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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields
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  • UK soldier killed in London in reprisal for Afghanistan and Iraq wars

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Dominant Finance Capital Institutions

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Oct 102011
 

By Stephen Lendman

Issue one for Occupy Wall Street protesters across America and others in Europe and the Middle East is stopping the international banking cliques  so money power returns to public hands where it belongs.

Former Nazi Bank To Rule The Global Economy. The global elite has chosen the Bank For International Settlements (round tower, located in Basel, Switzerland), which financed Hitler’s war machine, to boss the financial arm of the new world order.

MOST PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE FEDERAL RESERVE, European Central Bank, Bank of England, and Bank of Japan. 

Few ever heard of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central bank for central bankers. Based in Basle, Switzerland, it’s a banking boss of bosses accountable to no government.  Privately owned by its member central banks, dominant ones and financial elitists have most influence to eventually implement global control under one currency. Continue reading »

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OpEds: Occupy Wall Street and the Democratic Party

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Oct 102011
 

By Bill Van Auken, WSWS.ORG, a socialist organization
8 October 2011

As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its fourth week, it confronts increasingly sharp political pressures and choices that center on the question of the Democratic Party.

On Thursday, both President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden made statements meant to project sympathy for the protesters. Obama, at a White House press conference, declared that they “are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works.” In virtually the same breath he defended his support for the TARP bailout of the banks. Continue reading »

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A Little Off the Top—Some Clear Message for Occupy Wall Street

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Oct 102011
 

By Rand Clifford

In the late Douglas Adams’ masterpiece of wit, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is…42.

Philosophers whose ancestors built the gargantuan computer Deep Thought to calculate an answer to that Ultimate Question were mortified upon learning that their computer spent 7.5 million years to come up with, 42. Deep Thought’s response was along the lines of: How do you expect to understand the answer, when you don’t understand the question? Continue reading »

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