energy
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“The War is Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
This article, first published in June 2010, points to the “real economic reasons” why US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan eleven years ago. Continue reading
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Video: French troops protecting Niger mine: Fight for security in Africa or..?
French troops have been called to protect one of Niger’s biggest uranium mines as security fears spike. Analyst John Laughland tells RT, that France taking the military lead in Mali and coming to Niger might be a sign of a continent-size interest. Continue reading
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The 9/11 Plan: Cheney, Rumsfeld and the “Continuity of Government” By Paul Schreyer
The core of the following story was originally told by the authors James Mann and Peter Dale Scott whose thorough research is deeply appreciated. Yet a lot of background information was added. Thus a bigger picture slowly took shape, showing a plan and its actors … Continue reading
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Is the French Invasion of Mali tied to a Colonial War for Uranium? By Saeed Shabazz
There is still confusion in UN corridors concerning France’s military intervention in Northern Mali, which began on Jan. 11 with air strikes against the so-called Islamist camps moving closer to the capital city of Bamako. Continue reading
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Video: Back to the future in Mali: French neo-colonialism looms over Africa?
Malians hoping French troops have arrived to save them from Islamists may see other objectives revealed. France views Mali as a promising source of uranium and oil, and part of a geopolitical game, say observers. Continue reading
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Fracking Industry Goes After Promised Land Film by Meher Ahmad
Before Gus Van Sant’s latest film Promised Land even premiered, the energy industry was up in arms, gearing up to counter the film’s apparent anti-fracking stance with a barrage of “community” responses (read: thinly veiled corporate PR). James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features the distributor of the film, expressed shock about the attacks on… Continue reading
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HLLN 13 January 2013: Your story Haiti, For You: Light and Libation, A Bouquet of Tears | Seismic Shifts – Haiti freestyling to murder Tarzan, Jane & their Uncle Toms
13 January 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Foreign violence against Haiti is the norm. Haiti struggles on, paying an untenable price, lighting a path for love and justice http://bit.ly/13eKwK3 Felipe Luciano/WBAI interviews Ezili Dantò of HLLN on Haiti, three years after the earthquake. Broadcast on Jan 11, 2012 http://bit.ly/13eKwK3 Continue reading
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The Sandy Hook School Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information By Prof. James F. Tracy
Inconsistencies and anomalies abound when one turns an analytical eye to news of the Newtown school massacre. The public’s general acceptance of the event’s validity and faith in its resolution suggests a deepened credulousness borne from a world where almost all news and information is electronically mediated and controlled. Continue reading
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Blowing Up the Past, Destroying the Future By by Sarah Glynn
Since 1990, Dundee has demolished over 10,000 homes. We also have thousands of people waiting for social housing because they don’t have adequate accommodation. Their house may be unfit to live in, or overcrowded, or they may be having to sleep on a friend’s sofa. Most of the homes that have been destroyed were fundamentally… Continue reading
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Iran: Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud And IAEA Credulity By Gareth Porter
That Associated Press story displaying a graph alleged to be part of an Iranian computer simulation of a nuclear explosion — likely leaked by Israel with the intention of reinforcing the media narrative of covert Iranian work on nuclear weapons – raises serious questions about the International Atomic Energy Association’s (IAEA) claim that it has… Continue reading
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Presidential Elections: Powerful “Special Interest Groups” Won Again By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
As readers know, I don’t think that either candidate is a good choice or that either offers a choice. Washington is controlled by powerful interest groups, not by elections. What the two parties fight over is not alternative political visions and different legislative agendas, but which party gets to be the whore for Wall Street,… Continue reading
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Financial Warfare: Destabilizing Iran’s Monetary System By Nile Bowie
While combating the challenges that economic sanctions represent is an arduous task for any government, it is important to recognize that these sanctions are not aimed against Iran’s government, but at its poor and merchant population. Continue reading
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Financial Warfare: Destabilizing Iran’s Monetary System By Nile Bowie
While combating the challenges that economic sanctions represent is an arduous task for any government, it is important to recognize that these sanctions are not aimed against Iran’s government, but at its poor and merchant population. Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez Frias Wins Venezuela Elections
Chávez obtained 7.444.082 votes and Capriles 6.151.544 de Capriles, with a record participation of 80,94 %. With 90% of the vote counted, according to the National Election Council, Hugo Chavez Frias is elected with 54.42% of the vote. His opponent Capriles gained 44.97% of the vote. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Ice Melts Into Water By David Cromwell and David Edwards
Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just a few decades from now. Some scientists say it may happen within the next… Continue reading
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Brought to You by…Big Oil?
The Washington Post had a two-page spread in its September 11 edition devoted to a “debate” on energy policy. But industry critics were missing from the picture. Why? Perhaps because the oil industry, undisclosed to Post readers, was sponsoring the discussion. Continue reading
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Stuxnet and the Bomb By Kennette Benedict
The cyber shot heard around the world this month marked America’s first known foray into a new, unpredictable, and potentially society-threatening cyber battlefield. And yet it’s all so familiar: Parallels with the start of the nuclear age and the Cold War haunt every aspect of this development. Continue reading
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The Greek affair: Symbol of the crisis of the European Union or paradigm of Europe’s salvation By Gaither Stewart
It is an ironic twist of history that Greece, the cradle of Western culture, today, 2500 years after the acme of Hellenic glory, appears on the stage of history in the best of cases as victim, and in the worst, as the symbol of the threat to the collapse of the West European society. Continue reading
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The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM THREAT TO HUMANITY By Washington’s Blog
The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation. The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. Continue reading
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Heal the Planet! By Satya Sagar
Even for a layperson, at very first glance, it is very clear that our planet is indeed at risk of sudden cardiac arrest. The symptoms are all there. Mother Earth suffers from dangerously elevated blood pressure, blockages of key arteries, toxic poisoning, smoked out lungs, a damaged liver and multiple injuries untreatable by existing antibiotics. Continue reading
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