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You Mosque Be Kidding

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http://www.colbertnation.com — A man sullies Muslim bashing for the rest of America's law-abiding bigots when he slashes an Islamic taxi driver. Read More
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Glenn-Livid

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http://www.colbertnation.com — Besides the date, the location, the march and the threat of assassination, Glenn Beck's rally has nothing to do with Martin Luther King Jr. Read More
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Fox News Job Opening

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http://www.colbertnation.com — Major Garrett is leaving Fox News because he wants to talk less and think more. Read More
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Intro - 8/26/10

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http://www.colbertnation.com — Glenn Beck re-founds America, anti-Muslim sentiment continues to grow, and Richard Engel returns from Iraq. Read More
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A Pessimistic View of Consumerism

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://dissidentvoice.org — Western nations are rapidly losing their manufacturing sectors at a great cost; part of the problem is the dominance and influence of large retailers. We are becoming dependent on international corporations that have their goods made in foreign countries. The consequences have proven to be devastating: domestic jobs are lost to foreign workers often suffering [...] Read More
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Dispatches from the War Against Oblivion

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://dissidentvoice.org — Here’s the news: a specter is still haunting Europe (which has, since Marx’s time, expanded its geographic boundaries and morphed into the “global North” in the age of transnational capital). Communism as Marx envisioned it (at least before the spontaneous eruption of the Paris Commune), it is not—or not exactly. Nor is it really a [...] Read More
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America’s Gulf: Updating the Greatest Ever Environmental Crime

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://dissidentvoice.org — For months, US media reports distorted and lied about its severity, running cover for BP and the Obama administration, now practically avoiding the crisis altogether as it worsens. An August 20 Inter Press Service report is revealing, quoting Biloxi, MS fisherman, Danny Ross, saying hypoxia (depleted oxygen) is driving horseshoe crabs, stingrays, flounder, dolphins, and [...] Read More
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NGO Ties to Private Security Companies

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://dissidentvoice.org — Market extremists argue that the private sector can do almost everything better than governments. The most extreme do not concede the qualifier “almost” and argue that even the police and army should be privatized.The growth of private security companies (PSC) is generally seen as a result of the success of extreme market arguments.Less commented upon [...] Read More
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No “Home Sweet Home”

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://dissidentvoice.org — Four years ago, on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I sat with Patricia Thomas. Greg Palast and I had just helped her break into her home in the Lafitte Projects. She had been locked out for a year. She showed us her former home, her belongings scattered everywhere, and wrestled out endless stories of [...] Read More
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Do Most Israelis and Many Other Jews NEED to Feel Persecuted?

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://dissidentvoice.org — I have written and often say that very many if not most Jews do not want to know the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel. (An essential element of the truth being that Israel was created, mainly, by Zionist terrorism [...] Read More
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Wikileaks CIA Release: Say What?

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http://dissidentvoice.org — Wikileaks offered its first release since the controversial distribution of documents related to the United States effort in Afghanistan.The current leak was posted to their web site on August 25. It is titled “CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States “exporting terrorism”, 2 Feb 2010.”The leak describes Red Cell as a CIA unit created [...] Read More
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Revelations of Rot: Behind Baseball’s Corporate Crime Wave

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://dissidentvoice.org — Let’s look at what we have before us: leaked documents that by all accounts should be part of the public record; an alarming snapshot of corruption, waste, and fraud that connects the seamiest worlds of politics and big business; calls to prosecute whoever might be responsible for daring to drag truth into the light of [...] Read More
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Rebranding Iraq: Playing with Numbers and Human Lives

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http://dissidentvoice.org — The soldiers of the US 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division hollered as they made their way into Kuwait. “We won,” they claimed. “It’s over.”But what exactly did they win?And is the war really over?It seems we are once again walking into the same trap, the same nonsensical assumptions of wars won, missions accomplished, troops [...] Read More
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Send in the Clowns

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http://dissidentvoice.org — The Palestinians’ champion – their White Knight – is preparing to ride forth next week and do battle at the negotiating table with the racist regime’s Black Knight and his minder, the Great Satan.The rules of chivalry don’t apply, so the outcome is not in doubt.However, the White Knight is not quite as white or [...] Read More
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On the Fifth Anniversary of Katrina, Displacement Continues

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http://dissidentvoice.org — Poet Sunni Patterson is one of New Orleans’ most beloved artists. She has performed in nearly every venue in the city, toured the US, and frequently appears on television and radio, from Democracy Now to Def Poetry Jam. When she performs her poems in local venues, half the crowd recites the words along with her. [...] Read More
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The Muslim Mosque New York City

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http://dissidentvoice.org — The precise location in New York City of a new community center that includes a Muslim mosque is becoming an important national campaign issue for the Republican Party as the Nov. 2 Congressional and state election draws closer. GOP politicians, their Tea Party warriors and the right wing in general are livid about plans [...] Read More
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Mott Workers on Strike

