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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

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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In a world incompatible to life, mutilation amounts to prevention

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CITIZEN TOOLS, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, CULTURE & CRITICISM, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, SAVING THE PLANET  1 Response »
May 152013
 
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Given Jolie's widely recognized beauty, the mutilation implicit in her double mastectomy shook the public with extra force.

Given Jolie’s widely recognized beauty, the self-mutilation implicit in her double mastectomy shook the public with extra force.

The world exploded with praise and awe when actress Angelina Jolie announced – via op-ed in The New York Times – that she had undergone double-mastectomy as a preventative measure after discovering that she possessed the mutant BRCA1 gene. A mutation to either the BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 (both named for BReast CAncer) genes seems to confer an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer in its carriers. As the scourge of cancer has permeated the American landscape – one in two men and one in three women will develop cancer in their lifetimes – diagnosis and treatment have become the sole allowable precautionary procedures. Every day we learn more about the myriad of known and probable human carcinogens saturating our built environment. Continue reading »

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Guest Essays: Indian Genocide and Republican Power

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May 142013
 
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From our archives: Indian Genocide and Republican Power, consortiumnews.com
Articles you should have read the first time around, but didn’t. 

By Thomas J. DiLorenzo
[Originally posted: October 7, 2010]

Sherman: For his age, he was a perfect fit of mainstream opinion.

Sherman:  Perhaps defiantly brutal, but he was not that far from mainstream opinion.

Consortium Editor’s Note: The genocide against Native Americans remains one of the most shameful chapters of U.S. history (and indeed one that continued through Ronald Reagan’s presidency with U.S.-backed slaughters in Central America).

However, from the Civil War through the end of the 19th Century, the extermination campaigns also merged the dangerous forces of a standing army with the business/political interests of the Republican Party, as the Independent Institute’s Thomas J. DiLorenzo writes in the following excerpted guest essay. Continue reading »

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Why the Viet Nam Anti-War Movement’s Work Is Not Yet Done

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May 132013
 
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The Viet Nam War may have ended over four decades ago, but the issues stemming from it are very much with us.
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Most US citizens these days don’t consider Viet Nam at all. Of  those who do, many believe that all is well. And in some ways it  is. Viet Nam has normal diplomatic relations with the US, belongs  to the World Trade Organization, accepts investment by US based  multi-national corporations and is allied with US foreign policy on  some geopolitical issues including concerns over China’s intentions regarding “disputed” territory in the South China Sea. Continue reading »
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Capitalism and the crisis facing young people

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May 132013
 
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By Andre Damon

FRANCE MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION

The victims are the same, the causes are the same, and the results are the same: it’s a systemic problem caused by advanced capitalism.

Perhaps more than any other section of society, young people around the world have been made to bear the brunt of the capitalist crisis. In the five years since the 2008 crash, youth unemployment has reached Depression-era levels, young workers’ wages have plummeted, and education opportunities have collapsed. Continue reading »

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Global corporations and the Bangladesh building collapse

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May 082013
 
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Peter Symonds, wsws.org
Update: The casualty count is now approaching 900, and there’s news of another building collapse with hundreds of victims. 

While the world of fashion trots out their pampered creatures in front of avid cameras all over the world, the actual makers of these garments suffer poverty and death through hyper exploitation.

While the world of fashion trots out their pampered creatures on the red carpet all over the world, the actual makers of these garments suffer poverty and death through hyper exploitation. You know who Heidi Klum is, but do you know who this person is? In the world of power and fame, anonymity is death.

 

Two weeks after the Rana Plaza building collapse, global retail giants that source their garments in Bangladesh such as Walmart, Primark, Benetton and others are engaged in a cynical public relations exercise to distance themselves from the tragedy and preserve their image and their profits.

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