Archive for July 19th, 2010
Inside the U.S. Intelligence and Security Behemoth
Washington Post | By Dana Priest & William M. Arkin | 19 July 2010 Read the story below Part I | Part II-A | Part II-B | Part III Go To Washington Post Website to: Watch the Intro Video | See the Map | Explore Connections Find Companies | Search the Data I. A hidden world growing beyond control These are some of the findings [...]
The Anxieties of White Christian Racists in America
New York Times | By Ross Douthat | 18 July 2010 The Roots of White Anxiety In March of 2000, Pat Buchanan came to speak at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. Harvard being Harvard, the audience hissed and sneered and made wisecracks. Buchanan being Buchanan, he gave as good as he got. While the assembled Ivy Leaguers accused him [...]
Syrian Alawites Ban the Muslim Veil
Ha'aretz | Associated Press | 19 July 2010 Syria bans Muslim face veils at universities Headscarves will still be permitted under new rules meant to defend the secular nature of the country. Syria has banned the face-covering Islamic veil from the country's universities, as similar moves in Europe spark cries of discrimination against [...]
U.S. Imperialism “South of the Border”
Consortium News | By Lisa Pease | 17 July 2010 Oliver Stone Under Assault Again Oliver Stone is under attack again, which isn’t a surprise, given that no other filmmaker has been so willing to challenge the “conventional wisdom” in an effort to uncover the facts about important events. After seeing what the media did to Stone for his [...]
Salinger, CIA, and how Zionists collaborated with Hitler and Mussolini
The People's Voice | By Katherine Smith | 14 July 2010 J. D. Salinger - With Love and Squalor, For Esmé This essay will explore the relationship of America’s most famous recluse to The CIA, George H.W. Bush and the MK-Ultra mind control program. In his celebrated story For Esmé – With Love and Squalor, Salinger, trying to get a [...]
Pakistan Governed by Tax Evaders
New York Times | By Sabrina Tavernise | 18 July 2010 Pakistan’s Elite Pay Few Taxes, Widening Gap ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Much of Pakistan’s capital city looks like a rich Los Angeles suburb. Shiny sport utility vehicles purr down gated driveways. Elegant multistory homes are tended by servants. Laundry is never hung out to dry. But [...]
Divide and Rule the Muslim World
Spiegel | By Alexander Smoltczyk and Bernhard Zand | 15 July 2010 Persian Isolation A Quiet Axis Forms Against Iran in the Middle East Israel and the Arab states near the Persian Gulf recognize a common threat: the regime in Tehran. A regional diplomat has not even ruled out support by the Arab states for a military strike to end [...]
Russian military adopts the unified command system
RIA Novosti | By Ilya Kranik | 15 July 2010 New command system for the Russian military The expected changes in the command structure of the Russian Armed Forces have become reality. Yesterday President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree establishing four unified strategic commands to be based in four new military districts. Command West, [...]
Killer drones: Where’s the accountability?
AZ Daily Sun | By Nat Hentoff | 14 July 2010 When the Obama administration officially declared that an American citizen -- Anwar al-Awlaki, a radically influential global preacher of murderous jihad -- is on a targeted list to be tracked and killed by CIA pilotless drones, New York Times reporter Scott Shane made a constitutional point that had [...]
Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
The National (UAE) | By Jonathan Cook | 18 July 2010 English transcript: Bibi: ... The Arabs are currently focusing on a war of terror and they think it will break us. The main thing, first of all, is to hit them. Not just one blow, but blows that are so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne. The price is not too heavy to [...]
