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Fact or Fiction?
Bin Laden Not killed by US, Claims Former
CIA Agent
By Press TV
“There was no assault. I know the American
operations from the inside"
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Are Americans
Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?
By Paul Craig Roberts
The US government and its media whores,
presstitutes as Gerald Celente calls them,
show increasing contempt for the
intelligence, or lack thereof, of the
american public.
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Beware False Flag
Attack On Chicago NATO Summit by US War
Criminals
By Carl Herman
Independent writers are now warning
of a false flag attack at the Chicago NATO
Summit.
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Congressmen Seek To
Lift U.S. Propaganda Ban
By Michael Hastings
An amendment that would legalize
the use of propaganda on American audiences
is being inserted into the latest defense
authorization bill.
Continue
Why Americans Are
Less Hawkish than Their Leaders
By Benjamin H. Friedman
The study shows that when presented
with arguments for and against cutting the
defense budget, Americans want to cut it—a
lot.
Continue
Kristol: Lieberman
will be Secretary of State in Romney
Administration
By Maidhc Ó Cathail
If Kristol’s latest prediction
comes true, a Romney presidency would put
U.S. foreign policy even more firmly under
the control of a foreign power.
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Robert Reich To New
College Grads: Your F*cked
By Robert Reich
As a former secretary of labor and
current professor, I feel I owe it to you to
tell you the truth about the pieces of
parchment you’re picking up today. You’re f*cked.
Continue
No No Keshagesh
By Buffy Sainte-Marie
Keshagesh means Greedy
Guts. It's what you call a little puppy who
eats his own and then wants everybody
else's.
Continue
Yemeni clashes kill
34 militants, troops: At
least 22 Al-Qaeda-linked militants and 12
Yemeni soldiers were killed in clashes and
air strikes overnight during a new US-backed
offensive against insurgents in the south of
the country,
Car bomb targets
security forces in Syrian city, killing 9:
A car bomb in the parking lot of a Syrian
military compound killed at least nine
people Saturday, the latest in increasingly
frequent bombings in the country's major
cities to target the regime's security
services.
Regime Change:
U.S. tells G8 Syria's
Assad must go, cites Yemen as model:
U.S. President Barack Obama told G8 leaders
meeting at Camp David that Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and
pointed to Yemen as a model of how political
transition could work there, the White House
said on Saturday.
Engineering Consent For
Regime Change:
U.S., allies
accelerating plans to secure chemical
arsenal as Syrian crisis worsens:
The Obama administration is accelerating its
planning with Middle Eastern allies for a
series of potentially fast-moving crises in
Syria in the coming months, including the
possible loss of government control over
some of the country’s scattered stocks of
chemical weapons, U.S. and Middle Eastern
security officials say.
Suicide bomber kills
8 people in Afghanistan:
Afghan security officials say a suicide
bomber blew himself up at a police
checkpoint in the country's east, killing
eight people
NATO summit to define
enduring presence in Afghanistan beyond
2014: One of the major
topics in the NATO summit is to "establish a
vision for our enduring presence in
Afghanistan," said General John R. Allen,
commander of U.S. and NATO force in
Afghanistan, as American Forces Press
Service reported.
How the government is
funding the UK war machine by cutting
disability benefits: The
government spends £25 billion a year on its
war machine and is committed to spending
hundreds of billions more on buying new
military hardware. At what cost to the
disabled?
Pakistan supply route
still closed: Malik said
the government will not allow NATO supply
routes to reopen until drone attacks on
targets in Pakistan stop, Dawn News reported
Pakistan: ‘US
planning to usurp our independence’:
Syed Munawar Hasan, has said that the
imprudent rulers had lost a golden
opportunity of reviving national honor and
adopting an independent foreign policy by
deciding to restore NAO supplies in haste.
Seven killed in
Mogadishu bomb blasts:
At least seven people, mostly Somali
soldiers, have been killed in bomb
explosions in the Somali capital Mogadishu,
officials and witnesses said.
Turkish civilian
killed in attack by Kurdish rebels:
- A construction worker was killed and three
people were wounded when Kurdish militants
attacked a military outpost in southeastern
Turkey near the Iraqi border, security
sources said on Saturday.
Denmark to ban
labeling West Bank products as 'Made in
Israel', report says:
Report comes after South Africa says only
recognizes State of Israel within borders
demarcated by UN in 1948; move is in line
with U.K. recommendation from 2009.
