Courtesy is one thing, but did Pelosi have to applaud so…enthusiastically? NOTE from CJO editors: When it happens, Americans won’t be able to say they didn’t get enough warnings. The lights are being shut off in this nation, one by one, while most of the public remains glassy-eyed, glued to the latest idiocy performed by [...]
BY WILLIAM BLUM This is a chapter (the Introduction) from Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum, 1987 edition American troops parade in Vladivostok, Siberia, in 1918, as part of a multinational intervention force to overthrow the new Soviet government. Our fear that communism might someday take over [...]
BY CHALMERS JOHNSON \ Tomdispatch.com Posted on July 28, 2007, Printed on July 28, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/58164/ Late Chilean President Salvador Allende (r) and CIA/Pentagon man in Santiago, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, later dictator of Chile for 17 years with ample Washington support. Just one of numerous crimes in the agency’s sordid history in defense of capitalism, [...]
BY CHALMERS JOHNSON [Tomdispatch.com] Posted on May 17, 2007, Printed on July 28, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/51975/ In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them [...]
BY STEPHEN LENDMAN Dateline: Thursday, July 26, 2007 Michael Parenti Michael Parenti is an internationally known speaker and award winning author of 20 books and hundreds of articles. He’s also a noted academic having taught at a number of colleges and universities in the US and abroad. Parenti is also one of the nation’s leading [...]
BY STEPHEN LENDMAN Dateline: Thursday, July 26, 2007Michael ParentiMichael Parenti is an internationally known speaker and award winning author of 20 books and hundreds of articles. He’s also a noted academic having taught at a number of colleges and universities in the US and abroad.Parenti is also one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts [...]
BY DAVID WALSH Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, would have seen no difference between his methods and objectives and those of the neocon cabal in power. CLASSIC ARTICLES | Originally published April 22, 2003 The presentation of an illegal invasion of a foreign country as a “preventative” or pre-emptive war did not originate with [...]
BY PETER CHAMBERLIN We the People have “freedom of the press,” but we do not have a free press. We have a right to speak out and to assemble, but we don’t know what to say, or where to say it. The Internet is opening a path for us to change these deficiencies. The Internet [...]
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