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Somewhere amidst the elation, optimism and dreams of progress that many, if not most, Americans felt immediately following the election of Barack Obama, one critical reality was forgotten:
Obama is a politician.
This became conspicuously evident when one of his first official acts was to declare an egregious, “look forward, not backward” policy when it came to dealing with, or more accurately not dealing with, the war crimes, tortures, corruption and mendacity of the Bush dictatorship. (…)

"NATO members that have been participating in air strikes in Libya include France, Britain, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and Italy.
I would like to make formal charges against the NATO Alliance for war crimes committed in Libya..
France, Britain, United States, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and Italy are joint members of the NATO alliance, and have all broken their UN mandate, and committed a catalogue of war crimes in Libya...
The following crimes (…)

The International: Oil, Drugs, Guns & Kissinger Associates
Dean Henderson
(Part one of a two-part series excerpted from Chapter 18 of my book Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf…)
At the nadir of Four Horsemen/Gulf Cooperation Council/CIA petrodollar drugs for guns recycling scheme quietly sit the international banksters. Through every major scandal and behind every despotic regime stands a global financial oligarchy- ultimate beneficiary of the world’s addiction to (…)

As we approach the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, questions are still being raised. In this episode of News Analysis, 9/11 is re-examined with a focus on how this incident changed the course of the US both domestically and in its foreign policy and its impact on the entire world.
GUESTS: Richard Becker, James Fetzer & Gordon Duff

Protests held in major cities across Israel represent biggest rallies in country’s history; protest leader says ’we have chosen to see instead of walking blindly toward the abyss.’
Over 450,000 protesters attended rallies across the country last night calling for social justice in what was the largest demonstration in Israeli history.
The main protest took place in Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina, where some 300,000 people gathered after marching from Habima Square about two kilometers away. (…)

Sygmunt Bauman says Israel ’terrified of peace’ and ’taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts,’ in interview with Polish weekly ’Politika.’
Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it.
Bauman said Israel was "taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts," and compared the separation fence to the walls (…)

" The real democratic progress is not to lower the elite to the crowd level, but to raise the crowd to the elite "- Gustave Le Bon -" Yesterday and Tomorrow "
After the Hassanian referendum result of 98.5% for the new constitution announced by the beginning of this month of July 2011, the Moroccan regime started celebrations of her so-called "victory" achieved When according to her ”majority” of Moroccan people said “Yes” to king’s constitution. The King presented a constitution in (…)

Mainstream media lie by omission and commission in the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies as well as in explicitly undemocratic countries in which free speech is controlled by draconian measures. Western mainstream media get away with lying because they are not brought to account and this is precisely because of Mainstream media lying by omission about Mainstream media lying by omission.
However a potential weakness in the Mainstream media Wall of Silence is provided by lying by (…)

Are you tired of trying to figure out if there’s any real difference between Republican and Democratic politicians, and whether there’s a difference between liberals and progressives, libertarians and anarchists, independents and moderates, or tea partiers and neoconservatives?
Are you fed up with being forced to chose between the lesser of two evils when electing a president, and are you afraid to cast a vote of conscience because the worser of two evils might get elected?
If you’ve (…)

Mister President Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mister President,
As I do every month since your election to the White House, in the name of the friends of the Cuban Five, from Monein in France, I am writing to you.
It has now been thirteen years since the five Cubans - Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino and René González have been imprisoned in your country.
Thirteen years of being locked up under (…)