'Crushing Bahrain
revolution crucial to war plans against
Iran' : Annexation -
that's what tens of thousands of protesters
in the Middle East are calling new Arab
union plans. It comes after Saudi Arabia
said it wants to form an alliance with
Bahrain
Chicago: NATO
Protesters: Charged with terrorism:
The men were arrested Wednesday in an
apartment building in the Bridgeport
neighborhood. They're accused of trying to
make Molotov cocktails ahead of the two-day
summit that starts Sunday.
Chicago: “Beer Not
Bombs” Protestor Speaks Out: : Video
-“We were handcuffed to
a bench and our legs were shackled together.
We were not told what was happening,”
Ammussek said. “I believe very strongly in
non-violence, and if I had seen anything
that even resembled any plans or anything
like that, we wouldn’t have been there.”
Mystery over
Bridgeport arrests: Molotov cocktails or
brewing equipment?: The
National Lawyers Guild criticized the police
raid, saying the nine NATO protesters only
had beer-making equipment in their
possession.
How FBI Entrapment Is
Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad
Guys Off the Hook: In
all these law enforcement schemes the
alleged terrorists masterminds end up
seeming, when the full story comes out,
unable to terrorize their way out of a paper
bag without law enforcement tutelage.
The Nato Summit
Template for Policing the 'Other Chicago':
Mayor Emanuel is spending millions
entertaining Nato – and millions more to
stifle protest at Chicago's dire levels of
poverty
Border Control
Measures Move Inland With Utah License Plate
Tracking Program: the
federal DEA is trying to initiate a blanket
sweep of all license plates traveling along
Interstate 15 in Utah, with the intent to
store the information in a centralized
database.
In a world gone crazy:
National Guard’s $26
million Sponsoring NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt
Jr. Results in ZERO Recruits:
In fiscal year 2012, the National Guard has
been contacted by more than 24,800
individuals interested in joining because of
the race sponsorship. Of those, Creech said
20 were qualified candidates and that none
joined
Facebook IPO
fight-back begins: share price
'implausible', says analyst:
The fight-back against Facebook’s $100bn
(£63bn) mega-float has begun, with the first
analyst this weekend coming out to stamp a
‘sell’ sign on the social network’s shares
as the full extent to which Wall Street
banks were forced to prop up its shares on
the first day of trading was revealed.
Without trust,
Facebook isn't worth $100 billion:
More and more Facebook users are becoming
aware of how their personal information is
being tracked, used and shared.
Greek leftist leader
Alexis Tsipras: 'It's a war between people
and capitalism':
Greece's eurozone fate may now be in the
hands of the 37-year-old political firebrand
and his Syriza party
May 18, 2012
NDAA Authorizes War
Against Iran
Kucinich: 'We're
getting ready for war against Iran'
By Rep. Dennis Kucinich
The Former Chief of Staff of Secretary of
State Colin Powell has stated that this
resolution "reads like the same sheet of
music that got us into the Iraq war."
Continue
Russian PM Says
Action on Syria, Iran May Lead To Nuclear
War
By Reuters
"At some point such actions which
undermine state sovereignty may lead to a
full-scale regional war, even, although I do
not want to frighten anyone, with the use of
nuclear weapons," Medvedev said. "Everyone
should bear this in mind."
Continue
Israel as Popular as
North Korea According to BBC Poll
By Gilad Atzmon
In spite of Israeli Hasbara, Jewish lobbying
and the Jewish stronghold over the media,
the people of the world, see the Jewish
State negatively.
Continue
Libyan "Rebels" Whip
And Torture Man Telling Him He's Pig Meat
Video
“Today, those who took part in the uprising
are above the law”
Continue
Indefinite
Imprisonment Without Charge Or Trial
The Case Against 'Indefinite Detention'
By Rep. Adam Smith and Rep. Justin
Amash
The federal government now has the power to
detain indefinitely any person—including
U.S. citizens—arrested on U.S. soil,
indefinitely, without charging them with a
crime or proving their guilt.
Continue
Congress Still Okay
With Indefinite Detention and Torture of
Americans
By Jose Luis Magaua
An attempt to strike down any
provisions allowing for the US military to
indefinitely detain American citizens
without charge from next year’s National
Defense Authorization Act was shot down
Friday morning in the House of
Representatives.
Continue
House GOP Kills
Proposal to Block Indefinite Detention of US
Citizens
By Adam Serwer
At least it's on the record: Most House
Republicans support the indefinite detention
without trial of American citizens. Continue
Family Values?
