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"... the establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation..."-- Edward S. Herman, economist, author, and US media and foreign policy critic
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" ... the media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and ... the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources.-- Peter Phillips, Project Censored, 1998
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,792 www.icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,598
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,222,215,301,557 http://www.costofwar.com/
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Pakistan's Sovereignty For Sale?
Dollars, Drones and Development
By Jalees Hazir |
Notions about Pakistan's dependence on the global bully are exaggerated.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28615.htm
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How the US Controls "Civil society" Throughout Africa
Enemy-sponsored organisations threaten nation
By Tafataona Mahoso
The "great democracies" of the West have been the most consistent and most persistent enemy of the African: during slavery, during the scramble for Africa after the Berlin Conference, during colonialism, during apartheid and now during the current effort to recolonise Africa.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28614.htm
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Neocons Fume Over US Boat to Gaza
By Ray McGovern
My co-passengers and I of the U.S. Boat to Gaza have now gone from "High-Seas Hippies," according to the right-wing Washington Times, to "fools, knaves, hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism," says Alan Dershowitz.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28613.htm
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More Trouble in Murdochworld
By Mike Whitney
The firestorm in the UK is not really about phone hacking at all. It's about Corporate fiefdoms and unelected oligarchs who control the flow of information and use that power to their own advantage.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28609.htm
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Clinton Praises 'Vital' Austerity Measures in Greece
By Elise Labott, Aaron Smith and Annalyn Censky
Clinton said the measures the government took "are vital first steps.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28619.htm
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Letting Bankers Walk
By Paul Krugman
Why the kid-gloves treatment? Money and influence no doubt play their part; Wall Street is a huge source of campaign donations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28620.htm
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Obama Raises Record Sums from the Wealthy
By Patrick Martin
Proving that President Obama is the first choice of Wall Street and the American super-rich, his reelection campaign announced Wednesday that it had broken all previous records for fundraising, raking in $86 million during the second quarter of this year.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28617.htm
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Wall Street's Euthanasia of Industry
By Michael Hudson
"You know, there's one good thing that President Obama has done that we never anticipated in Europe. He's shown the Europeans that we can never depend upon America again"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28612.htm
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James Bamford Unplugged!
The Secrecy of the Obama Administration
By Boiling Frogs
NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, The implications of WikiLeaks, the absurdity of Obama's Nobel Peace Award and the absence of real coverage and analyses in the US Mainstream Media.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28616.htm
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The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done
By James Fallows
Or at least the most amazingly brazen I can think of at this moment. It's about the News of the World hacking scandal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28608.htm
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In Case You Missed It
The CIA and the Media
By Carl Bernstein
How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28610.htm
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America's Disappeared
By Chris Hedges
American citizens can "legally" be assassinated. Illegal abductions, known euphemistically as "extraordinary rendition," are a staple of the war on terror.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28618.htm
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Trained for Pain:
Get your Torture Degree from School of Americas
By RT
Graduates from the School of the Americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere - including the murder of six Jesuit priests and four American churchwomen in El Salvador.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28611.htm
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Activists claim 30 killed in Syrian clashes:
At least 30 people were killed in 24 hours in the central Syrian city of Homs in clashes between supporters and opponents of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, a human rights activist said on Sunday.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/17/activists-claim-30-killed-in-syrian-clashes/
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14 killed in clashes in Yemen:
Four soldiers and 10 militants linked to al-Qaeda have been killed in clashes in the southern Yemeni town of Zinjibar.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0717/yemen.html
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Yemen's Saleh to stay in Saudi Arabia for now: official:
Yemen's wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh will stay in Saudi Arabia until doctors declare him fit, a Yemeni official said on Friday, denying reports that Saleh could come back in time for this weekend's 33rd anniversary of his ascent to power.
http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=23338
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Libya : 12 killed as rebels suffer heavy casualties in battle for Brega:
Medics at Benghazi Hospital said 12 people died in Saturday's fighting and as many as 200 were injured. There were no immediate reports on casualties from Sunday's clashes.
http://bit.ly/nYpzrZ
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NATO airstrikes pound Tripoli:
Gadhafi said today afternoon that his country will never surrender in the face of assaults by rebels and a NATO air campaign.
http://bit.ly/rakFGY
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NATO destroys civilian radar at Tripoli's international airport:
A NATO statement Monday claimed the civilian air traffic control radar was tracking NATO jets and the information was used to coordinate an air defense early-warning system.
http://wapo.st/pAK8oF
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Libya's «Freedom Fighters» Found to Engage in Pillage:
Human Rights Watch released materials citing cases of gross abuse by anti-Gadhafi rebels in a mountainous area located in the western part of Libya.
http://en.rian.ru/international_affairs/20110715/165214128.html
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Russia criticises West's backing of Libyan rebels": -
Russia criticised on Monday the United States and other countries that have recognised the rebel National Transitional Council as Libya's legitimate government, saying they were taking sides in the civil war.
http://bit.ly/ohKkJ6
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10 "Militants" Killed in Afghanistan:
Authorities say the "Taliban fighters" were killed Sunday in a school in Nangarhar province.
http://bit.ly/nCWW2N
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Seven Afghan police killed in checkpoint attack: http://reut.rs/pVgeXF
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Three NATO occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:
Three soldiers serving in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed on Monday in a roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan.
http://bit.ly/r1cq4O
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Advisor to Afghan president killed:
Gunmen strapped with explosives have killed a close adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a member of parliament in another insurgent strike against the Afghan leader's inner circle.
