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 Commentary
Flying the flag, faking the news
John Pilger: "Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war...Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda - "intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society"
Sep 2, 2010, 4:22pm
Commentary
The Anti-Empire Report: September 1st, 2010
William Blum: "But no American should be allowed to forget that the nation of Iraq, the society of Iraq, have been destroyed, ruined, a failed state. The Americans, beginning 1991, bombed for 12 years, with one excuse or another; then invaded, then occupied, overthrew the government, killed wantonly, tortured ... the people of that unhappy land have lost everything...
Sep 1, 2010, 4:27pm
Commentary
Women "Politicals" (Not) in the News
Linda Ford: "How many of us know the long history of political prisoners in America, of whom we weren’t, by definition, supposed to have—this land of the free. Many of those political prisoners have been, and continue to be, women. Femaleness does not protect a woman from being considered an enemy of the state...
Aug 31, 2010, 9:39am
Articles
Veterans' group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops
Daniel Tencer: "An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s. ("at least 250, but as many as 400 chemical and biological agents")
Aug 30, 2010, 5:29pm
Links
5 Things the Corporate Media and Government Don't Want You to Know About Marijuana
1. Long-term marijuana use is associated with lower risks of certain cancers, including head and neck cancer. 2. Most Americans acknowledge that pot is safer than booze. 3. The enforcement of marijuana laws is racially discriminatory. 4. Marijuana may be helpful, not harmful, to people with schizophrenia. 5. Workplace drug testing programs don't identify impaired employees or reduce on-the-job accidents.
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Aug 30, 2010, 10:20am
Commentary
The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror-The Greatest Covert Operation Ever
Douglas Valentine: "America does engage in terrorism - violence against civilians for political purposes. This "state" terrorism, however, is covert, in so far as it is equated with national security, and thanks to that built-in ambiguity, it has both stated and unstated purpose.
Aug 30, 2010, 9:51am
Consider This....
O'odham to National Guard: 'We do not want you on our lands'
"We are not compliant people, we are people with great dignity and confidence, we are a people of endurance..As original people of the lands we honor everything on our lands and we regard all as apart of our sacred lives, do not kill any plants and animals or people on our lands.
Aug 29, 2010, 12:45pm
Blogosphere
Ramsey Muniz - Guilty of Being Latino and Activist in America
Stephen Lendman: "Ramiro (Ramsey) Muniz is one of the victims, imprisoned for life without parole on a bogus drug charge. Now age 67, he's been incarcerated nearly 17 years...he "contributed greatly to the Chicano Civil Rights Movement during the 1970s as a leader for justice and equality for all Mexican Americans, Hispanics, and Latinos throughout the United States."
Aug 28, 2010, 4:53pm
Articles
Murdered Migrants near the Border: Incovenient Truth for the US
Brenda Norrell: "The 72 people murdered at a ranch in Tamaulipas State, about 100 miles south of Brownsville, Texas, are believed to be migrants...The US news media fails to point out that the most vicious killers in Mexico, the Zetas running the drug trafficking, were trained by the United States as Special Forces at the US School of the Americas...
Aug 27, 2010, 11:53am
Commentary
How much proof do the global warming deniers need?
Johann Hari: "Everything the climate scientists said would happen - with their pesky graphs and studies and computers - is coming to pass. This is proving the hottest year ever...Yet as the evidence of global warming becomes ever clearer, the momentum to stop it has died. The Copenhagen climate summit evaporated...
Aug 27, 2010, 11:14am
Meditations
I Want My Country Back!
Martin LeFevre: "I had a cousin, born a few days after I was in the same Midwestern town, with whom I was close growing up. In some ways Mike and I were as different as night and day, but in other ways, especially in political views, we thought alike...There's a curious commonality between cousin Mike's left-wing cry ("I want my country back!" ) and the right-wing echo.
Aug 26, 2010, 11:27am
Blogosphere
The Israeli Lobby: Declassified Documents Expose Its Influence
Stephen Lendman: "James Petras' powerful 2006 book titled, "The Power of Israel in the United States" explained the enormous Jewish Lobby influence on US Middle East policies. Often harming American interests, they're pursued anyway because of its grassroots and high-level control over government, the business community, academia, the clergy and mass media since at least the 1960s.
Aug 26, 2010, 11:17am
Commentary
Violence breeds violence. The only thing drug gangs fear is legalisation
Johann Hari: "On one undercover tape-recorded conversation, a top cartel chief, Jorge Roman, expressed his gratitude for the drug war, calling it 'a sham put on the American tax-payer' that was 'actually good for business'."...If you believe the way to deal with the human appetite for intoxication is to criminalise and militarise, then blood is on your hands.
Aug 26, 2010, 10:52am
Commentary
Listening Conferences for UN Report: No one was listening to Native Americans
Brenda Norrell: "It appears no one was listening at the US State Department's Listening Conferences this year, when Native Americans offered testimony on human rights for a report to the United Nations....The US report to the UN fails to describe the ongoing environmental genocide, where corporations in collusion with the US government target Indian country with power plants, coal mines and oil and gas wells...
Aug 25, 2010, 10:57am
Articles
India blocks Vedanta Mine on Dongria-Kondh Tribe's Sacred Hill
Maseeh Rahman in New Delhi: "After years of controversy and confusion, Vedanta's project to mine bauxite on a forested hill considered sacred by an ancient tribe has been stopped by the Indian government...
Vedanta was accused of rushing ahead with the mining project without obtaining the consent of the tribal groups
Aug 25, 2010, 10:40am
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