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The Anti-Empire Report: March 8th, 2010
William Blum: Where seldom is heard a discouraging word ... like "bribery"...Congress of the United States - Seven members of the House of Representatives steered hundreds of millions of dollars in largely no-bid contracts to clients of a lobbying firm, PMA Group.
Mar 8, 2010, 2:30pm
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Wake Up - Don't Wait Until It Happens to You
Missy Comley Beattie: United States of America, wake up. Our foreign policy is atrocious. A-T-R-O-C-I-O-U-S. An atrocity...The death toll of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan soon will hit 5,400. More than 41,000 have been wounded, many with traumatic brain injuries...We have murdered at least a million Iraqi and Afghanistan civilians
Mar 6, 2010, 10:59am
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Toyota's Enablers: Deregulation Helped the Automaker Avoid Scrutiny
Ralph Nader: "Part of the problem is the deregulatory mania that has gripped Washington since the Ronald Reagan years. Since the Reagan administration, NHTSA has been severely cut back. Its budget has been nearly halved (when adjusted for inflation), which has left it with a far smaller technical staff...
Feb 28, 2010, 5:01pm
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How to Buy a "Reactor Renaissance"
Harvey Wasserman: "There has been no deep, thoughtful re-making or re-evaluation of atomic technology. No solution to the nuke waste problem. No making reactors economically sound. No private insurance against radioactive disasters by terror or error...The change: $645 MILLION for lobbying Congress and the White House over the past ten years.
Feb 24, 2010, 10:54am
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Why the Oscars Are A Con
John Pilger: "Why are so many films so bad? This year's Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America's divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occupy our memory...
Feb 20, 2010, 12:01am
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Vancouver 2010: The IOC, Israel, Canada, and Apartheid
Kim Petersen: "Canada is an apartheid country just as Israel is. The First Nations have been pushed onto small reserves. Canada is based on the dispossession of the Indigenous population as is Israel. The European-cum Canadians colonialists displaced the spirituality and culture of the Indigenous peoples ...
Feb 19, 2010, 12:20pm
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Bush, Cheney and the Great Escape
William Rivers Pitt: "With each passing day, it becomes more and more astonishing to encompass the fact that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their henchmen from the prior administration have managed thus far to escape any accounting whatsoever for the massive battery of criminal activity committed during their time in office...Justice? When it comes to the Bush administration, the word has no meaning.
Feb 7, 2010, 3:18pm
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The Anti-Empire Report: February 6th, 2010
William Blum: Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This disregard of progressive thought is tantamount to a definition of the mainstream media...
Feb 6, 2010, 5:42pm
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This corruption in Washington is smothering America's future
Johann Hari, UK: "How do you re-regulate the banks, if the Senate is owned by Wall Street? How do you launch a rapid transition away from oil and coal to wind and solar, if the fossil fuel industry owns Congress? How do you break with a grab-the-oil foreign policy if Big Oil provides the invitation that gets you into the party
Jan 29, 2010, 10:50am
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Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History
"In Howard's book, the central actors were the runaway slaves, the labor radicals, the masses and the misfits. It was history writ by Robin Hood, speaking to a desire so many share: to actually make history instead of being history's victim...
Jan 28, 2010, 11:18am
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Can the Human Race Outgrow War?
James Carroll: Douglas MacArthur - "The abolition of war. . .is no longer an ethical question to be pondered solely by learned philosophers and ecclesiastics, but a hard-core one for the decision of the masses whose survival is the issue."
Jan 25, 2010, 11:36am
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Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment
"Last week's earthquake was a natural disaster, but the carnage is a result of a punitive relationship with the outside world...Haiti's poverty is treated as some baffling quirk of history or culture, when in reality it is the direct consequence of a uniquely brutal relationship with the outside world — notably the US, France and Britain..
Jan 23, 2010, 2:22pm
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The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy
Johann Hari: "You can't appeal to robots for mercy or empathy - or punish them afterwards...Every time you hear about a "drone attack" against Afghanistan or Pakistan, that's an unmanned robot dropping bombs on human beings. Push a button and it flies away, kills, and comes home...
Jan 22, 2010, 3:42pm
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Coakley's Loss: Pie in the President's Face & an Opportunity
William Greider: "He lost his innocence as the valiant young president and also lost his sixty-vote majority in the Senate. Now we will find out what the man is made of--either a true political leader or just another show horse...Obama has to change the subject by refocusing reform actions on jobs and the structure of the faltering economy...
Jan 20, 2010, 1:35pm
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The Politics of Awareness, Part 2
Frank Joseph Smecker: "This thing we call Education these days, is teaching our children that this notional world of materialism is a reality that is here to stay despite its rapid egress. This thing we call Education today, is training our kids to grow up and work toward maintaining something inherently unsustainable.
Jan 19, 2010, 2:12pm
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