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U.S. Is Allied With And Actively Supports Al-Qaeda: James F. Tracy

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, BLACK OPS & FALSE FLAGS, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, IMPERIALISM  Comments Off
Nov 092012
 

By Kourosh Ziabari
Crossposted with CounterCurrents.org


James Tracy

American political commentator believes that the United States has been constantly allied with Al-Qaeda and supported it militarily and financially.

“Major media have recently had to acknowledge that US-NATO interests are aligned with Al Qaeda in Syria, of course overlooking the fact that the US and Sunni States also recruited and armed these soldiers of fortune. What the Obama administration has sought to do with the alleged murder of Bin Laden in May 2011 is to close the chapter on the old, villainous Al Qaeda and open a chapter on the new and friendly Al Qaeda. This narrative is slowly unfolding, while Americans are instructed on a different bogey to fear, which now appears to be homegrown terrorism,” he said in an exclusive interview with Iran Review. Continue reading »

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Five Easy Post-Election Predictions (No Matter Who Wins)

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, ROTTEN CULTURE, THE LABOR FRONT  Comments Off
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By Shamus Cooke


It’s true that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have many political differences. But they also agree on many essential policies; enough to make the next four years easily predictable, no matter who wins. Here are five predictions based on the most important shared beliefs of the two candidates:

1. The war on unions will continue. The Republicans are explicitly anti-union, while the Democrats are pro-union in words, but anti-union in practice. Obama’s much touted Race to the Top national education policy directly targets the heart of the teacher’s unions — the most powerful union in the country — by attacking seniority rights and restricting wages and benefits. Also, Democratic and Republican governors on a state by state basis aim to either carve giant concessions from public employees, or take away their rights as unionists altogether — the lesser evil policy of demanding concessions (Democrats) is but one step from ending collective bargaining (Republicans). As the recession grinds on, this bi-partisan anti-union policy will intensify, no matter who is president. The aim of this anti-union policy is to lower wages for all workers, since unions artificially skew the labor market to the benefit of workers in general; attacking the unions is thus an attack on all workers, organized or not, so that corporations can regain “profitability” by having their labor costs lowered. Continue reading »

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Marx Was Right. Capitalism May Be Destroying Itself

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM  Comments Off
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Nouriel Roubini: “Karl Marx had it right. At some point, Capitalism can destroy itself.”

Nouriel Roubini is a mainstream economist who teaches at New York University and may be best known as one of the early predictors of the ’08 crash.

He is no Marxist.

But today, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Roubini admitted that Marx was right about Capitalism and raised the possibility that Capitalism is destroying itself in the way Marx outlined more than a century and a half ago. Continue reading »

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The Political Trial Of A Caring Man And The End Of Justice In America

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANNOTATED NEWS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CITIZEN TOOLS, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  Comments Off
Nov 092012
 

By John Pilger


Iraqi child laid to rest. “Thank you, Mr. Bush! Thank you, America for bringing democracy to us.”

Source: Johnpilger.com

In 1999, I travelled to Iraq with Denis Halliday who had resigned as assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the United States and Britain, the extreme suffering caused by these “sanctions” included, according to Unicef, the deaths of half a million Iraqi infants under the age of five.

Ten years later, in New York, I met the senior British official responsible for the imposition of sanctions. He is Carne Ross, once known in the UN as “Mr. Iraq”. I read to him a statement he made to a parliamentary select committee in 2007: “The weight of evidence clearly indicates that sanctions caused massive human suffering among ordinary Iraqis, particularly children. We, the US and UK governments, were the primary engineers and offenders of sanctions and were well aware of this evidence at the time but we largely ignored it or blamed it on the Saddam government. [We] effectively denied the entire population a means to live.” Continue reading »

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THE BALKAN ENIGMA AND NATO’S CHAINS OF PROGRESS

 ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, IMPERIALISM, THE BALKANS  Comments Off
Nov 092012
 

by Gaither Stewart


Even though beaten down by NATO’s weapons superiority, the Serbian nation remain a formidable player in the Balkan equation. After all they are part of the “Southern Slavs” and share the resilience of their big brothers in the north. Serbian independence and Russian sympathies are likely to remain a hurdle to US imperialist designs in that crucial region for a long time.

(ROME-BELGRADE) NATO seems to find Serbia’s autonomy outrageous, its semi-neutrality unacceptable, its modernity anomalous and above all its path to progress dangerous. For North Atlantic Treaty planners and schemers, Serbia—maverick, outsider, rebel—is an infectious disease to be eradicated. Serbia must be chained, normalized and integrated with the rest of Europe as are most southeastern European lands. Serbia’s neutral existence is an affront, an obstacle to a final solution of the thorny Balkan conundrum. Continue reading »

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Greece: Profile of a Failed State

 ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, EU.Greece, PLUTOCRATIC POWER, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  Comments Off
Nov 092012
 

By Stephen Lendman

Greece exhibits failed and rogue state characteristics. It governs irresponsibly. It’s beholden more to foreign interests than its own. Banker needs are prioritized. Ruling authority outside Greece dictates terms. The country’s unable or refuses to provide public services. It threatens the welfare of its people. It spurns legitimate rule. It’s bankrupt but won’t declare it.

Governance in Greece combines travesty, tragedy and shame. Democracy’s birth place spurns it. It also displays an unprincipled disregard for human need at a time of rampant corruption and prioritized military spending. Continue reading »

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