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My Lai 45 Years Later—And the Unknown Atrocities of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Remembering My Lai— By Nick Turse, Global Research, March 19, 2013 On the anniversary of the infamous My Lai massacre, Nick ...
My Lai (lest we forget)
BY MIKE INGLES A few weeks before Dr. King was assassinated, on March 16, 1968 about 500 Vietnamese citizens were ...
How Digital Technology Has Helped Unleash a Devastating New Era of Propaganda
The New Statesman / By John Pilger [1] What is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the ...
The Growing Campaign to Revoke Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize
By Norman Solomon The Nobel Peace Prize that President Obama received 40 months ago has emerged as the most appalling ...
Government Waste: DHS Documents Reveal Widespread Surveillance of Occupy Movement
By Steven Hsieh [2] Federal documents reveal the Department of Homeland Security conducted daily monitoring of peaceful Occupy protests and encampments in ...
So Much for the Sanctity of Bank Deposits
Now Anything is Possible by SERGE HALIMI, Counterpunch Paris. Everything was becoming impossible. It was impossible to increase taxes because ...
Iraq: The end of the occupation
By ASHLEY SMITH, Socialist Worker Ten years ago this week, George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq. Bush and ...
The occupation and the resistance
By Ashley Smith, Socialist Worker Ten years ago this week, George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq. Bush and ...
British military expose another secret US base in Baghdad
Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected ...
Tariq Aziz: Victim of US Imperialism
by Stephen Lendman He's ill, isolated and fading. His life hangs in the balance. Washington likely wants him dead. He ...
TOO MUCH —Chronicles of Inequality (April 1, 2013)
April 1, 2013 THIS WEEK Two tales of jackpots and taxes. The first: A New Jersey grocery store employee has ...
Truth Is Offensive
By Paul Craig Roberts The world needs intelligence and leadership in order to avoid catastrophe, but america can provide neither ...