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Action Alert: Urge Nobel Foundation to Rescind Obama’s award
In June 2012 Coleen Rowley and I co-wrote a petition to rescind Obama’s Transparency Award, given to him during a secret ceremony by a handful of agenda-driven organizations led by Project on Government Oversight (POGO). Here is what our petition called for: Continue reading
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National Security Archive: That 3 A.M. Phone Call…
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was awakened on 9 November 1979, to be told that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the combined U.S.–Canada military command–was reporting a Soviet missile attack. Just before Brzezinski was about to call President Carter, the NORAD warning turned out to be a false alarm. It was one of those moments… Continue reading
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Columbia’s Quest for Peace & Justice: The International & National Contexts By Professor James Petras
Between April 21-23, thousands of activists from most of the major urban and rural social movements and trade unions, human rights groups and indigenous, afro-Colombian movements will meet to unify forces and launch, what promises to be the most significant new political movement in recent history. Continue reading
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Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Marshall- Episode 8
29 February 2012 — www.boilingfrogspost.com “Black History in the United States: Slavery, Segregation, and Social Control” In a highly critical black history of the United States, this episode examines the social construction of race (and racism) starting in the late 1600s as a means of social control, devised through the colonial legal system to separate white Continue reading
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Fukushima, the Criminal Complicity of Governments & What May Be in Store for US Reactors
Video: Fukushima gave the world a crash course in cascading nuclear failure. What many do not know is that the damaged reactors were designed by General Electric, rely on 40-year-old containment technology, and are substantially similar to 32 reactors currently operating around the world, including 23 in the United States. Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2012
24 February 2012 — NEWS 1. Housmans Virtual Book Club2. Competition to win a pair of tickets to Camus’ ‘Caligula’ IN-STORE EVENTS3. Women’s History Month presents: ‘Women’s history: half the future half the past’ with Jessica Metheringham-Owlett4. Coalition of Resistance presents: ‘Eurozone in crisis: what is to be done?’5. Bent Bars presents: ‘Gender and the prison Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 24 February 2012
24 February 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks suspect Manning defers plea, court-martial begins Reuters Military prosecutors say Manning downloaded more than 700000 classified or confidential documents and transferred thousands to WikiLeaks, which promotes leaking government and corporate information. Manning’s plea deferral allows his defense team time … http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/23/us-usa-manning-idUSTRE81M20M20120223 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 24 February 2012
24 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012 Bradley Manning defers plea after being formally charged with aiding the enemy Media Guardian Bradley Manning, the American soldier accused of being the source of the biggest leak of US state secrets in history, was on Thursday formally charged with aiding the enemy, during the first day of his Continue reading
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Video: Black History Special: Jazz Legend Randy Weston on His Life and Celebration of "African Rhythms"
In a Black History Month special, today we spend the hour with the legendary pianist and composer Randy Weston. For the past six decades, Weston has been a pioneering jazz musician incorporating the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa. His most famous compositions include “Little Niles,” “Blue Moses” and “Hi-Fly,” and his 1960 album, “Uhuru Afrika,”… Continue reading
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Hardhitting, Dissenting Journalism — Without the Hardhitting, Dissenting Part By Arthur Silber
In a recent essay, I mentioned Matt Taibbi as one of the examples of a phenomenon I call “The Obedient Dissenter,” and said I would be examining that phenomenon in further detail soon. This isn’t that lengthier analysis, but more in the nature of a sneak preview. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 19 February 2012: Assange on the Simpsons
19 February 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange to Guest on Fox’s THE SIMPSONS, 2/19 Broadway World As first reported on EWonline, WikiLeaks‘ founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange has recorded a guest voiceover that will appear during the 500th episode of Fox’s long-running animated series THE SIMPSONS. The episode is scheduled to air on Continue reading
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Syria Crisis, Arab Spring Revive Cold War Alignment By Marwan Kabalan
The Russian-Chinese co-ordination on many world issues, including in the UN Security Council, makes it almost certain that the West will, from now on, face tougher resistance to its polices from underprivileged powers in the international system. Continue reading
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Book Review By Eric Walberg: Guided missives
15 February 2012 — Eric Walberg Ard ard (Surface-to-surface): The story of a graffiti revolution Sheif Abdel-Megid Egyptian Association for Books 2011 ISBN 978-977-207-102-9 Graffiti — the art of the masses, by the masses, for the masses — has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and arguably 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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NATO Has Failed Libya’s Stricken Civilians By Charles Gray
By setting up the conditions for his fall, since it was NATO airpower that ultimately defeated Gaddafi, not the rebels, NATO and the nations advocating intervention bore full responsibility for the consequences. Continue reading
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Imperialism, despotism, and democracy in Syria By Joseph Massad
In the context of the US invasion of the Gulf in 1991, British academic Fred Halliday announced his new right-wing affiliations in the British newspaper the New Statesman by declaring: “If I have to choose between imperialism and fascism, I choose imperialism.” It never occurred to Halliday that he could have opposed both and supported… Continue reading
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US, UK: Targeting Syria: Looking back at: “frighteningly frank” plans By Felicity Arbuthnot
For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as “A Modern Day Attaturk”, has become the latest megalomaniacal despot, to whose people a US-led posse of nations, must deliver “freedom”, with weapons of mass, home, people, nation and livlihood destruction, here is… Continue reading
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US, UK: Targeting Syria: Looking back at: “frighteningly frank” plans By Felicity Arbuthnot
For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as “A Modern Day Attaturk”, has become the latest megalomaniacal despot, to whose people a US-led posse of nations, must deliver “freedom”, with weapons of mass, home, people, nation and livlihood destruction, here is… Continue reading
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Meet ACTA- PIPA and SOPA’s Big Brother
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an international treaty that threatens free speech and your privacy online. Imagine if your ISP could censor their networks, police what you did online, and with greater ease turn your information over to authorities. That’s the danger that ACTA poses, and it’s got to be stopped. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 