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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
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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
