Saturday, August 21, 2010
Jon Stewart – The Daily Show – Extremist Makeover Edition Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal runs a holding company (Kingdom Holding Company) and is one of the most visible funders of Islamist organisations in the United States, including the Park51 Islamic Cultural Center project located two blocks away from 9/11 Ground Zero. The purchase of a [...]
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Tagged CIA, DEA, Detainees, Espionage, Fox News, George W Bush, Gitmo. Guantanamo, Israel, Mossad, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, Rendition, Saudi Arabia, Torture, Wahhabi, Wahhabism
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The time has long since passed when governments can commit crimes in the dark, run secret wars, and have their passive and narcotized citizens go along with it, fund it, and salute when they’re told. The advance of technology has challenged the State’s information monopoly, and broken the power of the gatekeepers in the “mainstream” media: [...]
Foxnews.com averages around 12 million or 13 million monthly unique users, according to Nielsen Online, rarely approaching the 35 million to 40 million uniques that leaders Yahoo News, MSNBC and CNN regularly deliver in aggregate. Some of that disparity can be explained away, as both Yahoo and MSNBC draw heavy traffic from their portal counterparts, [...]
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
What’s most striking about the ruling is this: Whether or not the judge’s legal arguments hold up, the 136-page document lays bare the irrational prejudice behind Prop. 8. It is telling that the judge did not agree with a single legal or factual point made by same-sex-marriage opponents. Prop. 8 defenders might say this is [...]
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |The convicted former chief of Chile’s intelligence services during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet has accused the CIA of murdering the deposed leader of the Chilean army and former Vice-President of Chile, in 1974. General Carlos Prats González was a close political ally of Chilean President Salvador Allende, who was toppled by a [...]
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Tagged Assassinations, Augusto Pinochet, Carlos Prats Gonzalez, Chile, CIA, Henry Kissinger, Manuel Contreras, Rene Schneider, Richard Helms, Richard Nixon, Salvador Allende, Sofia Cuthbert
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By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.orgPreliminary results of an ongoing international investigation into the January 2010 murder of a senior Hamas official show that US-based money transfer companies were used to finance the killing. The body of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, co-founder of the Palestinian Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, was discovered by staff at Dubai’s luxury [...]
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Tagged Banking, Dubai, Elance, Hamas, Investigations, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, MetaBank, Mossad, Murder, Payoneer, vWorker
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From : New Internationalist, October 2009 • Issue 426 Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments, right? Think again. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reports. Once upon a time, the CIA trained, financed and supported Osama bin Laden and his mujahidin networks in Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the end of [...]
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Tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Algeria, Banking, Big Oil, Bosnia, Chechnya, CIA, Dana Rohrabacher, Dick Cheney, Ed Dearborn, George W Bush, Graham Fuller, Hamas, Heinie Aderholt, Intelligence, Iraq War, Israel, Mujahideen, Mujahidin, Niaz Naik, Oil Pipelines, Oliver North, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Richard Secord, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Terrorism, Terrorism Funding
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Transcription of Arundhati Roy and Howard Zinn Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe, New Mexico 18 September 2002 Howard Zinn: Well, thank you. [Applause]. This is a very nice crowd. [Laughter] Thank you Patrick Lannan for that introduction. I almost recognized myself. [Laughter] I’m here to introduce Arundhati Roy. I say this in hushed tones. Really, [...]
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Tagged Afghanistan War, Andrew Card, Arundhati Roy, Augusto Pinochet, CAFTA, Chile, CIA, Corporatism, Free Market, George H W Bush, George W Bush, Globalization, Golda Meir, Hamas, Hamid Karzai, Hegemony, Henry Kissinger, Howard Zinn, IMF, Intifada, Iraq War, Israel, John Berger, Levi Eschol, Madeleine Albright, Menachem Begin, Militarism, NAFTA, Palestine, PLO, Richard Perle, Saddam Hussein, Salvador Allende, Victor Jara, War, Winston Churchill, World Bank, WTO, Yitzhak Shamir, Zionism
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July 5th, 2010 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Most important thought: I’m sick and tired of this thing called “patriotism”. The Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor were being patriotic. The German people who supported Hitler and his conquests were being patriotic, fighting for the Fatherland. All the Latin American military dictators who overthrew democratically-elected governments [...]
