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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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The real Invasion of Africa is Not News, and a Licence to Lie is Hollywood’s Gift By John Pilger
A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media. Continue reading
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The Children Killed by America’s Drones. “Crimes Against Humanity” committed by Barack H. Obama By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
But behind each name there is the face of a child with a family history in a village in a far away country, with a mom and a dad, with brothers and sisters and friends. Among the list, are infants of 1, 2, 3 and 4 years old. In some cases brothers and sisters of… Continue reading
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PBS Drone Coverage Brought to You by Drone Makers
The PBS Nova broadcast “Rise of the Drones” was sponsored by drone manufacturer Lockheed Martin–a clear violation of PBS’s underwriting guidelines. Continue reading
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Video: Fractured Land- Confronting Big Oil the Ravages of Neocolonialism By grtv
19 January 2013 — GRtv Caleb Behn is a young, Indigenous warrior fighting to save his people’s land and culture. Deep in the exquisite wilderness of northeastern British Columbia, the ancestral home of Caleb’s Dene people, the multi-billion-dollar oil and gas industry emits chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, the killing of brain and blood Continue reading
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Video: US AFRICOM Operation Underway in Mali. “Keeping China out of Africa” By Patrick Henningsen
As we predicted this past week, the theatrical upheaval in Mali was merely a nudging exercise to move forward the stated objectives laid down in US AFRICOM policy. Continue reading
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Director Kathryn Bigelow defends her indefensible Zero Dark Thirty By David Walsh
Director Kathryn Bigelow took to the pages of the Los Angeles Times Tuesday to defend her pro-CIA film Zero Dark Thirty which has provoked opposition inside and outside the film industry. Bigelow’s column, which reveals her as a slavish admirer of the US intelligence and military apparatus, only sinks her—deservedly—deeper in the mire. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 January 2013: Making history in Bab Al Shams
16 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Fires Several Shells Into Central GazaIMEMC – Wednesday morning, Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli soldiers fired several artillery shells into Palestinian lands, east of the central part of the Gaza Strip, no injuries were reported. … Continue reading
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2013 Academy Award Nominations: “And the Winner is … The CIA” By David Walsh
In 2012 the American film industry presented an extraordinary contradiction, between those showing an interest in social life and history, on the one hand, and those eagerly endorsing the “dark side” of imperialist policy, on the other. In their own inimitably muddle-headed fashion, the Oscar nominations reflect this divide. Continue reading
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Review of "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956" By Eric Walberg
The period following WWII in eastern Europe is considered to be a black one, best forgotten. All the pre-war governments had been quasi-fascist dictatorships which either succumbed to the Nazi onslaught (Poland) or actively cooperated with the Germans (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria). The Soviet liberation was greeted with trepidation by many – with good reason for… Continue reading
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Video: Chavez Misses Inauguration, Will Be Sworn in by Supreme Court if he Recovers
Alex Main (CEPR): Venezuelan opposition hopes to take advantage of crisis but after sweeping state elections and winning decisively in the Presidential election, Chavez forces unlikely to lose power in a new election Continue reading
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Movie Review: Django Unchained: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger By Jordy Cummings
Of all the “b-movie” film genres of the 20th century, none was more consistently radical than the spaghetti western. So-named because of its Italian lineage, these films used the setting of the wild west to portray thinly veiled allegories about popular uprisings, class and racial oppression, and armed rebellion against the ruling classes. Continue reading
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Mleeta, Khiam, Sabra, Shatila and Resistance In General By Gilad Atzmon
It was my second visit to the country. 30 years ago I crossed the Lebanese border along with an IDF convoy escorted by tanks and armed vehicles. Then I was an occupier, this time I came with only my saxophone and a desire to share my thoughts and deliver some beauty. Continue reading
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Video: Woody Shaw – 'But not for me'
24 December 2012 — Jazz on the Tube Often referred to as the “last innovator” in the jazz trumpet lineage, Shaw is credited with revolutionizing the technical and harmonic vocabulary of the instrument and is considered one of the great jazz composers and band leaders of the twentieth century. Born with a photographic memory Continue reading
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Haiti's New Dictatorship By Justin Podur
What constitutes a dictatorship? Haiti had an election in 2006, which the popular candidate won. It had an election in 2011, which had one of the lowest turnouts in recent history and which was subject to all kinds of external manipulation. Given these elections, is it unfair to call Haiti, a country that suffered 30… Continue reading
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Books: Catastrophism — Left, Right, and Center by Ernesto Aguilar
One of the Left’s great challenges is to understand when the great watershed of change is upon people and seize the time. Racism, sexism, inequality, and uncertain futures have weighed heavily on the conscience of many a movement. For every great moment, hundreds of crushing defeats never to be remembered are handed down. Once in… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report December #111 11th, 2012 By William Blum: Death by Stupidity
The hurricanes, the typhoons, the heat waves … the droughts, the heavy rains, the floods … ever more powerful, ever new records being set. Something must be done of course. Except if you don’t believe at all that it’s man-made. Continue reading
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‘Stupid and criminal’: Lawyer for Bradley Manning speaks out
The lawyer representing Bradley Manning, the US Army private accused of leaking classified information to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has issued a damning indictment of his client’s “criminal” treatment in solitary confinement. Continue reading
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