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How Much Longer Will You Remain Passive? By David DeGraw
I work for two news websites and spend 12 hours a day, six days a week analyzing the news. My eyes are strained and bloodshot, I fight through constant headaches, and the icing on the cake, I now work more hours while making less money then I ever have. Such is life in the online… Continue reading
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D’Escoto on the US in the age of Obama Part 3
“The inability of the United Nations to unequivocally reject the Iraq war has been a major factor in its demise”, says outgoing president of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d’Escoto. In the third and final segment of his talk with Real News Senior Editor Paul Jay, d’Escoto digs into what he believes is at the… Continue reading
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Constitutional Hypocrisy By Joel S. Hirschhorn
The situation we face today is that all 50 states have submitted over 750 applications for a [Constitutional] convention, considerably more than enough to trigger the constitutional mandate that Congress convene an Article V convention. How could Congress get away with this kind of unconstitutional behavior? Continue reading
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If we want Policy instead of Speeches By Cynthia McKinney
President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was not the only news yesterday. And in my opinion, it’s not even the biggest news. It’s not even the saddest news. But it does provide us with some critical information as we move forward. The three-part question for us, tonight however, is “What are we moving forward TO; is… Continue reading
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Norse Code
Immediate reaction to the [Nobel Peace Prize] award was bemused. If Barack Obama rode a wave of optimism onto the world stage, those abroad who are paying attention to what he has actually done must be rather perplexed. Indeed, among the first questions that reporters asked of committee chairman Thorbjørn Jagland was which of Obama’s… Continue reading
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Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth By Michel Chossudovsky
At this critical juncture in our history, the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President and Commander in Chief Barack Obama constitutes an unmitigated tool of propaganda and distortion, which unreservedly supports the Pentagon’s “Long War”: “A War without Borders” in the true sense of the word, characterised by the Worlwide… Continue reading
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Video: Catastrophe in the Making
Video: A just-released book describes the most dangerous project built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in regional New Orleans. Catastrophe in the Making describes how the MRGO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet) put New Orleans and nearby St. Bernard Parish in harm’s way by allowing salt water intrusion that killed protective cypress forests and… Continue reading
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61 arrested in protest at White House – What Happened to the First Amendment?
Video: 61 arrested in protest at White House – What Happened to the First Amendment? Continue reading
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Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds? By Sibel Edmonds and Philip Giraldi
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after… Continue reading
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Upcoming Cover Story on Edmonds ‘Outs’ Video-taped, ‘Blackmailed’ Dem Congresswoman; Alleges State Dept. Mole at NYTimes; MUCH MORE… By Brad Friedman
‘American Conservative’ mag’s description of interview with previously-gagged FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds as ‘explosive’ may prove to be a gross understatement. Blackmail, bribery, infiltration, theft, and sale of nuke secrets by Turkey, Israel explained in clearer detail than ever before… Continue reading
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US Special Ops operates psywar websites targeted at UK By Lewis Page
The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare “influence websites” supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as “targeted regions”. Continue reading
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Young Lords Party
From El Pueblo Se Levanta by Newsreel. Edited for Young Lords 40th anniversary website, www.YLP40.com Young Lords Party http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3389004 more about “Young Lords Party“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Militarising space: The Fallujah fallacy Eric Walberg
In April, Air Force Space Command activated a new unit – the 24th Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas — to keep pace with “the rapid changes in information technology and allow space and cyberspace capabilities to be more accessible to military ground commanders”, according to the Space Command’s top military officer… Continue reading
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Forced Vaccinations and Financial Chaos Selected Articles 1-4 September, 2009
Forced Vaccinations and Financial Chaos Selected Articles 1-4 September, 2009 Continue reading
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The Rise of Mercenary Armies: A Threat to Global Security By Sherwood Ross
The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars. Continue reading
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SNUFFING GRANDMA By Joe Bageant
Every day I get letters asking me to weigh in on the health care fracas. As if a redneck writer armed with a keyboard, a pack of smokes and all the misinformation and vitriol available on the Internet could contribute anything to the crap storm already in progress. Besides that, my unreasoned but noisy take… Continue reading
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Italy, Germany and Japan: Former World War II Axis Nations Repudiate Bans against “Preparing for War” By Rick Rozoff
A press report on August 10 revealed that the government of Italy is planning to modify if not dispense with its post-World War II constitutional limitations on conducting offensive military operations; that is, to reverse a 61-year ban on waging war. The news story, reminding readers that “Italy’s post-World War II constitution places stringent limits… Continue reading
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US Still Paying Blackwater Millions By Jeremy Scahill
Just days before two former Blackwater employees alleged in sworn statements filed in federal court that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, ‘views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,’ the Obama administration extended a contract with Blackwater for more than $20 million for ‘security services’ in… Continue reading
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Video: Blackwater and other misdeeds of Empire
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army, discusses the dwindling ranks of antiwar Democrats in Congress, the cruise missile liberals that support war in Darfur without questioning the aims of U.S. imperialism, the mercenary surge accompanying the troop surge in Afghanistan, the history of bipartisan executive assassination programs… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 