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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 Real I.R.S. Scandal

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May 172013
 
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By SHEILA KRUMHOLZ and ROBERT WEINBERGER
[Note we reproduce this NYT's piece here for reasons of compelling public service.—Eds]

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The I.R.S. is in the hot seat for scrutinizing conservative groups applying for tax exemption. But do all 501(c)(4)’s need a second look?

NEWS that employees at the Internal Revenue Service targeted groups with “Tea Party” or “patriot” in their name for special scrutiny has raised pious alarms among some lawmakers and editorial writers. Continue reading »

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Guatemala’s Mayan Community Wins One For a Change

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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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Spies “R” Us

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May 152013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

Holder trying to explain the unexplainable.

Holder trying to explain the unexplainable. Even the Associated Press is now vulnerable. What protection does an average citizen have?

A previous article discussed institutionalized spying on Americans. Anyone can be monitored for any reason or none at all.  Manufactured national security threats, silencing dissent, targeting whistleblowers, and challenging press freedom subvert constitutional rights.  Doing so is worse than ever now. Obama bears full responsibility. He governs by diktat authority. He’s waging war on humanity. He’s spurning fundamental rights. He’s targeting press freedom.  Continue reading »

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Ted Nugent’s Double Standards

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May 152013
 
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Until Nugent came along, no one knew they could stack excrement 6 ft. high.

RRC Extra No. 36 / May 2013:

Nugent: Poster boy for all the depraved cowards of the world.

Nugent: Poster boy for all the depraved cowards of the world.

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO… Ted Nugent spent the hours before his speech at the National Rifle Association’s recent national convention as just another vendor, hawking his books to the public. Then, as the confab’s final speaker, he gave his stock speech about his love of guns and his eagerness to kill people (“if you dare attempt to argue with me about my right to self-defense, I will just have to destroy you”). But the truth of the matter is that Ted’s never killed anyone and when he had a chance to, he bailed. Ted Nugent is just another chicken hawk. 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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After Plant Explosion, Texas Remains Wary of Regulation

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May 102013
 
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Texas: A reactionary state oozing capitalist infections from every pore at the expense of the environment, people and animals.  The New York Times’ coy headline does not come close to reflecting the repulsive reality that defines Texas today as it has for many decades, the handiwork of a runaway, corrupt, hyperindividualist culture of ranchers and oilmen and their abject political and cultural minions, mirroring the worst of the plundering tradition inherited from Europe. The piece below is reproduced as editorial commentary. Sadly, despite its enormous conceits, its evocative cultural aura, Texas remains a lawless playground for the rich, a plutocrats’ fiefdom, a paradise for libertarians and laissez-faire fanatics, a banana republic, a glorified social lottery, encrusted in the rotting body of the United States, blustering and strutting around and accelerating the decay of the nation with its appallingly backward mores. ±Eds

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The explosion in April of a fertilizer plant near West, Tex., was so powerful that it registered as a 2.1-magnitude earthquake. McLennan, the county that includes West, has no fire code. Continue reading »

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