Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday 28 April 2013


Week in Review: NATO’s Global Warfare, US-Sponsored Terrorism and WMD Lies

Global Research, April 28, 2013


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Fukushima’s Catastrophic Aftermath: The Dangers of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation, Stephen Lendman, April 28, 2013
In her book titled “No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth,” nuclear power/environmental health expert Rosalie Bertell (1929 – 2012) said: “Should the public discover the true health cost(s) of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts...

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UK MoD confirms British Reaper drones in Afghanistan being controlled from RAF Waddington, Chris Cole, April 27, 2013
The UK MoD has today confirmed that British drones over Afghanistan are now being controlled from the UK. For the first time UK forces can remotely control armed drones over Afghanistan while sitting in air conditioned trailers at RAF Waddington in...

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NATO’s Worldwide Expansion in the Post-Cold World Era, Rick Rozoff, April 27, 2013
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization which no longer borders the Atlantic Ocean, is well advanced in its U.S.-crafted mission to expand into history’s largest and first international military bloc and an unprecedented threat to world peace.

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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Syria, Replicating the Iraq WMD 2003 Scenario, Stephen Lendman, April 27, 2013
What’s ongoing now bears eerie resemblance to events preceding Bush’s Iraq war. Obama’s replicating a familiar scenario. Waging war requires a pretext to do so. When none exists, it’s invented. It’s easy. Lies substitute for truth. Claims about Syria using...

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Did the Military and Police Go Too Far in Locking Down Boston and Conducting Door-to-Door Searches?, Washington’s Blog, April 27, 2013
Senator Rand Paul and other congressmen said they would have approved of armed drones going in as well to help take out the suspect. We have no idea yet whether or not the suspect is in fact guilty of terrorism...

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Boston Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Alive and Uninjured When Taken Into Custody. Now He is Dead, Global Research News, April 27, 2013
by Thehonestintelligence.blogspot.ca (Photo – WARNING – GRAPHIC)
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Suffered a gunshot wound to the throat when he was arrested; how convenient that he can now, no longer speak. His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was arrested after being ordered to remove...

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Cut Through the Spin: It’s Time for Truth in Media, Global Research, April 27, 2013
Terrorism... Military invasions... Resources wars... We can call it what we want, but the bottom line is that there is no end to greed until we stand up and say “enough is enough”. In fact, it’s too much. The drums...

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New Sanctions Begin: South Korea’s Samsung announces its “Online Store” will not Operate in Iran, Timothy Alexander Guzman, April 26, 2013
Samsung, the South Korean multinational company headquartered in Seoul just announced that its online store will not operate in Iran as of May 22, 2013. The Associated Press report titled ‘Samsung to block access to app store in Iran’ that...

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Israel’s “Begin Highway” Serves the Expansion of Illegal Settlements in Occupied Palestine, Global Research News, April 26, 2013
The Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem and the Ministry of Transport are currently undertaking large-scale construction work in Beit Safafa, occupied East Jerusalem, in order to complete a highway (“Begin Highway”) that will serve the expansion of Israel’s the illegal settlements...

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Boston and Venezuela: Terrorism There and Here, Prof. James Petras, April 26, 2013
Introduction Two major terrorists’ attacks took place almost simultaneously: in Boston, two alleged Chechen terrorists set off bombs during the annual Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring 170; in Venezuela, terrorist-supporters of defeated presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, assassinated 8...

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The Fueling of Unrest in Syria, Israel’s Territorial Ambitions, Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, April 26, 2013
For some time now, the predominant narrative about Syria has been that the unrest has been fueled in order to weaken Iran. This prevalent account is common to neoconservatives and liberals alike. While The New York Times trumpeted Israeli-firsters Senators...

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The Ties That Bind Washington to Chechen Terrorists, Wayne Madsen, April 26, 2013
To scan the list of major American supporters of the Chechen secessionist movement, which at some points can hardly be distinguished from Chechen terrorists financed by U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, is to be reminded of some of the...