Blown Up Election
By Linh Dinh
According to Democrats, Obama is a good
liberal because he will also send gay men
and women worldwide to massacre whoever gets
in the way of the oil liberals need to drive
their SUVs to anti-war rallies.
Continue
The Politics of
Language and the Language of Political
Regression
By James Petras
The capitalist class has cultivated
a crop of economists and journalists who
peddle brutal policies in bland, evasive and
deceptive language in order to neutralize
popular opposition.
Continue
The Uprising Has
Begun
A New Politics That Rejects Austerity and
Wars of Whim
By John Nichols
There’s a dawning recognition that
it is neither morally nor fiscally prudent
to sacrifice human needs in order to pay for
wars—or to redistribute more of the wealth
upward.
Continue
In the Name of My
Father
Requiem and Renewal in the Shadow of Wall
Street
By Phil Rockstroh
My father harbored an abiding animus to
bullies -- a trait he bequeathed to me by
both blood and circumstance.
Continue
US: The Shameful
Index of Prison Rape
By Amy Fettig & Jennifer Wedekind
Number of people imprisoned in the
United States: 2.3 million. Number of
victims of rape or sexual abuse in U.S.
prison, jails and juvenile detention
facilities in the past year according to the
Justice Department: 216,600.
Continue
In Spite Of
Videotaped Evidence
All-White Jury Acquits Police Officer Of
Beating Black Teen
Video
Video taken of the March 2010 incident shows
Holley being stopped by a police vehicle.
After Holley falls to the ground, he is
clearly seen surrendering and putting his
hands behind his head. But instead of
placing him in handcuffs, Bloomberg and six
fellow officers proceed to attack Holley
with stomps and kicks.
Continue
Yemeni troops kill 11
"al-Qaida fighter" :
Yemeni troops killed 11 al-Qaida fighters in
southern Yemen on Friday, as government
forces battled their way into the outskirts
of a key town under the militants’ control,
military officials said.
U.S. special forces
in Yemen: A group of
about 20 U.S. special forces are on the
ground in Yemen, helping the government
fight insurgents in the south of the
country, officials say.
Did White House
'spin' tip a covert op?:
White House efforts to soft-pedal the danger
from a new "underwear bomb" plot emanating
from Yemen may have inadvertently broken the
news they needed most to contain.
Blasts in Baghdad
bird market kill 5:
Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a
busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on
Friday morning, killing five people and
wounding dozens, police and health officials
said.
2 NATO Occupation
Force Troops Killed in Afghanistan Rocket
Attack: Local coalition
officials say six other NATO troops were
slightly wounded in Friday in the Nari
district of Kunar province.
Drone filmmaker
denied visa: A Pakistani
student is unable to accept his film
festival award because he is denied the
right to enter the U.S.
UN: "Terrorist
groups" involved in attacks in Syria:
"Terrorist groups" have taken advantage of
the conflict situation in Syria and have
carried out attacks there, a United Nations
spokesman said Friday, dpa reported.
Joseph Lieberman Says
US To Topple Syrian Regime:
In an article the Washington Post published
on Friday, the US Senator Joseph Liebrman
wrote that the [Syrian President Bashar]
al-Assad regime should be toppled by any
means possible, be it foreign intervention
or even "airstrikes".
IAEA chief to visit
Iran for talks on nuclear deal:
Surprise development comes as diplomats say
IAEA, Iran are making headway towards a
framework deal; Netanyahu accuses Iran of
playing 'chess game' with world.
US seeks extra $70m
for Israel defence shield:
Pentagon requests Congress to provide Israel
with additional funding for its "Iron Dome"
missile defence programme.
Police beat
handcuffed detainees in Palestinian
solidarity protest:
Complaints filed over alleged use by police
of Taser electroshock weapons, beating and
kicking bound detainees, racist verbal abuse
and sexual harassment of female detainees.
Russia Wants ICC to
Examine All NATO Bombings in Libya:
“We welcome the decision of ICC Prosecutor
Luis Moreno-Ocampo to consider alleged
violations of international humanitarian
law," the statement said. "We presume that
the ICC will consider all cases of NATO
bombing that caused civilian casualties.”
Libya approves
Islamic banking law -official:
Libya has approved an Islamic banking law
that will introduce sharia-compliant banking
in the North African country, a member of
the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC)
said on Thursday.
