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The Top Censored Stories From 2009-2010 by Project Censored
Not only does it cover the most under-reported stories the corporate media ignore, but this year’s Censored Deja Vu, Junk Food News and News Abuse, Signs of Health, and FAIR’s 10th anniversary of Fear and Favor in the News Room. A full Truth Emergency section debuts this year for “Censored 2011? to address State Crimes… Continue reading
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Obama Continues Most of Bush’s Wiretap Policies
Shayana Kadidal: Government refuses to disclose possible wiretapping of civil rights lawyers Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: DEATHLY SILENCE: OBAMA’S LETTER, NETANYAHU’S REJECTION AND THE MEDIA’S NON-RESPONSE
Earlier this week, independent journalist Jonathan Cook reported facts that blow a hole through the standard deceit that the United States is an “honest broker” for peace in the Middle East. Continue reading
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Israel in America: Obama’s dance of death By Eric Walberg
The writing is on the wall: Obama is a one-term president. That is if he is even allowed to finish his first term. Obama was never popular in Israel. When he tried to add Israeli critic Chas Freeman to his team as chair of the National Intelligence Council in 2009 AIPAC blew a fuse. Now… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report: In struggle with the American mind By William Blum
I direct these remarks to readers who have to deal with Americans who turn into a stone wall upon hearing the United States accused of acting immorally; America, they are convinced, means well; our motives are noble. And if we do do something that looks bad, and the badness can’t easily be covered up or… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter: Why The US Doesn't Talk To Iran
29 September, 2010 — ICH Robert Gates: 'We're Not Ever Leaving' Afghanistan By Marcus Baram In a shocking indication of a split between the White House and the Pentagon over the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates believes that the U.S. military will never leave the war-torn country. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26477.htm Statement By The Afghan Resistance… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 30 September, 2010: News, Commentary & Analysis From the Black Left "No Knock Barack" –Stop the Raids at Home & Wars Abroad
30 September, 2010 — BAR President Barack “Midnight Raid” Obama: End Your Wars at Home and Abroad by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Last week’s FBI raids likely signal that the Obama regime has begun a major campaign to criminalize and crush the Left. Think COINTELPRO, 21st century-style. President Obama, the constitutional rights lawyer who claims… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 September, 2010: Will They Raid My Home For Writing This?
28 September, 2010 — ICH UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan: By Gareth Porter Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26470.htm Sitting on the Evidence: Obama Administration Silent on Israeli Murder of 19-Year-Old American… Continue reading
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Media Disinformation: The Facts About Ahmadinejad's UN Speech By Jack A. Smith
On Sept. 25, the Times published a correction: “A headline on Friday with an article about an incendiary speech in the United Nations General Assembly by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran summarized his remarks about the Sept. 11 terror attacks incorrectly. In his speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad asserted various theories about the origin of the attacks,… Continue reading
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Media Disinformation: The Facts About Ahmadinejad’s UN Speech By Jack A. Smith
On Sept. 25, the Times published a correction: “A headline on Friday with an article about an incendiary speech in the United Nations General Assembly by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran summarized his remarks about the Sept. 11 terror attacks incorrectly. In his speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad asserted various theories about the origin of the attacks,… Continue reading
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US endgame in Afghanistan: The evil of three lessers By Eric Walberg
Obama is looking more and more like a White House caretaker, a prisoner of the Pentagon, if in fact he ever had any policy freedom in the first place. Hillary famously cracked “Whatever Stanley [McChrystal] wants, give it to him.” Now, with the unceremonious dumping of McChrystal, Dave will most certainly get what he wants,… Continue reading
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“MEDIA GIVES OBAMA PASS ON IRAQ”
Recently, President Obama has been talking about his pledge to get out of Iraq. And he was supposed to have all the combat troops out more or less by the end of this month. But it seems what we’re getting, perhaps, is rebranding. Continue reading
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OBAMA REBRANDS IRAQ WITHDRAWAL?
5 August, 2010 — The Real News Network Gareth Porter: Obama backtracks on commitment to withdraw combat troops from Iraq. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.961944 OBAMA REBRANDS IRAQ WITHDRAWAL?, posted with vodpod Bio Gareth Porter is a historian and investigative journalist on US foreign and military policy analyst. He writes regularly for Inter Press Service on US policy towards… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 4 August, 2010 by William Blum
When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can’t easily be justified or explained away, when logic doesn’t help much, the current crop of American political leaders turns to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. We have to fight in Afghanistan because … somehow… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Afghanistan Latest Stories 28 July – 2 August, 2010
A digest of stories on the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents Continue reading
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State of Denial: After the Big Leak, Spinning for War By Norman Solomon
Washington’s spin machine is in overdrive to counter the massive leak of documents on Afghanistan. Much of the counterattack revolves around the theme that the documents aren’t particularly relevant to this year’s new-and-improved war effort. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 July, 2010: Peniel Joseph, Courtier / Nadir of Black America / Roots of Anti-Black
8 July, 2010 — Black Agenda Report Dr. Peniel Joseph: Peoples Historian or Establishment Courtier? Part Two of Two: Peniel Joseph vs Hubert Harrison on Democracy by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon It’s not that hard to tell an honest people’s intellectual from a brand name huckster. One is engaged in making and propagating… Continue reading
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