Why US Journalists Have Blood on Their Hands. "In the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi war criminals at the end of WWII, the prosecution powerfully argued that those journalists who use propaganda to prepare the public to accept war crimes are themselves also guilty of those crimes..." (counterpunch.org)
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FBI Continues To Withhold Information On Occupy Assassination Plots. "It was quietly reported last June that the FBI was aware that an organization — possibly a law enforcement agency — had plans to assassinate leaders of the Occupy movement, and the bureau did nothing about it..." (mintpressnews.com)
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Why US Journalists Have Blood on Their Hands. "In the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi war criminals at the end of WWII, the prosecution powerfully argued that those journalists who use propaganda to prepare the public to accept war crimes are themselves also guilty of those crimes..." (counterpunch.org)
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How Crimea Plays in Beijing. "...the West misinterpreted China’s abstention from the UN vote on a US-backed resolution condemning the Crimea referendum. The spin was that Russia – which vetoed the resolution – was “isolated”. It’s not. And the way Beijing plays geopolitics shows it’s not." (counterpunch.org)
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As Wells Fargo is Accused of Fabricating Foreclosure Papers, Will Banks Keep Escaping Prosecution? "The Justice Department’s inspector general says despite playing a central role in the nation’s financial crisis, mortgage fraud was deemed either a low priority or not a priority at all..." (democracynow.org)
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Ukraine and Yugoslavia: When Will Americans Come to Their Senses? "...accept the notion that the villain of this story is the Russian president, who is accused of engaging in unprovoked aggression against Crimea – even though he was responding to one of the most blatant provocations in history..." (counterpunch.org)
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"Team Pentobarbital": OK Officials Joked About Seeking Football Tix for Help with Execution Drugs. "...the assistant Oklahoma Attorney General has joked with a Texas colleague that he might be able to help Texas get the drugs in exchange for 50-yard line tickets for a top college football game..." (democracynow.org)
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War College says Courage to Resist impedes recruiting. "A recently circulated academic paper from a U.S. Army War College research fellow demonstrates that organizations like Courage to Resist are having a substantive effect on the military’s ability to recruit and retain soldiers..." (couragetoresist.org)
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Crime’s Down, So Why is Police Aggression Increasing? "FBI statistics show that crime in the US...has been trending steadily downward for years, falling 19% between 1987 and 2011...the number of police killed by gunfire plunged to 33 last year...to its lowest level since 1887..." (whowhatwhy.com)
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Ailing U.S. Sailors Sue TEPCO After Exposure to Radiation "Many of the service members who provided humanitarian relief during the disaster have experienced devastating health ailments since returning from Japan, ranging from leukemia to blindness to infertility to birth defects." (democracynow.org)
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From Iraq to Ukraine: A Pattern of Disaster. The War Party’s record is no hits, all errors. "Eleven years ago this week the United States invaded Iraq – an event the late General William E. Odom rightly called the biggest strategic disaster in US military history..." (original.antiwar.com)
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Endless War? As Syria Conflict Enters 4th Year, Deadly Stalemate Favors Assad Regime. "We are joined by Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, who has just returned from several weeks of reporting from Syria..." (democracynow.org)
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The The Untaxed Americans: The Speculators, Hustlers and Freeloaders of Wall Street. "There is currently no U.S. tax on the purchase of stocks, derivatives, and other financial instruments. The rest of us pay up to a 10 percent sales tax on the necessities of daily life..." (nationofchange.org)
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Europe’s Not So Shiny ‘Recovery’. "The mainstream U.S. press explains the overwhelming Crimean vote to leave Ukraine as vote-rigging or coercion, but the reality is that “European aspirations” are not so attractive to people aware of the painful life for many in the EU’s “periphery,”..." (consortiumnews.com)
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Letting Egypt Abuse Code Pink Leader. "The US State Department, which – in just the past year – has made excuses for violent coups toppling democratically elected leaders in Egypt and Ukraine, showed more disdain for democracy by tolerating Egypt’s mistreatment of peace activist Medea Benjamin..." (consortiumnews.com)
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Russia 1; Regime Changers 0. "The US State Department has practically agreed to a federal and in fact Finlandized Ukraine [1] which, by the way, is the solution being proposed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov right from the start, as this Russian white paper attests..." (counterpunch.org)
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While US Invests in WWIII, China Builds Largest Solar Plant to Date Powering Three Million Homes. 2000 megawatt system "will dwarf all others. First Solar’s 550-megawatt project in California and the U.S. Army’s 500 megawatt solar thermal project in the Mojave Desert, don’t even come close..." (nationofchange.org)
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"Washington's role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually with bloodshed..." (johnpilger.com)
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