rotting in Guantanamo, may be moved to rot in prisons in the US. Will the world know if any go missing to be spirited… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt1
Video: Larry Wilkerson: The beginning of the American “Imperial Rome” and Eisenhower’s warning Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Ellsberg: From Vietnam to Afghanistan
Video: Ellsberg: As President Obama decides what to do in Afghanistan he must learn the lessons of Vietnam Continue reading
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Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, “Puerto Rico: Reflections on the National Strike”
22 October, 2009 — MRZine – Monthly Review On October 15, thousands of people in Puerto Rico flooded the streets to protest the government’s decision to lay off around 17,000 government employees (in total there have been around 25,000 lay-offs this year). Workers and members of trade unions, women, environmentalists, religious groups, students, teachers, professors,… Continue reading
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Learn from Cuba says New Orleans mayor By Tom Mellen
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin praised Cuba’s disaster response system on Tuesday, acknowledging that the islands’s socialist authorities ‘do a much better job than we do.’ Continue reading
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Latest Chapter in the Case of the Cuban Five: U.S. Justice as a Political Weapon By Michael Collins
The decision by a Miami court on Tuesday October 13 to reduce Antonio Guererro’s life sentence to 22 years imprisonment is the latest chapter in the ongoing legal battle to free a group of men known as the Cuban Five. Largely anonymous in the United States yet celebrities in their native Cuba, their conviction symbolizes… Continue reading
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The JFK Assassination: New York Times Acknowledges CIA Deceptions By Peter Dale Scott
The New York Times, on October 17, published a page-one story by Scott Shane about the CIA’s defiance of a court order to release documents pertaining to the John F. Kennedy assassination, in its so-called Joannides file. George Joannides was the CIA case officer for a Cuban exile group that made headlines in 1963 by… Continue reading
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US Military Fuel Use for Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
we don’t know the real amount and cost of fuel consumed during the Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. What we more or less know is the amount and cost of fuel consumed in Iraq and Afghanistan by the US military forces. And my guess is that what we know is only the tip… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 