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Video: Don Debar Analysis – Kadaffi controls the Majority of Tripoli
Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and journalist, believes that whatever Colonel Gaddafi or the rebel leaders say, it is practically impossible to verify what is true or false at this point. “But certainly what has been coming from the Western media has been proven to be lies,” he declared. Continue reading
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The Truth About the Situation in Libya: Cutting through Government Propaganda and Media Lies By Brian Becker
The troops may be disaffected Libyans but the operation is under the control and direction of NATO commanders and western commando units who serve as ‘advisors.’ Their new weapons and billions in funds come from the U.S. and other NATO powers that froze and seized Libya’s assets in Western banks. Continue reading
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British Jealous of America’s Savage Police By Glen Ford
Given the extreme violence of American life, when compared to other rich nations, why would the Brits consider for even an instant emulating the U.S. criminal justice system? What could American cops teach them? Continue reading
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In Cuba, the revolution continues, softly, as times change By John Pilger
‘Accelerating the hard features of Cuba,’ a US diplomat once said memorably, ‘will be the measure of our success, not theirs.’ Continue reading
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Black Britain Revolts: What If It Had Been New York? By Glen Ford
Britain’s Black rebellion shocked the nation, but has not produced the kind of carnage that routinely accompanies urban unrest in the United States. ‘Had London’s current disturbances occurred on a similar scale in New York City, with outbreaks across the various boroughs, the police would have unleashed a bloodbath.’ Which is not to say that… Continue reading
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Firm holds 1 million on anti-terror list
U.S. security firm Regulatory DataCorp says it has more than 1 million people and groups on its anti-terror database that it wants to market to government and private-sector clients worldwide. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Arguing Libya
On July 9 I took part in a demonstration in front of the White House, the theme of which was “Stop Bombing Libya”. The last time I had taken part in a protest against US bombing of a foreign country, which the White House was selling as “humanitarian intervention”, as they are now, was in… Continue reading
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Wayne Madsen: NATO’S “Drang Nach Osten” (Thrust to the east)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s raison d’etre had ceased to exist and that the collective ‘defensive’ organization would join the Warsaw Pact in historical oblivion. Continue reading
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Wayne Madsen: NATO’S “Drang Nach Osten” (Thrust to the east)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s raison d’etre had ceased to exist and that the collective ‘defensive’ organization would join the Warsaw Pact in historical oblivion. Continue reading
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Murdoch’s World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scandal, Sleaze and Warmongering By Stephen Lendman
For sure Murdoch sustained a body blow. Calling it coup de grace strength, however, exaggerates how News Corp will be affected. It likely will survive long after its aging head steps down, but imagine a Murdoch-free media landscape. Then imagine freedom from all managed and junk food news. Tune out and make it happen. Continue reading
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Democracy Now! 14 July 2011: Dr. Paul Farmer on Haiti After the Earthquake
Dr. Paul Farmer, who was worked in Haiti for nearly three decades and now serves as the the U.N. deputy special envoy for Haiti, discusses how U.S.-backed coups and neoliberal programs have not only subverted Haiti’s democracy, but also seriously weakened its public health. Continue reading
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PressTV – ‘Turkey executes US plots in Syria’
A political analyst says the recent unrest in Syria has been the result of wicked US and Israeli policies and the Turkish government executes such policies in the Arab nation. Continue reading
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Book Launch, London: Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution By Richard Gott
BOOK LAUNCH: Thursday July 14, 18.30- 21.00. At the Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU Continue reading
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Book Launch, London: Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution By Richard Gott
BOOK LAUNCH: Thursday July 14, 18.30- 21.00. At the Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU Continue reading
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Video: David Harvey – Greece Should Default
The consequences are going to be awful whichever way you look at it. What they’re doing right now is awful. There’s going to be no economic growth in Greece for about the next 10, 15 years, the standard of living’s going to decline, and at the end of that, they’re still going to have to… Continue reading
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Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy By Michael Parenti
Why has the United States government supported counterinsurgency in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and many other places around the world, at such a loss of human life to the populations of those nations? Why did it invade tiny Grenada and then Panama? Why did it support mercenary wars against progressive governments in Nicaragua, Mozambique, Angola,… Continue reading
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US: inspiring attacks from within — RT
Three men convicted of trying to blow up synagogues in New York have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison. But the case has raised allegations of entrapment, after they were actually incited by the FBI, and handed fake bombs. Continue reading
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