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ICH 1 March, 2010: Can Obama Assassinate Americans?
Can Obama Assassinate Americans? By Nat Hentoff The executive branch alone decides who shall die instantly. And there are no defense attorneys to raise objections, even when an American citizen is marked for oblivion. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24888.htm The Picture By David Glenn Cox I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 76 Yeswecanistan
We should never forget that Iraqi society has been destroyed. The people of that unhappy land have lost everything — their homes, their schools, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their health care, their legal system, their women’s rights, their religious tolerance, their security, their friends, their families, their past, their… Continue reading
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A MEDIA FAILURE COMPOUNDS THE FINANCIAL FAILURE: The Press Is Still Missing The Story Of Fraud and Economic Decline Ahead By Danny Schechter
We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash it helped instigate. We know that our government, whatever its stated desire to clean up the markets and reform the financial behemoths, lacks the willingness and perhaps the clout to rein in the real power centers. We are not sure if they have… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 68, 4 April, 2009 Some thoughts about socialism
Wall Street has not only an army of lawyers and accountants, but a horde of mathematicians with advanced degrees searching for the perfect equations to separate people from their money. Continue reading
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Norman Solomon: Requiem for the Bailout Storyline
Only two weeks ago, the media hype behind the $700 billion bailout was so intense that it sometimes verged on hysteria. More recent events should not be allowed to obscure the reality that the news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust. Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: The bail out in plain English — Yea though we walk in the valley of debt, we speak with the tongues of brokers
The ultimate coup was to convince the entire nation that the well being of the rich, meaning the well being of Wall Street, was indeed the common man’s well being. Continue reading
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‘Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’
Source: Global Research A Review of Danny Schechter’s book ‘Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’ by Stephen Lendman Global Research, September 18, 2008 Danny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, TV producer as well as an author of 10 books and lecturer on media issues. Some call him ‘The News Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life May 1, 2008 www.killinghope.org Since I gave up hope, I feel better. ‘More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: ALL SMOKE, NO FIRE – THE NATIONAL JOURNAL SMEARS THE LANCET
January 22, 2008 MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media Last year, we described how mainstream climate sceptics had queued up to praise film-maker Martin Durkin’s now infamous documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and their counterparts in the United States, used the film to Continue reading
The New Dark Age 