April 17, 2012
“The propaganda system allows the U.S. Leadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.” - Edward S. Herman, political economist and author The quote above simply shows [...]
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Big Lie, Edward S. Herman, Germany, Henry Kissinger, Kissinger, Mein Kampf, Metropolitan Opera, New York City, Politics, Wikipedia
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January 12, 2012
If you want to read more on this topic there is no better start or finish than “Taking the Risk out of Democracy” by the Australian Alex Carey or “Manufacturing Consent” by Hermann and Chomsky. Interestingly Chomsky wrote a foreword for the Carey book and Manufacturing Consent was dedicated to Carey. By reading both you [...]
Tags: Alex Carey, Australia, Carey, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Noam Chomsky, Subconscious, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (History of Communication), Television
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November 14, 2011
Obama used to refer to longtime Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak as a ‘friend’ of the US – and not as a dictator [EPA] During the past few months, Barack Obama has come under increasing pressure from his would-be Republican opponents, not for secretly subscribing to the faith of the enemy (Obama Muslim-baiting is so 2010), [...]
Tags: Arab Spring, BarackObama, Hosni Mubarak, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Tunisia, United State, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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November 10, 2011
Insanity, not logic, guides Israel‘s leadership The mens’ men who are threatening Iran now are the real cowards’ cowards. The brave ones are in fact those who are trying to thwart the insanity, from former Mossad chief Meir Dagan to Interior Minister Eli Yishai. By Gideon LevyTags: Iran Iran nuclear Tehran Eli Yishai Palestinian Authority Muammar [...]
Tags: Eli Yishai, Iran, Israel, Meir Dagan, middle east, Nuclear program of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Tehran
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November 9, 2011
Any fossil fuel infrastructure built in the next five years will cause irreversible climate change, according to the IEA. Photograph: Rex Features World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ‘lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change [...]
Tags: Birol, Climate change, Durban, Fatih Birol, Fossil fuel, Guardian, IEA, International Energy Agency, Japan, World Energy Outlook
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October 28, 2011
Assassinating Children by Jacob G. Hornberger The extraordinary power of the U.S. government to assassinate people has, once again, been manifested in the assassination of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. No, that’s not Anwar al-Awlaki, the American Muslim cleric whom U.S. officials recently assassinated in Yemen. That’s Abdulrahm al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki. There are several [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Jacob G. Hornberger, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon, U.S government, United States, Yemen
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October 26, 2011
Every Western democracy has answered the question, “How should the power of the leader be checked?” In the United States, we separated the role of the sovereign into three co-equal branches, incorporated the Bill of Rights into our written Constitution, and scheduled regular elections when the people, having observed the actions of the executive [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Baitullah Mehsud, Bruce Riedel, David Petraeus, Dick Cheney, Jane Mayer, Pakistan, Pakistani, United State, United States
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October 25, 2011
Image via Wikipedia Ray McGovern on Activism and the Military Industrial Complex http://warisacrime.org/content/ray-mcgovern-activism-and-military-industrial-complex The past 50 years have shown that President Eisenhower was spot on, as we would say today, about the Military Industrial Complex and what to expect if Americans were not vigilant, which, of course, we have not been — until maybe now. [...]
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, Israel, John Yoo, Ray McGovern, Thomas Aquinas, United States, White House
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October 20, 2011
I, along with many others was warning readers about the awful killing machines, the Drones. They are a weapon with nothing more than a continually updated capacity to kill and destroy while using highly suspect forms of surveillance. What they really do is to simply be employed against a site where there is some suspicion or advantage attaching [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Australia, Australian Labor Party, General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, Israel, Julia Gillard, Labor, Labor Party, Liberal Conservative, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Pakistan, Parties, Pentagon, Politics, Shelly Yachimovich, United States
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October 20, 2011
US President Barack Obama greets congressional leadership before signing the Iran Sanctions Bill [EPA] A week after news of an alleged Iranian assassination plot in Washington rocked the international scene, public details remain scant. The Obama administration – including the president himself – has spoken with unequivocal certitude regarding the Iranian government’s intentions and [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Iran, National Iranian American Council, Obama, Obama administration, Sanctions against Iran, United State, Washington
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October 15, 2011
The grim reality of life under Alabama‘s brutal immigration law Alabama immigration law: anyone failing to carry immigraton papers is now deemed to be committing a criminal act. Photograph: Gary Tramontina/Polaris Fear of detention, families torn apart – Hispanics in Alabama are trapped in a unique half-life under punishing new immigrant laws • Latest: police can [...]
