Canada has “no history of colonialism.” So said Stephen Harper in 2009. Today the Idle No More movement is shouting down this lie through actions both creative and courageous. In its place,
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The real new world order has emerged–the world’s downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history.
Nuclear energy is responsible for powering nearly 20 percent of the US, and in Southern California the San Onofre nuclear power plant has created much debate in the surrounding community. The station has been closed for about a year due to a leak that was detected in the steam generator tubes, but despite the wishes of the people living the area to keep the plant closed, the utility company is pushing to bring the reactor back online.
“The Gatekeepers,” a new documentary, records the views of the Israeli security officials most responsible for suppressing Palestinian resistance and their growing doubts about the strategy of endless repression. But even this criticism glosses over the depth of the problem.…
Chris Hedges gave this talk Saturday night in Brooklyn at the People’s Recovery Summit.
The corporate state has made it clear there will be no more Occupy encampments. The corporate state is seeking through the persistent harassment of activists and …
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is launching an ambitious new investigation, which will seek to identify as many as possible of those killed in US covert drone strikes in Pakistan, whether civilian or militant.
The Bureau is raising some of …
Throughout his tenure, Obama governed lawlessly for the monied interests that own him. He’s waged no-holds-barred war on humanity.
Strategy includes homeland tyranny, fear-mongering, saber rattling, hot wars, proxy ones, drone ones, domestic political ones, geopolitical ones, financial ones, anti-populist …
The US Department of Justice on Monday filed a civil suit in Los Angeles charging Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, the world’s biggest credit rating agency, with defrauding investors and the public by inflating the credit ratings it gave to …
The London Socialist Film Co-op
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Our screenings in February will start with Stealing the Arab Spring. This 34-minute film is by Julien Teil and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya.
It incorporates the earlier material in Libya: …
On Jan. 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the Pentagon had lifted its ban on women serving in combat, and that more than 230,000 “battlefront” positions could be opened up to them. Military officials must submit plans by …
“The full consequences of a default — or even the serious prospect of default — by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate… Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have …
"Humanitarian?", the Iraqi boy might query, and then ask, "So they're happy now? Well, they're all very rich. Maybe they'd buy my drawing?", the boy says.
“The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.”(Martin H.Fischer, 1879-1962.)
It has not been an auspicious couple of weeks for UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
His Cabinet colleagues, largely a bunch of millionaires, have accused …
Introduction by Paul Craig Roberts
The article below is the most comprehensive analysis available of “Obamacare” – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The author, a knowledgeable person who wishes to remain anonymous, explains how Obamacare works for the
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“A decade of war is now ending,” President Barack Obama told Americans in his second inaugural address delivered little more than two weeks ago in Washington.
Speaking Saturday at the annual Munich Security Conference, Vice President Joseph Biden set the …
“What is morally wrong can never be politically right.” Lord Shaftesbury, 1801 – 1885
A report published today by the Open Society Justice Initiative shows that some 54 countries helped to facilitate the CIA’s secret detention,rendition and interrogation programme in
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Here is the memo. With a few tweaks and a more creative title — like “Murder With Your Hands Clean” — this memo could sell a lot of copies.
And why not? Either there’s a whistleblower in the Department of …
by Haiti Grassroots Watch
Part I
A $61 million dollar, eight-year World Bank community development project implemented across half of Haiti has successfully repaired roads, built schools and distributed livestock. At the same time, however, Project for Participatory Community Development …
An Energy Department plan to allow the recycling of scrap metals emitting very low levels of radiation is drawing opposition because of concerns about potential health hazards. But the upside for U.S. atomic bomb-makers is that waste now requiring costly …
It is disturbing, to say the least, that an American citizen can be arrested by the FBI for participating in an international film festival held in a country which is “disliked” by the Obama administration, namely Iran.
Deafening silence of …
Global Research News Hour Episode 13
“It’s easy to take an issue like the 9/11 truth movement and demonize it…that happened in the election of 2008. Even though at the time it was a rising tide and growing numbers of …
French Socialist President Francois Hollande has visited Mali in an effort to claim victory over targeted Islamic groups based in the central and northern regions of this vast West African state. The president visited the capital of Bamako and the …
Munich’s Security Conference is held annually. This year marks the 49th session. Dozens of countries participated. Hundreds of world leaders attended.
They included heads of state, foreign affairs and defense ministers, as well as other senior figures. Active engagement was
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The strategy of systematic de-democratization is aimed at creating conditions for the implementation of brutal austerity measures. Due to the profoundly neoliberal nature of the EU’s very structure, the crisis is taking on a particularly acute and destructive character.
Israel claims it bombed a weapons convoy, while Syria claimed that a research facility was hit. Who is right?
Both.
