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Death of the American Empire: America is self-destructing & bringing the rest of the world down with it
By Tanya Cariina Hsu
Global Research, October 23, 2008
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, US President; 1743 - 1826)
America is dying. It is self-destructing and bringing the rest of the world down with it.
Often referred to as a sub-prime mortgage collapse, this obfuscates the real reason. By (…)

Prestv.com Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:14:45 GMT
The following is a Press TV interview with respected American author, political analyst and world-renowned linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky.
Press TV: Professor Chomsky, we better start with Pakistan. The White House not commenting on the killings of people [in cross-border drone attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan]. Richard Holbrooke, someone whom you’ve written about in the context of Yugoslavia, is the man [President Barack] Obama has (…)

Truthout Saturday 24 January 2009
by: R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux and Joby Warrick,Washington Post Staff Writers
Leaders from Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area along the border with Afghanistan met with Pakistani Army officials last February. On Friday, the US launched air attacks in Pakistan within the Waziristan area in a concrete demonstration of the Obama administration’s Pakistan policy.
Two remote U.S. missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected (…)

At the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2009, the “Bring the Guard Home! It’s the Law” campaign held a press conference. One of the speakers was Jean Athey of Maryland, Peace Action. She said that her group is proposing legislation to the General Assembly of Maryland that would require “the Maryland National Guard only to be called into federal service for legal purposes and that in the absence of legal authority, the Maryland National Guard should stay within the (…)

iht.com
By Adam Cohen
Monday, December 29, 2008
radiofreemike.com
In 1963, Stanley Milgram, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale, published his infamous experiment on obedience to authority. Its conclusion was that most ordinary people were willing to administer what they believed to be painful, even dangerous, electric shocks to innocent people if a man in a white lab coat told them to.
For the first time in four decades, a researcher has repeated the Milgram experiment (…)

GAZA CITY, Jan 22 (IPS) - Eighteen-year-old Mona Al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and disbelief set in once she realised it was gone - completely severed by the weapon that hit her.
Mona is one of the many patients among the 5,500 injured that have international and Palestinian doctors baffled by the type of weaponry used in the Israeli (…)

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
The inauguration of Barack Obama as America’s 44th president was a moving and powerful symbol of change. Every citizen and ally who allowed himself and herself to appreciate the moment felt a surge of pride that will not easily abate.
We have elected a leader who’s every word, step and breath seems to hold the promise of greatness. Amidst everything that is wrong with our nation and our world – our homes foreclosing, our jobs lost, our banks (…)

Save the Arts Centre, Storytelling Festival and our education work Published by SDAC on Feb 04, 2008 Category: Arts & Entertainment Region: Wales Target: Arts Council of Wales
Background (Preamble): The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) is proposing to cut the annual grant to St Donats Arts Centre.
Unless we can reverse their decision, it will result in the loss of: St Donats Arts Centre and cinema for people in the Vale of Glamorgan, the UK and abroad. Up to 326 arts events in a (…)

By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
My father used to lament the poor mathematical performance of his children, “They struggle to get a C in math, yet they always know to the penny how much allowance they are due.” It was true enough and goes straight to the heart of the problem with numbers. We have a fundamental disconnect with the numbers that don’t affect us directly. The cheering crowd on the National Mall Tuesday, estimated to be one million plus, was truly an amazing (…)

German Media Censorship on Gaza? Merkel’s Will
by Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Global Research, January 22, 2009
Germany’s most prominent political debate TV program “Anne Will” had announced to run a show on Gaza on 11 January, but in what many observers believe to be an unprecedented step canceled the topic only three days earlier. The talk show is broadcast every Sunday night by the country’s foremost public-service broadcaster ARD while attracting on average 3.6 million viewers. The “Anne (…)