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Michael Moore’s Repellent Defense of “Zero Dark Thirty”
Wishful Thinking About Gorgeous, Murdering CIA Thugs Michael Moore’s Repellent Defense of “Zero Dark Thirty” * [Read Moore's piece below, ...
Pontecorvo: Return to Algiers (1992)
In 1992 Gillo Pontecorvo and his son went back to Algeria to do a reevaluation documentary. The result is a ...
Kiriakou and Stuxnet: the danger of the still-escalating Obama whistleblower war
The only official punished for the illegal NSA program was the one who discussed it. The same is now true ...
CONTROVERSY: The Nation defends John Brennan, Obama’s nominee for the CIA
By Joseph Kishore, wsws.org The Nation magazine is home to a particularly odious group of journalists. The “left” publication speaks ...
NBC / Former CIA officer: Jail sentence ‘a badge of honor’
Former CIA officer: Jail sentence 'a badge of honor' The Editors Say: So Kiriakou finally saw the light, and we ...
What to Make of Barack Obama?
SENT BY GLORIA STEVENSON The question, for us, is what are we to make of this article? Parry, a respected ...
The Institutionalization of Tyranny
Paul Craig Roberts ["It does not] occur to conservative Republicans that it is far better to institutionalize compassion than to ...
Militarizing Latin America
The Shameful Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine by CONN HALLINAN This past December marked the 190th anniversary of the Monroe ...
Noam Chomsky Slams America’s Selfish Ayn Randian Elites
AlterNet [1] Chomsky Talks to Al Jazeera January 14, 2013 Watch the video below. (h/t Raw Story). [2] In an interview broadcast ...
Blum’s Anti-Empire Report • “Just Imagine”—[January 8th, 2013]
The Anti-Empire Report January 8th, 2013 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? "France no longer recognizes ...
OpEds: Chavismo in Venezuela
by Stephen Lendman Chavez remains hospitalized. He's recovering from complicated cancer surgery. It's his fourth in 18 months. His scheduled ...
Hugo Chavez: Why Does He Hate Us?
By Peter Hart, FAIR If there's one thing media want you to know about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, it's that ...