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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Cathedral of the Enemy> The Enemy-Industrial Complex
“And don’t forget a media that was ready to pound the drums of war and emphasize what dangerous enemies lurked in our world with remarkably few second thoughts.” Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:01pm, April 14, 2013. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today’s post is part one of a two-parter. Part two will focus on the must-read new book […]
Jean Bricmont> Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left by JEAN BRICMONT DECEMBER 04, 2012 Counterpunch.org Louvain, Belgium. Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far […]
“Make A Ruckus”> Robert Reich Hails Occupy for Exposing Concentration of Wealth and Power
Make A Ruckus”> Robert Reich Hails Occupy for Exposing Concentration of Wealth and Power Amy Goodman> Democracy Now! Video Interview May 8, 2012 Nation of Change In his new book, “Beyond Outrage,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich opens with a dedication to the Occupy Wall Street movement. He writes: “To the Occupiers, and all […]
Video> Scahill: Obama still relying on the blank check the Bush administration gave him for endless war
Scahill: Obama still relying on the blank check the Bush administration gave him for endless war Submitted by sosadmin on Sun, 04/29/2012 – 12:50 Privacy SOS Please note that by playing the above clips YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer. Yesterday advocates from all over the world met […]
Belgium> 500 activists close NATO
Belgium> 500 activists close NATO [Editor's Note: Below are articles from DeWereldMorgen and Le Monde and links to other articles. Note the translation is literal via Google Translate, and therefore a bit rough.] by Keltoum Belorf 1 april 2012 http://w ww.dewereldmorgen.be/ Today, about 500 peace activists from more than ten European countries are taking part […]
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Hegemony and Its Dilemmas
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Hegemony and Its Dilemmas February 14, 2012 Tom Dispatch Back in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres in the middle of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. They offered an artist’s impressions of what […]
Rob Kall> Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood?
Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood? By Rob Kall Posted: 02/ 8/2012 Huffington Post It’s not surprising to learn that no nation on earth enshrines in its constitution the right of corporate personhood. Mila Versteeg, associate law professor at the University of Virginia, is probably the only […]
From the Land Down Under> George Ikner writes about GTMO from Australia
From the Land Down Under Posted on January 19, 2012 by comehomeamerica George Ikner writes about GTMO from Australia You may wonder just how obvious it has become that Guantanamo is set to be the place where those against the idea of endless war to support the monopoly capitalist democracy in the US can be sent. As the capitalist elites set […]
Which presidential candidates have earned the defense industry’s support?
President Obama is leading the pack in donations from the defense industry. Paul’s already received more donations from members of the military and DOD than Obama has: nearly $96,000 to Obama’s almost $76,000, as of third quarter 2011. Megan Carpentier, Raw Story Submitted by David Culver Though Americans far and away identify economic problems as […]
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