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http://dissidentvoice.org — During contract negotiations, it’s illegal for a company to “plead poverty” in an effort to derail the union. Management is not allowed to say that they can’t afford to give the workers a raise, or to suggest that if they gave the workers the wage increases they requested, the company would risk going out [...] Read More
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Preparing the Domestic Battlespace: LA County Jail to Field-Test Raytheon Pain Ray

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://dissidentvoice.org — “Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,” the Congressional Research Service (CRS) tells us that “Congress has appropriated more than a trillion dollars for military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere around the world.”And with our “change” administration expanding “the stealth war began in the Bush administration,” as The New Read More
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India and Pakistan: 63 Years Later

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http://dissidentvoice.org — If you read India Today, you are left with the impression that India is an English-speaking land of billionaire businessmen, larded squabbling politicians and scandal-prone movie stars all living in fabulous houses. If you visit the country, one whiff of the air outside your air-conditioned city hotel dispels the myth.August 15 is India’s Independence Day. [...] Read More
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Obama Resists Pressure for Red Line on Iran’s Nuclear Capability

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http://dissidentvoice.org — IPS — President Barack Obama’s refusal in a White House briefing earlier this month to announce a “red line” in regard to the Iran nuclear programme represented another in a series of rebuffs of pressure from Defence Secretary Robert Gates for statement that the United States will not accept its existing stocks of low enriched uranium.The [...] Read More
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McCarthy in Israel

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http://dissidentvoice.org — On May 31, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid toward Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched toward the social-sciences building, Israeli flags in hand. Amid the nationalist [...] Read More
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Too Early to Write-off New Israel-Palestine Talks?

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http://dissidentvoice.org — In his article in the Globe and Mail, Aluf Benn asks is it “Too Early to Write-off the New Israel-Palestine Talks”?Too early to write-off direct talks? Please! Representatives for these “direct talks” on the Palestinian side in a sense do not even exist: Abbas’s election mandate timed out a year ago, and he stays in office under emergency [...] Read More
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A Smeller for the Empire: Gimbling in the Wabe

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://dissidentvoice.org — Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe…— Lewis CarrollEnough for everyone; too much for none— WoofRiff OneMy house is foreclosed on, my job is outsourced, and my wife runs away with a banker. So…I figure there’s nothing left to do but pack up the old mini-van, head on down to New [...] Read More
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The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror

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http://dissidentvoice.org — The politics of terror are the greatest covert operation ever.In explaining why, I’ll begin by defining some terms, because, when discussing the covert op called “the politics of terror,” words and their management are all important. How are politics and terror actually defined: how are these meanings manipulated; for what purposes, and by whom?Terrorism is [...] Read More
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The Anger of Colonization Should Not be Brought Into the Next 500 Years

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://blog.buzzflash.com — BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASHThe participants in this unique dialogue may have been doing no less than opening the window on the next 500 years. As scary and stupefying as our world sometimes seems, we are at a place of enormous potential right now — a transition point of unprecedented understanding among cultures and peoples and worldviews. Pushing that understanding, creating, in the words of the l Read More
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The Koch Family Connection to the John Birch Society

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http://blog.buzzflash.com — BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTAhttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer#ixzz0xcj1OInR http://www.experiencefestival.com/john_birch_society_-_historyThe next time you hear "Tea-Party" and "grass-roots" in the same sentence, remember it's all funded and brought to you by billionaire oil merchant libertarians.  The Koch Bros.,  are attempting to bring President Ob Read More
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Big Oil Earns 45 Billion Dollars a Year Virtually Tax Free

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://blog.buzzflash.com — JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASHDemocrats told voters that they would not raise taxes for those who earn less than $200,000 a year.   What about those who earn $45 billion dollars a year?  Most Americans believe that oil billionaires, logically speaking, have to pay the highest income taxes.  Wrong.  Big Oil billionaires pay far less taxes than the average working American Read More
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The Media Has Made a Mockery of the Real News by Giving Credence to Glenn Beck's Rally

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http://blog.buzzflash.com — PATRICIA WELLER FOR BUZZFLASHGood grief! Who would have thought that Glenn Beck of Fox [Fraudcacsting] News, who just two years ago was often mocked for his histrionics, his crying, his diatribes, and his phoniness, would now be leading a congregation of extreme right wingers in an effort to "get their country back."Using Glenn Beck as a guru for straightening out this country is like using Larry Read More
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Ground Zero For Hate In America Is Near Ground Zero

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http://blog.buzzflash.com — TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASHThe bile that the Tea Party movement spewsIs ear-splitting, non-ending and numbing.I’m waiting for one of them to soon say,“That stabbed Muslim cabbie had it coming.”read more Read More
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Right-Wing News Isn't Really News

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://blog.buzzflash.com — Body Fabrications often pass for news these days and the borderline personalities who express dangerously silly opinions on air contribute to a surreal atmosphere that inhibits sensible political discourse. Worst of all a potentially treacherous conglomerate of candidates may win in November with a lot of help from our least reliable news sources and newly empowered corporate donors. The Opposit Read More
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Martin Luther King Had a Dream and Glenn Beck Was Not in It