Tags: Alabama, Atlanta, Gomez, Gonzalez, Hispanic, Immigration, Immigration law, Law, North Carolina, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Supreme Court of the United States, United States, United States Department of Justice
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September 24, 2011
The one-sided US veto: an astounding display of hypocrisy By Neve Gordon and Yinon Cohen US President Barack Obama’s decision to use the USA‘s veto prerogative if the United Nations votes to recognize a Palestinian state will constitute a blow to those seeking peace in the Middle East. The Obama administration’s claim that peace can be [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Israel, Israeli settlement, Palestine, Palestinian people, United Nations, United States, West Bank
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September 21, 2011
The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais One should never forget the presence of racism in politics. Perhaps most of all it should always be at the forefront that the racist elements are usually quite well represented in the governments that are the first to proclaim their intent to keep [...]
Tags: African American, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Hispanic and Latino Americans, John McCain, Latino, New Hampshire, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Republican, U.S. News & World Report, United States, White House
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August 30, 2011
Night Raids and War Crimes John Glaser, August 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Just wanted to quickly draw attention to this WikiLeaks State Department diplomatic cable which details a horrible war crime committed by the US in Iraq in 2006. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, [...]
Tags: Iraq, MNF, Philip Alston, Tikrit, United State, United States Department of State, War crime, Warfare and Conflict
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August 29, 2011
dick be in chains Cheney: Bush Leaked Iraq Strategy Debate Slams Bush for Doing ‘Disservice’ to Troops by Jason Ditz, August 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The latest in a number of revelations coming out of his new book, former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that a 2007 leak to [...]
Tags: David Ignatius, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Iraq, Oval Office, Presidency of George W. Bush, Stephen Hadley, Washington Post
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August 28, 2011
Labour’s proposals would prevent Rupert Murdoch renewing his BSkyB bid until the outcome of the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Louis Lanzano/AP Labour is trying to secure cross-party support for an emergency change in the law to prevent News Corporation from renewing its bid to take full ownership of BSkyB. In a move designed to capitalise on the embarrassment [...]
Tags: British Sky Broadcasting, Don Foster, Enterprise Act 2002, Ivan Lewis, Jeremy Hunt, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Secretary of State for Culture Olympics Media and Sport
Posted in James Murdoch, News, News Corp, News hacking, News international, News of the World, news report, Propaganda, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch | No Comments »
August 27, 2011
In Washington, at least 275 protesters have been arrested oppossing a pipeline which they say will damage ecosystems, increase oil dependency and worsen global warming [GALLO/GETTY] David Daniel had never been to an environmental protest before this week, but as hundreds converge in Washington for civil disobedience against a massive oil pipeline, the retired carpenter from Texas is spearheading [...]
Tags: Alberta, Athabasca oil sands, Barack Obama, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, David Daniel, Keystone Pipeline, Ogallala Aquifer, oilsands, United States, United States Department of State, United States Environmental Protection Agency
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Climate, Climate change, Climate denial, Dirty Energy, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, President of the World, Propaganda, Protest | No Comments »
August 25, 2011
My President Had My Father Arrested Today By davidswanson - Posted on 24 August 2011 0digg davidswanson’s blog Login or register to post comments Email this page Printer-friendly version Tags Environment Nonviolent Resistance The arrests today. Submitted by sandiegowoman on Wed, 2011-08-24 21:44. I know Neil Swanson. He is a friend of mine. He would not take getting arrested [...]
Tags: Arrest, Kim Kardashian, Kris Humphries, Kris Jenner, Lindsay Lohan, Reality television, Robert Kardashian, Vera Wang
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August 24, 2011
Will Obama Denounce MLK as Memorial Dedicated? By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/node/3371 That sounds like a crazy question, doesn’t it? Why would President Obama denounce Martin Luther King, Jr.? Well, the reason I ask is that he’s done it before. Really? But surely he wouldn’t do it on such a solemn occasion? Well, the time [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World Special 75th Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther King Jr. born January 15 1929), Martin Luther King, National Mall, Nobel Peace Prize, United States, Washington DC, World War II
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August 24, 2011
The disgraceful US imperial presence in South America has been very accurately chronicled for decades. It involved the whole gamut of the imperial destruction of the South. Everything took pace from, torture, to phoney regime change, to the destruction of workers’ unions and the death of dissidents including priests and teachers. All these measures were needed to enforce absolute [...]
