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‘Yes We Can’. ‘No We Won’t!’ By William Bowles
You don’t get to send 250,000 soldiers and materiel right up to the borders of Iraq and then send ’em all home again, any more than you get to become president of the United States without being already utterly and totally compromized on anything meaningful. Continue reading
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Global Research War, Globalization and Flu Panic Selected Articles 16-22 November, 2009
22 November, 2009 — Global Research MONTREAL: Denis J. Halliday Lecture on “The United Nations’ Role in Peace and War” December 1 – 2009-12-01 Award Winning Movie: “SUPERPOWER”: Order the DVD Online from Global Research – by Barbara-Anne Steegmuller – 2009-11-28 Please Support Global Research A Message to Readers – 2009-11-27 CALGARY: Lecture on “War… Continue reading
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Alan Hart – President Obama’s opportunity to speak truth to power, Part 2 – Rahm Emanuel does it for him
14 November, 2009 — Palestine Think Tank When I wrote and posted Part 1 of this article, I was, of course, aware that there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of President Obama speaking truth to the power of Jewish America as it was represented at the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North… Continue reading
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Andrei VOLODIN: Afghanistan: a view from India and China
The Indian elite is becoming more concerned about the situation in Afghanistan. Indian analysts pay much attention to the fact that the majority of the US population-irrespective of their political preferences- speaks for the unconditional withdrawal of the American troops from Afghanistan. Delhi thinks that in order to remain in power after the presidential elections… Continue reading
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Russia-India-China: The Bush curse By Eric Walberg
Moscow is trying to draw India and China closer to put out the flames now flaring across the continent, from the Caucasus and Central Asia, to Iran and Pakistan, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Reaction to Fort Hood – Stupidity Beyond Belief by Richard C. Cook
Last week a psychiatrist who had been ordered to Afghanistan went berserk and shot up the place. So happens he was a Muslim, a loner, deeply conflicted, subject to abuse from other soldiers who had been taught by our politicians and media that ‘Allah’ is a dirty word. Continue reading
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Peace Movement Blues By Jack A. Smith
The mass base of the movement that confronted the Bush Administration’s wars — the Democratic voters — are standing on the sidelines, unwilling to publicly criticize President Obama. This is despite the fact that opinion polls report a majority of the American people now oppose the Afghan war, including some 70% of Democrats. Continue reading
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America Owned by Its Army By William Pfaf
It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress. The nation now confronts a political crisis in which the issue has become an undeclared contest between Pentagon power and that of a newly elected president. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 75 How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?
The Obama administration, like the Bush administration, behaves like the world is one big lawless Somalia and the United States is the chief warlord. On October 20 the president again displayed his deep love of peace by honoring some 80 veterans of Vietnam at the White House, after earlier awarding their regiment a Presidential Unit… Continue reading
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Obama: Manufacturing A Savior A Case Study In Social Engineering – Fabricating Myths, Mantras, Consent and Dissent, for Imperial Mobilization By Zahir Ebrahim
Why does the newly elected President of the United States representing the most fanatically militarized and barbaric sole-superpower as its Commander in Chief – a dysfunctional nation on perpetual aggressive war-footings which has decimated both Iraq and Afghanistan over the past eight years in the quest for its own ‘preeminence’, and which continues to threaten… Continue reading
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Insanity and the Nobel Peace Prize: Obama and the Rule of Law By Felicity Arbuthnot
The ‘folly bordering on insanity’ of the Afghan invasion has entered it’s body-littered eighth year. The gulag that is Bagram (and its counterparts dotted around the globe) remain. The uncharged, condemned, rotting in Guantanamo, may be moved to rot in prisons in the US. Will the world know if any go missing to be spirited… Continue reading
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America’s Phoney War in Afghanistan By F. William Engdahl
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be admitted openly to the public at large. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Ellsberg: From Vietnam to Afghanistan
Video: Ellsberg: As President Obama decides what to do in Afghanistan he must learn the lessons of Vietnam Continue reading
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Kissinger and Brzezinski behind Obama By Eugene IVANOV (USA)
It may seem inconceivable that in such a beacon of democracy as the United States of America, there are “czars.” Not just one or two, but a few dozen. The explanation, however, is quite benign: American political jargon defines “czar” as a special envoy or adviser to the president asked by him to guide a… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: THE BALANCE OF POWER – EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS – PART 2
19 October, 2009 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media A Gale Of Spring Air – Barbara Plett And The President On September 24, we wrote to the BBC’s Barbara Plett: Dear Barbara Plett It’s hard to believe your article, ‘Debuts and diatribes at the UN’, was written by a… Continue reading
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If we want Policy instead of Speeches By Cynthia McKinney
President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was not the only news yesterday. And in my opinion, it’s not even the biggest news. It’s not even the saddest news. But it does provide us with some critical information as we move forward. The three-part question for us, tonight however, is “What are we moving forward TO; is… Continue reading
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Global Research Peace, War and Geopolitical Rhetoric Selected Articles 5-12 October, 2009
Global Research Peace, War and Geopolitical Rhetoric Selected Articles 5-12 October, 2009 Continue reading
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Norse Code
Immediate reaction to the [Nobel Peace Prize] award was bemused. If Barack Obama rode a wave of optimism onto the world stage, those abroad who are paying attention to what he has actually done must be rather perplexed. Indeed, among the first questions that reporters asked of committee chairman Thorbjørn Jagland was which of Obama’s… Continue reading
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Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth By Michel Chossudovsky
At this critical juncture in our history, the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President and Commander in Chief Barack Obama constitutes an unmitigated tool of propaganda and distortion, which unreservedly supports the Pentagon’s “Long War”: “A War without Borders” in the true sense of the word, characterised by the Worlwide… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: IRAN – THE WAR DANCE
The IAEA, which met in Vienna on September 18, adopted a resolution expressing concern about “Israeli nuclear capabilities” and called on agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei to work on the issue. The motion was adopted by 49 votes to 45, with 16 abstentions. Russia and China, both permanent members of the UN security council, voted in… Continue reading
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