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This video (especially the beginning) is quite disturbing and is not for the faint of heart (you’ve been warned). It is however very powerful in making it’s point – that we’ve all been programmed, lied to and bamboozled throughout our lives – programmed to be ignorant of the real issues that matter; to think...
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WSWS
11/21/09
A three-judge panel of a US federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of outspoken civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart, convicted in 2005 of assisting terrorism by transmitting the contents of a press statement by her client, the blind Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, in 2000. Also convicted at that time were Ahmed...
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Blacklisted News
11/21/09
By Aaron Levitt
Aaron Levitt is a member and past board member of West End Synagogue in Manhattan, a member of Jews Against the Occupation (JATO), and is presently Director of Research at a large New York City social services agency. Levitt has been working in support of a just peace in Israel/Palestine for...
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Anti-War.com
11/21/09
By Jason Ditz
Speaking today at the Air Force Association conference in Los Angeles, Strategic Command commander General Kevin Chilton urged the US to invest more money into developing new nuclear weapons and improved weapons laboratories.
Calling the existing infrastructure “decrepit,” Chilton urged a far-reaching modernization process that would bring America’s weapons of mass destruction into...
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AP
11/20/09
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.
The shooting in busy Nisoor Square left 17 Iraqis dead and inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad. It touched off a string of investigations...
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Times Online
11/21/09
By David Brown
Claims that British soldiers tortured and murdered up to 20 prisoners after a battle with Iraqi insurgents are to be scrutinised at a public inquiry.
Concern that the Army covered up the most serious accusation of war crimes that it has faced has prompted Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, to order the...
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