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Whitewashing Defeat: Obama’s Indecisiveness Defines His Presidency (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 23, 2010 -- He may still possess the poise of a confident leader and an eloquent intellectual, but the presidency of Barack Obama is now suffering its most ...
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BOOKS: Insisting on Their Humanity: ‘The Plight of the Palestinians’ (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2010 -- When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, ...
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Hacktivism for Cyber Democracy (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Dec. 15, 2010 -- Because of the attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder there has been considerable media attention to the hacktivism practiced by supporters of ...
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The United States of War Criminals (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "People from poorer places and poorer countries have to call upon their compassion not to be angry with ordinary people in America." --Arundhati Roy Dec. 14, 2010 -- ...
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No Act of Rebellion Is Wasted (Chris Hedges)
Dec. 13, 2010 (TruthDig) -- I stood with hundreds of thousands of rebellious Czechoslovakians in 1989 on a cold winter night in Prague’s Wenceslas Square as the singer Marta Kubišová approached the ...
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Cables Reveal Background of Pro-Dictator U.S. Policy (Ted Rall)
Dec. 8, 2010 -- NEW YORK (CommonDreams.org) -- After the Soviet collapse in 1991 U.S. policy toward Central Asia was transparently cynical: support the dictators, screw the people. As the United ...
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Stating the Obvious: WikiLeaks Indicts and Vindicates U.S. Diplomats (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust The WikiLeaks vs. the U.S. government saga started in July, when 77,000 secret U.S. documents directly relating to Afghanistan were made available to major media ...
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The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks (Noam Chomsky)
Dec. 7, 2010 (New York Times Syndicate) -- Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion -- excluding Arab East Jerusalem ...
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Western Civilization Has Shed Its Values (Paul Craig Roberts)
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State ...
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (Alfred W. McCoy)
Dec. 6, 2010 (TomDispatch.com) -- A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone ...
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Nigeria 'To Charge Dick Cheney' over Halliburton, KBR Bribery Case (M.J. Smith)
Cheney served as head of Halliburton before becoming vice president under George W. Bush. (AFPCheney served as head of Halliburton before becoming vice president under George W. Bush. (AFP) Dec. 2, ...
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