Tags: Augusto Pinochet, BBC, Chile, Cuba, Forced disappearance, Human rights, Meyer Lansky, Political prisoner, South America, Valech Report
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August 18, 2011
] Walter Lippmann on the 6¢ stamp, part of the US Postal Service’s Great American Series. Those who have been following the world wide push to get people to accept massive cuts to just about every service available must be amazed at the depth of the cuts and the way the matters are [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Capitalism, Labour, Noam Chomsky, Politics, Prime minister, Tony Blair, United State
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August 17, 2011
The Obama administration decided that it was not concerned about drone strikes upsetting Pakistanis EPA] Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets US drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met on condition that they not be identified, said that such veto [...]
Tags: Baitullah Mehsud, Central Intelligence Agency, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, Haqqani network, Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistani Armed Forces, Pervez Musharraf, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
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August 16, 2011
After Months of Pushing for ‘Request’ White House Will ‘Consider’ Staying in Iraq As Attacks Continue to Grow, Spokesman Says Still Waiting for Iraqi Request by Jason Ditz, August 15, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Pretending as usual with that months of haranguing the Maliki government into allowing US troops to [...]
Tags: Iraq, Jay Carney, Latakia, Maliki, North Yemen, Nouri al-Maliki, Syria, United State
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August 15, 2011
Virginia Militarized By David Swanson with Shepherd Johnson http://warisacrime.org/content/virginia-militarized The U.S. military is a permanent and pervasive presence in Virginia. Were the state of Virginia to ban participation in wars of aggression, weapons sales to brutal dictatorships, and the manufacture of aggressive and illegal weapons, the Military Industrial Complex would be obliged to help itself [...]
Tags: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Fort Eustis, Langley Air Force Base, Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Oceana Naval Air Station, United States Army Combined Arms Support Command, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, United States Joint Forces Command
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August 14, 2011
Aspen, Colorado. [Photo: Glenn Gabel] All tension with Pakistan aside, the US shows no sign of stopping its use of unmanned drones to kill al-Qaeda members in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Top national security officials fled the steamy debt debate in DC to take part in the Aspen Security Forum in cool Colorado last week, but they [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, Douglas Lute, Husain Haqqani, North Waziristan, Pakistan, United States
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August 14, 2011
Pakistani police officials declined to speculate on the motive for the abduction of Warren Weinstein in Lahore [AFP] An American aid expert has been kidnapped at gunpoint in the Pakistani city of Lahore after gunmen stormed his residence and overpowered security guards. The US embassy on Saturday identified the victim as Warren Weinstein, a consultant for [...]
Tags: American Refugee Committee, John McCain, Lahore, Law enforcement in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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August 11, 2011
The Man Who Doesn’t Want to Be President Adam Campbell (CC-BY-ND) By William Pfaff Posted on Aug 9, 2011 The spectacle presented the world by the elected American government’s inability to deal with how the national debt is to be paid and the budget set, with its commercial exploitation by rating company Standard & Poor’s, is widely considered [...]
Tags: Alissa J. Rubin, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, George W. Bush, Stanley McChrystal, United State, Warren Buffett, William Pfaff
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August 11, 2011
168 Children Murdered By US Drones John Glaser, August 11, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) last month began to publish their findings in a study of the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. The study found that much higher rates of civilian casualties had resulted from [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Civilian casualties, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Murder, Obama administration, Pakistan, United States, War in North-West Pakistan
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August 8, 2011
Barack Obama said the US would “always be a triple A country” despite its credit rating downgrade by S&P. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Barack Obama has dismissed Standard and Poor’s downgrading of America’s credit rating and insisted the US remained an AAA country. In his first words since S&P’s decision on Friday evening, he sought to [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Credit rating, Family of Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Standard & Poor's, United State, White House
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August 8, 2011
European markets stabilised after the ECB began buying Italian and Spanish debt on Monday [AFP] The stock market ‘woes’ are symptomatic of the immorality of allowing people to deal in a created commodity like a company or corporation while they make no contribution to the company. The company or corporation only exists [...]
Tags: CAC 40, Dow Jones Industrial Average, European Central Bank, FTSE 100 Index, FTSE MIB, Hang Seng Index, Hong Kong, KOSPI, New York Stock Exchange, Nikkei-225, SSE Composite Index, Standard & Poor's
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August 8, 2011
The US is making a mistake in demonising Iran, says Patrick Seale. Obama should have seized the chance to engage. Obama’s Hopeless Iran Strategy Why GOP Must Back Obama on Iran Why Iran Misses Bin Laden Iran and the P5+1: Dual Track Clash Flotilla Fiasco Boon for Iran It’s now widely accepted – and lamented [...]
