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The US as Failed State

26 October 2009 in AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM, NEO LIBERALISM, RECENSION, SHOCK DOCTRINE, obama
Tags: Afghanistan, democrats, diplomacy, failed state, military aggression, republicans, terrorism, US as Failed State, US military, US troops

The US has every characteristic of a failed state.
The US government’s current operating budget is dependent on foreign financing and money creation.
Too politically weak to be able to advance its interests through diplomacy, the US relies on terrorism and military aggression.
Costs are out of control, and priorities are skewed in the interest of rich organized [...]

California ‘first failed US state’? (many more to come!)

24 October 2009 in AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, NEO LIBERALISM, RECENSION, SHOCK DOCTRINE, bush, obama, video

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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 [...]

US job loss: by geography

10 October 2009 in "WAR ON TERROR", AMERICANISM, CAPITALISM, RECENSION, SHOCK DOCTRINE, bush, obama
Tags: rec, recession, US job loss, US recession

Warmonger Wins Peace Prize Upside Down World

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, bush, US banality, "WAR ON TERROR", obamba, peace, us war, nobel peace prize, Peace Prize, nob, nobel, warmonger, Orwell, 2009

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, [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

“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.”
– [...]

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 [...]