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Sep 1, 2010, 00:30
Commentary
Spike Lee gives America its voice
By Jerry Mazza
I’m talking about Lee’s new two, two-hour
episodes that make up his new HBO documentary If God is willin and the creek don’t rise, shot five years after
Katrina, which hit on August 29, 2005. Lee’s previous four-part HBO series When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four
Acts, covered the trials and traumas of New Orleans during the storm and
after and won a Peabody Award and three Emmys.
Sep 1, 2010, 00:28
Special Reports
Pirates of Puntland; A tale of Somali Pirates, Ethiopia and the USA
By Thomas C. Mountain
Pirates, warlords, Marxist guerilla turned G-20
statesman and the USA . . . the real story of the Somali pirates in the Horn of
Africa is a tale that needs telling.
Sep 1, 2010, 00:26
Commentary
The awful price for teaching less than we know
By Michael Winship
Watching Glenn Beck’s performance Saturday at
his “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington, DC, I thought of the novelist
Sinclair Lewis’ Elmer Gantry, the charlatan evangelist who seduces most of
those around him with his hearty backslapping and false piety.
Sep 1, 2010, 00:24
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Sep 1, 2010, 00:22
Commentary
Putting the brakes on the neoliberal race to the bottom
BY Ismael Hossein-zadeh
While the harrowing economic hardship that
started in late 2007 and early 2008 rages on, and countless people in the
United States, Europe and other parts of the world are losing their jobs, their
homes and their sources of livelihood, policy-makers in the advanced capitalist
countries of the West are standing idly by without lifting a finger to
alleviate the onerous burden of the crushing recession. On the contrary, they
have embarked on an orchestrated series of cruel belt-tightening austerity
policies that have, indeed, contributed to the worsening of the recession.
Sep 1, 2010, 00:20
Commentary
Is there a Western conspiracy to protect Israeli agents?
By Linda S. Heard
Imagine that you could fraudulently obtain a
German travel document to be used by assassins, utilising the name and personal
details of a still-living individual to do so, and even if you were caught,
arrested and extradited to Germany for trial, you would be allowed to return to
your home country.
Sep 1, 2010, 00:18
Commentary
New York is not Córdoba a millennium later
By Ben Tanosborn
By now it should be crystal clear to Imam Feisal
Abdul Rauf, founder of the Córdoba Initiative, that New York is not Córdoba one
thousand years later, nor is the American nation an enlarged geopolitical
version of the then caliphate of al-Andalus. Sadly, for anyone to think
otherwise is a romantic notion, one that will not alter an iota America’s
etched-in-stone Middle Eastern foreign policy, nor ameliorate the threat of
terrorism which has been cancerously growing, principally in response to that
policy.
Sep 1, 2010, 00:16
Commentary
‘Ground Zero’ is insensitive, inappropriate and disrespectful
By Jeff Zervas
Opponents of the poorly named Ground Zero Mosque
claim that the plan to build a prayer room in a community center near the site
of the WTC disaster is insensitive, inappropriate and disrespectful.
Sep 1, 2010, 00:14
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reveals the hidden battle for your mind • Lebanese army: Israel using espionage
balloons • Netanyahu allies lobby U.S. to support more settlements • More . . .
Sep 1, 2010, 00:12
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Analysis
The politics of terror as the business of terror: The greatest covert operation ever
By Douglas Valentine
The politics of terror are the greatest covert
operation ever.
Aug 31, 2010, 00:22
Analysis
Wikileaks’ CIA release -- say what?
By Michael Collins
Wikileaks offered its first release since the
controversial distribution of documents related to the United States effort in
Afghanistan.
Aug 31, 2010, 00:20
Commentary
Will Ohio execute an innocent man?
By Mary Shaw
Here we go again, this time in Ohio.
Aug 31, 2010, 00:18
Reclaiming America
Brightmoor: Detroit’s unnatural disaster and the need to rebuild America
By Bob Fitrakis
On Saturday, I marched with ten thousand people
in downtown Detroit demanding “Good Jobs Now” as part of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s “Rebuild
America” rally. I then visited my desolate boyhood westside Detroit
neighborhood, Brightmoor, to remind myself what happens when an advanced nation
foolishly refuses to have an industrial policy. Brightmoor was a thriving
community in post-World War II society, when we actually manufactured things at
home instead of outsourcing them to oppressive Third World regimes.
Aug 31, 2010, 00:14
Commentary
Too early to write off the new Israel-Palestine talks? An answer to journalist Aluf Benn’s empty words
By John Chuckman
Too
early to write off direct talks?
Aug 31, 2010, 00:12
Analysis
WikiLeaks’ CIA Red Cell memo: Orwellian mindset exposed
By Larry Chin
The CIA
Red Cell memorandum released by WikiLeaks speaks volumes about the
doublethink, paranoia, deception, and delusion of the CIA itself.
Aug 30, 2010, 00:21
Analysis
Genocide denier running secret ops in Pakistan?
By Jayne Lyn Stahl
Two years ago, Duane Clarridge sat down to be
interviewed by John Pilger for Pilger’s series “The War on Democracy.”
Clarridge, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer was indicted in 1991
for his involvement in covering up the Iran-Contra affair, and retired from the
agency in 1987.
Aug 30, 2010, 00:19
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