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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger)
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Feb. 24, 2011 (truth-out.org) -- Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers ...
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Till September: The PA’s Meaningless Deadlines (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 25, 2011 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the ...
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All-American Decline in a New World: Wars, Vampires, Burned Children, and Indelicate Imbalances (Tom Engelhardt)
Feb. 24, 2011 (Tom Dispatch) -- This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. Yes, comparisons can be made to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet ...
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Leslie Gelb’s unconventional wisdom (Jim Miles)
Leslie Gelb Feb. 22, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- In its Fortieth Anniversary special issue, Foreign Policy magazine (now owned by the Washington Post) presents a series of articles titled ...
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U.S. Veto: Speaking With Forked-tongue (Jim Miles)
"U.S. vetoes UN vote on settlements" --al-Jazeera, Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 Feb. 19, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- It is common within early U.S. history to describe the communications from the white ...
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Revolution Handbook for Americans (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 20, 2011 -- As recently presented, there is global respect for and use of the classic and brilliant work by Gene Sharp “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” ...
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Global Systemic Crisis / World Geopolitical Breakup – End Of 2011: Fall Of The “Petro-Dollar Wall” And A Major Monetary-Oil Shock For The US (LEAP/E2020)
Feb. 16, 2011 -- Public announcement GEAB N°52 (LEAP/E2020) -- With this issue our team is celebrating two important anniversaries in anticipation terms. Exactly five years ago, in February 2006, ...
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‘From the Gulf to the Ocean’: The Middle East is Changing (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 17, 2011 -- Now that the Egyptian people have finally wrestled their freedom from the hands of a very stubborn regime, accolades to the revolution are pouring ...
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BOOKS: Gaza in Crisis -- Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians. By Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe (Jim Miles)
Gaza in Crisis -- Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians. Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe. Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2010. Feb. 16, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- When two of the most ...
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America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President (Ray McGovern)
Feb. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk ...
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House Derails Extending Anti-Terrorist Provisions (James Rowley)
Feb. 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- House Republicans failed to muster the votes needed to extend for nine months the government’s authority to conduct roving wiretaps of suspected terrorists, along with ...
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