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• A War Criminal With A Peace Prize

  Cornel West, professor of African American Studies at Princeton and of Religious Philosophy and Christian Studies at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, the most outspoken anti-imperialist lecturer and writer, the most well known defender of Black and minority civil rights since Martin Luther King Jr. and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has been for years [...]

  

• New Evidence that the Houla Massacre was Perpetrated by the Free Syrian Army

  By Alfredo Embid 19 October, 2012 (excerpts from “La mierda sigue acumulándose sobre la Comisión de Investigación “independiente” del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU sobre Siria” – Boletin Armas Contra Las Guerras, 19 October, 2012 (http://ciaramc.org/ciar/boletines/cr_bol456.htm ) (translated to English, with slight edits, for this report) New evidence that Hula slaughter was perpetrated by the Free Syrian Army [...]

  

• US companies treat UK citizens like ghosts to rip them off

  Google, Amazon, and Starbucks are being pilloried by the UK public accounts committee for their tax policies in the UK. Is this just? By Max Keiser At the center of the controversy is a loophole in the tax code that disregards a consumer’s physical presence and allows the company to treat them as if they were physically located in another [...]

  

• Assad talks, Russia walks

  So Bashar al-Assad has spoken – exclusively, to Argentine daily El Clarin (there’s a huge Syrian diaspora in Argentina, as well as in neighboring Brazil) by Pepe Escobar (Asia Times – ‘Roving Eye’) Cutting through the fog of Western hysteria, he made some valuable points. The record shows that, yes, the regime has agreed several times to talk to the [...]

  

• Goldbugs Vs Greenbackers

  Why not return to gold as the national currency? by Ellen Brown Since that question has come up often on Ellen Brown’s blog, a chapter from “Web of Debt” addressing it is posted below. Chapter 37 THE MONEY QUESTION: GOLDBUGS AND GREENBACKERS DEBATE “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” – William Jennings Bryan, 1896 Democratic Convention At [...]

  

• What is Money?

  We all use money, we all rely on money. But do we know how money works? Where does money come from? How is money created? More than 97% of all the money that exists is created by banks when they make loans. When people first hear this, they often find it hard to believe. But we don’t want you to [...]

  

• Disconnect: Soaring Markets/Troubled Economies

  Forget everything you learned about markets, economics and finance. Perhaps Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and other noted figures were wrong by Stephen Lendman Central banks run today’s world. Major ones matter most. Money printing madness controls everything. Love doesn’t make the world go round. Liquidity-driven markets reflect the power of bankers to do it. They’re more powerful than [...]

  

• The CIA, Qatar, and the Creation of Jabhat al Nusra

  A recent interview given by, yes, you guessed it: an ‘anonymous’ Qatari security official, has shed further light on CIA-led covert arms shipments to militants fighting in Syria by Phil Greaves In this Reuters article, the security official and several ‘anonymous’ rebel Commanders confirm that Qatar has “tightened coordination of arms flows [plural] to Syria,” under alleged concern of weapons [...]

  

• Mystery Sponsor Of Weapons And Money To Syrian Mercenary “Rebels” Revealed

  Previously, when looking at the real underlying national interests responsible for the deteriorating situation in Syria, which eventually may and/or will devolve into all out war with hundreds of thousands killed, we made it very clear that it was always and only about the gas, or gas pipelines to be exact, and specifically those involving the tiny but uber-wealthy state [...]

  

• Catfight – and it’s US vs EU

  Lovers of turbo-neoliberalism, rejoice – and take your bottles of Moet to a prime ringside seat; there won’t be a nastier catfight this summer than the opening rounds opposing two Western giants. Forget about the Pentagon “pivoting” to Asia without ever abandoning the Middle East; nothing compares with this voyage in the entrails of turbo-capitalism, worthy of a neo-Balzac by [...]

  

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US claims Chinese military is on new cyber offensive against America

Officials within the United States government say hackers from China have renewed their assault on US targets only three months after a highly-touted investigation linked the People’s Liberation Army to a series of cyberattacks waged at American entities by RT According to the New York Times, computer security experts and US officials alike say the PLA’s sophisticated cyber squadron is [...]

