CIA
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Mike Whitney: Somalia: Another CIA-backed coup blows up
The United States has lost the ground war in Somalia, but that doesn’t mean its geopolitical objectives have changed one iota. The US intends to stay in the region for years to come and use its naval power to control the critical shipping lanes from the Gulf of Aden. Continue reading
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John Maxwell: Racism and Poverty
The people of Haiti are as poor as human beings can be. According to the statisticians of the World Bank and others who speculate about how many Anglos can dance on the head of a peon, Haiti may either be the second, third or fourth poorest country in the world. In Haiti’s case, statistics are… Continue reading
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From Pristina to La Paz: Expelled US Ambassador to Bolivia had been in charge of Kosovo Secession
The US Embassy is deploying an effort of collective indoctrination against the indigenous crisis, promoting racial hatred and separatism that was evident during the events of January 11, 2007, in unison with business organizations such as the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Cainco) in Santa Cruz, which openly supports Reyes Villa and his ‘advisors.’ Continue reading
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The Dutch Connection By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
The recent De Telegraaf article[i] ‘revealing’ the Dutch intelligence cooperation with the CIA is a propaganda piece aimed at undermining the credibility of United Nations, its specialized agency, the IAEA, and its chief Mohammad ElBaradei. It also seeks to demoralize the Iranians and undermine their resolve in confronting outside enemies. Continue reading
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Georgia – Another Pawn in the ‘Great Game’ By William Bowles
On August 7th, Georgia launched an unprovoked and vicious assault on the capital city of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, killing perhaps as many 2000 civilians, many of them women, children and old people and destroying much of the city including the main hospital and the university. Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life May 1, 2008 www.killinghope.org Since I gave up hope, I feel better. ‘More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life www.killinghope.org How could they have known? It wasn’t on Oprah or Fox News. Hillary Clinton and many other members of Congress claim that their support of the invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intelligence reports.… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: SUHARTO – COVERING UP WESTERN COMPLICITY
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media February 12, 2008 The death of the former Indonesian dictator, Suharto, on January 27 could have unleashed a flood of revelations detailing British and American support for one of the 20th century’s worst mass murderers. Instead, the media continued the cover up that has… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, January 13, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, January 13, 2008: “The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life January 13, 2008 by William Blum http://www.killinghope.org An Unreasonable Man I recommend the new documentary about Ralph Nader, which was recently shown on PBS television, ‘An Unreasonable Man‘. Its primary focus is on… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report By William Blum, December 11, 2007
Anti-Empire Report, December 11, 2007: “The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life December 11, 2007 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Another peace scare. Boy, that was close. The US intelligence community’s new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) — ‘Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities’ — makes a point… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report #49, September 11, 2007 by William Blum
11 September 2007 — Anti-Empire Report The world is very weary of all this and wants to laugh again Okay, Bush ain’t gonna get out of Iraq no matter what anyone says or does short of a) impeachment, b) a lobotomy, or c) one of his daughters setting herself afire in the Oval Office as… Continue reading
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Book Review: Capitalism – past its sell-by date? By William Bowles
Historically, it has been the CIA which up until the 1990s did the dirty work for US imperialism as the record clearly shows. However, the CIA’s record in overthrowing foreign governments is far from being a success story. A new strategy was needed, and one which was untainted with the ‘dirty tricks’ label of the… Continue reading
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The media’s complicity in suppressing the reality that is Haiti today By William Bowles
Whilst the world rushed to the aid of the victims of the Tsunami and the leaders of the ‘free world’ pontificated on how humanitarian they are, children, in all likelihood, hundreds of children are being exterminated by death squads, aided and abetted by US/UN occupation forces in Haiti. But if you wanted to find out… Continue reading
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Psych-Wars By William Bowles
26 October 2004 “The target suffered a terminal illness before a firing squad in Baghdad.” — CIA officer testifying to US Senate hearing, after bloody CIA aided Ba’ath Party coup overthrew Iraqi Prime Minister Abdel Kassem, 1963 The Kurt Nimmo article I posted here last week prompted some emails on the issue of US agent… Continue reading
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Crunch Time in Caracas By William Bowles
This coming Sunday 15 August, the infamous Recall Referendum takes place in Venezuela. For those of you not familiar with the situation in Venezuela – fifth largest producer of oil on the planet and 10% of it going to that insatiable guzzler of the stuff, El Norté, the US – in 1998, the country voted… Continue reading
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Welcome to the Hall of (Daily) Mirrors By William Bowles
For decades the ruling class has pretty well had things ‘under control’. It could rely on an electorate dosed to the eyeballs on anti-communism with liberal lacings of racism, a side dish of xenophobia followed by a dessert of crumbs from the well-stocked larder of the capitalist way of life. Live now, pay later. Continue reading
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Psy-Ops? By William Bowles
Already, there are questions surrounding the death of Nicholas Berg portrayed in the notorious video and supposedly committed by Al Qu-eda’s #2 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Of course, we have no proof that ‘Al Qu-eda’ committed it let alone Zarqawi aside from the assertions that have come from the US authorities and what it says on… Continue reading
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The immoral low ground By William Bowles
9 May 2004 “Saddam a “presentable young man” with “engaging smile,” “Let’s “do business,” said British Embassy in 1969.”” “”The goal has never been to win the Olympic high jump in democracy,” Paul Wolfowitz “That strategic objective, of a free, democratic, de-Baathified Iraq, is grandiose, and unattainable…. It’s just a matter of time before we… Continue reading
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