The Global War on Terror, with its burgeoning secret military, the elite special operations forces, and its growing drone air force, controlled in part by the CIA, should be thought of as the president’s private war. In addition, as legal scholar Jonathan Turleywrote recently, when it comes to drone assassinations (or “targeted killings” as they are now more politely known), Attorney General Eric Holder has...
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No Jobs For Americans
Today (March 9, 2012) the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that 227,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs were created by the economy during February. Is the government’s claim true? No. Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that 44,000 of these jobs or 19% consist of an add-on factor derived from the BLS’s estimate that 44,000 more unreported jobs from new business start-ups were created than were...
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War with Iran – Obama looking for a way out?
[jwplayer config="custom_player" file="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDIHWSNSUNc&feature=youtube_gdata"] War with Iran - Obama looking for a way out? Iran has agreed to take part in nuclear talks. The country is prepared to engage in face-to-face negotiations after feeling intense pressure from both the US and Israel to abandon it's nuclear program. America and Israel have intensified their rhetoric when it comes to using military action against Iran, and earlier this...
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Why Can’t americans Have Democracy?
Syria has a secular government as did Iraq prior to the american invasion. Secular governments are important in Arab lands in which there is division between Sunni and Shi’ite. Secular governments keep the divided population from murdering one another. When the american invasion, a war crime under the Nuremberg standard set by the US after WWII, overthrew the Saddam Hussein secular government, the Iraqi Sunnis...
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Federal Lunacy: Obama’s Endless Wars for Profit with Paul Craig Roberts 2/2
[jwplayer config="custom_player" file="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HOOhbmBKXY&feature=youtube_gdata"] Federal Lunacy: Obama's Endless Wars for Profit with Paul Craig Roberts 2/2 The US is famous for going to other countries with goals ranging from retaliation to installing democracy to stopping a civil war. And quite often the US government and the military alike are surprised at what they find: that people in those countries don't want them there and, in many...
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Federal Lunacy: Obama’s Endless Wars for Profit with Paul Craig Roberts 1/2
[jwplayer config="custom_player" file="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxHFQVht2gM&feature=youtube_gdata"] Federal Lunacy: Obama's Endless Wars for Profit with Paul Craig Roberts 1/2 The US is famous for going to other countries with goals ranging from retaliation to installing democracy to stopping a civil war. And quite often the US government and the military alike are surprised at what they find: that people in those countries don't want them there and, in many...
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US military complex gets rich off of Afghanistan
[jwplayer config="custom_player" file="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DybIC8Al230&feature=youtube_gdata"] US military complex gets rich off of Afghanistan Description: The US is famous for going to other countries with goals ranging from retaliation to installing democracy to stopping a civil war. And quite often the US Government and the military alike are surprised at what they find: that people in those countries don't want them there and, in many cases, will risk...
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Finding a Place
The Apaches had found his trail. Despite his Kiowa training, he had slipped up. His mistake could cost him his life. His canteen was full from the spring where he had left his horse. He had hoped the Apaches would accept the gift and let him be. But a white man on foot in the desert was too easy prey. There would be three of...
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The World War on Democracy
John Pilger describes the reality hidden behind the cloak of anglo-american "democracy." http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/the-world-war-on-democracy January 20, 2012 — Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the...
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Silencing The Critics
In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI--the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”--called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before grand juries as prosecutors set about building their case that opposing Washington’s wars of aggression constitutes giving aid...
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