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Real News Network: New 9/11 inquiry squashed
More than eight years after the 9/11 attacks some in the U.S are not convinced they’ve been told the whole truth about that day. Around eighty thousand campaigners have called for a referendum on a new investigation into the tragedy, but America’s Supreme Court has ruled it out. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 67 – Being serious about torture. Or not.
On the very day of Obama’s inauguration, the United Nation’s special torture rapporteur invoked the Convention in calling on the United States to pursue former president George W. Bush and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. Continue reading
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Bolivia: Evo Morales Moves to Centre Stage for Historic January 25th Referendum
Often delayed constitutional referendum now scheduled for Sunday, January 25th, with government projected to win comfortably. President Evo Morales takes to a last-minute offensive with anti-opposition rhetoric and arrests, and with plans to establish new state-owned newspaper along with another TV network. Despite optimistic government expectations surrounding referendum, 2009 likely to be characterised more by Continue reading
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Adolfo Gilly: Racism, Domination and Revolution in Bolivia
The Bolivian right-wing, the old and not-so-old elites, the owners of land and of lives, were defeated by the immense indigenous and popular uprising that began with the Water Wars in the year 2000, culminated with the rebellion of El Alto in October 2003, and concluded with Evo Morales’ entry into the presidency in January… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 