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Rape and torture have become standard issue in the propaganda arsenal of Western media. Reports from organizations such as Human Rights Watch and the UN Human Rights Council that claim to document the systematic use of rape and torture by the “enemies” of the West have become usual fair in the soft war against whomever the imperialists have chosen to attack. We have seen these claims used to legitimize aggression against Libya, Iraq, and now Syria. http://ericdraitser.podbean.com/articles/rape-and-torture-weapons-in-the-propaganda-war/Rape and torture have become standard issue in the propaganda arsenal of Western... more
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Well, well, well, what do we have here? Another case of the media using the trail of blood and guts left in the streets by foreign-backed terrorists and savage Salafist mercenaries to discredit Syria's honourable resistance against Imperialism and the expansionist policies of Israel? I'm shocked, absolutely shocked. http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/05/manipulative-mass-media-uses-massacre.htmlWell, well, well, what do we have here? Another case of the media using the trail of... more
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Given what is now emerging about behind-the-scenes covert involvement of outside forces in creating and stoking uprisings in other countries, don’t we need and deserve a closer look at all of this—including those very effective, neatly lettered, English-perfect signs that always catch the cameras? http://whowhatwhy.com/2012/05/28/syria-dangers-of-one-sided-reporting/Given what is now emerging about behind-the-scenes covert involvement of outside... more
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Syria is bracing for more political chaos as all antagonistic forces appear to have entered into an unholy alliance to bring the government to its knees by ingeniously choreographing massacres and attributing them to the Syrian government, thereby turning the country into fertile soil for US-led invasion. http://veracityvoice.com/?p=14861Syria is bracing for more political chaos as all antagonistic forces appear to have... more
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Ann Wright, retired US army colonel, was a recent guest on Al Jazeera's Inside Story Americas to discuss the survival of NATO. Wright said, "[NATO] was a bedrock against the Warsaw Pact for 40 years. I totally disagree with what [NATO leaders] have agreed to [in Chicago]. ... We just keep pushing for war, war, war. ... We should be talking about resolving things." http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2012/05/201252261653209169.htmlAnn Wright, retired US army colonel, was a recent guest on Al Jazeera's Inside... more
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The first Iraq Genocide Memorial Day was held earlier this month in memory of those who died as a result of sanctions and the US-led invasion... On the 16th anniversary of Albright stating her endorsement of half a million dead Iraqi children as being “worth it” to continue the UN sanctions against Iraq, the silent holocaust of Iraq’s children is now to be annually commemorated. http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/madeleine-albright-and-the-iraqi-genocide/The first Iraq Genocide Memorial Day was held earlier this month in memory of those... more
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Considering the current state of world peace and NATO's Responsibility to Protect (R2P) policy and to maintain a proper sense of balance, George Orwell's book "1984" should be reviewed periodically. In the spirit of the NATO Summit in Chicago, I present a few quotes from that textbook-for- tomorrow… http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30954Considering the current state of world peace and NATO's Responsibility to Protect... more
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Next time we are asked to head across the world to steal oil, sell drugs and murder children, we might just head the other direction... Memorial Day is a time to remind people that doing as you are told makes you a slave, not a free man. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/27/memorial-day-time-to-ask-why/Next time we are asked to head across the world to steal oil, sell drugs and murder... more
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The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests? Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htmThe Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the... more
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Decreasing in proportion to the rise in military spending are our civil liberties; our representative government; the balance of powers within the government; resistance to policies of warrantless spying, imprisonment without charge, torture, and assassination; and the health of our news media. The war machine has become the greatest destroyer of the natural environment we have. And the shifting of funding from all other areas to the military has had disastrous results in as many fields as we might choose to name. http://warisacrime.org/content/lies-and-consequences-our-past-15-warsDecreasing in proportion to the rise in military spending are our civil liberties; our... more
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Peter Dale Scott - former diplomat, poet and prominent anti-war advocate. He says that the US corporate superstructure conglomerate - including financial interests, the defense industry, oil companies and the media - brazenly manipulate American society. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mG-boskjI74Peter Dale Scott - former diplomat, poet and prominent anti-war advocate. He says that... more
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By exposing lies and misinformation, WikiLeaks has become a threat to US propaganda, and the US has been doing its damnedest to neutralise it. US attorney general Eric Holder is on record as saying that the release of sensitive diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks had put the US and its citizens at risk. He subsequently authorised a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange. Many officials in the US regard Assange as a criminal, even a terrorist, who indeed should be put on trial. http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter280512.htmBy exposing lies and misinformation, WikiLeaks has become a threat to US propaganda,... more
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The American imperial power, like the Roman empire, is presented as not only benevolent, but also promoter and protector of peace and freedom in the world. The US claims that as God’s chosen country promotion and protection of peace and freedom in the world is its divinely mandated mission. This claim is reinforced by the corporate media with seductive symbols and slogans glorifying wars for peace and freedom and righteousness of waging them, and their soldiers as righteous warriors. The US violence and wars are promoted as liberating ones, furthering peace and freedom, and spreading the benefits of a “civilized world”. To protect its system of peace and freedom the US, just like Rome, has stationed troops all over the world. According to the Pentagon’s own 2005 official inventory, there are 737 American military bases in more than 130 countries, not including those in Iraq and Afghanistan, and over half a million US troops, spies, contractors, and others work in these military bases.2 However, considering the US bases in Iraq (likely over 100) and Afghanistan (80 and counting), among many other well-known and secretive bases, there are over 1000 military bases around the world. http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/05/american-imperial-system-of-peace-and-freedom/The American imperial power, like the Roman empire, is presented as not only... more
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The aggressors appear desperate to quit but the Chicago conference seems to indicate that urgent necessity but intellectually confused, morally corrupt and with high rates of self-suicidal deaths US-British militarily apparatus exhausted, and not sure how best to get out of the terrible mess they have created for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and the whole of the humanity. http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja280512.htmThe aggressors appear desperate to quit but the Chicago conference seems to indicate... more
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The adage that “it is the victors who write history” in matters relating particularly to war and conflict is something of a euphemism when applied to recent military campaigns conducted by America and its NATO allies. For what is disputable – no, let us say repugnant – about the official accounts of these events is not merely a difference in emphasis or nuance on the matter, which the adage may infer. It is rather that the victors’ version of history is a wholesale fabrication, an obscene travesty of actual events. It is not a case of victors writing history, more one of victors “violating history”. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31067The adage that “it is the victors who write history” in matters relating... more
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