U.S. Secret Drug War
in Honduras: Botched DEA Raid Leaves 2
Pregnant Women, 2 Men Dead:
Honduras is the hub for the U.S. military
operations in Latin America, hosting at
least three U.S. bases
Literary agent's 1991
booklet: Obama 'born in Kenya':
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional
booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's
then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which
touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in
Indonesia and Hawaii."
Facebook is being
abandoned by its core market.
You'd be better off investing in Greek
government bonds
JPMorgan shares lurch
down again as trading losses hit $3bn:
The paper loss on the trade now sits at
$3bn, according to reports yesterday,
because rival speculators have taken
opposing positions in an attempt to profit
from JPMorgan's distress. The reports sent
the bank's shares down another 3 per cent
before lunch. They fell 9 per cent on a
single day when the debacle first came to
light.
Bernie Sanders "The
Truth Is Wall Street Regulates Congress"
- Video -
House GOP Throws Out
Entire Summer Of Debt Ceiling Negotiations
In Less Than 10 Minutes:
After rendering last year’s negotiations
completely pointless, House Republicans are
poised to pull the exact same charade this
year.
Irish Banks May Tip
State Into Bailout 2, Deutsche Bank Says:
Ireland’s bailed-out banks may need capital
to cover as much as 4 billion euros ($5.1
billion) more bad-loan provisions than
assumed in stress tests last year, Deutsche
Bank analysts David Lock and Jason Napier
said in a report published today.
UK: 100,000 people
could lose their homes if mortgage payments
rise by just £20 a month:
The Bank of England has warned that as UK
lenders are hit by higher borrowing costs
families should prepare to pay more as the
increase is passed down to consumers.
Ireland And Portugal
Resume Their Places Among Europe's Teetering
Dominos: While all eyes
are focused on Greece (and contagiously
Spain), they have forgotten that two far
weaker countries still exits - and combined
have the power to do as much (if not more)
damage than Spain. Portugal and Ireland have
moved back into the Red-Zone of risk in
Europe's credit markets.
May 17,
2012
US Military Option
for Iran is ‘Ready,’ : American Ambassador
By Michal Shmulovich and Greg Tepper
The United States has completed its planning
for a military strike on Iran, the US
Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said in
remarks at a closed conference in Tel Aviv.
Continue
'U.S. Congressmen
Live in Fear of Pro-Israeli Intimidation'
By Chemi Shalev
Many American senators and
congressmen “keep quiet” and refrain from
criticizing Israeli policies because they
“live in fear” and are “intimidated” by
pro-Israeli groups such as the Emergency
Committee for Israel (ECI), according to J
Street founder and President Jeremy Ben-Ami.
Continue
Never Forget That
Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage, Is The
Issue
By John Pilger
The truth is that what matters to
those who aspire to control our lives is not
skin pigment or gender, or whether or not we
are gay, but the class we serve.
Continue
US DEA Kills Innocent
Civilians in Honduras -- US Media Silent
By Dan Kovalik
Agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
(DEA), dressed in military uniforms, killed
at least four and possibly six civilians in
a raid which took place on Friday, May 11.
The victims included two pregnant women and
two children.
Continue
Federal Court Enjoins NDAA
Judge Rules
Indefinite Detention Provisions Likely
Violate the 1st and 5th Amendments
By Glenn Greenwald
This afternoon’s ruling came as part of a
lawsuit brought by seven dissident
plaintiffs — including Chris Hedges, Dan
Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta
Jonsdottir — alleging that the NDAA violates
”both their free speech and associational
rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Continue
Judge Napolitano:
Shoot Down a Drone, Become an American Hero
Video
“The same Congress that let the president
bomb Libya is going to let his Air Force spy
in our backyards and like potted plants,
they’ll look the other way.” Judge
Napolitano said this week.
Continue
Left to
Fend for Itself
The Plan to Kick
Greece Out of the Eurozone
By Mike Whitney
This is what’s in store for Greece,
banishment; because it refused to cut
payrolls and - didn’t dismantle social
security fast enough or crush its unions
with sufficient gusto or auction off its
national treasures to foreign capital
according to plan.
Continue
Greek Euro Exit:
"Army On Streets & Border Shutdown"
Video
European politicians failed to see that the
single currency's existence is in peril,
trying to blame the system's failures on
individual countries.
Continue
Is JPMorgan's Loss a
Canary in a Coal Mine?