http://bit.ly/qv9J97
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British Occupation Force Soldier Killed in Afghanistan:
MoD said the soldier was shot dead while "conducting a routine patrol with members of the Afghan national army yesterday", adding the soldier "received a fatal gunshot wound during this incident".
http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=254034
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Afghan civilians killed in NATO raids:
Afghan lawmakers have unanimously demanded that NATO stop killing civilians in their country.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/17/53348886.html
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'CIA Trusted Ahmad Wali Karzai's Assassin':
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Special Forces had close working relation with the bodyguard who shot dead the younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai last week.
http://bit.ly/pUUKc9
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Pakistan: Three killed, 16 injured in attack on NATO tankers:
"The remote-controlled device planted under the tanker exploded before it entered the tribal area, the fire has engulfed five markets," Muhammad Ijaz Khan, a senior police officer, said.
http://bit.ly/p9Jxux
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US drone strikes in Pakistan claiming many civilian victims, says campaigner:
One man in Waziristan is documenting casualties - and says destruction has been radicalising locals.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/us-drone-strikes-pakistan-waziristan
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Arrest of ex-CIA lawyer sought over drone use :
Human rights lawyers seek warrant against John Rizzo for approving drone strikes in Pakistan that killed hundreds.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/07/201171775436664633.html
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At least 3 killed as clashes escalate on the Iran-Iraq border:
At least two Iranian Kurdish rebels and one member of Tehran's elite Revolutionary Guards were killed during clashes along the Islamic Republic's border with Iraq, the two sides said Sunday.
http://bit.ly/n4cYyU
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Roadside bomb kills two in Baghdad:
Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb targeting a security patrol has killed one policeman and a passer-by in western Baghdad.
http://ind.pn/q4uFZQ
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No Extension, No Renewal of US Security Agreement - Hashimi :
Vice-President Tariq Al-Hashimi declared today that the interests of both Iraq and USA are not to extend or renew the security agreement ending on 31 December,2011, a statement of his office said.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/Default1.aspx?page=article_page&id=143805&l=1
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Mumbai blasts detainee reportedly dies of torture:
A man, involved in the July 13 Mumbai blasts, reportedly died of police torture during interrogation, according to media reports on Sunday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-07/17/c_13990516.htm
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Bahrain Shiites pull out of reconciliation talks:
Khalil al-Marzooq says top leaders of Al Wefaq party decided to withdraw from the U.S.-backed talks during a meeting Sunday, claiming the other side was not serious about addressing Shiite demands for greater rights and political freedoms.
http://bit.ly/nYsDo5
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Democracy in steep decline around the world:
The Arab Spring is, in many ways, a mirage. Several nations in the region may eventually make the transition to democracy - this is hardly assured - but in reality, democracy is faltering throughout the developing world, from Asia to Latin America, from Africa to the former Soviet states.
http://bit.ly/rqPpKD
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Jewish settlers are terrorising Palestinians, says Israeli general:
A senior Israeli army commander has warned that unchecked "Jewish terror" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank threatens to plunge the territory into another conflict. .
http://ind.pn/ne7CLH
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Dr Finkelstein in Defamation :
This is a clip of Norman Finkelstein's two appearances in Yoav Shamir's documentary "Defamation"
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/dr-finkelstein-in-defamation.html
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First UN aid drops reach rebel-held Somalia:
Medicine and food are airlifted to territory held by al-Shabab after opposition group lifts ban on foreign agencies.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/20117178716304210.html
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11 million hungry from East Africa's drought:
East Africa's worst drought in 60 years is putting 11 million lives at risk, many of them in war-torn Somalia, where thousands of hungry families are making the dangerous trek across parched, violent territory to the promise of safety and food in Kenya.
http://bit.ly/owLwAk
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Rebekah Brooks's arrest intensifies phone-hacking crisis:
Former News International chief executive identified as a criminal suspect and held throughout the day by Scotland Yard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/17/rebekah-brooks-arrest-phone-hacking
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Rupert Murdoch Has Gamed American Politics Every Bit as Thoroughly as Britain's:
While Murdoch's Fox News hosts prattle on and on about their enthusiasm for the free market, they work for a firm that seeks to game the system so Murdoch's "properties" are best positioned to monopolize the discourse.
http://bit.ly/rdgluZ
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CIA Veteran Robert Baer Predicts September Israel-Iran War :
Audio interview with former CIA agent.
http://bit.ly/opIx6g
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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain:
Communities have right to ban mosques: Cain said his view doesn't amount to religious discrimination because he says Muslims are trying to inject Shariah law into the U.S.
http://www.kiiitv.com/story/15096085/herman-cain-communities-have-right-to-ban-mosques
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48 hours to save the euro as Greece deal stalls:
EXPERTS last night warned Europe has only 48 hours to save the single currency amid concern over the failure to seal a new rescue plan for debt-laden Greece.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/259146/48-hours-to-save-the-euro-as-Greece-deal-stalls
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Hunger Haunts California Town:
"When youngsters have just noodles, bread or crackers to eat for dinner, as many here do, they cannot perform well in school," the food bank website says. "This is how many families in poverty must live today, relying on carbohydrate-based food that's filling but very low in nutrition."
http://bit.ly/qX0r6B
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75,000 US veterans could be homeless :
Data published by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs shows that over 75,000 US military personnel could be homeless after they return from foreign wars.
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=811969
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
