The Media Distract the Public from War
Dees Illustration Sheldon Richman Future of Freedom If one is to judge by the tone of the television commentators, America must be deep in a…
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US backs Ethiopia peacekeepers in Abyei
© AFP/File Stuart Price AFP DAR ES SALAAM (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday endorsed the idea of a peacekeeping force…
Police State Much?
Dees Illustration Cindy Sheehan Cindy Sheehan’s Soap Box “Patriotic” Americans are still berating me for “demeaning” my son’s “sacrifice.” A typical message goes something like…
US hails killing of Al-Qaeda’s E. Africa chief
© AFP/HO/File Editor’s Note from Mike Rivero at Whatreallyhappened.com: Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was reported killed in a US bombing back in 2007. See A GALLERY…
Cyber War, Civil Liberties and Internet Freedom in the US
“It is truly a shame that what is viewed abroad as heroic is considered as suspect at home.” AFP File Image Monica Davis Before It’s…
Ron Paul Explains Neoconservatism (Video)
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In the Grip of Mad Scientists: Business as Usual for Monsanto, Fort Detrick, and Atlas Venture
Barbara H. Peterson Farmwars In what should amount to a wildly imaginative narrative created by an overzealous science fiction aficionado, the following agencies, their connections,…
IMF Financial Terrorism
Stephen Lendman, Contributing Writer Activist Post In July 1944, the IMF and Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now the World Bank) were established to integrate…
Senate report: The Latin American war on drugs has ‘largely failed’
NORML image Stephen C. Webster Raw Story A U.S. Senate subcommittee report this week called into question efforts to curb drug exports from Latin America,…
6 in 10 Americans Now Oppose Obama’s War in Libya
The president has made himself vulnerable by launching the conflict without congressional cover. Will Republicans capitalize? Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic Six in 10 Americans don’t…
Peter Van Buren, How Not to Withdraw from Iraq
The Fall of Baghdad – Wiki Image Peter Van Buren TomDispatch Iraq? Where’s that? Most Americans no longer seem to know and evidently could care…
US foresees $46 billion in 2011 military sales
US military equipment sales, tripled to $30bn after 2005 © AFP/File Louisa Gouliamaki AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States plans to export $46.1 billion…
Panetta: Escalate Shadow Wars, Expand Black Ops
Wiki Commons Spencer Ackerman Wired Icing Osama bin Laden? Just the beginning, once Leon Panetta makes it to the Pentagon. At his Thursday confirmation hearing…
Laws, the War On Drugs, Police Brutality, and Efforts to Control the Internet, Are Essential to the State
Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose…