Pentagon
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The Boston Bombings in Context: How the FBI Fosters, Funds and Equips American Terrorists By James Corbett
The Boston Marathon bombing has provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and equipped by one organization: the FBI. Continue reading
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ICH 12 April 2013: Iran Represents a Deathblow to US Global Hegemony
12 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For Attack On N Korea? Pentagon: North Korea has Capacity to Make Nuclear Warhead for Ballistic Missile By Ernesto Londoño North Korea probably has a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a ballistic missile, according to a new assessment by the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34580.htm Continue reading
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The Dangers of War: What is Behind the US-North Korea Conflict? By Jack A. Smith
The U.S. is well aware North Korea’s statements are not backed up by sufficient military power to implement its rhetorical threats, but appears to be escalating tensions all the same. What’s up? I’ll have to go back a bit to explain the situation. Continue reading
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“Liberating Iraqis”, Limb by Limb, Life by Life, Home by Home, Gene by Gene By Felicity Arbuthnot
In these days of the tenth anniversary of the illegal invasion and near destruction of Iraq, answers are owed not alone for the dead, but to the cancer stricken, the deformed, to their parents, their siblings and all Iraqis. They were left with a land poisoned by depleted uranium in 1991, the burden ever building… Continue reading
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How to Read Stories About Israel in the NY Times (Hint: Very Carefully) By Peter Hart
Some days the Newspaper of Record says a lot–not always in ways you might expect. Today (3/21/13) a story by Mark Landlerand Rick Gladstone about allegations of chemical weapons in Syria includes something you see often–anonymous government sources. That can often be a bad thing; but today it’s pretty useful: Continue reading
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The Uncommon Courage of Bradley Manning By Marjorie Cohn
Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to 10 charges including possessing and willfully communicating to an unauthorized person all the main elements of the WikiLeaks disclosure. The charges carry a total of 20 years in prison. For the first time, Bradley spoke publicly about what he did and why. His actions, now confirmed by his own… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-23 February 2013: Syria / Korea / Chile / Kosovo / Mali-France / Arctic / EU / Russia
23 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Syrian Rebels Get Arms from Kosovo and Bosnia 23.02.2013 | 11:35 | Dmitry MININ …The policy of the West in Syria is myopic. It goes on losing control over the events in this country. In fact it gives refuge to terrorists and faces the prospect of raging terror spilling Continue reading
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Imperial Jockeying in Africa: U.S. Intervention Sets to Deepen By Ben Schreiner
According to U.S. intelligence officials, however, AQIM “remains mainly a regional menace,” with “no capacity” to launch attacks within the U.S. Even so, the Pentagon continues to move closer to directly targeting AQIM targets. Continue reading
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Brainwashing and Obama’s War Propaganda: Pentagon Gearing Up to Fight the ‘PR War’ By Patrick Henningsen
How much money does it cost to get populations to think a certain way? Answer: it requires a blank cheque. But can Americans really afford it? Continue reading
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“The War is Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
This article, first published in June 2010, points to the “real economic reasons” why US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan eleven years ago. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 4 February 2013: Cyber-Warriors, the 9/11 Plan and Neo-Nazism
4 February 2013 — Global Research The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery? 013 Continue reading
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New at SCF 27 January – 2 February 2013: Israel / EU / Venezuela / Syria-UK / Iraq / Big Brother / Serbia / China
2 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Yair Lapid: The New Star on the Israeli Political Scene 02.02.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ The main surprise of Israel’s latest elections for the19th Knesset was the Yesh Atid party («There is a future»), established less than a year ago it came in second with 19 seats, and Continue reading
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The Iran Nuclear Threat: Phantom Menace By Ben Schreiner
According to a report in McClatchy, “Israeli intelligence officials now estimate that Iran won’t be able to build a nuclear weapon before 2015 or 2016.” Recall that just this past September Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was theatrically warning that Iran would achieve nuclear weapons capability by “next spring, at most by next summer.” Continue reading
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Space War: U.S.’s Former Nazi Scientists’ Dream Of Ruling World
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Bruce Gagnon shares little known facts about the militarization of space by the United States, the development of first strike space drones and the foundation of the US military industrial complex by Nazi scientists bent on victory in World War III. If you thought missile defense… Continue reading
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Mali: Here We Go Again By Sheldon Richman
In testimony before Senate and House committees, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enthusiastically endorsed increased U.S. intervention in Africa. When government officials seem incapable of learning obvious lessons from the recent past, maybe their incentive is not to learn but to keep doing the same destructive things. Continue reading
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Who’s Faking It? Pentagon “Cyber-Warriors” Planting “False Information on Facebook” By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
On November 22, 2012, the Los Angeles Times published an alarming piece of news entitled “Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age”. The “cyber-warriors” who are headed for organizations such as the CIA, NSC, FBI, the Pentagon and so on, are trained to stalk, “rifle through trash, sneak a tracking device on cars… Continue reading
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‘Pentagon’s hand behind French intervention in Mali’ By William Engdahl
As French soldiers pour into Mali in the fight to push back the advancing Islamist militants, questions have been raised as to the motives behind the intervention. Author William Engdahl told RT the US was using France as a scapegoat to save face. Continue reading
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Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- Episode 9: The Real Motivations for the Balkanization of Syria
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is an analysts and award-winning author of the book The Globalization of NATO. He was on the ground in Libya reporting live for multiple media outlets as NATO conducted its merciless bombing of that country’s civilians and infrastructure. Today we discuss the real motivations for the Balkanization of Syria and why there… Continue reading
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Mali and the Scramble for Africa By Ben Schreiner
The French military intervention into Mali on Friday — France’s second in as many years into a former African colony — was reportedly “seconded” by the United States. This ought to come as no great surprise, given the Pentagon’s deepening penetration into Africa. Continue reading
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The U.S. Military Swarms Over Africa By Glen Ford
2013 is the year the U.S. kicks off its wholesale military occupation of Africa. The escalation should come as no surprise, since the Army Times newspaper [8] reported, back in June, that a U.S. brigade of at least 3,000 troops would become a permanent presence on the continent in the new year. Continue reading
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