Thu 2 Sep 2010
Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain (more…)
Democracy
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Wed 1 Sep 2010
Putting the Breaks on Neoliberal Economics
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Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Counterpunch 9/01/10 While the harrowing economic hardship that started in late 2007 and early 2008 rages on, and countless people in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world are losing their jobs, their homes and their sources of livelihood, policy-makers in the advanced capitalist countries of the West are standing idly by without lifting a finger to alleviate the onerous burden of the crushing recession. (more…) |
Wed 1 Sep 2010
Another False Ending
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Contracting Out the Occupation
Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond Counterpunch 9/01/10
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Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Obama has just given a major address to mark the withdrawal of all but 50,000 combat troops from Iraq. (more…) |
Sat 28 Aug 2010
Ex-UBS whistleblower hits out at ‘corrupt’ US justice
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GENEVA — Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld hit out on Saturday against the “corrupt” US judiciary which sent him to jail even though he was the whistleblower who led to the US tax fraud case against the bank. (more…)
Sat 28 Aug 2010
The War on Democracy
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See John Pilger’s film The War on Democracy here.
Tue 24 Aug 2010
False Charges Ricochet in the War on WikiLeaks
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Scott Horton Harpers 8/24/10
As I wrote in “WikiLeaks: The National-Security State Strikes Back,” a highly classified Army Counterintelligence Center 32-page memorandum noted that to eliminate the threat presented by WikiLeaks, the United States would have to strike not simply servers and databases, but against the individuals who were critical to the operation of WikiLeaks. (more…)
Thu 19 Aug 2010
John Pilger New Statesman 8/19/10
The case of the Afghanistan war logs and the hounding of Julian Assange prove that there’s never been greater need to speak truth to power than today. (more…)
Fri 13 Aug 2010
Jeremy Scahill Nation 8/13/10
Four months before WikiLeaks rocketed to international notoriety, the Robin Hoods of the Internet quietly published a confidential CIA document labeled “NOFORN” (for “no foreign nationals”)—meaning that it should not be shared even with US allies. That’s because the March “Red Cell Special Memorandum” was a call to arms for a propaganda war to influence public opinion in allied nations. (more…)