Osama bin Laden
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Michael Parenti: Afghanistan, Another Untold Story
The war against Afghanistan, a battered impoverished country, continues to be portrayed in US official circles as a gallant crusade against terrorism. If it ever was that, it also has been a means to other things: destroying a leftist revolutionary social order, gaining profitable control of one of the last vast untapped reserves of the… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life
The Democrats should run on the slogan “If you liked Bush, you’ll love McCain”, but that would be too outspoken, too direct for the spineless Nancy Pelosi and her spineless party. Or, “If you liked Iraq, you’ll love Iran.” But the Democrat leadership is not on record as categorically opposing either conflict. Continue reading
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Virtual Fascism or the State of Terror By William Bowles
10 July 2005 A letter from a reader: For a good period of time I had gone along, starting my practice in neuropsychology (I worked in hospitals for a long time and the venture into private practice consumed me) and paying little attention to the neocon threat. I hated Bush et. al. but had little Continue reading
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‘If Osama bin Laden didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent him’ By William Bowles
I am reminded of a statement made some time back that ‘if Osama bin Laden didn’t exist it would have been necessary to invent him’ for if, as I contend that to justify the ‘war on terror’ it was necessary to invent the terrorist threat first, then come hell or high water, acts such as… Continue reading
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The Case of Kamel Bourgass: The sound of one hand clapping or a conspiracy of one by William Bowles
Kamel BourgassPerhaps the most difficult thing for your ‘average’ citizen to take in is the idea that your government would deliberately lie and deceive you over a thing like terrorism. After all, the state is meant to protect its citizens, isn’t that why we have a raft of laws and an incredibly expensive enforcement system… Continue reading
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Al-Qaqa’a: Osama to the Rescue? By William Bowles
So the much-fabled ‘October Surprise’ is in reality the tediously predictable ‘reappearance’ of the infamous Osama bin Laden. How convenient that just when the imperium needs him, he should magically reappear with a thinly veiled threat of impending doom. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 