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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

The decomposition of American democracy

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May 202013
 
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Obama tearing the Constitution: a rightwing image meant to inflame fears and hatred of Obama. The problem is that it's closer to the truth than they even imagine.

Obama tearing the Constitution: a rightwing image meant to inflame fears and hatred of Obama. Liberals may dismiss the image as ludicrous hyperbole but it’s closer to the truth than they even imagine.

BY TOM CARTER, WSWS.ORG  On Thursday, Assistant Defense Secretary Michael Sheehan told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the war on terror would continue at least another 10 or 20 years. Alluding to last month’s lockdown of Boston, he said the president and the military would continue to assert “wartime” powers, unchecked by Congress or the courts, extending from “Boston to FATA [the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan].” These asserted powers include the power to unilaterally launch new wars and the power to carry out assassinations, including of US citizens. Continue reading »

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IRS Scandal Headlines: More Than Meets the Eye

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May 182013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

The rot is systemic, bipartisan. Both JFK and Nixon set up "enemies" lists to harass via the IRS and other agencies. They are not the only presidents to do so.

The rot is systemic, bipartisan. Both JFK and Nixon set up “enemies” lists to harass via the IRS and other agencies. They are not the only presidents to do so.

More than targeting political enemies is involved. More on than below. The practice is longstanding. Republican and Democrat administrations use the IRS abusively.  During the Coolidge administration, Republican Senator James Couzens investigated the IRS’ predecessor – the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).  Continue reading »

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Putin v. Obama et al

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May 182013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

Obama with Erdogan: photo-ops to legitimate the crimes they plot behind closed doors.

Obama with Erdogan: Standard hypocrisy at work—photo-ops to legitimate the crimes being plotted behind closed doors.

On May 16, the Wall Street Journal headlined “Russia Raises Stakes in Syria,” saying:

Russia “sent a dozen or more warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Syria, a buildup that US and European officials see as a newly aggressive stance meant partly to warn the West and Israel not to intervene in Syria’s bloody civil war.” Continue reading »

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Why America May Be the Last Empire

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May 172013
 
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It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia.  Its nuclear arsenal held 45,000 warheads [4], and its military had five million [5] troops under arms.  There had been nothing like it in Eurasia since the Mongols conquered China, took parts of Central Asia and the Iranian plateau, and rode into the Middle East, looting Baghdad.  Yet when the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, by far the poorer, weaker imperial power disappeared. Continue reading »

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OpEds—War and Pain: Nothing New Under the Sun

 ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, ARTS & FILM, CULTURE & CRITICISM, HISTORY, IRAN, IRAQ, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  2 Responses »
May 172013
 
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 By Gaither Stewart

An ancient war formation was nothing to laugh about. Imagine standing in a field with nothing but a sword, a spear and a shield against an advancing mass of men sworn to kill anyone in their path.

An ancient war formation was nothing to laugh about. Imagine standing in a field with nothing but a sword, a spear, and a shield against an advancing mass of men sworn to kill anyone in their path. 

The world goes round and round and human beings say and do the same things again and again. So that it seems there is truly nothing new under the sun. Man’s perplexing unchanging behavior and the ways of the world have again led me back to the ancient Greeks, just to take a look. And what do I find there? I find the same warmongers and pacifists of today, identical war parties and peace parties, arms industries and anti-war writers, the generals who predictably “just love war”, and, as one might expect, the same identical massacre of women and children as everyday in America’s wars, now conveniently called “collateral damages”. Continue reading »

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Can Working from the Inside Change the Democratic Party?

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May 162013
 
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by Ron Ridenour
Can the passion of the Occupy Movement be turned to taking over the Democratic Party, or is the Democratic Party a lost cause?

Can the passion of the Occupy Movement be turned to taking over the Democratic Party, or is the Democratic Party a lost cause?

Occupy Wall Street’s dynamic grass roots movement is quiescent and may or may not return. Its respite or demise is due to a combination of deliberate and apparently nationally directed police violence and federal, state and local government spying, as well as to its own lack of political direction. It remains a political space to focus tremendous energy and passion, and draw to it many millions of the 99%. Continue reading »

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