Things to consider—

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

Witness tied to Boston bombing suspect killed by FBI

 AMERICAN STUDIES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IDIOTIZED PUBLICS, POLICE & REPRESSION  No Responses »
May 232013
 
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By Barry Grey and Nick Barrickman, wsws.org

Ibragim Todashev: Accidentally shot or an inconvenient witness?

Ibragim Todashev: Accidentally shot or an inconvenient witness?

Twenty-seven-year-old Ibragim Todashev was shot and killed early Wednesday morning while being interrogated by police and intelligence officials in an Orlando, Florida, apartment. Todashev, a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and, like Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, was reportedly being questioned by a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent from the FBI’s Boston field office, along with Massachusetts state troopers and counterterrorism officials. Continue reading »

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Dissent or Terror: New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, INEQUALITY, Labor & Class struggle, PLUTOCRATIC POWER, POLICE & REPRESSION, THE PENTAGON-MEDIA COMPLEX, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 202013
 
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MADISON, WI — DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy today released the results of a year-long investigation: “Dissent or Terror: How the Nation’s Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.”The report, a distillation of thousands of pages of records obtained from counter terrorism/law enforcement agencies, details how state/regional “fusion center” personnel monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement over the course of 2011 and 2012. Personnel engaged in this activity at fusion centers include employees of municipal, county and federal counter terrorism/homeland security entities. Such entities include local police departments, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (including U.S. DHS components such as the Transportation Security Administration). Continue reading »
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BOOKS: What Academic Freedom?

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, BIG BROTHER, BOOK NOTES, BOURGEOIS VALUES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GREAT HYPOCRISY, HISTORY, JUDICIAL, POLICE & REPRESSION  1 Response »
May 162013
 
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by David Rosen, THE BROOKLYN RAIL

Marjorie Heins
Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge
(New York University Press, 2013)

Today, we take the concept of “academic freedom” for granted. In February 2013, city officials and Zionist groups sought to prevent a talk at Brooklyn College about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (B.D.S.) movement against Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.

Mayor Bloomberg denounced efforts to prevent the talk in no uncertain terms: “If you want to go to a university where the government decides what kind of subjects are fit for discussion, I suggest you apply to a school in North Korea,” Bloomberg said at a press conference. In the face of the mayor’s rant, the college’s president, Karen L. Gould, held firm and the talk took place. Continue reading »

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Spies “R” Us

 AMERICAN STUDIES, BLACK OPS & FALSE FLAGS, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, POLICE & REPRESSION  1 Response »
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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Not Your Daddy’s COINTELPRO: Obama Brands Assata Shakur “Most Wanted Terrorist”

 AMERICAN STUDIES, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BLACK AMERICA, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CLASS COLLABORATION, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, DEMAGOGUERY, GREAT HYPOCRISY, POLICE & REPRESSION, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  No Responses »
May 082013
 
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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Assata Shakur could not have been named “most wanted terrorist” without the explicit approval of the first black president and his attorney general. In doing so, they have declared open war on the black liberation movement, something that J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO were only able to do in secret. Continue reading »

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FBI Responsibility for US Terror Plots

 American "Way of Life", AMERICAN STUDIES, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IDIOTIZED PUBLICS, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, MEDIA SCUM, PLUTOCRATIC POWER, POLICE & REPRESSION, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, THE PENTAGON-MEDIA COMPLEX  1 Response »
Apr 262013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Sinister terrorist or FBI patsy?

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Sinister self-motivated terrorist or FBI patsy? Plenty of room for doubt.

Boston’s marathon bombings leave disturbing questions unanswered. Official accounts lack credibility. Mounting evidence suggests FBI responsibility. It doesn’t surprise.  Project Censored’s fourth top 2013 censored story headlined “FBI Agents Responsible for Majority of Terrorist Plots in the United States.” More on that below. Continue reading »

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