Monthly Archives: February 2012
Bill Moyers> How Pop Culture Influences Political Expectations> | Interview and Video
How Pop Culture Influences Political Expectations 25 February 2012 by: Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co. truthout.org Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets the crowd at a campaign rally in Mesa, Arizona on February 13, 2012. Film historian and culture critic Neal Gabler joins Bill Moyers to discuss how representations of heroism in movies shape our expectations of a […]
Jeremy Scahill> The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia
The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia Jeremy Scahill 13 February 2012 July 12, 2011 | This article appeared in the August 1-8, 2011 edition of The Nation. Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian […]
Kathy Kelly> The Ghost and the Machine: Drone Warfare and Accountability
Published on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Common Dreams The Ghost and the Machine: Drone Warfare and Accountability by Kathy Kelly and Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a […]
Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal
Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal 29 February, 2012 RT Washington: US park police detains a Christian religious activist during a pro-life demonstration in front of the White House in Washington on February 16, 2012. (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad) Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The […]
An Interview with Danny Glover
An Interview with Danny Glover By Ed Rampell, March 2012 issue The Progressive Many movie fans know Danny Glover from the Lethal Weapon series, but this Hollywood action star is also a serious intellectual, activist, and producer of thought-provoking documentaries and features. The UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and Amnesty International USA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is […]
How to Start a War: The American Use of War Pretext Incidents
The following article by Richard Sanders published in May 2002, prior to the onslaught of the Iraq war, carefully documents the History of War Pretext Incidents. This historical review raises an important issue: Is the Pentagon seeking to trigger military confrontation in the Persian Gulf with a view to providing a pretext and a justification to waging […]
Wikileaks emails indicate Stratfor discovered Israel already destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities | The Raw Story
Wikileaks emails indicate Stratfor discovered Israel already destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities By Andrew Jones February 27, 2012 Raw Story Growing concerns over Iran’s nuclear facilities may prove to be all for naught. Officials from the global intelligence company Stratfor allegedly discussed that Israel may have already destroyed the Iranian nuclear facility, according to […]
Zeese and Flowers> PART I Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Mis-direct are Widespread in Occupy
PART I Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Mis-direct are Widespread in Occupy By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers 25 February 2012 October11.org This is Part I of a two part series on infiltration of Occupy and what the movement can do about limiting the damage of those who seek to destroy […]
Dr.Paul Craig Roberts> Silencing The Critics
Silencing The Critics The western media continually lies. On the rare instances when the lies are corrected, it is always long after the event and, therefore, the crimes enabled by the media have been accomplished. by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts February 20, 2012 Global Research In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of […]
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