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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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From Iran Sanctions To US ‘Dirty Tricks’ By Dr. Ismail Salami
In what can be seen as a blatantly overt interference in Iran’s affairs, US President Barack Obama has recently enacted a law “aimed at countering Tehran’s alleged influence in Latin America” through a new diplomatic and political strategy to be designed by the State Department. Continue reading
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From Iran Sanctions To US 'Dirty Tricks' By Dr. Ismail Salami
In what can be seen as a blatantly overt interference in Iran’s affairs, US President Barack Obama has recently enacted a law “aimed at countering Tehran’s alleged influence in Latin America” through a new diplomatic and political strategy to be designed by the State Department. Continue reading
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Washington’s Dilemma: The “Good Terrorists” versus the “Bad Terrorists” By Dr. Ismail Salami
Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy. Continue reading
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Speak2Tweet: Google & Twitter Partner Up with US State Dept. to Monopolise Information Flow Out of Syria By Martin Iqbal
Amid Internet and telephone network outages in Syria, US-trained opposition activists use US-supplied satellite phones to contact Google & Twitter’s ‘Speak2Tweet‘ service. Despite these efforts, the service seems so far to be a resounding failure. Continue reading
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US tightens military noose around Syria By Bill Van Auken
Amid an escalating drumbeat about a supposed threat that Syria’s government is preparing to use chemical weapons against its own people, Washington has deployed a naval armada off the country’s coast. Continue reading
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Mixed signals from European Union on economic blockade of WikiLeaks – spokesperson By John robles
WikiLeaks number two and the official spokesperson for the WikiLeaks organization, Kristinn Hrafnsson spoke with the Voice of Russia regarding the recent ruling by the European Parliament regarding the extra-judicial economic blockade by US based financial institutions who are in violation of international and European law in their continued blockade of the organization. Continue reading
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Washington “tests” new strategy on Syria By Ilya Kharlamov
The US is making new attempts to intervene the domestic crisis in Syria. Washington has made up a list of individuals and organizations it wants to see in the renewed leadership of the Syrian opposition and the new Syrian government after the victory over the “regime”. Continue reading
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Chavez Beats the Devil, Again By Glen Ford
Hugo Chavez has won six more years as president of Venezuela and a model for standing up to the United States. Chavez’s longevity in the face of implacable imperial hostility shows that the “Washington Consensus” is defunct. “Latin America is the corner of the world that has achieved the greatest success over the last 20… Continue reading
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When Is A Terrorist No Longer A Terrorist? By Danny Schechter
When the Mujhadeen in Afghanistan were assassinating members of their government and the Russian troops dispatched to support it, they were, in Washington’s view, freedom fighters, even as their enemies branded them terrorists. When they turned against an Afghan government imposed by the United States or revolted against a US invasion, they were once again… Continue reading
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NSA: The Haqqani History: Bin Ladin’s Advocate Inside the Taliban
In the wake of the State Department’s recent designation of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Haqqani Network as a terrorist organization, declassified documents posted today — on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — by the National Security Archive offer new insight into the Haqqani family’s long history with militancy. The records on Network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani detail… Continue reading
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America's Long-standing Campaign to Destabilize Russia By Eric Draitser
The shootings and bombings in Ingushetia and Dagestan this week rekindled a long-standing, brutal campaign of violence and terrorism in Russia’s Caucasus region – one that has seen more than its share of terror stretching back to the Chechen “rebellion” of the 1990s. However, in examining the recent attacks, it becomes clear that there are… Continue reading
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Part VII of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State
Peter Van Buren joins us to discuss the Obama administration’s unprecedented persecution and prosecution of government whistleblowers, and how the has already charged more people under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information than all past presidencies combined. Continue reading
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Progressives Embrace Humanitarian Imperialism – Again! By John V. Walsh
“Foreign Intervention in Syria? A Debate with Joshua Landis and Karam Nachar” promised the headline on DemocracyNow! on 22 February. Eagerly I tuned in, hoping to hear a thorough exposé of the machinations of the US Empire in Syria on its march to Iran. Continue reading
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Video: High-Tech Trickery in Homs? By Sharmine Narwani
The “satellite photos,” says Ford, “have captured both the carnage and those causing it — the artillery is clearly there, it is clearly bombing entire neighborhoods…We are intent on exposing the regime’s brutal tactics for the world to see.” But within 24 hours, the blog Moon of Alabama had taken a hammer to the ambassador’s… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 6, 2012
6 February 2012 — Stop NATO Pentagon Chief: NATO Core Of Network Of Partnerships Across The Globe NATO Missile Radar In Turkey Will Be Run From German Air Base Russia To Build Defenses Against NATO Missile Threat U.S.-NATO Missile System: Russia May Boost Nuclear Potential Clinton: Series Of Joint U.S.-Bulgarian War Games This Year Munich: Continue reading
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Did the US Co-opt OWS in Order to Legitimize Egypt's Flawed Elections? By Jacob Levich
Although Occupy Wall Street protesters have so far resisted attempts by the Democratic Party to co-opt their movement, a New York City “General Assembly” was bamboozled by what may be a State Department and/or NED initiative aimed at granting legitimacy to Egypt’s flawed election process. Continue reading
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A whiff of Egyptian freedom for Gaza BY Eric Walberg
Israel got a taste of the new people’s Egypt with the arrest of an Egyptian journalist on the flotilla to Gaza and plans for the biggest aid convoy yet, reports Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Hip-Hop Against the World! BY Jared Ball
Propaganda agencies operate on the principle that everything can be turned to advantage, even the cultural properties of the oppressed.‘ Like jazzman Louis Armstrong’s ‘good will’ tours for the U.S. State Department in the Fifties, rappers today are dispatched on foreign missions to ‘cleanse an image that simply defies cleanliness.’ Hip Hop, the culture that… Continue reading
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