Remember these facts: Bush was briefed on September 18, 2002 by the CIA and was told at that time Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction. That briefing directly contradicted the National Intelligence Estimate Congress relied upon during the debate about the Iraq War. Colin Powell also relied upon the National Intelligence Estimate to [...]
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Tagged CIA, Colin Powell, Congress, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Intelligence, Iraq War, Karl Rove, Lying Liars, NIE, Republicans
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What defines a “responsible” Republican in the era of Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle and Rand Paul? Ask Bob Inglis, soon to depart from Congress after six terms as a Republican representative from South Carolina. Having suffered a landslide defeat in a primary this year — largely because he challenged the extremism of the far right [...]
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Tagged Bob Inglis, Fox News, Glenn Beck, GOP, John Lewis, Racism, Rand Paul, Republicans, RNC, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle
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As the planet’s economy keeps stumbling, the phrase “worst recession since the Great Depression” has become the new “global war on terror” — a term whose overuse has rendered it both meaningless and acronym-worthy. And just like that previously ubiquitous phrase, references to the WRSTGD are almost always followed by flimsy and contradictory explanations. Republicans [...]
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8383084962209910782[/googlevideo] War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from [...]
President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy isn’t working. So said a parade of Afghanistan watchers during the flap over war commander General Stanley McChrystal’s firing. But what does that phrase, so often in the media these days, really mean? And if the strategy really isn’t working, just how can you tell? The answers to these questions raise even [...]
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Tagged Afghanistan War, Barack Obama, Contractors, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, Military, Pentagon, Stanley McChrystal, USAID, Women
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United States law enforcement agencies, from the FBI to local police, have a long history of spying on American citizens and infiltrating or otherwise obstructing political activist groups. Political spying was rampant during the Cold War under the FBI’s COINTELPRO, the CIA’s Operation Chaos, and other program. Unfortunately, it appears that these old tendencies have once [...]
A newly released study (.pdf) from students at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government provides the latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying and serving (rather than checking) government officials. This new study examines how waterboarding has been discussed by America’s four largest newspapers over the past 100 years, and [...]
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Tagged George Orwell, Glenn Greenwald, Journalism, Media, Nationalism, New York Times, NPR, Study, Torture, Washington Post, Waterboarding
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The specter of 1937 is haunting the world again. This piece from the New York Times’ David Leonhardt, who warns that the global decision to cut government spending and tighten the austerity belt runs a very real risk of cutting short a shaky economic recovery — a repeat of the events that occurred in the [...]
Cryptographic locks guarding the secret files of a Brazilian banker suspected of financial crimes have defeated law enforcement officials. Brazilian police seized five hard drives when they raided the Rio apartment of banker Daniel Dantas as part of Operation Satyagraha in July 2008. But subsequent efforts to decrypt files held on the hardware using a [...]
The Obama administration has awarded $220m (£146m) in new contracts to the military contractor formerly known as Blackwater to provide security in Afghanistan. This is despite accusations against the company of murder and indiscriminate killings of civilians in Iraq and investigations into alleged corruption and sanctions busting. The contracts have drawn stinging criticism in Congress [...]
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Liberal Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman, writing in the Los Angeles Times about “An increasingly politicized military,” argued that the McChrystal affair is more ominous than the celebrated Truman-MacArthur clash of 1951, which ended with MacArthur’s dismissal in the midst of the Korean War. That is because McChrystal voices openly the sentiments of an officer [...]
A little-known US Department of Defense counterintelligence unit is suspected to have resuscitated a notorious Bush-era domestic surveillance program, which was banned by Congress for being too obtrusive. In 2002, the then Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz authorized the Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON), a US Air Force intelligence collection program aimed to [...]
Could there be less of a surprise than the fact that a Louisiana district court judge with financial ties to the offshore oil industry, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, granted a preliminary injunction against President Obama’s six-month moratorium on offshore “deepwater” drilling? The real shocker would have been finding a local judge who didn’t have [...]
State Department officials struggled to explain Monday why they have awarded a new $120 million contract to a private security firm that was kicked out of Iraq four months ago amid charges that its personnel gunned down unarmed civilians. Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, was awarded an 18-month contract to provide security at [...]
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was wholly controlled by top intelligence officials in Tel Aviv, not part of a “rogue” operation, says the U.S. Navy counterintelligence agent who took his confession. Israeli ambassador Michael Oren caused a bit of a stir Monday when he told a Washington radio station that Pollard, a naval intelligence analyst who [...]
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