Time reports:
…Israeli warplanes struck several targets inside Syria overnight Tuesday, including a biological weapons research center that was
A key federal budget trick is using words to confuse citizens, such as labeling U.S. military spending as “defense” though much is for “offense” and sliding costs for wounded soldiers under “veterans affairs” and nuclear bombs under “energy,” as ex-CIA …
Both President Obama and a top economic adviser have confirmed that Medicare, the federal program that underwrites the cost of health care for more than 50 million elderly and disabled people in the United States, is a prime target in …
If the US dollar collapses, it will have a dramatic impact on the world economy because the dollar is the standard unit of currency for commodity markets, especially gold and oil. The U.S. dollar is still the world’s reserve currency, …
by William J. Astore
Imagine if we could bridge the empathy gap that separates us from the Vietnamese and our war with them and against them.
When I was on active duty in the Air Force, I visited the Vietnam
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One story that did not make headlines. Rapper Lupe Fiasco was performing live at the StartUp RockOn concert to celebrate the re-election of Barack H. Obama on January 21st. He was kicked off the stage by Obama’s secret service detail because he was singing Anti-Obama lyrics...
The UNSC resolution directed against DPRK on January 22, 2013 reminds us of two identical previous resolutions (UNSCR: 1718, 1874) in 2006 and 2009.
It is also reminiscent of the so-called “No-Fly Zone” Resolution the UNSC passed in March 17, …
Rogue Elements within US Military: Defense Nominee Hagel had warned Obama
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February 03 2013
The Washington Post today reports an interesting exchange that is said to have happened between the President in his first term, and Chuck Hagel, the nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense.
Bob Woodward writes in the Post that …
Stating “The principle function of the state and its officials is to protect its citizens” (NYTimes), Judge Miguel Angel Gálvez ordered the trial of Efraín Rios Montt, former dictator of Guatemala and his intelligence chief José Mauricio Rodríguez …
It shouldn’t surprise. Washington and Israel are longstanding imperial partners. Significant regional operations are jointly planned.
It’s done well in advance. It’s for strategic advantage. Operations are part of a greater regional agenda.
On February 1, TIME magazine headlined “The …
U.S. National Research Council Scientists: Fluoride Can Damage the Brain and Bones
Concern grew in the late 1970s that even low levels of exposure to lead caused adverse changes in the mental functioning of children.
The same thing is now …
by Adri Nieuwhof
The Israeli national water company Mekorot undermines Palestinians’ access to water, according to a new report commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The report finds that deep water drillings by Mekorot and the Israeli agri-industrial …
The following is a letter sent to the Principal and administration who, over 30 days ago, secretly planned and executed an illegal hoax school shooting on 300 students with disabilities and their teachers. It is one final attempt to urge …
In War Is A Lie I looked at pretended and real reasons for wars and found some of the real reasons to be quite irrational. It should not shock us then to discover that the primary goal in fighting a …
Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Chuck Hagel at times assumed the tone of an inquisition, with Obama’s nominee for defense secretary pushed to recant previous positions critical of Israel and swear his support for unbridled US militarism.
Hagel, a Vietnam …
The BRussells Tribunal and several partner organisations have organised a peace prize, the “BRussells Awards for Resistance and Solidarity”.
The prize for resistance goes to Uday al Zaidi, a leading organizer of the
by Farid Marjai and Mehrnaz Shahabi
“Iranian Mothers for Peace,” in an open letter of January 2013 to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, and Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Heath Organization, have alerted the …
On January 31, the UN International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory published damning findings.
Access them in full through the following link.They revealed multiple international law violations. Settlements compromise fundamental Palestinian human rights.
Access them in full through the following link.They revealed multiple international law violations. Settlements compromise fundamental Palestinian human rights.
Violations
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The Obama Administration announced “a strategic pivot” in its foreign policy to focus its military and political attention on the Asia-Pacific, particularly Southeast Asia, that is, China.
by Jeremy Keenan
As the French-led military operation begins, Jeremy Keenan reveals how the US and Algeria have been sponsoring terror in the Sahara.
On 12 October 2012, the UN Security Council voted unanimously in favour of a French-drafted resolution …
There is a high probability that US sanctions against Iran have been violated by its own army. Part of the $1.55 billion in fuel the US bought from Turkmenistan for the Afghan army in the last five years may have
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The blue chip Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 14,000 for the first time in five years and neared its all-time high on Friday in response to a Labor Department report showing stagnant job growth and an uptick in the …
This week the New York Times reported that the US is planning to establish a new base for its drones in north-west Africa. While the base is to be used initially to fly unarmed surveillance drones, according to the …
Opposing genocide has become a sort of cottage industry in the United States.
Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping up in universities. Five years ago, an unlikely “Genocide Prevention Task Force” was set up headed by former secretary of state Madeleine
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If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip implanted into a passport or driver’s license may sound like a “smart” alternative to endless lines at the airport and intrusive questioning by securocrats, think again.
Since the late 1990s, …
All this talk about “stimulus packages” and “bailouts”…
A billion dollars…
A hundred billion dollars…
Eight hundred billion dollars…
One TRILLION dollars…
What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, …
Currently the ongoing situation in Mali is gaining traction in the media with the reporting of Al Qaeda members within the ranks of the Tuareg rebels.
The situation in quite complicated and involves not only France, but also the US …
In the fifth year of the economic depression, and amid signs of the worst global slowdown since 2008, world stock markets are booming.