By Bill Moyers
The sleek, silver-haired,
too-smart-for-his-own-good CEO of America's
largest bank has been turning every
television show within reach into a
confessional booth.
Continue
Preying on the Poor
How Government and Corporations Use the Poor
as Piggy Banks
By Barbara Ehrenreich
The trick is to rob them in ways that are
systematic, impersonal, and almost
impossible to trace to individual
perpetrators.
Continue
11 killed in deadly
Taliban attack on Afghan governor office:
Eleven people, including four Taliban
fighters, were killed and more than a dozen
others were injured when militants attacked
a provincial governor’s compound in western
Afghanistan on Thursday, May 17
international media reported, quoting Afghan
officials, according to RIA Novosti.
Afghan Massacre : Survivors Recall Horror Of
Attack By U.S. Army Sgt.
: the survivors’ accounts lend an urgency to
the official version of events, and they
convey the brutality and the seeming
randomness of what took place in those
early-morning hours.
U.S.
Requests Help To Pay For Afghan Army:
Obama is unlikely to say so, but outside
estimates of the U.S. share of the bill for
Afghan defense after 2014 range from a
quarter to well more than half the total
bill. The U.S. will also be on the hook for
other support to Afghanistan, but the amount
is unclear.
Afghanistan to pump
oil for the first time:
Afghanistan will start pumping oil for the
first time within five months, an official
said yesterday, as part of the nation's
efforts to tap underground treasures
estimated to be worth billions.
Demonizing Pakistan:
Cut off every cent of
aid to Pakistan: US
lawmakers: Prominent American lawmakers have
asked the Obama administration to cut off
every cent of its aid to Pakistan terming
the country a "black hole" where the US has
already "sunk" a whopping USD 24 billion
since 2004.
7 killed in Libyan
border town: At least
seven people have been killed in clashes
between armed men and residents of a Libyan
town on the border with Algeria, officials
said, underlining the insecurity that still
plagues the country one month before
elections.
US shadow war in Horn
of Africa revealed by blogger:
Cenciotti has described in unprecedented
detail the powerful aerial force helping
wage Washington's hush-hush campaign of air
strikes, naval bombardments and commando
raids along the western edge of the Indian
Ocean
Growing the Empire:
US to Assign Army Brigade to Africa for
Training: Army leaders
say a combat brigade will be assigned to the
Pentagon's Africa Command next year in a
pilot program that will send small teams of
soldiers to countries around the continent
to do training and participate in military
exercises.
Three Turkish
soldiers killed in PKK clash:
Three Turkish soldiers were killed in
clashes with Kurdish rebels near the Syrian
border in southern Turkey on Thursday, the
provincial governor's office said.
U.S.
kills three "militants" in Yemen: official:
A suspected U.S. drone attacked a convoy of
Islamist militants in eastern Yemen
overnight, killing three people, a local
security official said on Thursday, as
Washington intensifies its aerial campaign
against fighters linked to al Qaeda.
U.S. escalates
clandestine war in Yemen:
-- In an escalation of America’s clandestine
war in Yemen, a small contingent of U.S.
troops is providing targeting data for
Yemeni airstrikes as government forces
battle to dislodge Al Qaeda militants and
other insurgents in the country’s restive
south, U.S. and Yemeni officials said.
Syria's UN ambassador
says two Britons killed in Idlib:
Two Britons have been killed while "engaged
in terrorist armed operations" in Syria, the
country's ambassador to the United Nations
has said.
Syria to show
captured mercenaries:
SYRIA'S President Bashar al-Assad has
promised to display captured foreign
''mercenaries'' who have been fighting his
regime and denounced Western governments for
failing to protest at the violence being
perpetrated by his enemies.
U.S. Helps Syrian
Rebels: The Syrian
rebels have become better armed in the past
few weeks, apparently receiving weapons that
have been paid for by its Gulf neighbors and
coordinated in part by the U.S., say
opposition activists as well as U.S. and
foreign officials.
Army: Top Al-Qaeda
chief in country left for Syrian:
The Lebanese Army and Palestinian forces
have information that Al-Qaeda’s No. 1
operative in the country and four other
members in Fatah al-Islam left the refugee
camp of Ain al-Hilweh for Syria in the last
two days, sources told The Daily Star.
Syria: Church under
attack as Christians leave Homs:
The city of Homs, the third
largest in Syria, has now seen almost its
entire Christian population of 50,000 to
60,000 flee for safety as fighting continues
in the stricken country, reports Barnabas
Fund.
