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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
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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
