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The Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Thursday, 31 March 2011 11:40
Many critics of the ongoing Euro-US wars in the Middle East and, now, North
Africa, have based their arguments on clichés and generalizations devoid of
fact. The most common line heard in regard to the current US-Euro war on Libya
is that it's "all about oil" – the goal is the seizure of Libya's oil wells.
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Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Saturday, 05 March 2011 11:02
Most accounts of the Arab revolts from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq and elsewhere have focused on the most immediate causes: political dictatorships, unemployment, repression and the wounding and killing of protestors. They have given most attention to the “middle class”, young, educated activists, their communication via the internet, (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 2011) and, in the case of Israel and its Zionists conspiracy theorists, “the hidden hand” of Islamic extremists (Daily Alert Feb. 25, 2011).
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Welcome To The World’s First Murdochracy
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Category: Reports
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Published on Friday, 12 March 2010 12:40
What is a murdochracy? It is where the fealty and augmentation of Murdoch’s editors and managers are undisguised, an inspiration to his choir on seven continents, where even his competitors sing along and wise politicians heed the Murdochism: “What’ll it be? A headline a day or a bucket of shit a day?”
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Welcome To The World’s First Murdochracy
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Friday, 12 March 2010 12:40
What is a murdochracy? It is where the fealty and augmentation of Murdoch’s editors and managers are undisguised, an inspiration to his choir on seven continents, where even his competitors sing along and wise politicians heed the Murdochism: “What’ll it be? A headline a day or a bucket of shit a day?”
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The Sycophantic Culture
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Category: Focus
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Published on Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:38
Any society and its military is as only as good as its ability to not only perceive the truth but also use it as its basis for action. A nation of sheep is bred by sycophants. The sycophants are more a danger to society by creating failure than critics who often point the way to human progress and understanding.
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The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
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Category: Reports
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Published on Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:18
283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries:
With last week's announced escalation of the war in Afghanistan, including an Iraq-like "surge" replete with 4,000 more U.S. troops and a sizable increase in private contractors, President Barack Obama blew the lid off of any lingering perceptions that he somehow represents a significant change in how the U.S. conducts its foreign policy.
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Five hundred years of global terror
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Category: Reports
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Published on Saturday, 28 March 2009 06:55
An era that began in the 15th century may be coming to an end, and though we should hardly expect neat, quick and final solutions to the problems it has created, there is reason for hope. Humanity faces potential calamities both in social and natural environments, but we may also be entering an age of peace and prosperity. If we continue the Western dualist mode of profit or loss, win or lose, either one or the other, and do not create balance between extremes, failure seems certain.
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Still waiting for change as our moral bankruptcy deepens
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Saturday, 28 March 2009 06:35
A few months ago, I received an e-mail response to an article I’d written in which I called for an end to the occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestinian territory. The e-mailer asked how I could expect people to think or care about any of this when our economy has resulted in joblessness, home foreclosures, loss of health care, and poverty.
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An informant at a California mosque has hampered efforts to find home-grown terrorists
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Category: Reports
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Published on Thursday, 26 March 2009 08:52
Law enforcement efforts to root out home-grown terrorists are jeopardized by deteriorating relations between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Muslim and Arab-American communities.
The situation began last fall when the FBI quietly withdrew formal relations with all local chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the largest Muslim American civil rights organizations. The FBI cited "a number of distinct narrow issues" that it has refused to make public.
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Despite Obama’s Vow, Combat Brigades Will Stay in Iraq
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Thursday, 26 March 2009 08:45
Despite President Barack Obama’s statement at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina Feb. 27 that he had "chosen a timeline that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18 months," a number of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs), which have been the basic U.S. Army combat unit in Iraq for six years, will remain in Iraq after that date under a new non-combat label.
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Five Reasons Why Americans Won't Resist
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Category: Focus
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Published on Tuesday, 24 March 2009 21:57
With the stakes never higher than they are now, why aren't activists ramping up the pressure and looking beyond tactics that are allowed by those in power? Here are my five guesses:
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The Forked-Tongue Eunuchs and Israel
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:31
If rhetoric is the first step toward action, then one of the rhetorical trends of our time indicating a giant step backward toward inaction is the American and European tendency to describe Israel's aggressive and illegal actions in the occupied Palestinian territories in increasingly soft and imprecise terms.
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Captured By The Debt Spider
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:24
If governments everywhere are in debt, who are they in debt to? The answer is that they are in debt to private banks. The "cruel hoax" is that governments are in debt for money created on a computer screen, money they could have created themselves.
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USA Has Two Options: Declare Default or Trigger War
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:02
The United States is the largest borrower in the world. The US national debt has already exceeded the level of 11 trillion dollars as of the beginning of 2009 and continues to grow like an avalanche. Experts say that the USA has only two ways to solve the problem: to either declare default or trigger off a war.
