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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications 18-24 April, 2010
24 April, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-04-18 Rafe MAIR (Canada) Thoughts on Communism and Capitalism “Although Communism may be dead in fact if not name, the conditions that spawned and nurtured it are very much with us today. Large corporations have replaced the noblemen, the dwindling middle class is no buffer between the haves… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 4 – 10 April, 2010
2010-04-06 Dmitriy BAKLIN Katyn Between the Past and the Future “Katyn, a village 18 km west of Smolensk, Russia became known across the world as the site of mass execution of Polish officers by Stalin’s secret police in April-May, 1940… Oddly enough, Stalin was the first to publicly and officially apologize to Poland for the… Continue reading
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Venezuela – U.S. Research File The Interdependence Behind Bilateral Political Tensions: Economic Realities Affecting Venezuela – U.S. Relations By Felix Blossier
In January 2006, the sixth gathering of the World Social Forum, during which Hugo Chávez as well as other left-leaning and socialist leaders fiercely criticized imperialist practices, was held in the Caracas Hilton Hotel. As James Surowiecki noted in an article for The New Yorker six months before the conference opened, a meeting sponsored by… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 April, 2010: Are Blacks Sinking to New Bottom? / Burn Hollywood Burn!
The Black job market is imploding, even as the moneyed classes congratulate themselves on having “turned the corner” toward economic recovery. Alarming Black unemployment patterns indicate that “a perfect storm of racial disadvantage” has occurred. “Virtually nothing prevents the boss from acting out his prejudices and greed with impunity.” There’s nothing “post-racial” about the current… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 31 March, 2010: MLK's TV Challenge to Obama / Former ATL Mayor Fronts for Telecoms
Since the onset of the Obama phenomenon, Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth and death days have been polluted by false and ahistorical comparisons between Obama and MLK. The two men represent opposite political poles: one, a radical opponent of imperial war and concentrated economic power, the other, an ally of Wall Street and commander-in-chief of… Continue reading
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US-Russian START treaty: A comprehensive flicker By Eric Walberg
Russian security experts fondly recall that Cold War-era arms control began with the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which curtailed further work on defensive weapons. The logic of the subsequent SALT and START agreements was based on the certainty that neither side could defend itself from a nuclear attack and therefore had no choice but to… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: VICTORY FOR THE OVERLORDS – OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE REFORM
In November 2008, the historic importance of Barack Obama’s presidential victory was a relentless theme across the media spectrum. Even the pretence of a mainstream commitment to balanced reporting vanished from sight in deference to the self-evident Truth. Continue reading
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Global Research Selected Articles: Obama’s Health Plan and the Impoverishment of the Middle Class 22-30 March, 2010
29 March, 2010 — Global Research Western Civilization and the Economic Crisis: The Impoverishment of the Middle Class When Empire Hits Home, Part 2 – by Andrew Gavin Marshall – 2010-03-30 Continue reading
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A Bomber Jacket Doesn’t Cover the Blood By Norman Solomon
On Sunday, during his first presidential trip to Afghanistan, Obama stood before thousands of American troops to proclaim the sanctity of the war effort. He played the role deftly — a commander in chief, rallying the troops — while wearing a bomber jacket. Continue reading
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As Obama Talks Of Arms Control, Russians View U.S. As Global Aggressor By Rick Rozoff
It is a matter of speculation why Russia’s political leadership consistently defers to the U.S. on issues ranging from the war in Afghanistan to so-called missile shield deployments near its northwest frontier, and from the Pentagon acquiring new military bases in the Black Sea nations of Bulgaria and Romania to NATO establishing a cyber warfare… Continue reading
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Victor KORGUN: The Afghan dilemma
The development of the situation in Afghanistan over the last 12 months has been influenced by the new US strategy approved by President Barack Obama in April 2009. As opposed to the strategy of George Bush the strategy of Obama’s government implies not only strengthening US and NATO military presence in the country but also… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 