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Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, and War "About the things one cannot speak about, one ought to remain silent," declared the famous philosopher Wittgenstein, and a colleague, Max Horkheimer, paraphrased him with regard to the phenomenon of fascism and its German variety, Nazism, by emphasizing...

Obsessed by personalities, they've forgotten what democracy is for The US media is gripped by election fever - but discusses the candidates' highs and lows rather than the real social issues Gary Younge in...

A Colossus of Failure The objectives of the oil wars may be non-negotiable, but that doesn't guarantee their successful achievement. The evidence suggests the contrary. As recently as January of 2005, the Associated Press expected construction of the Trans Afghan Pipeline to begin in 2006. So...

The Vishnu strategy Since 1991, according to Handicap International, the United States and Britain have dropped over 13 million cluster munitions on Iraq and strewn the countryside with more than 500 tons of toxic depleted uranium ammunition. Monday, February 05, 2007 By Conn Hallinan...

Iraqis Massacre Continues... Gideon Polya February 2, 2007 ImageAs we approach the Fourth Anniversary of the illegal Anglo-American-Australian-Coalition invasion of Iraq, we must again ask the question what is the total number of post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that...

Bush’s mercenaries in Iraq By By Jeremy Scahill As US President George W. Bush took the podium to deliver his State of the Union address last Tuesday, five American families...

Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski’s warnings of war against Iran? By Barry Grey in Washington DC 3 February 2007 The major national newspapers and most broadcast outlets failed even to report Thursday’s stunning testimony by former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski...

Who are we? Saturday, 03 February 2007 By Charles Bear Who are we, the empty men and women of America, the cowards who deny we are imperialist and deny we’re trying to remake the world in our image. We have...

As discussed by CNN's Lou Dobbs: "Judicial Watch Releases Pentagon Records from "North American Forum" Meetings: Defense Secretary, Senior Military and Staff Met with Mexican & Canadian Officials over "Continental Prosperity in the New Security Environment" (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the...

Market Fundamentalism Longview's project on Market Fundamentalism is intended as a resource to explain what Market Fundamentalism is, examine its impact on politics and policy, and provide powerful critiques of its key arguments...

Documentary exposes ugly secret of colonialism in Canada JOAN DELANEY PEJ News January 29, 20007 According to Kevin Annett, co-writer and producer of Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada’s Genocide, the time has come for Canadians to learn the truth about what really happened to the...

Christianists on the March http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070128_christianists_on_the_march/ Posted on Jan 28, 2007 By Chris Hedges Chris Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School and worked for many years as a foreign...

Torture Sours U.S.-Canadian Right-wing Lovefest By Sarah Anderson, AlterNet Posted on January 29, 2007, Printed on January 29, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/47331/ A U.S. Ambassador lashed out against a foreign official last week for standing up to the Bush Administration - and it...

1920 Revolution Brigade is an insurgence group in Iraq that has previously seized foreigners working with U.S. forces. The name of the group refers to an uprising against the British after World War I. They are the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Iraq), which is known to be an...

Tehran: 00:49 , 2007/01/24 Tehran Times Opinion Column, Jan. 24 Breaking the cycle of violence TEHRAN, Jan. 24 (MNA) -- The sectarian violence in Iraq has...

Medicare for All: The Only Sound Solution to Our Healthcare Crisis By Guy T. Saperstein, AlterNet Posted on January 16, 2007, Printed on January 21, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/46550/ We all know that America's healthcare system is collapsing. Andy Stern has written that America's...

full text of declaration on fifth anniversary of SCO font size ZoomIn ZoomOut Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on Thursday issued a declaration on its fifth anniversary of founding. The following is the full text of the document: Declaration on the Fifth Anniversary...

Weekend Edition June 10 / 11, 2006 Pot Shots Tylenol Toxicity Terror By FRED GARDNER The "therapeutic ratio" of a drug compares the amount required to produce harmful effects with the amount required to provide benefit. The therapeutic ratio of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Dead Again Kurt Nimmo zarqawi700.jpg June 8, 2006 Let’s see. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the phantom terrorist with super-human powers, was killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq, and then he was killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, followed by a death...