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Washington’s Utterly Failed Diplomacy
There seems no longer any attempt, or semblance, of seeking diplomacy by Washington. Sanctions and aggression are wielded with reckless abandon. Russia, China, and even America’s own supposed European allies are subject to sanctions by Washington in a high-handed dismissal of any mutual dialogue to resolve alleged grievances. Continue reading
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Syria: Keep Dreaming Kiddos By JASON HIRTHLER
With almost pathological haste, Western governments have moved to undermine Russia’s sensible proposal for Syria to hand over its chemical stores, thus avoiding the needless carnage being proposed by the United States. Continue reading
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The Snowden Affair: Web Resource Documents the Latest Firestorm over the National Security Agency
Recent press disclosures about National Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance activities — relying on documents provided by Edward Snowden — have sparked one of the most significant controversies in the history of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Today, the nongovernmental National Security Archive at The George Washington University posts a compilation of over 125 documents –… Continue reading
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Video: Monsanto Baseball: Escaping Accountability in Corporate America
deceptionsusa.com presents “Monsanto Baseball.” If you are Monsanto, you can commit the most egregious crimes against humanity but you are never guilty of any safety violations. In fact the EPA, FDA and USDA approve your products for public consumption. Continue reading
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Syria and Chemical Weapons: What Do We Know? By Peter Hart
If you watched ABC World Newslast night (6/13/13), the story of Syria and the use of chemical weapons had shifted pretty dramatically. AnchorDavid Muir declared at the top of the show: “The White House now confirming Syria’s president has in fact used chemical weapons to kill.” Continue reading
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Action Alert: Iraq Then, Syria Now? New York Times, sarin and skepticism
During the run-up to the Iraq War, the New York Times amplified erroneous official claims about weapons of mass destruction (FAIR Action Alert, 9/8/06). Looking at the paper’s coverage of allegations of chemical weapons use by Syria, some of the same patterns are clear: an over-reliance on official sources and the downplaying of critical or… Continue reading
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Reporting 'Says' Rather Than 'Says It Believes' Could Make a War of Difference By Jim Naureckas
White House Says Syria Has Used Chemical Arms. Well, that’s pretty definitive, isn’t it? But then if you read the first line of the story, you get a different picture Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report December 5, 2012 — Shameless Susan Rice Supporters, Latinos Lead the Way
6 December 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Shameless Vacuity of Susan Rice’s Black Boosters by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Africa doesn’t matter, U.S. wars don’t matter, nothing matters to the Black Misleadership Class except the sickly prestige of basking in the (distant) glow of power. Susan Rice’s “Black boosters embrace Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 28, 2012 — Susan Rice to Oversee Congo Genocide? FCC to OK Media Consolidation? Why White folks Get Mad…
28 November 20912 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report A Second Wave of Genocide Looms in Congo, with Susan Rice on Point Wed, 11/28/2012 – 13:14 — Glen Ford by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Susan Rice is a woman of ghastly accomplishments: suppressor of the facts on genocide in Congo, and Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 31, 2012 – Most Important Election Ever, Really? Obama the Untouchable, Made in the USA
31 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Is This Really The Most Important Election Ever? If So, Then Where Are Our Issues? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon It’s hard to see how an election is so darn important for black America when the candidates aren’t talking about Continue reading
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NSA: Jimmy Carter’s Controversial Nuclear Targeting Directive PD-59 Declassified
The National Security Archive is today posting – for the first time in its essentially complete form – one of the most controversial nuclear policy directives of the Cold War. Presidential Directive 59 (PD-59), “Nuclear Weapons Employment Policy,” signed by President Jimmy Carter on 25 July 1980, aimed at giving U.S. Presidents more flexibility in… Continue reading
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Video: Glen Ford and Michael Eric Dyson debate Obama's Presidency
s President Obama accepts the Democratic nomination to seek four more years in the White House, we host a debate on his presidency with Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report and Michael Eric Dyson, professor at Georgetown University and author of numerous books. Ford calls Obama the “more effective evil” for embracing right-wing policies and… Continue reading
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The Obama Defection: Former Supporters Lambaste The President By Danny Schechter
Roberto Unger’s argument boils down to a damning indictment spelling out charges that the President has betrayed the progressive cause and those who militated for his election. The alleged betrayal is all the more painful, Professor Unger says, because it reveals a man who never was what he claimed to be. Continue reading
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Beyond Citizens United: Politics Is an Industry, Not Just A Campaign By Danny Schechter
In theory, American elections traditionally get going after Labor Day, but, as we can see by the daily overkill media “coverage,” polls and constant reporting about who has raised what—to the degree that anyone really knows in the age of SuperPacs— that the political horses for the 2012 are off and running. Continue reading
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Video: Don’t Get Fooled Again on Iran By grtv
The Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, has stated twice already this year that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. So why are so many voices clamouring for war? Continue reading
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Video: Don't Get Fooled Again on Iran By grtv
The Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, has stated twice already this year that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. So why are so many voices clamouring for war? Continue reading
The New Dark Age 