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The “Global War on Terror” Created The “Global Refugee Crisis”
25 June 2018 — Global Research News Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Torturing and Killing Our Children By Robert J. Burrowes, June 25, 2018 Every day, according to some estimates, human adults kill 50,000 of our children. The true figure is probably significantly higher. We kill children in wars. See, for example, ‘Scourging Yemen’. We kill them with… Continue reading
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The “Global War on Terror” Created The “Global Refugee Crisis”
25 June 2018 — Global Research News Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Torturing and Killing Our Children By Robert J. Burrowes, June 25, 2018 Every day, according to some estimates, human adults kill 50,000 of our children. The true figure is probably significantly higher. We kill children in wars. See, for example, ‘Scourging Yemen’. We kill them with… Continue reading
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Immigrant children tied down, hooded, beaten, stripped and drugged By Patrick Martin
Court documents made public in Virginia and Texas give a glimpse of the systematic brutality being meted out to immigrant children in both public and private jails. Children are strapped down, hooded and beaten, or drugged by force, as part of the everyday procedure in what can only be called the American Gulag. Continue reading
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Video: The Circuit of Death in the “Enlarged Mediterranean” By Manlio Dinucci
The politico-media projectors, focussed as they are on the migratory flow from South to North across the Mediterranean, are leaving other Mediterranean flows in the dark – those moving from North to South, comprised of military forces and weapons. Perhaps we should say the “Enlarged Mediterranean”, an area which, in the framework of USA /… Continue reading
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Video: The Circuit of Death in the “Enlarged Mediterranean” By Manlio Dinucci
The politico-media projectors, focussed as they are on the migratory flow from South to North across the Mediterranean, are leaving other Mediterranean flows in the dark – those moving from North to South, comprised of military forces and weapons. Perhaps we should say the “Enlarged Mediterranean”, an area which, in the framework of USA /… Continue reading
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The Ministry of Cruelty
It’s a special vengeance that capital takes on those who only make counterrevolution halfway. And make no mistake, the policies and programs of the last ten years have been half-a-counterrevolution. Whether presented as austerity, or as special investment vehicles, or direct capital injections, or quantitative easing, behind all those masks stands the attack on labor,… Continue reading
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The Decline of the US Empire: Selected Articles
20 June 2018 — Global Research News Kim’s Resolve to “Put The Past Behind Us”, Trump’s Commitment to Stop the War Games? What Next? By Carla Stea, June 20, 2018 Though it is much too early to predict the course or outcome of the Singapore summit, in a powerful gesture of reconciliation, following his supremely diplomatic meeting… Continue reading
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Pundits Worry Threat of Nuclear War Is Being Reduced By Gregory Shupak
On MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, the host was aghast (6/12/18) that the US says it will halt the annual war games it conducts with South Korea on North Korea’s doorstep, because doing so is “an absolute jackpot for the North Korean dictator,” “one of the things he wants most on earth,” and now Washington “has… Continue reading
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Running amok? Donald Trump facilitates civilian drone deaths & continues attacks in seven countries ‘and elsewhere’
The NGO CAGE, which campaigns against discriminatory state policies and advocates observance of due process and the rule of law, reminds readers that in October 2017, US President Donald Trump replaced the Obama rules pertaining to drone strikes with his own ‘rules’ called the “Principles, Standards, and Procedures,” or PSPs. Continue reading
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With Literal Nazis Running for Office, NYT Suggests Candidate’s Israel Criticism Is Antisemitic By Adam Johnson
With the increase on the US right in overt Nazi activity, one might be surprised to see the paper of record (New York Times, 5/29/18) turn its sights not on this disturbing trend, but on progressive candidate Leslie Cockburn, whose criticism of Israel is being cynically exploited by her opponents in the Republican Party—the same… Continue reading
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Peace Is a Cliché
3 June 2018 — Global Research News Peace Is a Cliché: When the West Cannot Control the World Unopposed It Means War By Andre Vltchek, June 03, 2018 Today, some 60 percent of Kenyans live in slums; some of the toughest in Africa. Some of these ‘settlements’, like Mathare and Kibera are housing at least one million people, in… Continue reading
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Ukraine – The Babchenko Hoax Was Part Of A Corporate Raid
The case of the death and resurrection of the Russian journalist Babchenko in Kiev is even more surreal than it seemed so far. According to Ukrainian sources and court documents the whole hoax was part of an attempt to raid and take over a private company. High levels of the Ukrainian security services staged the… Continue reading
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The U.S. and Israel Are Marching towards War with Iran By Dr. Ludwig Watzal
On Monday, May 21, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a rant against Iran before the right-wing Heritage Foundation in Washington. It was a bullying speech to push the Iranian leadership to surrender unconditionally to US demands. If the Iranian people are unable to contrive “regime change” the US will do it by military means,… Continue reading
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Korea News Links 24 May 2018
24 May 2018 — williambowles.info Trump says US military ‘is ready’ if North Korea takes ‘foolish action’ following cancelled summit http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-north-korea-summit-latest-kim-jong-un-military-nuclear-south-korea-japan-a8367741.html Trump cancels US-North Korea summit with Kim Jong-un http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-north-korea-summit-cancel-us-kim-jong-un-a8367306.html Continue reading
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Does Iron Fist Imperialism Benefit US Workers?
We speak to economist Gerald Epstein, who did the cost-benefit analysis of the US invasion of Iraq. He found that the US military adventure cost US workers approximately two trillion dollars Continue reading
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Facebook and The Atlantic Council Unite: Now Social Media Giant Serves NATO’s Agenda By Bryan Macdonald
For the uninitiated, the Atlantic Council serves as the American-led alliance’s chief advocacy group. And its methods are rather simple: it grants stipends and faux academic titles to various activists that align with NATO’s agenda. Thus, lobbyists become “fellows” and “experts,”while the enterprise constructs a neutral sheen, which is rarely (if ever) challenged by Western… Continue reading
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US-North Korea Peace Talks: Trump Threatens Kim with Gaddafi’s Fate
Col. Larry Wilkerson: Trump’s threats, Bolton’s inexperience, combined with the military exercises in the region is putting the North Korean peace talks at risk. It is inexplicable form of diplomacy, unless you want the talks to fail Continue reading
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US-North Korea Peace Talks: Trump Threatens Kim with Gaddafi’s Fate
Col. Larry Wilkerson: Trump’s threats, Bolton’s inexperience, combined with the military exercises in the region is putting the North Korean peace talks at risk. It is inexplicable form of diplomacy, unless you want the talks to fail Continue reading
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Gaza & the US Press by CounterSpin
This week on CounterSpin: The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza says Israeli soldiers killed at least 60 Palestinians and wounded as may as 2,700 in an eight-hour period pm May 14. Palestinians protesting both the horrific living conditions in Gaza and their inability—despite international law—to leave it, to return to the homes from which they… Continue reading
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'Most Americans Say They Want Protections for the Open Internet' By Janine Jackson
Janine Jackson: All social justice fights intersect in some way. But net neutrality is the definition of a keystone issue: The policy protects the space in which to discuss and debate and organize all the other fights, the means to talk around the legacy media gatekeepers—the ones who tell you that killing people in other… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 