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August 7, 2011
A Wall Street sign in front of the New York stock exchange. Recent events have changed the US as an unassailable economic superpower. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters When India joined China in criticising America’s chaotic handling of its hefty debts this weekend, describing the challenges facing the White House as “grave”, it was the clearest indicator yet [...]
Tags: Bank of England, China, European Central Bank, European Financial Stability Facility, Italy, Jean-Claude Trichet, Standard & Poor's, United States
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August 5, 2011
Pierre Van Peteghem, treasurer of the African Development Bank, addresses the annual meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) at the Congress Center in Lisbon, Portugal on 07 June 2011 [EPA] Perhaps for the first time in modern history, the future of the global economy lies in the hands of poor countries. The United States [...]
Tags: Dani Rodrik, International political economy, McKinsey & Company, People's Bank of China, Project Syndicate, Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel, United State, World economy
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August 4, 2011
Rumsfeld Iraq ‘torture‘ suit given go-ahead Former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been represented by the justice department Continue reading the main story Related Stories Bush ‘should face torture probe’ Rumsfeld defends US war in Iraq Profile: Donald Rumsfeld A US judge has ruled that a former American military contractor who claims he was tortured [...]
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July 31, 2011
US congressman Peter King has been holding hearings on the ‘radicalisation’ of the American Muslim community, and has refused to widen the hearings’ scope to include other, non-Muslim terrorism threats [GALLO/GETTY] The frightful mass murder in Norway on July 22, 2011 and the instant, knee-jerk reaction of a number of leading European and American news organisations – including the BBC, The [...]
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July 31, 2011
US Predator drones have played a large role in the CIA’s extrajudicial killing program in Pakistan, where some 2,500 people in Pakistan, mostly civilians, have been killed by US forces since June 2004 [EPA] They call it “bug splat“, the splotch of blood, bones, and viscera that marks the site of a successful drone strike. To those [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Central Intelligence Agency, Clive Stafford Smith, George W. Bush, Pakistan, Tara McKelvey, United State
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July 31, 2011
Barack Obama has not slept for a week because of worries over the US budget. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images ( Seems life for a warmonger gets tougher by the minute, perhaps he should play with the dog. Even war criminals feel the heat and need a rest, forget about the countless numbers that have suffered [...]
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July 30, 2011
Progressives don’t need more reasons to be disappointed with President Barack Obama’s handling of the deficit talks, but here’s another failing that has not gotten much play: The administration has been so timid on defense cuts that some leading Republicans are now well to the president’s left on this issue. (Flickr/gregwest98) SHARE THIS STORY. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bipartisan Policy Center, Erskine Bowles, Pentagon, Pete Domenici, Republican, Robert Gates, Tom Coburn
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July 30, 2011
As for the comments of General Lute in the post on this page read this and see for yourself where these alleged Al Qaeda connections are and how foolish it is to suggest that some sort of knockout punch can be delivered in Pakistan. As long as the US keeps its extremely close links to [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Arabian Peninsula, English language, Fort Hood, Islamic terrorism, Nidal Malik Hasan, United States Army
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July 30, 2011
ASPEN, Colorado — Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, unless the local governments are willing to join in the hunt. Those aren’t the words of some human rights activist, or some far-left Congressman. They’re from retired [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Dennis C. Blair, Leon Panetta, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Somalia, United States, Yemen
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July 29, 2011
ISRAELIS DEBATE ON THE WEB: DID NORWAY GET WHAT IT DESERVED? WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011 AT 11:23PM GILAD ATZMON Gilad Atzmon: Read it for yourself. Israelis show their real face. If psychopathy is defined as a sever lack in empathy, we are clearly dealing here with a psychotic collective. http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/140297/ Israelis Debate on the Web: Did [...]
Tags: Antisemitism, Israel, Israelis, Jews, Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway, Norwegians, Ynet
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July 29, 2011
WASHINGTON — Though the withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan will save the nation billions of dollars a year, another cost of war is projected to continue rising for decades to come: caring for the veterans. Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times When you embark on an immoral, illegal and criminal act like a war [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Congressional Budget Office, George Monbiot, Iraq, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Michele Bachmann, NATO, New York Times, Patty Murray, Paul Rieckhoff, Predator Drone, RAND Corporation, Tom Coburn, United State, United States, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Veteran, Washington D.C
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July 29, 2011
Lord Justice Leveson, appointed by David Cameron to look into the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, warned yesterday that he may not be able to complete the first part of the inquiry within the planned timescale of a year because its goals had been widened “quite substantially”. Senior parliamentarians said it was possible the full inquiry, [...]
