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Explosions of Unrest Mark Puerto Rico’s Economic Crisis By Juan A. Ocasio Rivera
Puerto Rico is witnessing the kind of social, economic, and political upheaval not seen in decades. Declaring a fiscal emergency, the pro-statehood Fortuño administration recently passed a Fiscal Emergency Law, which, among other measures, implemented the layoff of over 20,000 government workers—nearly 10% of the total. In addition to huge cuts in budgets and services,… Continue reading
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Global Warfare USA: The World is the Pentagon’s Oyster By Rick Rozoff
“Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and six navy fleets that roam the world’s oceans and… Continue reading
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Video: The Warning
FRONTLINE has produced a remarkable documentary titled “The Warning” which has aired on PBS Television across the nation and which will now force major changes in the Obama administration. It documents how Lawrence Summers, Greenspan and Ruben attacked and blocked Mrs. Brooksley Born, who was in charge of the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) when… Continue reading
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U.S.: Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan By Dahr Jamail
U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas. Continue reading
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A Morally Bankrupt Military: When Soldiers and Their Families Become Expendable By Dahr Jamail
The military operates through indoctrination. Soldiers are programmed to develop a mindset that resists any acknowledgment of injury and sickness, be it physical or psychological. As a consequence, tens of thousands of soldiers continue to serve, even being deployed to combat zones like Iraq and/or Afghanistan, despite persistent injuries. According to military records, over 43,000… Continue reading
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Reaction to Fort Hood – Stupidity Beyond Belief by Richard C. Cook
Last week a psychiatrist who had been ordered to Afghanistan went berserk and shot up the place. So happens he was a Muslim, a loner, deeply conflicted, subject to abuse from other soldiers who had been taught by our politicians and media that ‘Allah’ is a dirty word. Continue reading
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Peace Movement Blues By Jack A. Smith
The mass base of the movement that confronted the Bush Administration’s wars — the Democratic voters — are standing on the sidelines, unwilling to publicly criticize President Obama. This is despite the fact that opinion polls report a majority of the American people now oppose the Afghan war, including some 70% of Democrats. Continue reading
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America Owned by Its Army By William Pfaf
It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress. The nation now confronts a political crisis in which the issue has become an undeclared contest between Pentagon power and that of a newly elected president. Continue reading
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US Generals Flood Israel for Exercise against Specific Threats’ By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
An unprecedented number of American generals, along with 1,400 U.S. army soldiers, are participating with top IDF brass in the high-level Juniper Cobra military exercise that one U.S. Navy commander said is aimed at “specific threats.” Public affairs officials interrupted the naval commander in order to divert the conversation from the scenario of Israel attacking… Continue reading
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Everything About Nidal Malik Hasan Screams “Patsy” By Paul Joseph Watson
The Empire strikes back – right when when public support for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan sinks to all time lows, an anti-war Islamic extremist with links to suicide bombers goes on a shooting rampage at a U.S. army base, reinvigorating support for the war on terror and demonizing opposition to it as anti-American… Continue reading
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U.S.: “War Comes Home” with Ft. Hood Shootings By Dahr Jamail
While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident “brings the war home”. Continue reading
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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