In the US, the three major stock indices have either reached or are within a few percentage …
Wednesday’s bombing of a Syrian military site by Israeli warplanes has ratcheted up the danger that the Western-backed civil war in Syria will spill over into a broader regional conflagration.
Unnamed US officials cited by the New York Times claimed …
Headlines flashed warning signs. Commentaries downplayed them. A Wall Street Journal editorial headlined “As Contractions Go….”
US Q IV GDP shrank, “but not to worry. The report is better than it sounds, the stock market is rocking, and (the Fed …
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Bruce Gagnon shares little known facts about the militarization of space by the United States, the development of first strike space drones and the foundation of the US military industrial complex …
Citizens do not want nuclear power1. They know it is both far too dangerous and far too expensive.
Politicians want nuclear power because they know it puts Power in their hands. This is exactly paralleled by politicians embracing …
There is a useful but neglected way of distinguishing a recession from a depression or major economic downturn. After a recession the economy goes back to the “normal” of the previous expansion, whereas after a severe downturn the economy is reconfigured
In the 21st century Americans have experienced an extraordinary collapse in the rule of law and in their constitutional protections. Today American citizens, once a free people protected by law, can be assassinated and detained in prison indefinitely without any …
DAMASCUS, (SANA) – Foreign and Expatriates Ministry sent two identical letters to President of UN Security Council (UNSC) and UN Secretary-General on the Israeli attack which targeted the Scientific Research Center in Jamraya in Damascus Countryside.
The Ministry said that
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They say you can’t kill that which has never lived. It’s useful advice when analyzing the persistence of the so-called “Iranian nuclear threat.”
According to a report in McClatchy, “Israeli intelligence officials now estimate that Iran won’t be able …
No city is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.
I write from Charlottesville, Va., but am hopeful that this message applies to your city, town, or county as well.
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Getting to the Next Level of Constructing a New Society Requires a Common Vision, Strategy and Unity
Once again the corporate mass media got the story wrong. Headlines across the country claimed that occupiers in New York came from …
At the very moment when the Democratic Party President Barack Obama reiterated in his inaugural address that the United States “must be a source of hope for the poor” and will “support democracy from Asia to Africa,” giant U.S. C-17 …
The usual suspects have embarked on another mass butchery – sorry “training exercise” - in mega-resource-rich Mali, and are meddling, with lethality, in Algeria.
To quote the immortal line in Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, as filmed by John Huston, “Let’s talk about the black bird” – let’s talk about a mysterious bird made out of gold. Oh yes, because this is a …
The objective of the US sponsored armed insurgency is --with the help of Israel-- to "Break Syria into Pieces". The "balkanisation of Syria" is to be carried out by fostering sectarian divisions, which will eventually lead to a "civil war" modelled on the former Yugoslavia.
Kangaroo Court Show Trials
Huffington Post reports:
…A judge expressed frustration on Monday that an unknown U.S. government entity censored his courtroom audiovisual feed, cutting public access to pretrial hearings for five accused Sept. 11 plotters.
“If some external
There is a grotesque development in the EU in attempts to “normalize” or popularize Nazism. The Prague Declaration is a sinister falsification of history which has encouraged attempts to legitimize the rebirth of Nazism now spreading throughout Europe.
In this interview for Matterhorn Asset Management, Robert Blumen discusses some important but widely misunderstood elements acting on the gold price. He explains that frequently cited gold demand statistics have no relationship to the gold price. In addition, he explains …
After deploying several hundred troops to the Central African Republic late last month, the French government has overseen the signing of a peace agreement between President François Bozizé and leaders of the rebel militias that had threatened to overrun the …
The Commerce Department on Wednesday reported that the US economy contracted in the fourth quarter of 2012, the first decline in the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) since the second quarter of 2009, the final three months before the official …
As the Arctic ice continues to melt and resources slowly begin to be available the West has decided to begin the militarization of the Arctic zone in a bid to gain control over the precious resources. In an interview with …
Israel partners with Washington’s wars. It’s been largely covertly involved against Syria. It’s now blatantly overt.
Since last weekend, Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace multiple times. They overflew the Beka Valley. They attacked a weapons storage facility. They struck a
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Al-Nusra Mass Executions of Abducted Citizens in Aleppo: Syria Calls on UN Security Council
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January 31 2013
Foreign and Expatriates Ministry on Wednesday sent two identical letters to President of The UN security Council and UN Secretary General on the mass execution perpetrated by terrorist groups of “Jabhat al-Nusra” against tens of abducted citizens in Aleppo on …
January 31, 1968 marked the beginning of the end….
When will historians of the future date the beginning of the decline and fall of the American empire?
The question may seem presumptuous. The idea that the American Century is a …
Spying on Iran? Iran Arrests Elements of Network Linked to BBC: Intelligence Ministry
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January 31 2013
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry says it has arrested several elements cooperating with a Western media network.
In a statement released on Wednesday night, the Ministry said that in line with its duties to counter any foreign infiltration and interference in …
It is not altogether clear just yet exactly what the Israeli target was in Syria, but it is possible that it could have something to do with advanced airspace defensive technology which was given to Syria from …
by Monique Woroniak and David Camfield
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