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America: A Deteriorating Nation of Denial & Apathy By Sibel Edmonds
As the unending back-to-back scandals unfold, from the arrest and prosecution of courageous truth-tellers (aka whistleblowers), to the illegal wiretapping of all Americans, torture, indefinite detentions, the groping and handling of travelers, utilizing the IRS as the government’s hit-men and thugs … I am asked to provide statements, interpretations and/ or explanations as to what… Continue reading
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NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others By Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill
The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. Continue reading
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Monsanto Protection Act Signed By Obama, GMO Bill “Written By Monsanto” Signed Into Law
The Monsanto Protection Act, essentially both written by and benefiting Monsanto Corporation, has been signed into law by United States President Barack Obama. The infamous Monsanto Corporation will benefit greatly and directly from the bill, as it essentially gives companies that deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds immunity to the… Continue reading
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Obama-Media Scandals- Only the Tip of The Iceberg: Wiretapping of US Congress & Using NGOs as Traps for Whistleblowers
Isn’t it ironic? After more than a decade of intensive government witch-hunting directed toward government whistleblowers and truth-tellers- who also happen to be the most valuable sources when it comes to media and journalism, the US media has suddenly become alert and apprehensive to its government’s decade-long snooping, targeting, persecuting, and prosecuting of information-transparency sources.… Continue reading
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Military Says No Presidential Authorization Needed To Quell “Civil Disturbances” By Paul Joseph Watson
A recent Department of Defense instruction alters the US code applying to the military’s involvement in domestic law enforcement by allowing US troops to quell “civil disturbances” domestically without any Presidential authorization, greasing the skids for a de facto military coup in America along with the wholesale abolition of Posse Comitatus. Continue reading
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Military Says No Presidential Authorization Needed To Quell “Civil Disturbances” By Paul Joseph Watson
A recent Department of Defense instruction alters the US code applying to the military’s involvement in domestic law enforcement by allowing US troops to quell “civil disturbances” domestically without any Presidential authorization, greasing the skids for a de facto military coup in America along with the wholesale abolition of Posse Comitatus. Continue reading
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The Militarization of Domestic Law Enforcement: Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’
By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries. Continue reading
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Death is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo By Marjorie Cohn
More than 100 of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo are starving themselves to death. Twenty-three of them are being force-fed. “They strap you to a chair, tie up your wrists, your legs, your forehead and tightly around the waist,” Fayiz Al-Kandari told his lawyer, Lt. Col. Barry Wingard. Al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo for… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 8 May 2013
8 May 2013 — williambowles.info SF Pride’s Bradley Manning Imbroglio Could End Up in Court SF Weekly (blog) If Bay Area peaceniks had their druthers, the whole SF Pride Manning-gate imbroglio would end tonight. Pride board members are scheduled to have a meeting at 7 p.m., at which point they’ll probably discuss the issue Continue reading
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ICH 10 April 2013: How the West Fueled the Carnage in Syria
10 April 2013 — Information Clearing House In This Nuclear Standoff It’s The US That’s The Rogue State By Jonathan Steele The idea of hegemony, often sanitised as “leadership”, is unacceptable. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34563.htm Continue reading
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'Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress
The US House of Representatives is expected to weigh in on the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for Fiscal year 2013 this week, and included within the act lies the “Farmer Assurance Provision,” a small subsection that has so far earned opposition from hundreds of thousands family farmers, environmental interest groups and other advocates. Those hoping to… Continue reading
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Top U.S. Terrorist Group: the FBI By David Swanson
A careful study of the FBI’s own data on terrorism in the United States, reported in Trevor Aaronson’s book The Terror Factory,finds one organization leading all others in creating terrorist plots in the United States: the FBI.Imagine an incompetent bureaucrat. Now imagine a corrupt one. Now imagine both combined. You’re starting to get at the… Continue reading
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Video: Du Bois, Garvey and Pan Africanism
Part 3: On the 145th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’s birth, Anthony Monteiro discusses the opposing views on Pan Africanism of Du Bois and Marcus Garvey Continue reading
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Secret Memo by Donald Rumsfeld Proves Iraq War Started On False Pretenses
Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – just said that Powell knew that there were no WMDs: I wonder what will happen when we put 500,000 troops into Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and find nothing Continue reading
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I want my fair share–and that's ALL OF IT. The Kochs & the XL Pipeline By Greg Palast
According to the transcript of the secretly recorded tape, Charles Koch was chuckling like a six-year old. Koch was having a hell of a laugh over pilfering a few hundred dollars’ worth of oil from a couple of dirt-poor Indians on the Osage Reservation. Why did Koch, worth about $3 billion at the time (now… Continue reading
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ICH 9 February 2013:
9 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria: How Jihadist’s Are Taking Over Syria‘s “Revolution” By Ruth Sherlock, Aleppo Life in Syria‘s most populous city has become a dog-eat-dog existence: a battle for survival in a place where the strong devour the weak. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33892.htm Continue reading
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CISPA’s back: Hacking, online espionage resurrect cybersecurity bill
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced before the US House next week following a spate of cyber espionage and hacking attacks. Civil liberties advocates have criticized the bill for violating privacy laws. Continue reading
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ICH 6 February 2013: Obama Grants Himself License To Kill
6 February 2013 — Information Clearing House The Mali Blowback: More to Come? By Stephen Zunes U.S.-trained Army Captain Amadou Sanogo and other officers staged a coup and called for U.S. intervention along the lines of Afghanistan and the “war on terror.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33858.htm Continue reading
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Space War: U.S.’s Former Nazi Scientists’ Dream Of Ruling World
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Bruce Gagnon shares little known facts about the militarization of space by the United States, the development of first strike space drones and the foundation of the US military industrial complex by Nazi scientists bent on victory in World War III. If you thought missile defense… Continue reading