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The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum – Libya: Unending American hostility
If I could publicly ask our beloved president one question, it would be this: “Mr. President, in your short time in office you’ve waged war against six countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya. This makes me wonder something. With all due respect: What is wrong with you?” Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 29, 2011
29 June 2011 — Stop NATO Afghanistan: NATO Loses Three Drones In As Many Days Two NATO Soldiers Killed In Southern Afghanistan Next U.S./NATO Afghan War Commander: 100,000 Foreign Troops To Stay NATO Chief, North Atlantic Council To Visit Georgia Germany: Fighter Jets Scream Overhead As NATO Rehearses Next War Saudi Troops To Stay In… Continue reading
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Video: Alex Jones: ‘ICC is a kangaroo court’
This isn’t the first time the ICC has come after figureheads, but with Gaddafi a sitting head of state, what implications does Colonel Gaddafi face? Continue reading
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Nebraska Nuclear Threat: As Predictable as Fukushima By Washington’s Blog
Nuclear accidents – like oil spills and financial meltdowns – happen because big companies push to make more money by cutting every safety measure in the books. The accident at Fukushima was predictable. Continue reading
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Radiation and Nuclear Powers Stations Japan is dangerously contaminated by radioactivity By Washington’s Blog
“With Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and now with Fukushima, you can pinpoint the exact day and time they started,” he said, “But they never end.” Continue reading
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Fukushima and the Mass Media Meltdown: The Repercussions of a Pro-Nuclear Corporate Press By Keith Harmon Snow
A sociological and technological discussion — in the wake of the out-of-control nuclear apocalypse in Japan — addressing the compromise of public health and security created by the failure of the western corporate mass media to equitably report on, mildly investigate, or even moderately challenge, the nuclear power industry. Continue reading
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9/11 and the Orwellian Redefinition of "Conspiracy Theory" By Paul Craig Roberts
A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps. Continue reading
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U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks. Continue reading
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Bizzaro Capitalism By Kim Petersen
Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher has come up with a novel proposal for raising more money for the cash-strapped USA: charge the victims of US aggression. Continue reading
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Video: As Japan Nuclear Crisis Worsens, Citizen-Led Radiation Monitors Pressure Govt to Increase Evacuations
Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, new radiation “hot spots” may require the evacuation of more areas further from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility. Continue reading
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Predatory Capitalism and War for Oil
Larry Wilkerson: The first Gulf War made me begin to understand that our military strategy was all about oil Continue reading
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Apartheid, Sand Nigger Style: The Tunisian Model for a New Colonialism in Libya? By Nathaniel X. Turner
The Great White Fathers of Europe and the United States excel in lies, lies and damnable lies. ‘’Humanitarian intervention’ by Europeans in Africa is always a subterfuge for theft, mass murder, and sadism’ – Europe’s main export to the world. ‘This is a new scramble for the African Continent.’ Continue reading
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U.S. Agency Sabotages Haiti Earthquake Aid By Glen Ford
It was the unkindest cut of all. A U.S. Agency for International Development report claims Haiti, the United Nations and the Red Cross all conspired to exaggerate the death and displacement toll from last year’s earthquake. In doing so, it ‘calls into question both Haiti’s financial needs and the trustworthiness of its government.’ There are… Continue reading
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Corporate Media’s Capital Crimes Against Libya – and Humanity By Glen Ford
Western reporters in Tripoli dismiss the casualties inflicted by their own countries’ bombs on Libyan civilians, but are careful to alert NATO when they themselves venture outside their hotels. The war criminals and their corporate media are morally – and probably legally – indistinguishable. Continue reading
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Cynthia McKinney’s truth dispatches from Libya: Days 1-3 By Wayne Madsen
During the last air sanctions against Libya, imposed by the United Nations in 1992 over alleged Libyan involvement in the bombings of PanAm 103 and UTA 772, many Libyans traveling to and from Tripoli were forced to fly through Tunisia, traveling overland to and from the Tunisian border to their homes in Libya. With European… Continue reading
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Dr. Gabor Maté: Obama Admin Should Heed Global Panel’s Call to End “Failed” U.S.-Led Drug War
“On any level you care to name, the war on drugs is a failure,” Dr. Maté says. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Haiti Cables Paint Stark Picture of U.S. Priorities By Sarah Jaffe
In 1,918 new cables released by WikiLeaks, the United States’ relationship to Haiti is laid bare—the maneuvering, the pressure, and the arrogance. The Nation is partnering with the Haitian weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté to produce several reports based on these cables, illuminating some of the many facets of this complex geopolitical struggle. Continue reading
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Who Will Take the Radioactive Rods from Fukushima? By Yoichi Shimatsu
The decommissioning of the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant is delayed by a single problem: Where to dispose of the uranium fuel rods? Many of those rods are extremely radioactive and partially melted, and some contain highly lethal plutonium. Continue reading
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Members of US Congress Express Outrage Over Camp Destructions by Haitian Police
26 May 2011 — Transafrica.org Washington, DC—On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, Rep. Donald M. Payne (NJ), Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY), Rep. Frederica Wilson (FL), and Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) made a joint statement in response to the eviction and destruction of camps on public property in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince: Continue reading
The New Dark Age 