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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
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Can Smith avoid the ideological barriers that come with associating with Big Media barons, and does it matter?


sSmithVICE56As the Guardian (UK) piece we reproduce below clearly explains, HBO has sprouted yet another promising series, this time under the aegis of Canadian producer Shane Smith, a man of idiosyncratic approaches to documentary filmmaking.  Smith’s signature is distinct, as the sample below can confirm, bold for mainstream producers, and it has already captured the attention of a prized demographic, the “younger market segments”, so he’s quickly becoming the toast of the industry.  Continue reading »

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Dec 132012
 
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A new series by radical director Scott Noble. Exceptional. Highly recommended.
Parts 2 and 3 to be posted soon. We apologize for the annoying, randomly inserted commercials at the beginning of these presentations. Neither the authors nor we can control such pestilence. But bear with it as the documentary is damn worth the trouble.


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Nov 282012
 
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Oct 102012
 
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This video document was produced by Robert Greenwald’s Bravenew Foundation.

Living Under Drones: New Report Uncovers The Truth About Drones

Unmanned drone sitting in hangar at a USAF base in Nevada. The remote-controlled weapons can kill halfway across the globe.

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Brave New Foundation has the honor of releasing a video to accompany a seminal report by human rights law experts at Stanford and New York University law schools. The report, entitled Living Under Drones presents chilling first-hand testimony from Pakistani civilians on the humanitarian and security costs of escalating drone attacks by the United States. The report uncovers civilian deaths, and shocking psychological and social damage to whole families and communities – where people are literally scared to leave their homes because of drones flying overhead 24 hours a day. Continue reading »

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Sep 102012
 
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An interview with Paul Jay, The Real News Network (TRNN)

BAR’s Glen Ford: The courage of unpopular truths

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Glen Ford is executive editor of Black Agenda Report and one of America’s leading political analysts and progressive intellectuals. Paul Jay is founding editor and chief correspondent of The Real News Network (TRNN), a viewer supported, anti-corporate webborne television resource. Continue reading »

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Sep 082012
 
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Editor’s Note: The long list of crimes and illegal positions carried out or endorsed by Obama—not to mention the cynical betrayal of his constituency— makes him a thoroughly inappropriate candidate for those who think themselves on the left, says Cindy. We agree.  But in the final analysis it doesn’t matter who votes for whom, since the election is rigged anyhow against the ordinary citizen, whose presence is only required to legitimize the whole electoral farce.—PG

By Cindy Sheehan, VLOG

I believe that a woman’s right to reproductive freedom over her own body is an important issue and human right.

I believe that marriage freedom and equality is another important issue and another human right.

At the risk of offending some people (when has that ever stopped me?), I don’t think those issues come near to being fundamental key issues. These and other issues aren’t called “wedge” for nothing. These issues are designed to drive that proverbial wedge between us down here in the 99%, and instead of the GOP calling for Todd Akin (The Legitimate Rape Dude) to throw in the towel, the 1% should be giving him some kind of medal for pounding that wedge in even more deeply. Continue reading »

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