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Criminals for Peace By William T. Hathaway
A new group of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists from the USA, Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan offers a variety of answers to these conundrum questions. In opposing militarism we’ve moved beyond demonstrations and petitions into direct action, flouting the government’s laws and impeding its ability to kill our fellow human beings. As criminals for… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 2-7 July 2012: Russia, India, China / Cyprus/ Iran / Pakistan / USA / Syria
7 July 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Russia, India and Pakistan-China Cooperation (I) 07.07.2012 | 00:00 | Andrei VOLODIN Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit Pakistan. Reportedly the event is to take place in September this year. «Lull» is a natural thing for summer time that gives an opportunity to reflect on the reasons defining… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-22 June 2012: Iran / Asia / Greece /nEgypt / Ecuador / CIA / Media
23 June 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation US shopping for «lily pads» in Central Asia22.06.2012 | 10:24 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The hidden agenda of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 lay enveloped by the fog of the war for most of the past ten-year period… Even now, when the topic of discussion is the… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 May 2012
12 May 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Was Industrial Sabotage at Play with Super Jet crash in Indonesia?12.05.2012 | 07:26 | Wayne MADSEN Based on past aggressive competitive commercial tactics employed by the alliance of American corporations, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and the Pentagon, aviation experts in Asia are wondering aloud whether the recent crash of… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-24 March 2012: Internet / Egypt / Azerbaijan / Latin America-Cuba / Afghanistan / Libya / UK
24 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Cyber security: new threats, new opportunities 24.03.2012 | 00:00 | Andrey NOVATSKY Speaking about the stronger cyber threats the US government mentions a new symbolic “Axis of Evil”: China – Russia – North Korea. The US claims that most of the cyber attacks on informational infrastructure of the US… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 11-16 March 2012: Europe / Russia / Middle East / Qatar / SCO / USA / Latin America
17 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Europe on the Brink 16.03.2012 | 00:00 | Vladimir NESTEROV At the moment, it is open to debate whether the Greek default is a fairly inescapable outcome or an accomplished fact, but, clearly, getting the Greeks out of trouble is not the point for those who handle the situation.… Continue reading
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KONY 2012: Merchandising and Branding Support for US Military Intervention in Central Africa By Nile Bowie
Edward Bernays believed that society could not be trusted to make rational and informed decisions on their own, and that guiding public opinion was essential within a democratic society. Bernays founded the Council on Public Relations and his 1928 book, Propaganda cites the methodology used in the application of effective emotional communication. He discovered that… Continue reading
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The “Lone Gunman” of Kandahar Province? “The Dehumanization of the Enemy” Engrained in the Behavior of US Soldiers… By Andy Dilks
The latest line from the US government on the killings has been to discuss at length the mental state of the gunman. Initially, he was described as being possibly “deranged” at the time of the shootings; then, it was stated that he had suffered a “mental breakdown”, yet another soldier from Fort Lewis-McChord (described by… Continue reading
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The “Lone Gunman” of Kandahar Province? "The Dehumanization of the Enemy" Engrained in the Behavior of US Soldiers… By Andy Dilks
The latest line from the US government on the killings has been to discuss at length the mental state of the gunman. Initially, he was described as being possibly “deranged” at the time of the shootings; then, it was stated that he had suffered a “mental breakdown”, yet another soldier from Fort Lewis-McChord (described by… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 3-10 March 2012: Africa / India-Pakistan / Arab Socialism / Russia-USA / Syria /
9 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Africa on the Brink of New Shocks 10.03.2012 | 11:33 | Alexander MEZYAEV The state powers of North Africa and the Middle East overtly routed, the process of destabilization in Nigeria and some other Africa South of Sahara countries moved a little away from the radar screen. But the… Continue reading
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Not Quite “Ordinary Human Beings” — Anti-Imperialism and the Anti-Humanist Rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon
Atzmon’s statements, besides distorting the history of Jews and constituting a brazen justification for centuries of anti-Jewish behavior and beliefs, also downgrade anti-Zionism to a mere front in the broader (anti-Jewish) struggle. Atzmon has specifically described Zionism not as a form of colonialism or settlerism, but as a uniquely evil ideology unlike anything else in… Continue reading
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No Free Happy Meals for NYPD ‘Stop and Frisk’ Victims
According to its own data, the New York Police Department made over 684,000 street stops in 2011, a 603% increase over 2002, when Mayor Bloomberg first took office, and a 14% increase over 2010. Nearly 90% of “Stop and Frisk” victims are African American and Latino, though they make up only 50% of the city’s… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 3 March 2012: Belarus / US / Russia / BRICS / Turkey / Israel/Venezuela / Iran / Serbia / Afghanistan
3 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Syria – Belarus. Parallels 03.03.2012 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV By the end of 2011 – beginning of 2012 Belarus sparked a wave of hysteria in the West. In December the President of the USA signed the sanctions imposing Belarus Human Rights and Democracy Act. The EU introduced additional… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 19-25 February 2012: Kosovo / Syria / UN / Arab League / Russia / China /Venezuela / Afghanistan
25 February 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Kosovo Serbs Caught in Crossfire from Three Points 25.02.2012 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV The debates over Serbia’s bid for the status of a EU candidate, which are due to open in Brussels in March, will likely provoke a new round of destabilization in the Serbian districts of the… Continue reading
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The sheep look down By William Bowles
The ability of ‘science fiction’ to extrapolate the future and it would seem often quite accurately, but one ignored by the priests of ‘high culture’ who consistently dismissed it as ‘genre’ writing, confined to a convenient niche where bug-eyed monsters live and bought where guys in dirty raincoats prowled. Continue reading
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It’s time we recognised the Blair government’s criminality By John Pilger
In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre after all; the pirouettes matter, not actions taken at remove in distance and culture from their consequences. It is a secure arrangement guarded by cast and critics alike. The farewell speech of one of the… Continue reading
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The Right-Wing Id Unzipped By Mike Lofgren
Right-wingers have occasioned much recent comment. Their behavior in the Republican debates has caused even jaded observers to react like an Oxford don stumbling upon a tribe of headhunting cannibals. In those debates where the moderators did not enforce decorum, these right-wingers, the Republican base, behaved with a single lack of dignity. For a group… Continue reading
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Ethnic Cleansing in a Zionist Fairyland By Vacy Vlazna
Archaeology has become a state apparatus for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Zionist fairyland aka the City of David Archaeological Park located in the Palestinian village of Silwan in East Jerusalem. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 5-11 February 2012: Kosovo / US / UK / Syria / Maldives / Falklands
11 February 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Truly Disgusting – the West in Kosovo 11.02.2012 | 00:00 | Aleksandar PAVIC In the tantrums thrown by the Western powers in the wake of the Russo-Chinese veto of their UN Security Council resolution on Syria, the US’s UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, expressed «disgust» at these two states’… Continue reading
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Activists denounce restrictions on Chicago G8/NATO protests By CHRISTINE MARIE
On Jan. 25, the Vancouver culture jammers known as Adbusters brought new attention to the need to protest the NATO/G8 summit occurring in Chicago from May 19-21. Adbusters played a large role in building the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York last fall and their call is expected to put the NATO/G8 summit meetings… Continue reading
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