Opposition Syrian
National Council head Burhan Ghalioun 'to
resign': Burhan Ghalioun,
who was re-elected as SNC leader on Tuesday,
said he would step down once a replacement
is found. The move comes as a key activist
group said it may leave the SNC over what it
called errors and a lack of consensus.
Clashes kill 1,
injure 7 in Lebanon:
Fresh sectarian clashes erupted between pro-
and anti-Syrian districts in the north
Lebanon port city of Tripoli on Thursday,
leaving one person dead and seven wounded, a
security official said.
IDF soldiers open
fire near Gaza border, 8 wounded:
Israeli forces opened fire near the Karni
border crossing in the northern Gaza Strip,
Palestinian sources reported on Thursday,
adding that eight civilians were wounded,
two of them seriously.
BBC Poll: Israel's
global image plummets:
Israel ranks among states perceived to have
most negative influence on world, according
to BBC poll; only Iran, Pakistan do worse,
Israel's image hits nadir in Europe
Israeli intelligence
head 'visited US for Iran talks':
Israeli military intelligence chief Aviv
Kochavi made a "secret visit" to Washington
earlier this month to discuss the upcoming
talks between world powers and Iran, a
newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran
:
Former Spain PM:
Russia believes Israel will prevent Iran
nuclear weapon: Jose
Maria Aznar says Iranian Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei told him in 2000 that Israel must
be wiped from the map.
Mitt Romney expected
to visit Israel: Rumors
are rife in Washington that Republican
candidate for the US presidency Romney plans
to upstage President Obama in Israel.
Mladic trial
suspended 'indefinitely':
Presiding judge adjourns trial of Bosnian
Serb military leader on second day, on
grounds that prosecutors made "errors".
Veterans Say No to
NATO: While the
president and the Pentagon are handing out
posthumous medals, a number of veterans of
Iraq and Afghanistan will be marching, in
military formation, to McCormick Place in
Chicago to hand their service medals back
Hondurans demand DEA leave after killing:
People in Honduras' predominantly Indian
Mosquito coast region burned down government
offices and demanded that U.S. drug agents
leave the area, reacting angrily to an
anti-drug operation in which they say police
gunfire killed four innocent people,
including two pregnant women.
Mexican generals
detained 'for gang links':
Mexico's former deputy defense minister and
a top army general are being questioned for
suspected links to organized crime.
In casae you missed it:
US Military
Manipulates the Social Media:
The US military is developing software that
will allow it to secretly manipulate social
media sites by using fake online personas to
influence internet conversations and spread
pro-American propaganda.
ECB Stops Loans to
Some Greek Banks: The
move comes after Draghi acknowledged for the
first time that Greece could leave the
monetary union.
Grexit could have
Lehman effect - experts:
Greece’s departure from the eurozone could
create a domino effect for debt-choked
Portugal, Spain and Italy, similar to that
caused by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in
2008, experts say.
Bankia shares plunge
again as it denies withdrawal rush:
Shares in Spanish bank Bankia have again
closed down sharply after concerns
intensified about the struggling group's
finances.
Spain and Ireland Did
Not Overspend and Overborrow:
As President Reagan used to say, "there you
go again." Yes, the Washington Post is once
again telling its readers that the problem
in Europe is profligate spending by the
crisis countries. The fact that this is not
true apparently does not concern the paper.
France will not
ratify current EU fiscal pact:
New finance minister Pierre Moscovici says
eurozone pact must be renegotiated to
promote growth rather than austerity.
California, the ninth
largest economy in the world, resorts to
austerity: California,
America's 'golden state', is slashing
spending to avoid a Greek-style default
May 16, 2012
U.S. Organizing
Syrian Rebels
Syrian Rebels Get Influx of Arms with Gulf
Neighbors’ Money, U.S. Coordination
By Karen
DeYoung and Liz Sly
Syrian rebels have begun receiving
significantly more and better weapons in
recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian
Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the
United States, according to opposition
activists and U.S. and foreign officials.
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Multi-lateral War
Crimes Are Still War Crimes, No Matter Who
Commits Them
By The World Can't Wait
US and its European allies have re-purposed
NATO to dominate the globe.
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Veterans For Peace
Calls for an End to NATO
By
Veterans for Peace
NATO provides the United States
with a pretense of global coalition and
legality. Approximately half of the world's
military spending is U.S., while adding the
other NATO nations brings the total to
three-quarters.
