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Media Manipulation and the Drums of War: How Media is used to Whip the Nation into Wartime Frenzy By James Corbett
The centuries-long history of how media has been used to whip the nation into wartime frenzy, dehumanize the supposed enemies, and even to manipulate the public into believing in causes for war that, decades later, were admitted to be completely fictitious. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 24-31 December 2011: Pakistan / Iran / Malvinas / Syria / North Korea / UK / Venezuela
31 December 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation US Pakistan Relations at Their Nadir 31.12.2011 | 12:51 | Najmuddin A. SHAIKH (Pakistan) The 26th November attack by US gunships on Pakistani military posts at Salala, along the Pak-Afghan border in Mohmand tribal agency, killed 26 Pakistani soldiers and brought the relationship between the two “strategic partners” Continue reading
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3 Years After Operation Cast Lead Justice has been Comprehensively Denied; PCHR Release 23 Narratives Documenting the Experience of Victims
Today marks the third anniversary of the commencement of Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009 offensive on the Gaza Strip. 27 December also marks the anniversary of the single bloodiest day in the history of the occupation; on this day three years ago 334 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces,… Continue reading
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A history lesson By William Bowles
The history of capitalism is the history of continuous revolutions in production: from the rural to the city; from cottage industry to factory; and finally from factory to ‘outsourcing’, the rise of the ‘service’ industry, de-industrialization and the financialization of capital. The end of an economy based on actual production and along with it, the… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 22 December 2011
22 December 2011 — williambowles.info Witnesses in WikiLeaks case describe lax security Los Angeles Times Many later were transferred to WikiLeaks and posted on its website, prosecutors say. Manning, who was arrested 19 months ago, has spent the last six days in an evidentiary hearing at Ft. Meade that will determine whether he will face Continue reading
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Adrian Lamo Newslinks 21 December 2011
21 December 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Accuser Adrian Lamo Takes the Stand ABC News (blog) Adrian Lamo, the former computer hacker who first identified Bradley Manning to federal authorities as the source of hundreds of thousands of classified documents leaked to Wikileaks, was challenged by the Army private’s defense over his history as a Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 20-21 December 2011
21 December 2011 — williambowles.info 21 December 2011 In WikiLeaks Case, Bradley Manning Faces the Hacker Who Turned Him In Wired News 20, 2011, for a military hearing that will determine if Army Pfc. Bradley Manning should face court-martial for his alleged role in the WikiLeaks classified leaks case. Manning’s online correspondent was Adrian Lamo, Continue reading
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Video: One rule for Syria – but a different one for Egypt — RT
The violence in Egypt continues, with at least 10 people killed and hundreds more injured in the last three days. However, unlike in Syria there is no talk of sanctions against the Egyptian military. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 18 December 2011
18 December 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning hearing: court told of Iraq unit’s intelligence security chaos The Guardian A shocking lack of basic discipline and intelligence security at the unit in which Bradley Manning worked before his arrest for allegedly transferring the largest trove of state secrets in American history to WikiLeaks has been revealed Continue reading
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#OWS and the Young Trade Unionists by Mark Nowak
If you head down to the IBEW Local 24 Union Hall Auditorium on W. Patapsco Avenue in Baltimore on the first Tuesday of any month, you’ll encounter a meeting of an energetic group of young union members from the Metro Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. Continue reading
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EI: Palestinian heritage vandalized | Thomas Friedman | Ameer Makhoul on prisoner swap | And more …
7 November 2011 — UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA LATEST OPINION AND FEATURES FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA Israel’s vandalism of Palestinian heritage By Abe Hayeem, 7 November 2011Amongst the fallout of Palestine’s admission as a member state, Israel’s warning that it “will now reconsider its cooperation with UNESCO” is the biggest irony. http://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-vandalism-palestinian-heritage/10564 Continue reading
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Sole Military Super-Bloc: NATO Issues Daily Reprieves To The World
Like Scipio Africanus the Younger almost twenty-two centuries earlier in what is now Libya’s western neighbor Tunisia, then Carthage, Rasmussen planted the banner of a conquering power on the soil of North Africa. Perhaps NATO will grant Rasmussen, too, the honorific agnomen Africanus after the military bloc’s first war and first conquest on the continent. Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Finally released – CIA History of DCI William Colby
The latest declassification (in August 2011) from a series of secret studies by the CIA History Staff of the agency’s directors, the volume gains credibility from its authorship by veteran CIA analyst and operative Harold Ford, who courageously presented to the Congress well-documented internal critiques of CIA director-designate Robert Gates during his confirmation hearings in… Continue reading
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Fidel Castro: NATO ‘has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known.’
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro denounced NATO on Monday for its role in the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying the ‘brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known.’ Continue reading
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This Is My Will by Muammar Gaddafi
Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives. Continue reading
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Insurrection and Invisible Powers By Gaither Stewart
Italy, like Spain, is a peninsula, but she might as well be an island given the barriers separating her from the rest of the European mass and the Mediterranean cradle itself. This, and her long history, broken by frequent invasions from diverse cultures, has fostered the coalescing of an extraordinary idiosyncrasy rich in mysteries and… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #98 By William Blum: The crime of making Americans aware of their own history
Is history getting too close for comfort for the fragile little American heart and mind? Their schools and their favorite media have done an excellent job of keeping them ignorant of what their favorite country has done to the rest of the world, but lately some discomforting points of view have managed to find their… Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon: Being in Time
A talk given at the ‘Palestine, Israel, Germany- The Boundaries of Open Discussion Conference’, Freiburg 11th September 2011 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 