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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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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Chuck D and wife Gaye Theresa Johnson discuss rap, Malcom X, Obama and black political tradition

Excellent interview with Chuck D and his wife Gaye Theresa Johnson. It raises to our awareness the importance of black radical politics and black activism for a history that is not America’s as white liberals claim, but that is that of the black people in that country. Obama might be a symbol of that struggle, [...]

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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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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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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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USW president supports single-payer health care

Leo Gerard: I think we should fight for single-payer health care, fight for a principled position
Paul Jay speaks to Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers’ union about his fight for single-payer health care reform and the unionization legislation. Gerard says that, “the unions are first and foremost going to be [...]

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The fight for a new union law in the US

Leo Gerard: Obama presidency will partly be judged by his ability to pass the Employee Free Choice Act
Paul Jay speaks to Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers about the low unionization rate in the United States, and how the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will help combat it. Gerard [...]

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Obama’s Cap and Trade Carbon Emissions Bill – A Stealth Scheme to License Pollution and Fraud

By Stephen Lendman
Global Research

On May 15, HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) was introduced in the House purportedly “To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.”
In fact, it’s to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits [...]

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Chuck D & DJ Johnny Juice on the myths used to create hip hop

more about “The Real News Network – Chuck D & Joh…“, posted with vodpod
The REAL News Network in its series of Chuck D interviewing political activist DJs is following up its first part by having Chuck D talking to another forming member of Public Enemy, Johnny Juice, on Hip Hop creating myths – from [...]

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The militarisation of America’s schools

The Military Invades U.S. Schools: How Military Academies Are Being Used to Destroy Public Education
by Brian Roa, Global Research Institute

For the past four years, I have observed the military occupation of the high school where I teach science. Currently, Chicago’s Senn High School houses Rickover Naval Academy (RNA). I use the term “occupation” [...]

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American Economic Triumphalism Is Over

Not that I would call European governments like those of France, Italy or or Germany ’socialists’, but this piece of American self-reflection the bygone era of US capitalist hubris by Ruth Conniff in The Progressive sounds quite refreshing.
Oh, those silly French. Remember how much fun we used to have at their expense? Back in the [...]

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Was the recent uprising in Iran a “colored revolution,” a genuine movement for democracy – or both? (Full Spectrum Dominance and Iran Part 2)

It’s hard to know what’s going on behind the scenes of governments; given Seymor Hersh’s 2008 New Yorker article though on US$400 billion put aside by the US to destabilise the Eurasian region, I would not be surprised if the CIA had some influence of significance in the recent events in [...]

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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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Coup d’Etat Underway in Honduras: OBAMA’S FIRST COUP D’ETAT

Soldiers in front of presidential palace as protests ensue (d.yimg.com)
By Eva Golinger
Global Research, chavezcode.com
[Note: On June 29, 2009 11:15am, Caracas time, President Zelaya spoke live on Telesur from San Jose, Costa Rica. He has verified the soldiers entered his residence in the early morning hours, firing guns and threatening to kill him and [...]

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Obama style change: everything remains the same, but his marketing is better

“Business Liberalism”: The Real Meaning of Obama’s “Pragmatic” Reluctance to “Tilt at Windmills”
By Paul Street
Paul Street’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
(Reposted)
Early last April the New York Times published an article with an ironic title: “In Cuba , Change Means More of the Same.”  This “news” item reported that “rather than dismantling Cuba ’s socialist framework,” [...]

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