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California ‘first failed US state’?
By Rob Reynolds in Los Angeles
More Californians rely on food handouts amid rising unemployment and state benefit cuts [EPA]
On Sunday mornings at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in the rough-edged Tenderloin district of San Francisco, the sanctuary is always rocking to old-school [...]
18 October 2009 in "WAR ON TERROR", AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, ILLEGAL, IMPERIALISM, NEO LIBERALISM, U.S. DOCTRINE, WAR LOVER, bush, video
Tags: accountable, Alliance for Justice, american lawyers, American values, justice, Tortured Law
Tortured Law, a new 10-minute documentary by Alliance for Justice, examines the role U.S. lawyers played in authorizing torture. Join those calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to release the report of the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility, and hold accountable those who ordered, designed, and justified torture.
You can join the [...]
15 October 2009 in "WAR ON TERROR", AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, ILLEGAL, NEO LIBERALISM, RECENSION, SHOCK DOCTRINE, U.S. DOCTRINE, WAR LOVER, bush, video
Tags: bush doctrine, chomsky, clinton doctrine, colonialisation, empire, US Empire
In the world of academia Noam Chomsky is the most cited author alive. He talks to Inside USA about politics in the United States and this Presidential election.
10 October 2009 in "WAR ON TERROR", AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, ILLEGAL, IMPERIALISM, NEO LIBERALISM, REFERANCE, U.S. DOCTRINE, WAR LOVER, bush, obama
Tags: "WAR ON TERROR", 2009, bush, nob, nobel, nobel peace prize, obamba, Orwell, peace, Peace Prize, US banality, us war, war, warmonger
It took 25 years longer than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to become reality.
“War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” “Ignorance is Strength.”
I would add, “Lie is Truth.”
The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Obama, the person who started a new war in Pakistan, upped the war in Afghanistan, [...]
9 October 2009 in "WAR ON TERROR", AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, IMPERIALISM, NEO LIBERALISM, RECENSION, U.S. DOCTRINE, WAR LOVER, bush, obama, video
Tags: Afganistan, America, disgrace, multilat, nobel peace prize, nobel prize, norway, obama, U.S. DOCTRINE
Nobel peace prize citation for Barack Obama
Barack Obama presides over a UN security council meeting on nuclear weapons.
Barack Obama at a UN security council meeting on nuclear weapons: the Nobel peace prize committee singled out his work on disarmament for praise. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP
“The Norwegian Nobel committee has decided that the [...]
7 October 2009 in AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM, RECENSION, SHOCK DOCTRINE, U.S. DOCTRINE, bush, video
Tags: American Empire, arab countries, brazil, chinal, Demise of the dollar, dollar, gulf, Gulf Arab, IMF, japan, oil, Russia
The demise of the dollar
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading. In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with [...]
7 October 2009 in "WAR ON TERROR", AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, ILLEGAL, IMPERIALISM, NEO LIBERALISM, RECENSION, SHOCK DOCTRINE, U.S. DOCTRINE, WAR LOVER, bush, obama, video
Tags: Iraq, IMPERIALISM, bush, Vietnam, american banality, gitmo, Torture, tor, Torturing Democracy, American dark years, war against terrorism, us war, democracy deficit, geneva conventions, kubark manual, Guantanamo Bay, cheney
“Torturing Democracy” Excerpt #5
PBS’ “Torturing Democracy” Exposes Brutal Torture
http://torturingdemocracy.org/
Gitmo Video – Guantanamo Bay
Winter Soldier (talking truth about Iraq, Vietnam)
Winter Soldier: Hundreds of Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Gather to Testify in Echo of 1971 Vietnam [...]
2 October 2009 in "WAR ON TERROR", AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, ILLEGAL, IMPERIALISM, NEO LIBERALISM, RECENSION, SHOCK DOCTRINE, U.S. DOCTRINE, WAR LOVER, bush, israel, israhell, obama
Tags: greed, Hussein, intelligence, iran, Iran's Nuclear Program, israel, israhell, military, pakistan, US Secretary of State, war lovers
“The facts and Iraq’s behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction . . . These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.”
– [...]
30 September 2009 in "WAR ON TERROR", AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, ILLEGAL, IMPERIALISM, NEO LIBERALISM, RECENSION, SHOCK DOCTRINE, U.S. DOCTRINE, WAR LOVER, bush, israhell, obama, video
Tags: "WAR ON TERROR", Afghanistan, american history, AMERICANISM, bush, IMPERIALISM, Iraq, John Bolton, John Pilger, Truth and Lies in the War, washington, western terrorism
This film, set in Afghanistan, Iraq and Washington, looks at President Bush’s ‘war on terror’ and the ‘liberation’ of countries where bloodshed and repression continue. In Afghanistan, Pilger investigates the claim that life has improved for the women of Iraq now that the Taliban have gone. In Washington, he interviews leading [...]