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Buying Up Newspapers: It’s the Media, Stupid!, Robert Parry, April 26, 2013
Rich right-wingers, including the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, are eying the purchase of the Los Angeles Times and other major regional newspapers to create an even bigger platform for their propaganda, a media strategy that dates back several decades....
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Global Warfare: NATO Has Become a Worldwide Military Expeditionary Force, Rick Rozoff, April 26, 2013
NATO buys the loyalty of sovereign states and in return demands fighting forces that have been engaged on three continents in the last decade, Rick Rozoff, from STOP NATO has told RT. Video at URL below: http://rt.com/ op-edge/nato- global-expeditio nary-force-...

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Boston Bombing: FBI Responsibility for US Terror Plots?, Stephen Lendman, April 26, 2013
Boston’s marathon bombings leave disturbing questions unanswered. Official accounts lack credibility. Mounting evidence suggests FBI responsibility. Project Censored’s fourth top 2013 censored story headlined “FBI Agents Responsible for Majority of Terrorist Plots in the United States.” More on that below....

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Boston Bombers’ Links to US Intelligence: Tamerlan was Well Known to Both the CIA and the FBI, Joseph Kishore, April 26, 2013
Information coming to light about the background of the Boston Marathon bombings raises many questions about the relationship of US intelligence agencies to the alleged bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. It is now clear that the older brother, Tamerlan, who...

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Europe’s Economic Crisis: Unemployment hits Record Highs in Spain, France, Alex Lantier, April 26, 2013
According to figures published yesterday, the number of unemployed workers in Spain and France has reached all-time highs, as Europe’s economic collapse accelerates under the impact of the global economic crisis and austerity measures imposed throughout the continent. In Spain,...

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The Boston Bombing Web of Lies, Julie Lévesque, April 26, 2013
The Boston Globe confirmed that suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was in custody, contradicting reports that he had been killed in crossfire. If he was in custody and is now dead, does that not suggest that he might have been the object of an extrajudicial assassination?

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Central Banking with “Other People’s Gold”: A Multi-billion Treasure Trove in Lower Manhattan, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 26, 2013
Germany is repatriating its gold reserves from the New York Federal Reserve. This decision has created a frenzy in the gold market. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. According to the NY Fed, there are (2012) approximately...

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Boston Truth: Both FBI & CIA Watched Boston Bombing Suspects for Years, Tony Cartalucci, April 26, 2013
FBI & CIA now admit to putting Boston bombing suspect on 2 “watch lists,” directly contradicting previous public statements. CIA most likely sponsored suspect’s trips to meet US-backed terrorists in Chechnya, Russia. April 25, 2013 (LD) – It is now...

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Dance on Thatcher’s Grave, But Remember There Has Been a Coup in BritainJohn Pilger, April 25, 2013
In the wake of Thatcher’s departure, I remember her victims. Patrick Warby’s daughter, Marie, was one of them. Marie, aged five, suffered from a bowel deformity and needed a special diet. Without it, the pain was excruciating. Her father was...

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Fabricated Intelligence and the WMD Pretext: Obama Heads Closer Closer to War on Syria, Stephen Lendman, April 25, 2013
A previous article discussed spurious allegations of Syrian chemical weapons use. Obama calls using them a “game changer.” He also said their use crosses a “red line.” Syrian officials categorically deny using them. According to Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi: “Even...

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Dramatic Growth in Social Inequality in America. Poverty Increases During an “Economic Recovery”, Ed Hightower, April 25, 2013
A study by the Pew Research Center reveals an enormous growth in social inequality in the United States between 2009 and 2011. The figures give expression to the impact of the Obama administration’s policy of bailing out the banks while...

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Everyone’s Talking about “False Flags ... Isn’t that Another Bogus Historical Conspiracy Theory?, Washington’s Blog, April 25, 2013
Forget Boston, 9/11 and Oklahoma City ... Is False Flag Terror Even a REAL Historical Concept? Forget Boston, 9/11 and Oklahoma City ... Is False Flag Terrorism Even a REAL Concept? More people are using the term “false flag” than...

