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Gorilla Warfare: The Animal-Prison/Industrial Complex | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 13, 2013 “I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.” - Carl Sagan The role of the corporate media is to normalize the daily -- hourly -- violence and hierarchy inherent within the dominant culture. For example: speciesism. Corporate news outlets work around the clock to ke...
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Obama’s Expanding Kill List | Paul Craig Roberts
Feb. 11, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was passed in order to make it easier for the government to convict members of the Mafia. However, the law, despite its intent, was quickly expanded by prosecutors and attorneys and used in cases ...
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No Security Firms for African Refugees | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 31, 2013 The British security firm G4S is set to rake in massive profits thanks to crises in Mali, Libya and Algeria. Recognized as the world’s biggest security firm, the group’s brand plummeted during the London Olympics last year due to its failure to satisfy conditions of a government contract. But with growing unrest in North and West Africa, G4S is expe...
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Nothing Gold Can Stay: Mali, Mercury, Manipulation & More | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 25, 2013 “So we're told this is the golden age/And gold is the reason for the wars we wage.” - Bono As the West (this time, with France mostly taking the lead), unleashes a frenzy of spin to justify its latest lethal military intervention (this time, with Mali mostly taking the hits), it may be a challenge for some to discern the ulterior motives. For...
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Mali: West Africa’s Gate to Convenient Chaos, Intervention | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 19, 2012 France is insisting on "rapid" military intervention in Mali. Its unmanned drones have reportedly been scouring the desert of the troubled West African nation -- although it claims that the drones are seeking the whereabouts of six French hostages believed to be held by Al-Qaeda. The French are likely to get their wish, especially followi...
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Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All | Chris Hedges
Illustration by Mr. FishNov. 19, 2012 (Truthdig) -- Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen off the economic cliff, are beginning to resemble Gaza, where 1.6 million Palestinians live in the planet’s largest internme...
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Deterrence in an Age of Decline | John Michael Greer
Nov. 14, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- There are times, and this is one of them, when I wonder if somewhere in the last few weeks we all somehow got teleported into an alternate universe where nothing works quite the same way as were used to. That feeling may be a bit easier to understand when I mention that I’ve just been praised on the air by Glenn Beck. Yes, that Glenn Beck. He was commenting on ...
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How It Could Happen, Part Five: Dissolution | John Michael Greer
Oct. 31, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- This week’s post is the last of five parts of a fictional narrative tracing out a scenario of American imperial defeat and collapse. As a bankrupt and divided nation stumbles toward its destiny, the question that remains is whether anything can be salvaged from the American experiment. *** Within hours, thanks to news media reporting minute-by-minute from St. ...
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How It Could Happen, Part Three: To The Brink | John Michael Greer
Oct. 17, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- This week's post is the third of five parts of a fictional narrative tracing out a scenario of American imperial defeat and collapse. As the war in Kenya reaches a climax, the action shifts to the United States -- and to a president who has his back to the wall and very few options left. *** Back in the United States, few people had any clear sense of how...
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How It Could Happen, Part One: Hubris | John Michael Greer
Oct. 3, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- Over the course of this year, my posts here on The Archdruid Report have tried to outline the trajectory of America’s global empire and explore the reasons why that trajectory will likely come to a sudden stop in the near future. To bring the issue down out of the realm of abstraction and put the reasons in the context of history as lived, I’ve returned to the t...
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Growing Isolation: Boycott of Israel Crosses to Governments’ Realm | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 12, 2012 Should Israel be worried? Very much so, for the age of total impunity is coming to an end. Critical voices of the Israeli occupation and mistreatment of Palestinians are rising -- not only within civil society circles, but among world governments as well. The picture may seem grim if seen through the prisms of the recent U.S. Republican and Democ...
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