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Oil in Haiti – Economic Reasons for the UN/US Occupation

From the Pakalert Press blog, an October 2009 article by Marguerite Laurent: There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big...

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The Virginia Colonists at Jamestown Practiced Cannibalism

Another chapter from my book 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know, inspired by historian Howard Zinn, who passed away earlier this year. For more me, check out: The Memory Hole....

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Many Are Dying For Our Having Hoped Obama Would Not Practice Imperialism

In retrospect, does it not sound terribly naive that we would hope a U.S. president whose candidacy was selected and backed by our most powerful bankers would be permitted, just maybe, perhaps by...

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Playground Politics: Geopolitics Made Simple By Children, On a Playground...

From HBO’s Funny Or Die Presents, the lesson learned from this episode featuring the USA and Africa is: “If you have natural resources, then you’ll receive food.”

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Stephen Hawking: Aliens Might Kill Us All

Jonathan Leake writes in the Times: The aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist —...

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Ex-Canadian Defense Minister Says Aliens Have Visited Earth: Hawking Is Wrong...

CTV News reports: Stephen Hawking’s warnings of an alien invasion have prompted a vigorous defence of extraterrestrials by their most prominent Canadian fan. Former federal defence minister Paul...

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The American Military’s New Fiefdom: Egypt

With the American military as its greatest benefactor, the Egyptian military has assumed control of the day-to-day functions of government, but which direction will this force take and who under whose...

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Juan Cole: Libya Is Not Iraq

Is the bombing of Libya Obama’s Iraq redux? Informed Comment says no, laying out the factors that make the Libyan intervention ethical, non-imperialist, and fundamentally different from Bush’s 2003...

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The Human Agency of Revolution

Scholar Tarak Barkawi argues revolutions are caused by human agency; not telecommunications technologies, in Al Jazeera: To listen to the hype about social networking websites and the Egyptian...

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Christopher Hitchens Vs. Noam Chomsky on Osama Bin Laden

Hitchens Photo: Trockennasenaffe (CC) / Chomsky Photo: Duncan Rawlinson (CC) Christopher Hitchens takes issue with Noam Chomsky’s recent Guernica article in Slate: Anybody visiting the Middle East in...

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Self-Hatred vs. Self-Love: An Interview with Eric Walberg

Gilad Atzmon writes on Media With Conscience: Two weeks ago I published a review of Eric Walberg’s invaluable new book Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games. I was left with a few...

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Media Roots Radio: Spying, Fear & Self-Censorship, Building Up Your Community

Via Media Roots: This discussion covers U.S. imperialism: wars, costs, media and government propaganda; the culture of fear, self-censorship and the erosion of privacy in the US; information as power...

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CIA-Linked General Poised to Win Guatemalan Presidential Election

Democracy Now! explores accusations of genocide against Presidential hopeful General Otto Molina Perez, and examines US foreign policy in Latin America with particular regard for the ongoing ‘War on...

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A Tear for Africa: Abduction and Reduction

Photo: Nasa (PD) From Maximilian Forte of Zero Anthropology, A photo and text essay examining the intersection of western hegemony and humanitarianism. Helpless, pleading, wanting, needing, small,...

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Who Owns The World?

Via Democracy Now

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The Boomerang Effect Of Domestic Colonization

Via the New Inquiry, Jacob Silverman on how methods of control developed in the War on Terror and previous imperialist endeavors return home to our own shores: In 1975 and 1976 Foucault argued that...

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US Empire of Bases: Destruction of Okinawa

Abby Martin goes over the effect of prolonged US military presence in bases all over the world, highlighting the case of Okinawa, Japan, which has hosted over 60 years of US occupation and thousands...

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Media Roots Radio – Obama’s Syrian War

On the latest edition of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin discuss how a new war against Syria seems all but inevitable. They talk about the eerily similar establishment rhetoric between the...

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The Baby and the Baath Water

In a piece for the BBC, Adam Curtis gives short history of American intervention in Syria, consisting largely of misguided attempts to foster democracy via military coup. In my opinion, this is...

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Media Roots Radio – Manufactured Agitprop on the World’s Stage

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the news of the day including a District Court judge forcing torture victims to pay their torturers’ legal fees; Latin American leaders standing up to US imperialism in...

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