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The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 8, 2013 As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close to him. His face, wrinkled before its time, was a picture of utter anguish. It could only be understood by a parent whose child was dying under giant slabs of concrete where nothing could be done. ...
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The Lie Of 'Precision' Bombing Drones On (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 9, 2013 "See, in my line of work, you’ve got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush While I was participating in a demonstration against predator drone warfare at the U.S. Armed Forces “Career” Center at Times Square, I watched th...
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My Lai, Killing Ideology, & Disobeying Orders: 45 Years Later | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 11, 2013 “We weren’t there to kill human beings, really. We were there to kill ideology”” - Lt. William Calley Officially termed an “incident” (as opposed to a “massacre”), the events of Mar. 16, 1968 at My Lai -- a hamlet in South Vietnam -- are widely portrayed and accepted to this day as an aberration. While the record of U.S. war...
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Ignoring Genocide: Rohingya People Deserve to Live | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 6, 2013 One fails to understand the unperturbed attitude with which regional and international leaders and organizations are treating the unrelenting onslaught against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, formally known as Burma. Numbers speak of atrocities where every violent act is prelude to greater violence and ethnic cleansing. Yet, western governments’ norma...
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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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Remembering the Maine for 115 Years (What We’re up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.” - Teddy Roosevelt (1897) Feb. 15, 1898 was a muggy Tuesday night in Havana Harbor. Some 350 crew and officers settled in on board the 24-gun battleship USS Maine. “At 9:40 p.m., the ship's forward end abruptly lifted itself from the water,” writes author Tom Miller...
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The Osama bin Laden Myth | Paul Craig Roberts
Nov. 26, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- The interview below with Osama bin Laden was conducted by the Karachi, Pakistan, daily newspaper, Ummat and published on Sept. 28, 2001, 17 days after the alleged, but unsubstantiated, al Qaeda attack of Sept. 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center twin towers and Pentagon. The interview was sensational. The alleged “mastermind” of 9/11 said that he and al Qae...
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On The Border | John Michael Greer
Mexican border fence Nov. 28, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- The topic of last week’s post, the likely fate of Israel in the twilight years of American empire, makes a good example of more than one common theme. As I commented in that earlier discussion, Israel is one of several American client states for whom the end of our empire will also be the end of the line. At the same time, it also highligh...
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From Sea To Overfished Sea… | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Dec. 3, 2012 "The oceans of the earth are dying. This fact alone should send us reeling into the streets in displays of public grief." - Phil Rockstroh As if to sum up the violence and avarice that permeates every molecule of our dominant culture, GrindTV/Yahoo Sports recently delivered an article entitled: “Angler's 1,000-p...
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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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