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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Syria: As NATO Terror Front Collapses, US Drums Up Familiar WMD Lies, Tony Cartalucci, April 25, 2013
The last two weeks have seen a series of victories for the Syrian Army across Syria. It appears that 2 full companies of so-called “Free Syrian Army” fighters have been annihilated near Damascus, while government forces have restored order in...

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Is Kissing a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” a “Terrorist Act”?, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 25, 2013
There are now “‘good guy terrorists” and “bad guy terrorists”. John Kerry concurs: financial aid to Syria’s Al Nusra, an affiliate of Al Qaeda is part of NATO’s “Responsibility to Protect” mandate.

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Boston Lockdown: The New York Times Endorses U.S. Police State, David Brown and Barry Grey, April 25, 2013
The New York Times published an editorial Monday that not only endorses last week’s police-military lockdown of Boston, but suggests that it was entirely consistent with democratic procedures. In “How to Handle a Terrorism Case,” the Times makes the absurd...

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Boston Truth: The Suspects – Who Is Behind Al Qaeda?, Bonnie Faulkner and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 25, 2013
The Boston Marathon bombings; the Chechen connection; media disinformation; US support of al Qaeda and the Chechen jihad; the consolidation of the American police state; the geopolitical implications of the bombings; home grown terrorism; two brothers accused of being the...

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Canadian Government unveils “Terror Plot” as it Adopts Draconian New Law, Keith Jones, April 24, 2013
Canadian authorities boasted Monday afternoon that, working in concert with the FBI and other US national security agencies, they had broken up a terrorist conspiracy involving an Iranian-based al-Qaeda cell. The announcement, made at a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)...

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US Ramps up Plans for Military Intervention in Syria, Joseph Kishore, April 24, 2013
The United States and the major European powers are escalating plans for a direct military intervention in Syria.The aim of US maneuvers, including a flurry of diplomatic visits this week, is to secure the downfall of Syrian President Bashar...

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BP Spills Coffee, Global Research News, April 24, 2013
by UCB Comedy This is humor, but at the same time it tells us something important about corporate decision making and environmental degradation...A small spill on a very large table...Its encroaching on my map of Louisiana It will...

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Was Boston Bomber “Radicalized” at a U.S. Sponsored Counterterrorism Workshop, Washington’s Blog, April 24, 2013
Who Radicalized the Boston Bomber? Just as the U.S. supported Bin Laden and the precursor of Al Qaeda in order to fight the Soviets, the U.S. has supported Chechen terrorists in order to fight Russia. Today, Russian newspaper Izvestia alleges...

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“Heading Towards a Collision Course”: Will Israel Attack Iran with America’s Blessing by the End of this Year?, Timothy Alexander Guzman, April 24, 2013
Hagel’s statement allows Israel to make the decision to attack Iran, if it feels threatened. New sanctions through draft Senate legislation is expected to pass both houses of congress by the end of this month.

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“Walls of Shame”: The World of Walls, Security Zones and Electrified Fences, Global Research News, April 24, 2013
Global Research Editor’s Note There are many walls and Apartheid security fences in different regions of the World. This collection by Arthur Kalmeyer which includes selected maps and photos was originally published in Russian. Edited by Global Research ...

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No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation, Matthias Chang, April 24, 2013
By law, in the insolvency of a bank, you as an unsecured creditor stand last in the queue of creditors to be paid out of any funds and or assets which the bank has to pay its creditors.

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Time to Renounce the “War on Terror”, Norman Solomon, April 24, 2013
As a perpetual emotion machine — producing and guzzling its own political fuel — the “war on terror” continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death. Ongoing warfare has become a matter of default routine,...

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Nicolas Maduro did not Steal the Venezuelan Elections, Greg Palast, April 24, 2013
The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver. Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers’...

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Israeli Weapons Exports to Brazil, Soraya Misleh, April 24, 2013
Image: Brazilian soldier at the 2009 Latin American Aerospace and Defense (LAAD) fair “PASSPORT!” demanded the Israeli security guard in English as he approached demonstrators at the Latin American Aerospace and Defense (LAAD) fair, which took place April 9-12 at...