Tags: David Cameron, Freud Communications, Inquiry, Keith Vaz, Lord Justice of Appeal, Matthew Freud, News of the World, Rupert Murdoch
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July 26, 2011
PALESTINE, ISRAEL, GERMANY- THE BOUNDARIES OF OPEN DISCUSSION MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011 AT 1:46PM GILAD ATZMON This is a very important conference!!! http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/ September 10-11, 2011 Freiburg, Germany Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we often face rigid [...]
Tags: Antisemitism, Criticism of the Israeli government, Gilad Atzmon, Islamophobia, Israel, Lauren Booth, Palestine, Palestinian people
Posted in Arab democracy, Arab movements, Arab Spring, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, elections, Elites, Global capitalism and imperialism, Human Rights, Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and withholding resources from the Arabs etc, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel apartheid, Israel Boycott, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel media, Israel West Bank, Israel's wall, nuclear, Nuclear Germany, Obama, Obama warmonger, Palestine, Palestine Authority, Palestine UN bid, Peace Movement, people's protests, Political psychopaths, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Racism, Refugees, Regulating Democracy, Right of return, Second Flotilla to Gaza | No Comments »
July 26, 2011
Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster Posted by Mike Davis at 8:15am, July 26, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: A heartfelt thanks to all of you who, in these dog days of summer, contributed $100 or more for a personalized, signed copy of Christian Parenti’s cutting-edge new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography [...]
Tags: Christian Parenti, Henry Felsen, iPod, Max Blumenthal, Mike Davis, National Safety Council, Planet of Slums, United States
Posted in economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Fascism, Political psychopaths, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Regulating Democracy, Resource Wars, Right Wing, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UK Monarchy, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US public opinion | No Comments »
July 26, 2011
Indian farmers are being forcibly moved from their land to make way for rich foreign investors and their environmentally destructive plans [EPA] On June 29, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with editors of a few newspapers. When asked about whether he had been putting pressure on the Environment Ministry to approve environmentally destructive projects, he [...]
Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, Forest Rights Act, India, Indira Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, Manmohan Singh, POSCO, United States
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bush tax cuts, Cancer, Elite, Harry Reid, middle east, Nigeria, Party leaders of the United States Senate, President, Republican, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, United State, War crime, White House
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Capitalism for Zombies, Democracy, Democracy in Asia, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Dirty Energy, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, elections, Elites, Environment, Environment and climate, Evolution, Fascism, Food, Foreign Policy, Gillard, Global capitalism and imperialism, Global Food System, Guardian, IMF, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Manufacturing Consent, Media, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Norway, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Peace Movement, Peak oil, Pentagon, Political psychopaths, pollution, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Racism, Regulating Democracy, Resource Wars, Right Wing, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UK Monarchy, UN, Unemployment, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on Islam and Muslims, War on terror, Waterboarding, Women abuse and targetting, Women and discrimination, Women and revolution, Women become tragerts, Women in the Middle East, Women's issues, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
July 26, 2011
Rupert Murdoch: Intellectual terrorism by PAUL J. BALLES on JULY 25, 2011 The past week’s news has been dominated by reports of scandals in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. As journalist Ted Newcomen points out, there’s more to the story: The latest revelations in the UK about phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just [...]
Tags: Fox News Channel, George W. Bush, Gulf Daily News, Reel Bad Arabs, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Posted in Arab democracy, Arab movements, Arab Spring, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism and debt, Capitalism for Zombies, civil liberty, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in Asia, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Fascism, Fatah, Flotilla Flytilla, Gaza, Greece and the Arab Spring and Palestine Gaza, Greece and the Flotilla, Hamas, Hezbollah, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel apartheid, Israel Boycott, James Murdoch, Manufacturing Consent, Media, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, NATO, News, News Corp, News hacking, News international, News of the World, news report, Norway, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Pentagon, Political psychopaths, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UK Monarchy, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War child victims, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed | No Comments »
July 26, 2011
Goldman Sachs: US Faces Credit ‘Downgrade’ if it Counts Eventual End of War as ‘Deficit Reduction’ Claiming Wars Will End Sooner or Later Not a Real Savings by Jason Ditz, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Senate Democrats have issued a new “savings” plan that would nominally pare the projected [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Democratic Party (United States), Goldman Sachs, Iraq, Iraq War, Libya, United State, Warfare and Conflict
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July 26, 2011
The war in Iraq created another ‘puppet’ regime. (Zoriah.net) By James Petras Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only at the tolerance [...]
Tags: British Empire, History, Imperialism, James Petras, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Osama BinLaden, United State, Warfare and Conflict, World War II
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