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US Resource War
Against China
Further U.S. Militarization of The African
Continent
By Nile Bowie
Public opinion in the United States is now
being mobilized in favor of a greater
military presence in Africa.
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Creating Killers and
Dyers
Stop military recruiters and you stop the
wars.
By Tony Soldo
The US Empire spends a billion
dollars a year on military recruiting
advertising and they do it because it works.
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Obama’s New Free
Speech Threat
By Glenn Greenwald
An Executive order seeks to punish U.S.
citizens even for "indirectly" obstructing
dictatorial rule in Yemen.
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In Yemen, Eating is a
Luxury Millions Struggle to Afford
By Lara Sukhtian
About 55 percent of Yemenis live below the
poverty line on less than $2 dollars a day.
Ten million are "food insecure," and five
million of them are "severely food
insecure."
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Farewell Israel?
Video
Is the American-Jewish romance with Israel
coming to an end? - Cross Talk with Norman
Finkelstein, Daniel Pollak and Mouin Rabbani.
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Chávez's Economics
Lesson for Europe
By Richard Gott
Hugo Chávez's rejection of the
neoliberal policies dragging Europe down
sets a hopeful example to Greece and beyond.
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Ireland's Referendum-
an Opportunity for Change
By John Perkins
If voters agree to sign this treaty
for fiscal discipline, the country will be
forced to implement even stricter austerity
measures on its already beleaguered
citizens.
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Accidentally Released
- and Incredibly Embarrassing
Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in
'Naked Short Selling'
By Matt Taibbi
It doesn’t happen often, but
sometimes God smiles on us.
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Wells Fargo Has Blood
on Its Hands:
Desperate Man Commits Suicide After Shocking
Foreclosure Mistreatment
By Dave Johnson
This is the story of what happens when an
average couple is up against a giant,
wealthy, powerful bank.
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13 "Al-Qaida
Militants", 4 Soldiers Killed In South Yemen:
Intensive fighting occurred between
government forces and al-Qaida militants
Wednesday morning in Yemen's southern
province of Abyan, leaving at least four
soldiers and 13 terrorists dead.
7 Iraqi army soldiers
killed in suicide bombing:
A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army
base in western Mosul on Tuesday, killing
seven Iraqi soldiers and wounding 20 people,
an official said.
Trial of Iraqi Vice
President Hashemi opens in his absence:
The trial of Iraq’s fugitive vice-president,
Tariq al-Hashemi, opened in his absence on
Tuesday and a lawmaker whose relatives were
allegedly killed by “death squads” under his
orders screamed abuse across the courtroom
Report: Syria rebels
get better weapons as US quietly boosts
support: Syrian rebels
are getting more and better weapons in an
effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and
coordinated partly by the United States, the
Washington Post reported late on Tuesday.
Army deploys in north
Lebanon after deadly clashe:
Lebanese soldiers backed by armored
vehicles deployed Tuesday in the northern
coastal city of Tripoli to restore order
after three days of clashes between the
rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and
Jabal Mohsen that claimed the lives of three
and wounded scores more.
Libyan and two
Tunisians confess to infiltrating into Syria
with al-Qaeda; Syria
state-run TV (Syria TV) on Tuesday published
footage of three terrorists, one Libyan and
two Tunisians, who confess to infiltrating
into Syria to carry out terrorist attacks in
coordination with al-Qaeda.
Tunisia's Jasmine
Revolution Fighters Arrive in Syria:
At least five Tunisians have been killed
this month in the revolution – the Syrian
revolution, that is. A sixth may also be
dead.
Several killed in
Libya desert town clash:
At least seven people were killed in clashes
between armed nomads and residents of a
Libyan town on the border with Algeria on
Wednesday, officials said, underlining the
insecurity that still plagues the country
one month before elections.
Concern grows over
jihadist numbers in eastern Libya:
Hundreds of Islamist militants are in and
around the town, and there are camps where
weapons and physical training are provided
to militants. He said one official had
described the area as "a disaster zone."
Bombed Libyan Village
Where NATO's "Collateral Damage" Has A Name
And A Face: NATO says it
was a "legitimate" target. Villagers tell a
very different story, of innocent victims,
and pain made worse by NATO's refusal to
admit its tragic error.
Collateral damage:
Victims of NATO's war:
Can NATO be sued and held accountable for
killing civilians as most recently seen in
Libya and Afghanistan?