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Building a Pretext for an All Out War against Syria? Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use, Stephen Lendman, April 24, 2013
New allegations claim Syrian chemical weapons use. We’ve heard similar ones before. Obama calls using them a “game changer.” He also said their use crosses a “red line.” Syrian officials are unequivocal. Weeks earlier, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad spoke...

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Oil Geopolitics in the Horn of Africa: Somaliland DNO Oil Deal Adds Fuel to the Conflict in North Somalia, Mahdi Ali, April 24, 2013
The secessionist state of Somaliland has signed a production sharing agreement with DNO, a Norwegian oil and gas company.
The president of the secessionist state of Somaliland Ahmed M. Mohamoud Silanyo and Executive Chairman, Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani attended the signing ceremony...

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Political Opportunism. The Boston Marathon Tragedy Used as a Pretext To Extend the “Global War on Terrorism”, Colin Todhunter, April 24, 2013
In a 2011 interview for an Australian TV channel, US Republican Senator John McCain talked about Islamic extremism ‘spreading’ if left unchecked by military intervention in Afghanistan and elsewhere (1). In the same interview, he spoke of the US having...

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The Roots of Terror: FBI’s Fingerprints All Over the Boston Bombings, Bill Van Auken, April 24, 2013
Within days of the bombings in Boston, massive contradictions have opened up in the official accounts given by the Obama administration, the FBI and other state agencies as to how this terrorist attack transpired. As in so many previous cases,...

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High Tech Surveillance: U.S. Internal Revenue Snooping Social Media and Emails Without Warrant, Clarence Walker, April 24, 2013
Americans have a big problem with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service). If anyone discuss the filing of tax return in their emails the IRS may be monitoring what you say to see if you may be trying to cheat on...

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The “Criminalisation” of International Criminal Justice, Alexander Mezyaev, April 23, 2013
On April 10 the United Nations General Assembly held its first ever and rather unique debate on the role of the international criminal justice system in fostering reconciliation. It summed up and assessed the twenty year experience of international criminal...

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Canadian “Aid” Designed to Maintain Western Capitalist Dominance of the Global South, Yves Engler, April 23, 2013
The Canadian International Development Agency is no longer. In its recent budget the Conservative government collapsed CIDA into Foreign Affairs, creating the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. While there was plenty of commentary on the Tories’ move, no...

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“Splitting the Sky” and Aboriginal Rights in Canada, Michael Welch and Anthony Hall, April 23, 2013
Hall explains that there has been a shift in conservative politics in Canada away from what he calls the indigenous conservatism of Canada toward a more US Republican-style neo-conservatism typified by an emphasis on low taxes, less government, increased military...

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Militarization of Africa: AFRICOM to Deploy “Rapid Reaction” Strike Force in Spain directed against West Africa, Timothy Alexander Guzman, April 23, 2013
In early April, The United States and the Spanish government agreed to station AFRICOM’s “Rapid Reaction” strike force to Moron de la Frontera air base for one year. It involves 500 marines and 8 aircraft that will be used to...

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A Tale of Two Cities: Tragic Aftermath of the Explosion at Fertilizer Company in West, Texas, Barry Grey, April 23, 2013
The April 15 bombings in Boston continue to dominate the American media. The twin blasts near the finish line of the city’s annual marathon killed three people and wounded over 170 more, many seriously. But a more deadly and destructive...

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Boston Bombing: 19 Year Student Suspect Gets Death Penalty Charge, Bill Van Auken, April 23, 2013
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was formally charged Monday with use of and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, a federal offense that carries the death penalty. The twin...

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“Boston on the Tigris”: Iraq’s Unreported Terror Event. Twenty-six Car Bombs..., Dirk Adriaensens, April 23, 2013
Iraq’s Black Monday While on 15 April the whole world was focused on the Boston marathon blasts, at least 79 people were killed, and over three hundred others injured – mostly civilians – in a series of bombings and armed...

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Campaign to Save the Life of Lynne Stewart, Global Research News, April 23, 2013
As the campaign builds, Lynne Stewart’s condition has taken a concerning turn for the worse. Her white blood cell count has dropped sharply. Lynne is in isolation currently and will be sent to a Fort Worth hospital for tests. This...

