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REMAINS OF TWO OF GUATEMALA’S DEATH SQUAD DIARY VICTIMS FOUND IN MASS GRAVE
The bodies of two men whose disappearance in 1984 was recorded in the notorious Guatemalan “death squad diary” have been located on a former military base outside the capital and positively identified through DNA testing, according to the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala, which announced its findings in a press conference this morning. Continue reading
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Bloomberg Personifies What the Occupation Opposes BY Glen Ford
It was never in the cards for a plutocrat mayor to long tolerate a movement whose essential logic is the dissolution of his class. ‘If the Occupy Wall Street movement has been about anything, it is the absolute necessity to rid the nation – and the world – of the collective tyranny of the Bloombergs,… Continue reading
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Occupy Denialism: Toward Ecological and Social Revolution By John Bellamy Foster
5 November 2011 — MRZine This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Powershift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. Continue reading
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Sole Military Super-Bloc: NATO Issues Daily Reprieves To The World
Like Scipio Africanus the Younger almost twenty-two centuries earlier in what is now Libya’s western neighbor Tunisia, then Carthage, Rasmussen planted the banner of a conquering power on the soil of North Africa. Perhaps NATO will grant Rasmussen, too, the honorific agnomen Africanus after the military bloc’s first war and first conquest on the continent. Continue reading
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Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe By John Bellamy Foster
30 October 2011 — MRZine John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff at Occupy Wall Street. Photo by Carrie Ann Naumoff This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street: What You Can Demand versus What You Must DO By Glen Ford
Occupy Wall Street activists are under some pressures to come up with demands to make of the powerful. However, ‘in many cases, there is no point in demanding anything from your enemy, except that he drop dead in a hurry.’ Continue reading
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The march of the neoliberals By Stuart Hall
We are living through an extraordinary political situation: the end of the debt-fuelled boom, the banking crisis of 2007-10, the defeat of New Labour and the rise to power of a Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition. What sort of crisis is this? Is it a serious wobble in the trickle-down, win-win, end-of-boom-and-bust economic model that has dominated… Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 8-9 October 2011
9 October 2011 — williambowles.info 9 October 2011 Is it Revolution 2.0? Green Left Weekly issue #782 Today at 10:28 Sun, 09/10/2011 By Chris Atkinson There’s no doubt that the explosion of social media, mobile technology and online-organising capabilities have dramatically altered the battle terrain of class struggles today in ways good, bad and ugly. Continue reading
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Support from the Tribes of Sahara. Thousands of Tuaregs Join Libyan Resistance Forces By Alliby Hassan
1 October 2011 — Global Research – La Haine Axis of Logic Continue reading
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In the belly of the beast By William Bowles
In case you hadn’t noticed, especially if you get your news from the MSM, there is the mother of all capitalist crises unfolding around us. A crisis that appears to be far deeper even than the Crash of ’29 and given the global nature of corporate capitalism, nobody (except the rich) can escape its awful… Continue reading
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The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations By Prof. John Kozy
The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired workers will increase employment, and that… Continue reading
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Silence and fear return to the streets of Tripoli — RT
With Gaddafi effectively gone, the new authorities have settled down here in the capital, Tripoli. People are chanting that Libya is now a new free country. But it seems there is at least one thing that still remains – fear. Continue reading
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Silence and fear return to the streets of Tripoli — RT
With Gaddafi effectively gone, the new authorities have settled down here in the capital, Tripoli. People are chanting that Libya is now a new free country. But it seems there is at least one thing that still remains – fear. Continue reading
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NATO’s “Victory” in Libya Genocide and Rebel Infighting by Tony Cartalucci
Desperate to declare NATO’s mission in Libya a victory ahead of the September 19, 2011 deadline on their contrived UN Security Council resolution, already violated in every conceivable manner possible, NATO planes in tandem with NATO special forces obliterated Tripoli ahead of swarms of Libyan rebel troops led by notorious Al Qaeda thug Abdulhakim Hasadi… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6-7 September 2011
7 September 2011 — williambowles.info 7 September 2011Lauren Ploch, “Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa” MRZine.org Today at 08:17 As envisioned by the Department of Defense (DOD), AFRICOM aims to promote U.S. strategic objectives and protect U.S. interests in the region by working with African states and Continue reading
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Bitter clashes on in Libyan capital
The troops that are loyal to Gaddafi, as well as his supporters, have repulsed a rebel attack on the Bu-Salim district of Tripoli, with dozens of rebels and foreign mercenaries fighting against Gaddafi reported killed in the attack. Continue reading
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Gaddafi manhunt: rebels and NATO close in — RT
British Tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at Colonel Gaddafi’s command and control bunker in his hometown of Sirte, despite previous claims the coalition would not assist rebels in hunting him down. The colonel’s whereabouts are still unknown. Continue reading
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Gaddafi manhunt: rebels and NATO close in — RT
British Tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at Colonel Gaddafi’s command and control bunker in his hometown of Sirte, despite previous claims the coalition would not assist rebels in hunting him down. The colonel’s whereabouts are still unknown. Continue reading
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