War Is Peace. Ignorance Is Strength
John Pilger Lew Rockwell.com Friday, Oct 16th, 2009 Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons such as the innovative Hellfire missile, which sucks the air out of your lungs. According to the UN, 338,000 Afghan infants are dying under the Obama-led alliance, which permits only $29 per head annually to be spent on medical care
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The Imperial Presidency Marches On
David Swanson and Tom Engelhardt Campaign For Liberty Friday, Oct 16th, 2009 October 7th marked the eighth anniversary of the Bush administration’s invasion of Afghanistan and so of the… well, can we really call it a war?… that won’t end, that American commanders there now predict could last for another decade or more. And yet, here’s the weird thing: because Congress no longer actually declares war, we officially must be fighting something else entirely. Put another way, we are now heading for the longest undeclared war in U.S.
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Morales: US planning coups in L America
Press TV Monday, Sept 14th, 2009 The Bolivian president has accused the United States of planning coups in Latin America after Washington reached an agreement with Colombia over military bases.
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Europe’s Complicity in Evil
Paul Craig Roberts Lew Rockwell.com Wednesday, Sept 9th, 2009 Address to Mut zur Ethik Conference, “Sovereignty or Imperialism,” Feldkirch, Austria, September 5, 2009 There is a widespread supposition that Obama, being black and a member of an oppressed race, will imbue US foreign policy with a higher morality than the world experienced from Bush and Clinton. This is a delusion.
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Chavez says Obama “lost in space” on Latin America
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After Honduran coup, reporters detained, signals blocked
Committe to Protect Journalists Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Honduran military personnel briefly detained seven journalists, temporarily shut down several local broadcasters, and intermittently blocked the broadcast signals of international news channels in the aftermath of the weekend coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on those in power in Honduras to allow the press to report freely and without fear of reprisal.
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