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Video: Greek Parliament Approves Contentious Law to Expand Privatization
Dimitri Lascaris: New budget makes it clear Greece will never pay off its debts, real aim of austerity is to break unions and privatize public assets Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report No.110 By William Blum: The universe unraveling
1 November 2012 — www.killinghope.org The universe unraveling The Southeast Asian country of Laos in the late 1950s and early 60s was a complex and confusing patchwork of civil conflicts, changes of government and switching loyalties. The CIA and the State Department alone could take credit for engineering coups at least once in each of the… Continue reading
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Arab Revolutions Will Never be Made-in-the-USA
The New York Times noted the anniversary of the murder of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in typical imperial fashion: with a combination of lies and exhortations. The Times editorial was titled, “Making Revolution Work.” Of course, the nine month long NATO assault on a country of six million people was not a revolution in any… Continue reading
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Video: Court Rules Khalid Sheik Mohammed Can’t Testify About Torture
The Michael Ratner Report: Trial has a 40 second delay on feed to journalists so military can censor testimony Continue reading
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ICH 18/19 October 2012: Toward Barbarism: US Imperialism Unleashed
19 October 2012 — Information Clearing House Turkey Leads US-sponsored Military Encirclement of Syria By Chris Marsden Turkey is leading the way, using the pretext of stray mortar fire from Syria that killed five civilians to legitimise the deployment of 250 tanks, jets, helicopter gunships, troops, artillery emplacements and antiaircraft batteries on the border. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32785.htm Continue reading
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Video: Bill Black and Glen Ford on Presidential Debate #2
Is there a significant difference between the candidates on foreign or domestic policy? Continue reading
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The Sabra-Chatila massacre: Thirty years on By Franklin Lamb
Authors, photo-chroniclers and historians of the 1982 massacre, Mya Shone and Ralph Schoenman, replied to a recent New York Times article on the massacre by reminding us this week that “Haaretz recounted on September 26, 1982 the high level planning that preceded the invasion in service to “the long term objective aimed at the expulsion… Continue reading
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Video: Western Countries Sabotage Syria Peace Plans By grtv
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says, if elected, he would work with the US allies to arm the insurgents fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. This comes as a group of Syrian political parties have held a forum in the country’s capital, Damascus, to discuss a peaceful solution to the… Continue reading
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Putting Palestine On The Agenda: At The Russell Tribunal In New York By Danny Schechter
Today, the Russell Tribunal focusing on “the complicity and responsibility of various, national and international and corporate acts and the perpetuation of Israel’s impunity under international law.’ It seeks to provide a platform for “international personalities who advocate for an end to Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinian rights.” Continue reading
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Video: Omar Khadr Returned to Canada After US and Canada Ignored International Law for Years
Michael Ratner: The Khadr case and others show how human rights have deteriorated in the US; Assange right to fear extradition Continue reading
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EU sides with Monsanto in ‘GMO Cancer Corn’ word war
The European Food Safety Authority has rejected a controversial study by French scientists linking GM corn to cancer. Many in Europe are already calling for stricter controls on GMOs, as farmers weigh the lucrative crops against health concerns. Continue reading
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Moderate Debates and Debate Moderators
he Commission on Presidential Debates, which wrested control of the debates from the League of Women Voters in 1988, is a nonprofit–financed largely by corporations–that is basically controlled by the two major political parties. The campaigns hash out secret agreements about every aspect of the debates, and, as the group Open Debates has pointed out… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire 2 October 2012: Report Syria, the story thus far By William Blum
Yes, the world can indeed be complicated and confounding. But we have learned a few things. The United States began blasting Libya with missiles with the full knowledge that they were fighting on the same side as the al-Qaeda types. Benghazi was and is the headquarters for Muslim fundamentalists of various stripes in North Africa.… Continue reading
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Media Lens: US Consulate Killings – Spontaneous Religious Or Planned Political? By: David Edwards
On September 11, four Americans, including the US ambassador, were killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The following day, the BBC’s Lunchtime News reported that the killings were part of ‘disturbances’ which were ‘linked to an anti-Islamic video’ (BBC News, September 12, 2012). The BBC’s News at Six explained that… Continue reading
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When Is A Terrorist No Longer A Terrorist? By Danny Schechter
When the Mujhadeen in Afghanistan were assassinating members of their government and the Russian troops dispatched to support it, they were, in Washington’s view, freedom fighters, even as their enemies branded them terrorists. When they turned against an Afghan government imposed by the United States or revolted against a US invasion, they were once again… Continue reading
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Men Behaving Badly By Moustafa Bayoumi
Here we go again. A preposterous provocation easily manages to ignite fevered protests in Muslim-majority countries around the world, and everyone is worse off as a result. The episode is playing like a sequel to the 2005 Danish cartoon controversy, but with bigger and better explosions than the original. Continue reading
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NSA: Jimmy Carter’s Controversial Nuclear Targeting Directive PD-59 Declassified
The National Security Archive is today posting – for the first time in its essentially complete form – one of the most controversial nuclear policy directives of the Cold War. Presidential Directive 59 (PD-59), “Nuclear Weapons Employment Policy,” signed by President Jimmy Carter on 25 July 1980, aimed at giving U.S. Presidents more flexibility in… Continue reading
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Video: Pressure Put on Manning to Implicate Assange
Michael Ratner: As Wikileaks Founder Nears 100 Days in Ecuadorian Embassy Sweden’s refusal to interview Assange in London suggests they are working with US towards extradition Continue reading
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Israel on the Offensive In Bid To Press President Obama To Attack Iran By Danny Schechter
Using an exaggerated if fictive Iranian threat to create nuclear weapons as their pretext, Israeli politicians are blatantly and publicly inserting themselves in America’s Presidential elections, demanding that President Obama do their bidding by articulating so-called “red lines” to further threaten Tehran. Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Economies: Skyrocketing Stock Market for the Rich, Devaluation of Work for the Rest
The rich are making out like bandits in the booming Wall Street economy that is based on profits squeezed out of firing workers, lowering net wages (adjusted for inflation), and outsourcing jobs to exploited labor overseas. There is no crisis in the top 1%; there is only increasing wealth. In that second economy, the financial… Continue reading
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