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An Ailing e-Empire: Microsoft Blitzes Cuba and Latin America to Preserve Diminishing Financial Dominance
Microsoft terminates Cuban access to its instant messaging service, which, at first glance, suggests an act of compliance at the behest of the U.S. government. The software behemoth chides Latin American leaders for undemocratic principles in an online smear campaign which might be better aimed at itself. Continue reading
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The Biden and Clinton Mutinies By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
At the superficial level Obama is presiding over an undisciplined administration; on a more realistic and sinister construction, he is facing mutiny, publicly conducted by two people who only a year ago were claiming that their qualifications to be in the Oval Office were far superior to those of the junior senator from Illinois. Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: The Bastards Never Die
Well, for starters, the above title is a damned lie, since this little screed is not a history. It’s just rumination on the tilting point at which Americans started the slide into the deepest sort of cultivated consumer consciousness — which is to say our corporate managed engorgement and swinedom at the service of the… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – The beer summit and race in America
Video: Glen Ford: Upward mobility for black elite has not translated into a better life for ordinary blacks Continue reading
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US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts By Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, reports on three important court cases in the UK this week, focusing on “extraordinary rendition” and torture in the “War on Terror.” These cases have implications not only for the complicity of the British government in the Bush administration’s flight from the law, but also for the Obama… Continue reading
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Puerto Rican Nationalism and the Drift Towards Statehood
American Imperialism Called to the Colors In 1898, the United States won Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico from Spain. As U.S. troops invaded Puerto Rico, they proclaimed that their intentions were to overthrow the ruling Spanish authorities, thereby guaranteeing individual freedoms for the inhabitants. However, as Michael González-Cruz, an assistant professor at the… Continue reading
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PEAK OIL AGAIN…and Again and Again and Again…(Pt. 2 of 2) By Mark S. Tucker
Russian geophysicists had been building their abiotic thoughts after reading the brilliant German scientist Alfred Wegener, who, in 1915, published The Origin of Continents and Oceans, initiating the Pangaea concept as well as the idea of continental drift (we merely stole the concept here in America and tucked it away in the New Age realm… Continue reading
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Video: Renegade Economist US Special with Dr. Michael Hudson
The Renegade Economist goes to New York to hear Dr. Michael Hudson’s views on the state of the US Economy. Continue reading
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Government Gone Mad By Joel S. Hirschhorn
The whole Obama story and the Democratic control of Congress are a disgrace. Progressives who eagerly supported Obama should be ashamed of themselves. They should be leading a revolution, not make excuses for Obama and the Democrats. Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – King, Malcolm X and Obama
Video: Chuck D and wife Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson discuss rap, Obama and Black political tradition Continue reading
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PEAK OIL AGAIN…and Again and Again and Again… (Pt. 1 of 2) By Mark S. Tucker
In the 70s, Engdahl interested himself in the “oil shock” (think Naomi Klein) of the era and published his first book A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, addressing a number of factors he saw as relevant to the coming Energy Wars. Central to his discussion was, oh look!, the… Continue reading
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The Queerness of Michael Jackson: A Function of Society’s Homophobia? By the Rev. Irene Monroe
With an entertainment industry that forced Rock Hudson, a movie idol, in the closet until his death, and with a black community that still has light years to go in accepting its own lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer population, Jackson concealed his desire to grow up by donning an asexual Peter Pan image. Continue reading
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Video: Full Spectrum Dominance Part One By F William Engdahl
William Engdahl on his book Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order Continue reading
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Videos: Gore Vidal on America – A seven-part series A classic Real News seven-part interview with Gore Vidal from 2007
This seven-part interview is classic Gore Vidal. Whether you agree with Vidal or not, as Martin Amis said: “Even his blind spots are illuminating.” Continue reading
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Kill the Indian. Save the Man. by Dahr Jamail
The term Manifest Destiny ceased to be used in a political context in the early 20th century. However it would seem that the idea continues to impact political actions overseas in the 21st century, if nothing else, to camouflage serious economic and political violations that the United States indulges in, across the globe. Continue reading
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The Launching of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM). Offensive Operations in Cyberspace By Tom Burghardt
Ostensibly launched to protect military networks against malicious cyberattacks, the command’s offensive nature is underlined by its role as STRATCOM’s operational cyber wing. In addition to a defensive brief to “harden” the “dot-mil” domain, the Pentagon plan calls for an offensive capacity, one that will deploy cyber weapons against imperialism’s adversaries. Continue reading
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Video: A People’s History of the American Empire by Howard Zinn
Video: A People’s History of the American Empire by Howard Zinn Continue reading
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MACHETERO WINS BIG IN THE UK TAKING AWARDS IN BOTH WALES AND ENGLAND
MACHETERO’s European Premiere in the Swansea Bay Film Festival in Wales took home the Award for Best Film – USA. The film is an exploration into the use of violence as a means towards liberation using the specific example of the island nation of Puerto Rico as springboard to delve into the broader and more… Continue reading
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Obama and Anti-War Democrats By Norman Solomon
As a close vote neared on a supplemental funding bill for more war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that “the White House has threatened to pull support from Democratic freshmen who vote no.” In effect, it was so important to President Obama to get the war funds that he was willing… Continue reading
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