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‘A Global Industry Is Raiding Treasuries All Over the Planet’
Janine Jackson interviewed James Henry about the Panama Papers for the April 15, 2016, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. “We estimate at least $21 to $32 trillion of offshore financial wealth, most of which is untaxed, and that’s as of 2010, and it’s grown since then. And there’s another $5 trillion,… Continue reading
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In the Panama Capers we Trust By Clive Hambidge
Make no mistake it has been a U.S Political chess move, which has led to the leak of the Panama Papers. “11.5 million Documents-or 2.6 terabytes of data” are in the teeth chattering public domain. As we know, relatively few Americans have been named. This is unsurprising as according to a recent article by Liam… Continue reading
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NSA: “Disreputable if Not Outright Illegal”: The National Security Agency versus Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald, Frank Church, et al.
Newly Declassified History Divulges Names of Prominent Americans Targeted by NSA during Vietnam Era Continue reading
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Lonzy Barker Is Missing By Joe Bageant
Lonzy Barker is missing. Has been for several months now. Nobody noticed it until that smelly old hermit didn’t show up here at Dalton Bayles’ post office store for his sardines and rock candy. “He could be layin’ over there in his pigpen dead or something,” says Dalton. Did I tell you, dear reader, that… Continue reading
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America’s Hype over WMD: Five Invasion Plots, Three Continents, Identical Lies By Felicity Arbuthnot
As the sabre rattling against Syria gets ever louder, the allegations ever wilder and double standards, stirring, plotting and terrorist financing (sorry: “aiding the legitimate opposition”) neon lit, it is instructive to look at the justifications presented by US Administrations for a few other murderous incursions in recent history. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 16, 2011
16 August 2011 — Stop NATO Mediterranean: U.S. Guided Missile Destroyer Arrives In Malta Report: $3.7 Trillion For U.S. Wars, $12,000 Per Person NATO Troops Arrest Five Afghan Civilians, Torch Two Vehicles NATO Tankers Destroyed Near Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Pakistan: 47 U.S. Drone Strikes This Year, 450 Deaths Kosovo Serbs Protest New Threat To Security 86,000 Continue reading
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President Manuel Torrijos’ Velvet Panamanian Coup
On September 3, a number of Panamanian civic groups and political movements have scheduled a nationwide protest against the recently enacted five-pronged National Security Reform package. President Martin Torrijos and his Cabinet approved what essentially was a presidential edict, during the National Assembly’s two-month recess. Continue reading
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‘News’ Central By William Bowles
Might is right as they say, except when it’s wrong that is, but of course who is to gainsay the powerful? With the media and the education system as the main vehicles for maintaining the status quo, piercing the veil of propaganda is more than just the production of counter-propaganda, it requires a mind-shift in… Continue reading