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Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Friday, 20 March 2009 07:27
Professor Michael Hudson (CounterPunch, March 18) is correct that the orchestrated outrage over the $165 million AIG bonuses is a diversion from the thousand times greater theft from taxpayers of the approximately $200 billion “bailout” of AIG. Nevertheless, it is a diversion that serves an important purpose. It has taught an inattentive American public that the elites run the government in their own private interests.
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The Israel Lobby Gets Its Man—And Tips Its Hand
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Friday, 20 March 2009 07:24
Charles Freeman Jr.’s withdrawal of his acceptance of a high-level intelligence position in the Obama administration was a national-security drama more riveting than an episode of “24.” The moral was clear: even a president who owes his job to a progressive movement in American politics could not support a longtime public servant who had made the mistake of criticizing Israel. Fierce advocates of the Jewish state, notably Sens. Chuck Schumer and Joe Lieberman and Reps. Eric Cantor and Steve Israel, played important roles in Freeman’s exit, while present and former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee flitted in and out of the wings.
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Is the Israel Lobby Killing a Chicken to Scare the Monkeys?
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Tuesday, 17 March 2009 08:03
Is the Israel lobby in Washington an all-powerful force? Or is it, perhaps, running scared?
Judging by the outcome of the Charles W. ("Chas") Freeman affair this week, it might seem as if the Israeli lobby is fearsome indeed. Seen more broadly, however, the controversy over Freeman could be the Israel lobby's Waterloo.
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Darkness of a glittering trade
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Category: Health-Related
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Published on Monday, 16 March 2009 23:20
Standing alongside glass cases filled with diamonds, rubies, sapphires and other stones on display at an international jewellery fair in Hong Kong, gem buyers discuss what they prize most in precious stones.
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Testifying to Truth—and Paying the Price
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Category: Focus
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Published on Monday, 16 March 2009 21:27
FOR MY RECENT article on the neurotic obsession with anti-Semitism and on using the fear of a “future holocaust” as camouflage for colonialism I have paid a heavy price:
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CIA Report: Israel Will Fall In 20 Years
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Category: Reports
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Published on Saturday, 14 March 2009 10:39
A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years.
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Timidity Derails Obama Intel Choice
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Friday, 13 March 2009 08:11
On Tuesday morning, Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, employed the indicative mood in describing the high value that Chas Freeman, his appointee to head the National Intelligence Council (NIC), will bring to the job - "his long experience and inventive mind," for example.
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Freeman Withdrawal Marks Victory for Israel Lobby
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Thursday, 12 March 2009 09:55
Amb. Chas Freeman withdrew from consideration for a top intelligence post in the Obama administration on Tuesday, following a vitriolic battle that pitted Republican lawmakers and pro-Israel hardliners opposed to his appointment against liberals and members of the intelligence and diplomatic communities who had come to his defence.
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The Tactics Of the Israel Lobby
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Thursday, 12 March 2009 09:51
To all who supported me or gave me words of encouragement during the controversy of the past two weeks, you have my gratitude and respect.
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Mr. President, Yes, You Could: An open letter to Obama
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Category: News Analysis
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Published on Wednesday, 11 March 2009 09:28
Dear President Obama,
In the teeth of Zionist lobby opposition, your decision to give veteran diplomat Charles W. Freeman the responsibility for producing the National Intelligence Estimate adds substance to the case for believing that you really do want to prevent this lobby from determining (more or less) your foreign policy agenda as it relates to ending the Israel-Palestine conflict and, beyond that, winning what your predecessor called “the war against global terrorism”.
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Global movement to boycott Israel
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Published on Friday, 06 March 2009 07:35
"Standing United with the People of Gaza" is the theme of this week's Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which kicked off in Toronto and another 39 cities across the globe on Sunday. A movement to boycott Israeli goods, culture and academic institutions is gaining momentum as Geneva prepares to host the UN's Anti-Racism Conference, Durban 2 next month amid swirling controversy.
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War Comes Home To Britain
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Published on Thursday, 05 March 2009 07:48
Freedom is being lost in Britain. The land of Magna Carta is now the land of secret gagging orders, secret trials and imprisonment. The government will soon know about every phone call, every email, every text message. Police can wilfully shoot to death an innocent man, lie and expect to get away with it. Whole communities now fear the state. The foreign secretary routinely covers up allegations of torture; the justice secretary routinely prevents the release of critical cabinet minutes taken when Iraq was illegally invaded. The litany is cursory; there is much more.
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Blueprints for a Police State
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Published on Thursday, 05 March 2009 07:44
Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to cloak the President with power to override the Constitution. The memos provide “legal” rationales for the President to suspend freedom of speech and press; order warrantless searches and seizures, including wiretaps of U.S. citizens; lock up U.S. citizens indefinitely in the United States without criminal charges; send suspected terrorists to other countries where they will likely be tortured; and unilaterally abrogate treaties. According to the reasoning in the memos, Congress has no role to check and balance the executive. That is the definition of a police state.