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on May 20, 2013 at 10:19 pm /

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Why Was a Sunday Times Report on US Government Ties to al-Qaeda Chief Spiked?

FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as “the most gagged person in the history of the United States” by the American Civil Liberties Union. Was the Sunday Times pressured to drop its investigation into her revelations? By Dr Nafeez Ahmed (Ceasefire) A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government’s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. The government has denied [...]

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on May 20, 2013 at 7:32 pm /

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Church of Scotland Report Challenging Jews’ ‘Divine Right’ to Palestinian Homeland Unchanged

By Stuart Littlewood The Church of Scotland’s revised report ‘The Inheritance of Abraham?’ has now been released ahead of their Assembly http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/14050/The_Inheritance_of_Abraham.pdf . The Church felt obliged to change some of it after Jewish leaders sought to interfere, one complaining that it was “an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands for…  and closes the door on meaningful dialogue”. Another [...]

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on May 19, 2013 at 9:37 pm /

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Seeing for Two

If his mother could see him now—her beloved boy, alive and well, and cherished, in a land of love and plenty. If she could see the way he sauntered out of the rescue trailer, swift and surefooted as a deer, the way he glided into this welcoming world as if he recognized it, as if he remembered its essence of [...]

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on May 19, 2013 at 1:56 am /

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America Threatens Eastern China

Jeju Island, Key Strategic Naval Base for America’s “Asia Pivot” by Bruce Gagnon This base will be a key port for the US Navy that is now moving 60% of its forces to the Asia-Pacific as part of Obama’s dangerous and destabilizing military “pivot” into the region. Gangjeong village sits just 300 miles from the Chinese mainland making the proposed [...]

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on May 18, 2013 at 10:33 pm /

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The Left vs. the Liberal Media

Media Lens debunks the BBC’s humanitarian interventionists by Neil Clark It all started in July 2001 when two men, concerned about bias in the corporate news media in the UK, began to send out “media alerts” to a small number of family and friends. Twelve years on and Media Lens—the brainchild of writer David Edwards, a former manager in sales [...]

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on May 18, 2013 at 8:35 pm /

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The US Government Might Be the Biggest Hacker in the World

Cyber crime is big business in the US. It’s used to spy, steal, harass competition, political opponents, or to stage an attack and blamed it on a foreign enemy. Is the government in on this crime industry? Yes, and in bigger ways than you can imagine… This trend is enabled domestically by an institutionally corrupt US legal system and a [...]

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on May 16, 2013 at 11:28 pm /

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Nakba Survivor: “If You Wanted to Die in Palestine You Stayed. If You Wanted to Live, You Left.”

By Maan Independent News Agency Ghatheyya Mifleh al-Khawalda was 15 years old when she fled her home during the Nakba of 1948. Now 80, Ghatheyya was once a carefree teenager who used to live with her mother and sister in the village of al-Qastina, northeast of Gaza. Although her early life was marked by tragedy — her grandmother died when [...]

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on May 15, 2013 at 11:57 pm /

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War crimes prosecutor receives Israel complaint

AMSTERDAM: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court – the permanent war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands – says she has received a complaint about Israel’s 2010 raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza, and she will open a preliminary investigation by Toby Sterling The complaint comes from the tiny African state of Comoros, a member of the [...]

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on May 15, 2013 at 12:51 am /

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The Criminalization of Political Dissent in America

In a series of prosecutions, precedents are being established for the criminalization of political dissent in America by Tom Carter (World Socialist Web Site) Last week, Massachusetts high school student Cameron D’Ambrosio was arrested and charged under “terrorism” laws merely for posting lyrics on Facebook that make reference to the Boston Marathon bombings. He faces 20 years in prison. A [...]

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on May 15, 2013 at 12:39 am /

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Turkey: Protesters Blame Erdogan and FSA for Bombings in Reyhanli

The people of Antakya blame Erdogan terrorist supporting foreign policy for the bombings in Reyhanli. BSN Editor’s Note: For almost two years, British MI6 and SAS have been training FSA terrorists in these gruesome acts directed initially against the civilian population of Syria.

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on May 14, 2013 at 12:49 pm /