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The Anti-Empire Report: February 3rd, 2012
William Blum: The Lord High Almighty Pooh-Bah of threats. The Grand Ayatollah of nuclear menace - As we all know only too well, the United States and Israel would hate to see Iran possessing nuclear weapons. Being "the only nuclear power in the Middle East" is a great card for Israel to have in its hand...
Feb 3, 2012, 4:34pm

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Year one of the Egyptian Revolution
One year ago on January 25, a rebellion began in Egypt that in a matter of 18 days toppled the U.S.-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in power. Egypt has been transformed--but the revolution still faces many challenges...Mostafa Ali, a member of Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists and journalist for Ahram Online, talked about the first year of Egypt's revolution--and what comes next.
Feb 2, 2012, 3:06pm

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Occupy the Super Bowl: Now More Than Just a Slogan
Dave Zirin: "The Republican-led state legislature aims to pass a law this week that would make Indiana a "right-to-work" state...In the reality-based community, "right-to-work" means smashing the state's unions and making it harder for nonunion workplaces to get basic job protections...This has drawn peals of protest throughout the state, with the Occupy and labor movement
Jan 31, 2012, 3:57pm

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Sundering the Social Contract
In political philosophy, the idea of a social contract is that the individual surrenders some rights for the benefits of living in a civilized society that has reasonable rules for all. However, in recent decades, the greedy rich have torn up that contract, as Danny Schechter explains.
Jan 29, 2012, 1:42pm

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Extreme Inequality or Democracy?
Ron Forthofer: "Last autumn, likely due to the Occupy movement, there was a shift of media attention from debt reduction and the cutting of vital public programs (for example, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) to the issue of extreme wealth and income inequality in America.
Jan 18, 2012, 1:57pm

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DegradeThis: Financial Terrorism Is Europe's New Spectre
Danny Schechter: "The decision by Standard and Poors (Best renamed, "It is now Standard to Be Poor") to downgrade credit ratings for France, Italy, Austria and six other European countries signals those nations that Wall Street has them by the cojones.
Jan 15, 2012, 12:09pm

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US Political News Is a Fool's Game
Danny Schechter: "Pseudo-events like this are what the media lives for: it provides something for them to do, and to feel important while doing it. It creates airtime for endless punditry, and a spectacle to liven up a dull Iowa winter...there's barely a mention about how the media benefits by creating a phony sense of excitement while generating revenues from the money spent on the endless ads
Jan 5, 2012, 2:12pm

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Haiti: Seven Places Where the Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go
"Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by an earthquake on January 12, 2010...The UN estimated international donors gave Haiti over $1.6 billion in relief aid since the earthquake...Yet Haiti looks like the earthquake happened two months ago...It turns out that almost none of the money that the general public thought was going to Haiti actually went directly to Haiti.
Jan 4, 2012, 1:37pm

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The Anti-Empire Report: January 3rd, 2012
William Blum: Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget..."the people of that unhappy land lost everything — their homes, their schools, their electricity, their clean water, their environment, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their archaeology, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their state-run enterprises, their physical health, their mental health...
Jan 3, 2012, 12:48pm

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On Havel/Kim, Where's the Objectivity?
Danny Schechter: "The world has said goodbye to two leaders who were worlds apart. One was a widely celebrated anti-communist, the other a widely despised communist. However, the lives and thoughts of both the Czech Republic's Vaclav Havel and North Korea's Kim Jong-il were given short-shrift.
Dec 22, 2011, 3:05pm

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How Iraq Maneuvered the US Exit
Gareth Porter: The neocons' treasured Iraq War myth of their "successful surge" is belied by the actual history of how Iraqi Shiite leaders collaborated with Iran to tamp down internal violence and then destroy neocon plans for long-term U.S. military bases to project power in the Middle East
Dec 17, 2011, 2:31pm

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Markets of Shame Before the Collapse: Crisis, Crisis, Everywhere
Paul Krugman - 'It's time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. True, it's not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that's cold comfort. Unemployment in both America and Europe remains disastrously high. Leaders and institutions are increasingly discredited. And democratic values are under siege.'
Dec 14, 2011, 4:36pm

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Us and Them: Arresting Democracy
Jack Random: "On September 17, 2011, a group of protesters gathered at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan under the banner: Occupy Wall Street...On or about November 10, a conference call engaging some eighteen American cities initiated a coordinated crackdown on OWS encampments. Police actions from that day forward have been persistent, forceful and often violent...
Dec 8, 2011, 12:15pm

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The Anti-Empire Report: December 2nd, 2011
William Blum: USrael and Iran- There's no letup, is there? The preparation of the American mind, the world mind, for the next gala performance of D&D — Death and Destruction. The Bunker Buster bombs are now 30,000 pounds each one, six times as heavy as the previous delightful model..
Dec 3, 2011, 10:56am

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The Lost Opportunity of Iran-Contra
Robert Parry: "A quarter century ago with the breaking of the Iran-Contra scandal, the United States had a chance to step back from its march toward Empire and to demand accountability for White House crimes. But instead a powerful cover-up prevailed
Dec 1, 2011, 12:48pm


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