Posted by expathos 3 days ago No Category Selected
http://blog.buzzflash.com — BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLINMartin Luther King had a dream of hope, not hate.Martin Luther King had a dream of rising to embrace our better angels, not descending into a pit of our worst fears.Martin Luther had a dream, and Glenn Beck wasn't in it.47 years ago Martin Luther King gave his glorious, inspirational "I Have a Dream Speech" on the National Mall. Today, Glenn Beck employed all Read More
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Jon Stewart Nails it Again by Describing Glenn Beck's August 28th Rally as "I Have a Scheme"

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http://blog.buzzflash.com — BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTAhttp://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/nypd_charges_man_with_hate_crime_after_allegedly_stabbing_muslim_cabbie.php?"NYPD Charges Man With Hate Crime After He Allegedly Stabbed Muslim Cab Driver"  To all those who so eagerly jumped on the "Ban the Mosque bandwagon", you also should be charged with hate crimes.  You are as guilty as the man who wielde Read More
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Given How Racist Beck & His White Followers Are, This Is The Best Way To Regard His D.C. Rally

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http://blog.buzzflash.com — TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASHLess WoodstockThan Hoodstock. read more Read More
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While Entire Governments Don't Come Cheap, This One is Almost Within Grasp of the Rich

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http://blog.buzzflash.com — STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASHWhat do you get someone who already has everything? Someone (in the plural) who has made so damn much money over the last decade they have it piled up like cord wood in their backyard. That’s pretty much describes America’s top 1%-2%. Now empowered in a way even they never imagined, they can buy anything and, for the most part they’ve done just that. But there’s on Read More
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Hammering, Slamming, and Pounding the President Has Become a Cottage Right Wing Industry

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http://blog.buzzflash.com — WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASHA few years ago anybody who spoke disparagingly of the President of the United States was immediately labeled a traitor and accused of coddling the terrorists with a back rub. Not any more. Hammering, slamming, and pounding the President these days has once again become a cottage industry. A competitive blood sport. You’re even allowed to call him a terrorist citing his re Read More
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Gay Old Party

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http://www.thedailyshow.com — Ken Mehlman shouldn't have been expected to fight for gay rights when he didn't know he was part of the group. Read More
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Moment of Zen - Glenn Beck Hates Woodrow Wilson

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http://www.thedailyshow.com — If you've watched two minutes of Glenn Beck's show, you know he hates Woodrow Wilson. Read More
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Conservatives Chew Up Their Own in Battle Over Islamic Community Center

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http://blog.buzzflash.com — BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASHRyan Mauro, taking off the gloves in the battle over the building of an Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero, claims Grover Norquist is palling around with terrorist sympathizers, and, ‘is likely a convert to Islam.'Back in December 2003, when the Iraq War was in its infancy and conservatives were hunting down anti-war "subversives" on the left, Frank G Read More
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Recap - Week of 8/23/10

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http://www.thedailyshow.com — Jon unmasks the terrorists funding Fox News and covers Glenn Beck's "I Have a Dream" rally. Read More
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I Have a Scheme

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http://www.thedailyshow.com — Glenn Beck wants to reclaim the civil rights movement on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Read More
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Michael Bloomberg

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http://www.thedailyshow.com — Michael Bloomberg predicts the Ground Zero mosque controversy will go away right after the next election. Read More
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Turning Iraqi Cities into Slums

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http://consortiumnews.com — The US invasion of Iraq has caused a catastrophic decline in living standards for millions of Iraqis, writes Adil E. Shamoo. August 23, 2010 Read More
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Spinning the US Failure in Iraq

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http://consortiumnews.com — The withdrawal of the last US combat battalions from Iraq marks a historic failure -- despite Washington's spin, says Robert Parry. August 20, 2010 Read More
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The Tea Partiers' Historical Fictions

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http://consortiumnews.com — Tea Party activists claim they represent America's founding values but they misunderstand the history, notes Jada Thacker. August 18, 2010 Read More
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Twisting Palestinian Arms for Peace

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http://consortiumnews.com — New Israel-Palestine peace talks confront Palestinian leaders with some unpalatable choices, observes Lawrence Davidson. August 25, 2010 Read More
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Christian Nationalism's War with Islam

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http://consortiumnews.com — The "Ground Zero Mosque" furor is another skirmish in the Christian fundamentalists' war with Islam, says Rev. Howard Bess. August 24, 2010 Read More
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Making a 'Mosque' a 'Wedge' Issue

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http://consortiumnews.com — By blurring al-Qaeda's motivations, the Right has exploited an Islamic center to rile up the American people, writes Ivan Eland. August 24, 2010 Read More
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Fiddling While the US Economy Burns

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http://consortiumnews.com — As the Right bashes President Obama for too much economic meddling, his real failure is in doing too little, says Danny Schechter. August 23, 2010 Read More
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War, Economic Crisis and the Role of Trade Unions

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http://www.globalresearch.ca — For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Read More
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Karl Rove Exploits Corporate Money

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http://consortiumnews.com — Republican strategist Karl Rove is seizing on a Supreme Court ruling to funnel corporate cash into elections, says Kevin Zeese. August 26, 2010 Read More
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