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Now NATO is getting in on the digital snooping racket
Why is it compulsory that the state, or this case the military confab known as NATO, to have to hijack all of our digital devices throughout Europe? Is it even legal? Continue reading
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Arriving First in Syria By Franklin Lamb
Will 1000 American ‘Human Shields’ Stop Another Criminal War? Continue reading
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: American High School Textbooks Perpetuate The Big Lie By Pat Elder
This summer the world will pause to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans are still supportive of Truman’s decision despite overwhelming historical evidence the bomb had “nothing to do with the end of the war,” in the words of Major General Curtis E. LeMay. Continue reading
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Audio: The NSA Comes Recruiting
The NSA came to recruit at a language program at the University of Wisconsin where I am spending my summer learning a language. Two recruiters, a redhead who looked more like a middle-aged mother (listed as “NSA_F” below) and a portly, balding man (“NSA_M”), began to go through slides explaining the NSA and its work. Continue reading
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What is happening in Istambul? By İnsanlik Hali
I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days. I personally have to write this because most of the media sources are shut down by the government and the word of mouth and the internet are the only ways left for us to explain ourselves and… Continue reading
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Student Science Experiment Finds Plants won’t Grow near Wi-Fi Router
Ninth-graders design science experiment to test the effect of cellphone radiation on plants. The results may surprise you. Continue reading
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Boston Set Up? Tsarnaev Brothers’ Mother: My Sons are Innocent, This is a Set Up
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva maintains her younger son is innocent and like so many of the brothers’ acquaintances, claims they were good, courteous kids and model students – especially the younger 19-year-old Dzhokhar. A US citizen who is presently in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, she revealed to RT some suspicions of her own. Continue reading
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Protests, Disturbances, and Violence Continue in Venezuela, General Strike a “Failure” By Tamara Pearson
This afternoon president Maduro said the opposition’s call for a general strike today had “failed”. He also blamed the losing candidate in Sunday’s elections, Henrique Capriles, for the seven deaths last night. Continue reading
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The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point’ Has Tipped By Franklin Lamb
Damascus: This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” signaling the Assad government’s collapse was a sure thing and would happen any time now. “It’s just a matter of days, not weeks” President Obama declared back in 2011. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 February 2013: Palestinian students "surrounded by guns" at Israeli universities
22 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Child Injured In Bil’in Weekly Protests, Dozens Treated For Effects Of Teargas InhalationIMEMC – Friday January 22 2013; Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlement, and shot one child in the head, while dozens of protesters have been treated for the Continue reading
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Video: Amelia Hill is a Dirty Liar By Craig Murray
The Guardian hit a new low in Amelia Hill’s report on Julian Assange’s appearance at the Oxford Union. Hill moved beyond propaganda to downright lies. Continue reading
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There Is No American Left By Salvatore Babones
Unfortunately, all the evidence is that the rest of the world is following America down the road to perdition. Nowhere are national health insurance schemes, access to free education, and old age pensions being expanded. Nowhere is the world moving forward. Everywhere the social gains of the twentieth century are either being eroded, or destroyed. Continue reading
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The Sandy Hook School Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information By Prof. James F. Tracy
Inconsistencies and anomalies abound when one turns an analytical eye to news of the Newtown school massacre. The public’s general acceptance of the event’s validity and faith in its resolution suggests a deepened credulousness borne from a world where almost all news and information is electronically mediated and controlled. Continue reading
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Does Hugo Chavez Keep Fooling Venezuelans? By Peter Hart
The New York Times updates readers today (12/13/12) on the health status of left-wing Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, and the political implications for his country. But the paper starts out by suggesting that the people who keep electing him must have some kind of problem. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 28 November 2012: Israel’s repression of Palestinian students reached new level during Gaza attack
28 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Seven Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Central GazaIMEMC – The Israeli army continued its violations of the ceasefire that was reached on the evening of Wednesday November 21, shot and injured on Wednesday evening (Nov. 28), seven Palestinians east of the Al-Maghazi and the Al-Bureij Continue reading
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Video: The Agueros Archive: Preserving New York's Latino Heritage
Jack Agüeros is a poet, playwright, short story writer, translator and author of five books. He was an activist in New York’s Latino community in the 1960s and ’70s and director of El Museo del Barrio for close to a decade. Agüeros, who turns 78 on Sept. 2 and suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, can no… Continue reading
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Financial Warfare: Destabilizing Iran’s Monetary System By Nile Bowie
While combating the challenges that economic sanctions represent is an arduous task for any government, it is important to recognize that these sanctions are not aimed against Iran’s government, but at its poor and merchant population. Continue reading
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Financial Warfare: Destabilizing Iran’s Monetary System By Nile Bowie
While combating the challenges that economic sanctions represent is an arduous task for any government, it is important to recognize that these sanctions are not aimed against Iran’s government, but at its poor and merchant population. Continue reading
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