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WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries"
Stephen Lendman: "Civilians are willfully targeted, those killed or wounded called insurgents, the numbers affected downplayed and misreported, embedded journalists an echo chamber for Pentagon/NATO lies and distortion...Founder Julian Assange "shin(ing) light on the everyday brutality and squalor of war," in hopes the mood will shift to end it. "Reform can only come (when) injustice is exposed.
Jul 28, 2010, 12:01pm
Blogosphere
Growing Health Crisis in the Gulf
Stephen Lendman: "The combination of millions of gallons of oil and dispersants has made large areas of the Gulf toxic and dangerous, marine toxicologist Ricki Ott saying if she lived there with children she'd leave - based on her firsthand experience after the 1989 Prince William Sound, Alaska Exxon Valdez disaster and subsequent research
Jul 27, 2010, 2:49pm
Articles
Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the US Criminal Justice System
Bill Quigley: "The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people...Is the US criminal justice system operated to marginalize and control millions of African Americans?
Jul 27, 2010, 2:28pm
Articles
Indian military to weaponize hot chilies
(NaturalNews) The Indian military has announced a plan to convert the world's hottest chili pepper into a weapon...The weapons will be made from the bhut jolokia, also known as the "ghost chili" and acknowledged by Guinness World Records as the most potent chili in the world. The potency of the bhut jolokia measures more than one million Scoville units
Jul 26, 2010, 2:19pm
Blogosphere
What Is It?
James Howard Kunstler: "The collective failure of authority, whether of intention or oversight or mental deficiency boggles the mind. And it leaves us where we are: in a compressive deflationary contraction, a.k.a. the long emergency. This is not a cyclical recession. It's the end of one thing and the beginning of another thing, another phase of history in which people will have to learn to live differently or perish.
Jul 26, 2010, 12:27pm
Consider This....
How to Write about Haiti
"Don't listen if the Haitians speak loudly or become unruly. You might be in danger, get out of there. Protests are not to be taken seriously. The participants were probably all paid to be there. All Haitian politicians are corrupt or incompetent. Find a foreign authority on Haiti to talk in stern terms about how they must shape up or cede power to incorruptible outsiders.
Jul 25, 2010, 4:59pm
Commentary
Evidence Suggest U.S.-U.K. Wars Increase Global Terror Threat
"Evidence strongly suggests that the U.S. and U.K. primarily play a destabilizing role throughout the world, rather than fighting terrorism and ensuring world order out of chaos. Global public opinion polls have long found that most throughout the world view the U.S. as one of the primary threats to global security, rather than the protector of world order.
Jul 24, 2010, 12:19pm
Articles
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
Patrick Cockburn: "Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945...the extent of genetic damage suffered by inhabitants suggests the use of uranium in some form.
Jul 24, 2010, 10:57am
Commentary
Oil, blood money, and Blair's last scandal
Johann Hari: "Sometimes there is a news story that lays out the priorities that drive our governments once the doors are closed and the cameras are switched off. The story of the attempt to trade the Lockerbie bomber for oil is one of those moments...The oil company BP wanted to be able to drill down into Libya's oil, and tap the profits that would gush forth...Libya wanted the release of Megrahi
Jul 23, 2010, 2:18pm
Blogosphere
Chicago: "The National Capital of Police Repression"
Stephen Lendman: That's what Frank Donner called Chicago in his 1990 book, "Protectors of Privilege."... guerrilla warfare against substantial sectors of the city's population - using illegal, criminal methods, including intimidation, physical confrontation, and flagrant abuse, at times involving torture.
Jul 22, 2010, 4:45pm
Commentary
The New Warlord of Oz (Australia Revisited)
John Pilger: "In 48 hours in June, she (Julia Gillard) and Mates in Labor's parliamentary caucus got rid of the elected prime minister, Kevin Rudd. Her weapons were Rudd's slide in the opinion polls and the power and prize of Australia's vast trove of minerals...Gillard is pursuing a land grab of the one region of Australia, the Northern Territory, where Aboriginal Australians have land and mineral rights.
Jul 22, 2010, 4:29pm
Articles
Iroquois Passport Issue Raises Sovereignty Questions
“The rights of Native nations to govern themselves independently has long been recognized by federal treaties, but the extent of that recognition beyond U.S borders is under challenge in a post-Sept. 11 world...U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is urging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to work with American Indian governments and the Canadian and United Kingdom governments to develop acceptable travel documents for tribal citizens...
Jul 21, 2010, 3:27pm
Books
Howard Zinn's - The Bomb
"The late Howard Zinn's new book "The Bomb" is a brilliant little dissection of some of the central myths of our militarized society...Zinn describes the U.S. military making its first use of napalm by dropping it all over a French town (Royan) during WWII, burning anyone and anything it touched. (Zinn was there in a plane-bombing.)
Jul 20, 2010, 4:32pm
Links
COINTELPRO and the Omaha Two
"In 2007, veteran journalist, Michael Richardson, began writing a series of articles for OpEdNews.com about Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, who are two Black Panther political prisoners known as the Omaha Two. Richardson argues that they were framed for the 1970 murder of a policeman as part of the FBI’s notorious counterintelligence program, dubbed "COINTELPRO."
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Jul 20, 2010, 3:39pm
Blogosphere
Public Anger and Distrust of Business and Government
Stephen Lendman: "An April 2010 Pew Research Center (PRC) for the People & Press study and others report growing public anger, distrust, and hostility toward business and government because of a "perfect storm of conditions" - wrecked economies, fueling "epic discontent" toward responsible officials.
Jul 20, 2010, 3:37pm
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