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Those aware of the tragic colonial history of India and other former Western colonies will quickly discover that Western historians in the English-speaking world simply IGNORE Western atrocities perpetrated against their non-European subjects i.e. they lie by omission.
However history ignored yields history repeated and today First World greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution threatens the Developing World with a 10 billion victim Climate Genocide that will dwarf British and other Western colonial (…)

The American Empire Is Bankrupt
Jun 14, 2009 Wikimedia Commons By Chris Hedges
This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what is to come will be very, very painful.
Barack Obama, and the criminal class on Wall Street, aided by a corporate media that continues to (…)

Anti-Americanism in Israel
by Justin Raimondo
Global Research, June 13, 2009 Antiwar.com "In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government over U.S. President Barack Obama’s Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the U.S. in a letter to cabinet ministers on Sunday.
"In the 11-page letter, obtained by the Jerusalem Post from a minister on Monday, Peled recommends steps Israel can take to compensate (…)

Cooking in a Coffee Pot and Other Useful Tips for the Homeless By David Glenn Cox
I write this for the millions who, like myself, are holed up in basements, garages, empty houses, fields, culverts and what have you. Guilty of being Americans and homeless, trying to make it through just one more day in the land of Fuck You and the home of the slave. I am at the top of the homeless pyramid; I still have internet access and a toilet.
The one thing to remember about the homeless is that (…)

What does a shootout at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., the confessions of a Khmer Rouge jailer and the murder of a Kansas medical doctor have in common? The answer is “children,” and how they suffer from being targeted and used by extremists to advance their own hateful agendas.
In 1981, acting as a public interest lawyer, I represented a Holocaust survivor who had been a 17-year-old boy when his entire family was murdered in Nazi concentration camps. We sued a group of (…)

De-Dollarization: Dismantling America’s Financial-Military Empire The Yekaterinburg Turning Point
by Prof. Michael Hudson, Global Research, June 13, 2009
The city of Yakaterinburg, Russia’s largest east of the Urals, may become known not only as the death place of the tsars but of American hegemony too – and not only where US U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down in 1960, but where the US-centered international financial order was brought to ground.
Challenging America will be the prime (…)

Where Have All the Democrats Gone? By David Glenn Cox
If you live long enough you will see just about all that there is to see, except maybe the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. I was reading news stories and that’s how I felt when I ran across this one:
“June 12 (Bloomberg) — U.S. lawmakers are set to approve a $106 billion war-spending bill after President Barack Obama said he would use ’every legal and administrative remedy available’ to block the release of photos of troops abusing (…)

How long can the Dollar Last as the World’s Reserve Currency?
The big question is how long can the dollar last as the world’s reserve currency? Needless to say, that is not an easy question to answer. We recently called the top on the dollar at 89.50 on the USDX. The USDX is six currencies versus the dollar on a weighted basis. More than a year ago the dollar hit a low on the USDX at 71.18. A phenomenal rally ensued from that level expedited by de-leveraging and the closing out positions (…)

Dear Fellow Terran,
Re US Alliance & Australian (Oz) War Crimes & Climate Genocide.
Murder is the deliberate, knowing taking of human life. According to Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention, Mass Murder or Holocaust becomes Genocide when it involves deliberate, knowing “intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”. [1].
Genocidal mass killing can occur violently (through bombs and bullets) or non-violently (through deprivation and (…)

As commercial aviation becomes increasingly dependent upon computerized digital technology and less reliant upon hands-on human control, we have to consider the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of all aboard, and other similar disasters in the light of our collective experience and expectations.
The Comet
First flown in 1949 and introduced into passenger service in1951, the Comet was the first pressurized, jet-propelled commercial aircraft. Powered (…)