Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”

Was Dr. David Kelly a target of Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”?
By Tom Burghardt
Antifascist Calling
Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the U.S. Congress and the American people for eight years, carries an implication that death squads may have been employed against political [...]

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The impact of war: Military study ties war trauma, violence at home

Soldiers in a single Army unit killed as many as 11 people after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the military said last week. One contributing factor? The psychological trauma of war.
NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling talks to Guy Raz about the military’s efforts to deal with soldier trauma and ease their re-entry into civilian life. Go [...]

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Pentagon list claiming former GITMO detainees becoming ‘terrorists again’ is totally unreliable

Lia Tarachansky speaks to Nancy Youssef, Pentagon Correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Youssef speaks about a list recently released by Pentagon, identifying that 14% or 74 former detainees of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detention center are “confirmed or suspected of reengaging in terrorist activities.” Following to story [...]

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The brutality of the American health & social system: Californian hospitals dump patients on skid row

By Saul Landau
Saul Landau’s ZSpace Page /ZSpace
Amidst interminable “reporting” on the “poor” victims of Ponzi maven Bernie Madoff – would anyone care if people had blown $65 billion trying to get richer in Las Vegas? – an alarming July 5 NY Times headline informs: “Safety Net Is Fraying for the Very Poor.”
In the story, by [...]

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Manipulation is rife on stock markets

Are Our Markets Being Manipulated By “Rogues” Or Firms?
Jul 15, 2009 By Danny Schechter
Danny Schechter’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
There’s New Evidence to Suggest that Crime In The Financial Markets is Rife
Everyone has heard of the Wikipedia but not everyone knows about the Investopedia, a Forbes website, that monitors finance for market players.  One of [...]

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Noam Chomsky: season of travesties – freedom and democracy in mid-2009

Noam Chomsky’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.
The election in Lebanon was greeted with euphoria. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that he is [...]

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A station master’s comment on turncoat Garrett

My respect goes out to the Hazelbrook station master for putting this little note on the station’s notice board yesterday. Nice touch to raise political awareness of the Labor goverment and in particular of one of its most disgusting, spineless and hypocritcal apostates.
A small addendum: Garrett’s back flip on uranium mining is not his first [...]

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Former rock star now environment minister approves uranium mine owned by one of the world’s biggest arms dealers

That the former Midnight Oil leader singer and one-time leader of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Peter Garrett, approved the country’s latest environmentally dangerous uranium mine is not the latest news anymore. What is though is that the mine will be owned by a subsidiary of one of the world’s biggest arms dealers, the Sydney Morning [...]

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There is a solution to bailed out banks refusing California’s request to tide over loans until October

This is an example for the Obama administration’s economic policies in action. It bails out the banks after they have been managed badly, and then the same banks refuse to use a small amount of that public money to give a loan reprieve to the State and therefore people of California, accusing the state of [...]

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When will Obama stand and fight for the people?

Chris Britt
The answer is: never. I’m not sure what it is that makes the so-called progressives not wake up from their illusions about Obama. The guy is part of the political establishment, which in turns is massively enmeshed with big business. Obama’s track record so far has clearly indicated that he does not stand on [...]

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Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests Iran’s politcal system is illegitimate (part 2)

more about “The Real News Network – Grand Ayatoll…“, posted with vodpod
Part 2 of Nader Hashemi on Iranian Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s fatwa in which the Ayatolla suggests that the country’s Supreme Leader, its government and some of its institutions are illegitimate, and calls on Iranians to fight oppression. Nader Hashemi in this video [...]

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Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests Iran’s politcal system is illegitimate (part 1)

Iranian Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests that Iran’s Supreme Leader and the country’s government and institutions are illegitimate, and he urges Iranians to fight oppression.

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G20 or G192? The global economy needs structural change and not restoration

Let’s face it: the UN does not represent the people of countries but their governments, and governments in general do not represent their people either. Nevertheless, the tussle represented in the two videos above is an interesting one: it reflects a power differential, that between the political [...]

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Sharp decline in employment of Blacks, slight employment increase for Whites: equality in America

The following New York Times article talks about employment inequality in New York, but it also mentions that that city reflects a nation-wide trend – just much more extreme. In the year ending April 30, Whites in New York gained about 130,000 jobs over the previous 12 months while Blacks, Hispanics and Asians lost 61,000 [...]

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What ethics? Julia Gillard’s unquestioning love for Israel

There’s nothing clean about the business of politics, and certainly ethics play no part part in it – unless they can be exploited for personal gain. Julia Gillard, this slow-speaking nasty piece of Labor conservatism, camouflaging as deputy prime minister of Australia (hard to believe she’s been a student activist once representing the political left), [...]

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Ship Carrying Humanitarian Aid for Gaza Seized by Israel

Interview with Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish solidarity activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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On June 30, an unarmed boat, named “Spirit of Humanity,” carrying 21 international peace activists was seized in international waters by the Israeli Navy, as it attempted to sail from Cypress to Gaza with relief supplies and messages of solidarity for Palestinians living [...]

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Support GetUp’s campaign against internet censorship by the Australian government

(Click on the above image to watch the ad and put it on air)
Good, clean internet censorship? Help get this advert on the air and in the air – on every Qantas flight in the country during the next sitting week of Parliament.
The Government’s test trials on internet censorship are about to end, the results [...]

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Questions & answers on the Iran crisis

July 08, 2009
By Stephen Shalom, Thomas Harrison, Joanne Landy, and Jesse Lemisch
Source: Campaign for Peace and Democracy
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(July 7, 2009) — Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement expressing our strong support for the masses of Iranians protesting electoral fraud and our horror at [...]

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Full Spectrum Dominance (Part 1)

Full Spectrum Dominance, is Pentagonese for the basic military doctrine in the era of the post-Cold War, since 1990. The idea is that the United States’ military power projection will control the oceans, control the land areas of this planet, will control space, outer space and cyberspace—in other words, control everything [...]

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Whose Country is it anyway? America has been stolen from its people.

By Prof. John Kozy
Global Research

Woody Guthrie sang, “This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land,” but it isn’t. It was stolen a long time ago. Although it may have been “made for you and me,” people with absolutely no loyalty to this land now own it. It needs to be taken, not bought, [...]

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