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The Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA): U.S. Dictating Canada’s Intellectual Property Laws, Dana Gabriel, April 23, 2013
In March, the Canadian government introduced a bill that would bring about sweeping changes to its copyright and trademark laws. This includes giving more power to customs and border protection agents without any judicial oversight. The move is intended to...

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Terrorists “R” Us, Stephen Lendman, April 23, 2013
State-sponsored terrorism defines US policy. Doublespeak duplicity conceals it. Doublethink manipulates public opinion to ignore inconvenient truths. Howard Zinn once asked: “How can you make war on terrorism if war is terrorism?” Waging war on terrorism “gives government a perpetual...

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Mounting Opposition to Drone Warfare, Chris Cole, April 23, 2013
US drones struck in Yemen and Pakistan this past week after something of a pause. On Weds (17 April) US drones hit a house in North Waziristan killing five people including an alleged commander of the Pakistan Taliban, On...

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Why Does America Media Continue to Honour Henry Kissinger?, Patrick Henningsen, April 23, 2013
It’s no surprise in 2013 to see the government media complex try it’s very best to preserve the delicate legacies of lauded members of the political establishment. Look how much effort was poured into the media eulogies for Margaret Thatcher...

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Who is Behind “Al Qaeda in Iran”?, Tony Cartalucci, April 23, 2013
As the FBI reels from what now appears to be revelations it was directly involved in the Boston Marathon bombings, a deluge of FBI “success” stories have been “serendipitously” splashed across Western headlines. Among them was an allegedly “foiled” terror...

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Martial Law in Boston: American Democracy in Shambles, Barry Grey, April 23, 2013
With the imposition of a state of siege in Boston, a historical threshold has been crossed. For the first time ever, a major American city has been placed under the equivalent of martial law. The already frayed veneer of a...

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Boston Terror Narrative Starts Falling Apart, Washington’s Blog, April 23, 2013
Chechen Brothers Did NOT Rob 7-11
We have no idea whether or not the Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were the Boston terrorists. But several parts of the official narrative are already falling apart. Initially, the claim that they...

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The European Homeland Security State. EU Anti-Terror Drills and Fear Campaigns, R. Teichmann, April 23, 2013
The events of 9/11 in the US not only led to the attack on several sovereign nations but the government under George W. Bush established the so called “Homeland Security” and proceeded to implement plans to curtail civil rights. First...

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The Global War on Terrorism? America’s Wars “in Support” of Al Qaeda, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 23, 2013
The United States government has been at war for eleven years. The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check by the secular Saddam Hussein...

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Guatemala: Historic Genocide Trial against Former Dictator. Court Procedures Disrupted, J. B. Gerald, April 23, 2013
Current Guatemalan president, Otto Pérez Molina, was formerly “Major Tito,” a field commander allegedly responsible for acts of genocide against Ixil Indians in 1982. Currently under “Presidential immunity”, a status not permitted by the Convention on Genocide, the Guatemalan President...

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The Robot Revolution, Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, April 23, 2013
Just as we are seeing climate chaos change to climate catastrophe, we may also see job chaos change to job catastrophe. We are entering an era of technological change which has the potential to create havoc in an already seriously...

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The Boston Bombings and the FBI: “Official Tsarnaev Story Makes No Sense”, Craig Murray, April 22, 2013
According to Craig Murray (photo: below), former US Ambassador, human rights activist and whistle blower the FBI’s inflated profile of their prime suspect in the Boston Bombing ‘does not make sense”. Will Eric Holder and the US Department of Justice...

VIDEO: Bosnia to Libya: 20 Years of NATO 'Peacemaking'
The War on Libya: A Grand Display of NATO’s Lynch Mob Mentality, Dan Glazebrook, April 22, 2013
Review of Maximilian Forte’s powerful new book, “Slouching Toward Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa” (now available to order from Global Research). This book presents a withering indictment of liberal humanitarianism and its collusion in imperialist designs on Africa,...