Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions
by Glenn Greenwald
on September 06, 2012
Jeju Island Base Divides Korean, International Green Groups
by Jon Letman
on August 23, 2012
By
Jon Letman,
Inter Press Service News via
Truthout.org
Kauai, Hawaii - As construction of a hotly contested naval base on South Korea's Jeju Island advances, there's a showdown underway.
The Most Sickening TV Show in History
by John Eskow
on August 21, 2012
"See Them Burn! Hear Them Scream!"
by JOHN ESKOW,
CounterPunch
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Michael Moore and Oliver Stone Back Ecuador and Assange
by Michael Moore and Oliver Stone
on August 21, 2012
From the New York Times
WE have spent our careers as filmmakers making the case that the news media in the United States often fail to inform Americans about the uglier actions of our own government. We therefore have been deeply grateful for the accomplishments of WikiLeaks, and applaud Ecuador’s decision to grant diplomatic asylum to its founder, Julian Assange, who is now living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
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Veterans For Peace Appeals to Non-Alignment Movement Leaders: Stop War, Stop Sanctions on Iran
by Leah Bolger
on August 20, 2012
Peaceful Action Urged on Iran Crisis
With the Non-Aligned Movement meeting this week in Tehran, Veterans For Peace is urging the organization of 120 nations not formally allied with any major power bloc to take steps to deter the Israeli-American threats of war against Iran over its nuclear enrichment program.
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My Visit to a London Embassy Under Threat
by Jeff Cohen
on August 20, 2012
By Jeff Cohen
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As Social Security Turns 77, the Most Successful Program in American History is Under Fierce Attack
by Senator Bernie Sanders
on August 14, 2012
By Senator Bernie Sanders
BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 14 – “We are now in the midst of the fiercest and best-financed attack against Social Security in our lifetimes,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) warned today on the 77th anniversary of the most successful program in the modern history of the United States. “Hundreds of millions of dollars are now being spent to destroy Social Security and endanger the well-being of millions of Americans. We must not allow that effort to succeed.”
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Nine Nobel Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel "Stars Earn Stripes"
by David Swanson
on August 13, 2012
Source
An Open Letter to Mr. Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, General Wesley Clark (ret.), Producer Mark Burnett and others involved in “Stars Earn Stripes”:
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Why Afghanistan Can't Wait
by Kathy Kelly and Hakim
on August 07, 2012
By Kathy Kelly and Dr. Hakim
Two days ago, we spent three anxious hours in an outer waiting area of the "Non-Immigrant Visa" section of the U.S. consulate here in Kabul, Afghanistan, waiting for our young friends Ali and Abdulhai to return from a sojourn through the inner offices where they were being interviewed for visas to come speak to audiences in the United States.
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Robert Fisk: Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy
by Robert Fisk
on August 01, 2012
By Robert Fisk, the Independent
Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy? A war of such cowardice and such mean morality, of such false rhetoric and such public humiliation? I'm not talking about the physical victims of the Syrian tragedy. I'm referring to the utter lies and mendacity of our masters and our own public opinion – eastern as well as western – in response to the slaughter, a vicious pantomime more worthy of Swiftian satire than Tolstoy or Shakespeare.
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