John Pilger talking: I don’t believe anything has changed. And if it is going to change in the Middle East, as in other parts of … Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Corporate Media, Obama’s Wars, and Resisting the American EmpireRead more
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Posted inEconomics
Global Military Spending Rose to $1.46 Trillion in 2008
A new study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has found global military spending rose four percent last year to a record $1.46 trillion … Global Military Spending Rose to $1.46 Trillion in 2008Read more
Posted inPolitics / Social / USA Empire
Art, Truth, and Politics
The United States supported the brutal Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua for over forty years. The Nicaraguan people, led by the Sandinistas, overthrew this regime in … Art, Truth, and PoliticsRead more
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How to stop terrorism
If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists, which is what war is. – Howard Zinn The war for oil is … How to stop terrorismRead more
Posted inUSA Empire
Father Remembers His Son Killed in Iraq
Bryan Scripsick died in a suicide bombing in Anbar province on September 6, 2007. He was just three weeks shy of returning home. Since then, … Father Remembers His Son Killed in IraqRead more
Posted inUSA Empire
American war zone contractors fighting a new war in America
The bailed-out insurance giant AIG has come under intense criticism for handing out hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to top executives and billions … American war zone contractors fighting a new war in AmericaRead more
Posted inIraq / Media / USA Empire
David Barstow got a Pulitzer, but cable channels did not see that
New York Times reporter David Barstow recently won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for exposing how dozens of retired generals working as radio … David Barstow got a Pulitzer, but cable channels did not see thatRead more
Posted inMassacre / Social / USA Empire
Kent State University massacre
Thirty-nine years ago this week, National Guardsmen opened fire on hundreds of unarmed students at an antiwar rally at Kent State University in Ohio, killing … Kent State University massacreRead more
Posted inDictatorship / Fascism
Guernica
Seventy-two years ago this Sunday, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, on April 26th, 1937, the Basque town of Guernica was carpet bombed … GuernicaRead more
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Dead Iraqi and Afghani Babies Are No Joke
’The horrors of the US Agent Orange defoliation campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct. 15, could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors … Dead Iraqi and Afghani Babies Are No JokeRead more