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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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Bradley Manning Newslinks 26 July 2013
26 July 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning’s court-martial for leaking US secrets to WikiLeaks … The trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning enters its eighth week Thursday at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. The former intelligence analyst from Crescent, Okla., is charged … Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 10 June 2013
10 June 2013 — williambowles.info We Steal Secrets a WikiLeaks Documentary Movie News Guide (blog) We Steal Secrets is a misnomer. The truth is that WikiLeaks, the subject of the documentary, doesn’t steal any secrets. The web site serves as an electronic drop box that users use to publish documents anonymously. The information posted Continue reading
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Bradley Manning: Prisoner of Conscience By Francis A. Boyle
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the peoples of the world have witnessed successive governments in the United States that have demonstrated little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights, and the United States Constitution itself. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: March 14, 2012: Western Demands For Syrian Regime Change Fuel Conflict: Russia
14 March 2012 — Stop NATO UN: Russia Calls For Probe Into NATO’s “Massive Bombings” In Libya Western Demands For Syrian Regime Change Fuel Conflict: Russia Caucasus, Central Asia: “Arab Spring” Brings Destabilization To Russia’s Borders U.S. Drone Strikes Kill At Least 16 In Pakistan No Missile Shield Deal Likely By NATO Summit: Russia CIA Chief, Continue reading
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Hardhitting, Dissenting Journalism — Without the Hardhitting, Dissenting Part By Arthur Silber
In a recent essay, I mentioned Matt Taibbi as one of the examples of a phenomenon I call “The Obedient Dissenter,” and said I would be examining that phenomenon in further detail soon. This isn’t that lengthier analysis, but more in the nature of a sneak preview. Continue reading
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Abstractions Versus the "Real World": Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed By Prof John Kozy
Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the model) is called an “externality.” So the models only work when the externalities… Continue reading
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Abstractions Versus the “Real World”: Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed By Prof John Kozy
Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the model) is called an “externality.” So the models only work when the externalities… Continue reading
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Time Cheers the Drone War
The new issue of Time magazine promises on its cover ‘Essential Info for the Year Ahead.’ One apparently essential report: U.S. drones are awesome. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 23 December 2011
23 December 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks founder helped Army private get data, prosecutors say Los Angeles Times During closing arguments in the pretrial hearing of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, prosecutors flashed excerpts of chat logs to the courtroom that they alleged showed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange coaching Manning on how to decode computer passwords to Continue reading
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Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO news: October 3, 2011
3 October 2011 — Stop NATO Almost 200 Days Of Bombing: 24,574 NATO Sorties, 9,164 Strike Sorties Commander: NATO To Turn Libyan Operations Back Over To AFRICOM Pentagon Chief ‘Reaffirms’ Ties With Israel, Egypt, Palestine, NATO U.S. Army Africa: Massive Expansion Of Italian Base For American Troops Australian Defence Chief Flies To Brussels For NATO Continue reading
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The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations By Prof. John Kozy
The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired workers will increase employment, and that… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 19, 2011
19 August 2011 — Stop NATO FAIR: NATO Air Strikes, Libyan Deaths And Media Silence U.S. NATO Quad Partners Demand Regime Change In Syria Israeli Missile Chief Briefs U.S. Space/Interceptor Missile Conference War Training In Eastern Europe: U.S. National Guard ‘Partners’ With 65 Nations U.S. Army Plans $1 Billion 100 Unmanned Helicopter Fleet Canada Restores Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 18, 2011
18 August 2011 — Stop NATO U.S. Deploys Two More Predator Drones For NATO’s Libyan War NATO To Test European Interceptor Missile Initial Operational Capability 246,000 U.S. Troops Abroad: ‘Space Has Revolutionized How We Fight’ 1.2 Million Combat Hours: Robots To Give Pentagon Casualty-Free Wars U.S. Navy On Arctic: Facing New Ocean For First Time Continue reading
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Video: U.S. Marines fighting with rebels in Misurata
A U.S. Marine talking on what they are going to do & how they are going to aid the rebels! oops I thought Obama said that no U.S. Army/Marine would put foot on the ground of Libya. Here is the proof that American Troops are on the ground of the Libyan soil Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 9, 2011
9 August 2011 — Stop NATO UNESCO Head Deplores NATO’s Killing Of Libyan Media Workers Zimbabwe Slams Libyan War, Warns Populace Against NATO U.S. Army College Trains Senior Officers From 66 ‘Friendly’ Countries South Caucasus: Remember 08.08.2008 Kazakhstan: Over 1,400 Troops In U.S.-Led Military Exercise Afghanistan: America’s War Of Lies Afghanistan Needs Talks, Not Drones Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 4, 2011
4 August 2011 — Stop NATO Bankrupt U.S. Buys $23 Billion Worth Of Global Hawk Drones KLA’s Thaci Inciting Warfare In Kosovo: Serbian Minister U.S./NATO-Backed Kosovo Speaks Of War With Serbia NATO Troops Torture, Kill Afghan Clergyman Three NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan U.S. Domestic Politicking Affects Afghan War, World Security NATO Fuel Trucks Destroyed Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 12, 2011
12 July 2011 — Stop NATO U.S., French Security Guards Violently Disperse Syrian Protesters Afghan War: French Death Toll Reaches 63 U.S. Marines: AFRICOM ‘Adding Muscle’ To African Counterinsurgency Campaigns Japan: U.S. Army To Open New Battle Systems Center For Afghan-, Iraqi-Style Wars Australia: 22,000 U.S., Canadian, Local Troops In Full-Spectrum War Games Serbia: U.S., Continue reading
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U.S. Boat to Gaza Seized by Greek Authorities and Captain Jailed
“This shameful chapter in Greek history is symbolized by Prime Minister Netanyahu thanking his Greek counterpart Prime MInister Papandreou for his cooperation in helping thwart the flotilla, and by the fully-armed and masked Greek commandos at sea, pointing their guns at unarmed American civilians singing “We are a gentle, loving people,” says passenger Medea Benjamin. Continue reading
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