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  • Empire, Energy and Al-Qaeda: The Anglo-American Terror Network The Imperial Anatomy of al-Qaeda, Part II
    10 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Empire, Energy and Al-Qaeda: The Anglo-American Terror Network The Imperial Anatomy of al-Qaeda, Part II
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Global Research, September 8, 2010
    The End of the Cold War and Strategy for the New World Order With the end of the Cold War a new strategy had to be determined to manage the global system. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, declarations of a “New World Order” sprang forward, focusing on the United States as the single world superpower. This presented a (…)

  • Island of Shame
    7 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Island of Shame
    by Murray Polner
    Review of David Vine’s Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009)
    Why should anyone care about 5,000 part-African, part-southern Indian Chagossians, who once inhabited Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean mid-way between Africa and Indonesia, who were exiled so the U.S. could build yet another military base?
    Since the onset of WWII and its aftermath, tens of millions (…)

  • The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda. The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis”
    5 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda. The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis” Part I
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Global Research, September 5, 2010
    Introduction As the 9th anniversary of 9/11 nears, and the war on terror continues to be waged and grows in ferocity and geography, it seems all the more imperative to return to the events of that fateful September morning and re-examine the reasons for war and the nature of the stated culprit, Al-Qaeda. The events of 9/11 (…)

  • (video) Ernesto Che Guevara: "The Bestiality of imperialism"
    2 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
  • 4 July US Independence Day: US imperialism, terrorism & genocide deny Life, Liberty & Happiness to World
    4 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For a billions of people around the World July 4 means that day in 1776 on which the United States declared war on Humanity. For the United States of America the Fourth of July is US Independence Day, a US federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from Great Britain.
    Ask yourself the question: what countries in Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas has the US (a) threatened, (b) suborned, (c) invaded, (d) (…)

  • Kent State Shootings 40th Anniversary (+ videos)
    16 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting America´s invasion of Cambodia. Four students were killed and nine were wounded. The incident triggered national outrage in a country already divided over the Vietnam War. In the days that followed more than four million students rose up in dissent across 900 campuses, generating the only nationwide student protest in U.S. history. Fearing civil unrest, President Nixon was taken to Camp David for his (…)

  • Albert Camus: A Stranger No More (Book Review)
    6 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.” - Goethe
    One of Algeria’s greatest sons, the late Albert Camus, is back where he rightfully belongs—center stage! Thanks to Elizabeth Hawes’ delightful and vibrant book, “Camus, A Romance,” (1) and Robert Zaretsky’s scholarly and insightful tome, “Albert Camus: Elements of a Life.” (2). Camus, a talented writer and philosopher, has again risen from the literary ashes. His clarion call for “limits” (…)

  • On Nicos Poulantzas . (In Radical history Review).
    18 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nicos Poulantzas
    The suicide of Nicos Poulantzas has received scant, if any, attention in the United States. This is not so much because Poulantzas committed an unthinkable act by jumping out a window, an act which is not easily confronted by anyone. The reason for the silence is instead more forthright than that: though his work was emblematically known here, it never had the enormous theoretical and political impact it did in Europe.
    It is indeed hard to make clear for an American (…)

  • Viva The White Rose!
    22 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    67 years ago today Sophie Scholl was beheaded by the Nazis for distributing leaflets published by the White Rose Society, along with her brother Hans and Christoph Probst. She was 22 years old. I suppose many of us have seen the movie, but I feel a proper tribute to her and her fellow resisters would be to read their words, as printed in their first leaftlet, especially if we substitute "American" for "German" and (with a bit more gumption) "New York City" (WTC) for "Cologne":
    “Nothing (…)

  • In the memory of 13Feb1991 massacre
    12 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tomorrow is the 19th memory of the Amiriyah shelter massacre[1] when more than 408 civilians were killed[2] on February 13, 1991 during the Gulf War, by US military air-raid on shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25"), also referred to as the Al Firdos C3 bunker at Baghdad, Iraq. The USAF destroyed the shelter by with two laser-guided "smart bombs".[3]
    The shelter was used in the Iran–Iraq War and the Gulf War by hundreds of civilians. It was built by an European company in mid 1980’s to (…)