Sep 07 2011
The imperial delusions of the United States By Robert Jensen, 07 Sep 2011 12:47 … Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, but it didn’t matter. Within hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was clear that political leaders were going to use the attacks to justify war …
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Sep 07 2011
9/11 – was there an alternative response? By Noam Chomsky, 7:46am, September 6, 2011 … We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a …
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Sep 07 2011
9/11 and its great transformations By Cliff Schecter, 07 Sep 2011 15:07 … On September 11th, 2001, on what was a perfect morning-right up until the very moment a Boeing 767-223-ER slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, I stood on the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets in downtown Manhattan. I …
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Sep 02 2011
For 10 years, we’ve lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 3 September 2011 … By their books, ye shall know them. I’m talking about the volumes, the libraries – nay, the very halls of literature – which the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001 have …
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Aug 31 2011
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 … A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an …
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Aug 30 2011
Algeria sends the West a message by taking in Gaddafi’s brood By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 … When the Emir of Qatar flew to see President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria early this summer, he had one message to convey: don’t help the Gaddafi regime. In other words, don’t replace the dictator’s Nato-destroyed armour …
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Aug 30 2011
Dick Cheney: organ grinder to George Bush’s monkey By Megan Carpentier, Tuesday 30 August 2011 18.30 BST … On 31 March 1981, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig sat down in the White House situation room after the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and declared himself the de facto president, a mistake – constitutionally …
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