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The “Top 10” Surveillance Lies Edward Snowden’s Leaks Shed “Heat and Light” Upon By Lauren Harper
Despite stating he was “not going to dwell on Mr. Snowden’s actions or motivations,” the President did criticize Snowden’s “sensational” disclosures for “shedding more heat than light.” What the President did not say was that these surveillance reforms would never even have been contemplated without the Snowden revelations. In fact, these leaks did not just… Continue reading
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Nelson Mandela: Obama, Clinton, Cameron, Blair – Tributes of Shameful Hypocrisy By Felicity Arbuthnot
Accusing politicians or former politicians of “breathtaking hypocrisy” is not just over used, it is inadequacy of spectacular proportions. Sadly, searches in various thesaurus’ fail in meaningful improvement. The death of Nelson Mandela, however, provides tributes resembling duplicity on a mind altering substance. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Oct 30, 2013: Wall St. vs Detroit / Military Takeover Chicago / Black Faces for White People
30 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Detroit Will be Democracy’s Decisive Battle by BAR executive editor Glen FordDetroit is the battleground chosen by Wall Street to crush the last vestiges of American democracy by creating “the template for direct corporate rule.” Finance capital recognizes that it can no Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 23 October 2013: Palestinians Entitled to Defend Themselves
23 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Child Injured By Settlers In NablusIMEMC – Palestinian sources have reported that a number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, late on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian child after breaking into her family s home, in Burin village, south of the northern west Bank City Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 24 October 2013: NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders After US Official Handed Over Contacts
24 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Marines ‘Murdered Man Live on Camera’: By Kim Sengupta Court martial sees graphic footage of ‘execution’ of injured Taliban fighter. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36640.htm Continue reading
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New Kind of War Is Being Legalized By David Swanson
There’s a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to interpret that as a declaration that, in fact, drone strikes violate… Continue reading
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Your address book belongs to the NSA
NSA stealing e-mail contact lists too – the revelations just keep coming Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 October 2013
19 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Washington Casts Blame for Expansion of Al-Qaeda on Turkey 19.10.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ It is no longer possible to conceal the obvious. The West, in its attempts to remove Bashar al-Asad from power during the years of the war in Syria, has nurtured a force so sinister Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 October 2013: Was the Affordable Care Act Worth It? Did the Hip Hop Mayor Sink Detroit?
16 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obamacare VS Single Payer – Top 10 Things the ACA Gave Us VS the Top 10 We Gave Up By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most things have two prices — the price you pay outright, and the opportunity cost, the Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 15 October 2013: Edward Snowden’s Brave Integrity
15 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Breaking: Iran, US Hold Direct Talks in Geneva By Al-Monitor The U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiating teams met for one on one talks for one hour this evening, Iranian and American officials confirmed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36536.htm Continue reading
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Syria extremists financed by private Gulf donors carried out mass killings – HRW
At least 190 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage by Syrian rebels financed by private Gulf donors in an August 4 military offensive in the Latakia governorate, according to a Human Rights Watch report. At least 67 of the victims executed had lived in government-aligned Alawite villages, HRW said in its report,… Continue reading
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Old game, new obsession, new enemy. Now it’s China By John Pilger
Countries are “pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world,” wrote Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1898. Nothing has changed. The shopping mall massacre in Nairobi was a bloody façade behind which a full-scale invasion of Africa and a war in Asia are… Continue reading
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Old game, new obsession, new enemy. Now it’s China By John Pilger
Countries are “pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world,” wrote Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1898. Nothing has changed. The shopping mall massacre in Nairobi was a bloody façade behind which a full-scale invasion of Africa and a war in Asia are… Continue reading
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US Globalized Torture Black Sites By Stephen Lendman
On October 5, US Delta Force commandos, CIA operatives, and FBI agents abducted Abu Anas al-Liby. Doing so highlights what’s been out-of-control since 9/11. In the 1980s, al-Liby was one of many CIA-recruited muhajideen fighters. They were used against Afghanistan’s Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them “the moral equivalent of our founding fathers.” He characterized… Continue reading
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Empire Under Obama, Part 1: Political Language and the ‘Mafia Principles’ of International Relations By Andrew Gavin Marshall
On August 21, the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad was accused of using chemical weapons on its own population, prompting Western countries – led by the United States – to declare their intention to bomb Syria to somehow save it from itself. The reasons for the declared intention of launching air strikes on Syria was… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 29 September – 5 October 2013
5 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation CIA Activities in Syria: US Never Stops to Step on Same Rake 05.10.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV According to the Washington Post (CIA Ramping up Covert Training Program for Moderate Syrian Rebels, Oct.3), the CIA is expanding a clandestine effort to train opposition fighters in Syria, as U.S. officials Continue reading
The New Dark Age 