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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

Guatemala’s Mayan Community Wins One For a Change

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIALISM, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, LatinAm-CENTRAL AMERICA, PLUTOCRATIC POWER, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, SCUMWATCH, THE PENTAGON-MEDIA COMPLEX, US Foreign Policy, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  1 Response »
May 162013
 
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Efrain Rios Montt Sent to Jail

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by John Grant 

I saw the masked men
throwing truth into a well.
When I began to weep for it
I found it everywhere.
- Claudia Lars (El Salvador)

Those of us who have struggled for peace and justice over the past decades don’t have much to celebrate these days. But the news from Guatemala that a female judge — Yasmin Barrios — was able to successfully manage a trial in that benighted nation and convict former President Efrain Rios Montt of genocide is something to rejoice about. It suggests it’s no longer business as usual in Latin America — especially vis-à-vis the United States. Continue reading »

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Peace in Our Time: Obama’s Munich, Part I

 ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTIWAR, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, EU.Britain, FASCISM, GREAT HYPOCRISY, HISTORY, INTERNATIONAL, RUSSIA  Comments Off
Apr 232013
 
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[From our archives, originally published 12/08/2010]

"Peace in our time!" Yet one more piece of evidence to distrust official histories.

“Peace in our time!” Do governments ever speak without a forked tongue?

BY STEVEN JONAS

Wikileaks is all the rage right now — in two senses.  The substantive rage is among those U.S. people who care about the nefarious and sometimes illegal schemes that its government has perpetrated on the U.S. and around the world for so many years; among the peoples of other countries who suffered from those schemes; and the foreign governments who were complicit on the schemes and now stand exposed.  The process rage is on the part of U.S. officials and media who want to totally distract the U.S. people from the content of the leaks onto whether Mr. Assange is a spy, an unsafe modern Casanova, a terrorist, or worse.  (Can’t be treason, folks, because he ain’t a U.S. citizen and likely never will be.)  And they are surely succeeding in the U.S., although hardly abroad. Continue reading »

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Bursting the Thatcher Bubble

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES  Comments Off
Apr 102013
 
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—By , Mother Jones

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The canonization of Margaret Thatcher began with nanoseconds of news reports that the former British prime minister and conservative icon had died at the age of 87. On MSNBC, my pal Chuck Todd remarked, “We lionize her over here.” There was insta-commentary about how she saved Britain from economic despair and the rest of the world from the Soviets (with some help from a guy named Ronald Reagan). Excess ruled. Two small examples: Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the Democrat running for Congress in South Carolina (and sister of Stephen Colbert) issued this statement: “When I talk to younger women about their careers, I point to Margaret Thatcher as a role model; she’s a tough consensus builder who cared about everybody and put her country’s fiscal house in order.” Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) proclaimed, Continue reading »

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My Lai 45 Years Later—And the Unknown Atrocities of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, IMPERIALISM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  Comments Off
Apr 052013
 
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Remembering My Lai—

By Nick Turse, Global Research, March 19, 2013

Survivors recall their memories in 2000 of the mass killing of fellow villagers by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War, in My Lai, Vietnam. (Nick Ut/AP)

Survivors recall their memories in 2000 of the mass killing of fellow villagers by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War, in My Lai, Vietnam. (Nick Ut/AP)

On the anniversary of the infamous My Lai massacre, Nick Turse recalls the numerous, less-well-known atrocities that marked the Vietnam War, and asks which atrocities from Iraq and Afghanistan we will be remembering in 45 years. Continue reading »

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Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World

 ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ASIA AFFAIRS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, IMPERIALISM, INEQUALITY  1 Response »
Mar 272013
 
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Even business journals are recognizing it. Since this piece originates with a business publication, you will obviously find some things that may startle you.  If so, disregard..or better, explore and see what the other side thinks. —Eds. 

By , Business Time, March 25, 2013 
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The grave of German philosopher and economic theorist Karl Marx, remembered as the founder of modern socialism and communism, in Highgate Cemetery in London

The grave of German philosopher and economic theorist Karl Marx, remembered as the founder of modern socialism and communism, in Highgate Cemetery in London

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When Chileans Said “No” to Pinochet

 ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ARTS & FILM, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, HISTORY, LatinAm-CHILE  Comments Off
Mar 242013
 
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Happiness is Skateboarding Over Evil
by SAUL LANDAU
no_campana_que_cambio_una_nacionThe new film, “No”, takes place in Chile in 1988 as the nation faced a plebiscite — a vote of all citizens –on whether to keep General Augusto Pinochet in power, or not. The Army commander who seized power after a 1973 military coup against elected President Salvador Allende had ruled for more years than Hitler, and had become an old man who gained international notoriety by assassinating, disappearing,” torturing, and sending opponents into exile. But the foreign investors praised his embrace of Chicago Boys economics, a supposedly free market economy whereby proletarios (proletarians) could evolve into proprietarios (property owners), which in practice meant that capitalists could buy Chile’s forests and convert them into chopsticks and tooth picks. Continue reading »

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