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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 12-18 August 2012: Italy / Syria / Kosovo / China-Africa / Egypt / USA / UN
18 August 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Rethinking Italian National Interest and Strategy in a Changing World 18.08.2012 | 00:00 | Tiberio GRAZIANI, Daniele SCALEA Continue reading
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Video: Daniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire to Protect Julian Assange
Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations. ‘I congratulate Ecuador, of course, for standing up to the British Empire here, for insisting that they are not a British colony, and acting as… Continue reading
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How the Chosen Ones ended Australia’s Olympic Prowess and Revealed a Secret Past By John Pilger
Wally MacArthur was one of the “stolen generation”. The victim of a eugenics-inspired campaign to “breed out the black”, Wally was taken from his mother as a small boy and was destined to become a servant in white society. His gift was speed. Running without shoes, he was the Usain Bolt of his day. Wally… Continue reading
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Too little too late?
The 292,000-strong Public and Commercial Services Union … voted four to one in favour of using union funds to back anti-austerity candidates. Continue reading
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Video: Lifta – film-in-progress (must watch)
Lifta is the only remaining Arab village depopulated in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence that has not been completely destroyed or re-populated by Jews. Lifta’s Arab heritage, architecture and history are about to be erased by Jerusalem’s municipality that plans to build over 250 luxury villas, shops and a hotel on this site. An international… Continue reading
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History is the enemy as ‘brilliant’ psy-ops become the news By John Pilger
In 1970, a US Senate report revealed that “the US has dumped [on South Vietnam] a quantity of toxic chemical amounting to six pounds per head of population, including woman and children”. The code-name for this weapon of mass destruction, Operation Hades, was changed to the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand. Today, an estimated 4.8 million… Continue reading
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War At Any Cost: Another Manufactured Pretext for War with Syria By Eric Draitser
The downing of a Turkish jet by the Syrian military last week was not merely a military incident making the possibility of an intervention and regional war much more likely. This episode was the most recent in a long and storied history of “international incidents” or provocations used by imperial powers as pretexts for military… Continue reading
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Coup in Paraguay: Will U.S. Join Latin America in Condemning Ouster of President Fernando Lugo?
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has been ousted in what he has described as a parliamentary coup. On Friday, the Paraguayan Senate voted 39-to-4 to impeach Lugo, saying he had failed in his duty to maintain social order following a recent land dispute which resulted in the deaths of six police officers and 11 peasant farmers. Continue reading
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CIA ALLOWED TO SUSTAIN COVER-UP OF BAY OF PIGS HISTORY
CIA Officials Defy Obama Directive on FOIA which states that “the Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.” Continue reading
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9th April: Iraq, Massacre of a Country By Felicity Arbuthnot
America’s 2003 assault on Iraq, already devastated by thirteen years of sanctions, infrastructure destruction consequently unrepaired from the 1991 bombing was, in the ridiculous annals of names the US military gives to their slaughter-fests, entitled: “Shock and Awe.” Continue reading
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US WAR ON IRAN: "THE WORST MISTAKE IN AMERICAN HISTORY": The Road to Disaster By Fidel Castro Ruz
This Reflection could be written today, tomorrow or any other day without the risk of being mistaken. Our species faces new problems. When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than… Continue reading
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Video: Abbey Lincoln on Billie Holiday
The great (and much under-rated) singer Abbey Lincoln tells it like it is and sets the record straight on history’s portrayal of Billie Holiday. 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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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 March 2012
8 March 2012 — williambowles.info The heavy price of telling the truth Montreal Gazette Hintz points to the experience of Bradley Manning, the alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower who was nabbed after he revealed his identity to a hacker via an online chat. “The Bradley Manning case also shows the severity of the repercussions,” Hintz said. Continue reading
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The U.S. Strategy to Control Middle Eastern Oil By Andrew Gavin Marshall
In the midst of World War II, Saudi Arabia secured a position of enormous significance to the rising world power, America. With its oil reserves essentially untapped, the House of Saud became a strategic ally of immense importance, “a matter of national security, nourishing U.S. military might and enhancing the potentiality of postwar American hegemony.” Continue reading
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China: Western Historical Sympathy Is Too Much To Expect
External observers always listen to the powerful, and ignore the fear and anger of the weak. The Chinese should require themselves to remember history. There is too long a way to go before global justice and consciousness pay attention to those innocent victims. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 