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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

Dr. Noam Chomsky breaks the set on war, imperialism and propaganda

 AMERICAN STUDIES, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CLASS COLLABORATION, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, THE PENTAGON-MEDIA COMPLEX, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 252013
 
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RT’s Abby Martin interviews Noam Chomsky on current issues stemming from pseudo-democratic governance in the United States.

On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to philosopher, linguist, professor, political critic and author of over 100 books Dr. Noam Chomsky about the Boston bombings, US terror inflicted abroad, drones, Obama’s rebranding of Bush administration policies, the National Defense Authorization Act, Holder v. Humanitarian Law, conventional wisdom, the evolution of media propaganda and education as a form of elite indoctrination

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OpEds: The entire globe is a battlefield for Pentagon

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CLASS COLLABORATION, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, FALSE DEMOCRACY, THE PENTAGON-MEDIA COMPLEX, US Foreign Policy, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 252013
 
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By Pepe Escobar, RT.com 

AFP Photo / US Navy / MC2 Tony D. Curtis

AFP Photo / US Navy / MC2 Tony D. Curtis

Forget it; the Global War on Terror (GWOT) is not becoming more “democratic” – or even transparent.

US President Barack Obama now pledges to transfer the responsibility of the shadow ‘Drone Wars’ from the CIA to the Pentagon – so the US Congress is able to monitor it.  Continue reading »

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Argentina’s General Videla and the “war on terror”

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, FALSE DEMOCRACY, THE PENTAGON-MEDIA COMPLEX, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 222013
 
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By Bill Van Auken, wsws.org

Gen. Videla during the Dirty War," in the late 1970s. One more bloody henchman for the US empire.

Gen. Videla during the “Dirty War,” in the late 1970s. One more bloody henchman for the US empire.

Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla died May 17 at the age of 87 as the result of injuries suffered from a fall in a prison shower. He was remembered as the head of a savage military dictatorship that between 1976 and 1983 murdered and “disappeared” some 30,000 Argentine workers, socialist militants, teachers, students and others perceived as “subversives,” while torturing at least 100,000 others. In his own country, newspapers that once backed his rule condemned him as a dictator and practitioner of state terror. Continue reading »

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What the Syrian Constitution says about Assad and the Rebels

 ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, FALSE FLAGS & PROVOCATIONS, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIALISM, MEDIA SCUM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 212013
 
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By Stephen Gowans, What’s Left

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A fundamentalist rebellion abetted by the unholy alliance of reactionary Arab regimes such as Saudi Arabia, the NATO bloc, and al-Qaeda fanatics has plunged Syria into a bloodbath.

The idea that the uprising against the Syrian government is inspired by a grassroots movement thirsting for a pluralist, democratic state is a fiction. The opposition’s chief elements are Islamists who seek to establish a Sunni-dominated Islamic state in place of a Syrian government they revile for being secular and dominated by Alawi “heretics.” “Al Qaeda-linked groups…dominate rebel ranks,” notes The Wall Street Journal. [1] “There is frustration with the West’s inability to help nurture a secular military or political opposition to replace Mr. Assad,” echoes The New York Times. [2] “Islamic forces seem to be ascendant within the opposition,” observes Gerald F. Seib. [3] Continue reading »

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America Honors Its Worst

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, IMPERIALISM, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 192013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

Kissinger: The face of banal evil in its twilight. Expect media hoopla when this bastard dies.

Kissinger: The face of banal evil in its twilight. Expect media hoopla when this slimy bastard dies.

Presidential Medals of Freedom are awarded annually. They mock what they claim to represent. Many go to deplorable recipients.  Previous dishonorees include GHW Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Shimon Peres, Margaret Thatcher, Alvaro Uribe, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, and Alan Greenspan among others. Continue reading »

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Classic Essays: Hail the Reds

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CITIZEN TOOLS, CLASS STRUGGLE, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, EXTREME WEALTH, FALSE DEMOCRACY, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, IMPERIAL APOLOGISTS & COLLABOS, IMPERIALISM  No Responses »
May 162013
 
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What’s Left: Hail the Reds
By Stephen Gowans

"The Great Patriotic War" (WW2) was for the Soviets a defining moment. Out of nowhere, the USSR was able to outmanufacture and beat back the strongest war machine on earth.

“The Great Patriotic War” (WW2) was for the Soviets a defining moment. Against all odds, the USSR was able to outmanufacture Germany and beat back the strongest war machine on earth.

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Over the seven decades of its existence, and despite having to spend so much time preparing, fighting, and recovering from wars, the Soviet Union managed to create one of the great achievements of human history: a great industrial society that eliminated most of the inequalities of wealth, income, education and opportunity that plagued what preceded it, what came after it, and what competed with it; a society in which health care and education through university were free (and university students received living stipends); where rent, utilities and public transportation were subsidized, along with books, periodicals and cultural events; where inflation was eliminated, pensions were generous, and child care was subsidized. Continue reading »

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