Wall Street banks have silently been taking over the majority shares of ammunition, warfare equipment manufacturers and mercenary armies ('private security contractors') like Blackwater.
A Daily KOs article reveals that Wall Street banks have used privat ...[
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Over 700 students have been arrested in Canada during the latest night of rallies against tuition fee hikes and the adoption of controversial bill that is widely seen as a tool to limit freedom of speech, association and assembly.
Police in Montreal disp ...[
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New reports have spotlighted the role of the West, Israel and some Middle Eastern countries in fanning the flames of the bloody unrest in Syria.
According Syrian sources, Israeli airplanes are smuggling weapons into Iraq's Kurdistan region, which are th ...[
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Academic freedom is under attack in the U.S. Imagine a professor showing the Oscar nominated film 5 Broken Cameras and then having his entire class shut down because it's not pro-Israel.
After Professor Chehade’s in-class screening of the Oscar-nominate ...[
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One develops an odd liking for John McCain over time—attenuated but not grudging. The Republican senator who once found virtue bombing Vietnamese rice farmers reliably brings clarity to purposes the foreign policy clique shrouds in mists of good intent ...[
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s the Russian occupation of the Crimea a case of aggressive expansionism by Moscow or aimed at blocking a scheme by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to roll right up to Russia's western border? WikiLeaks has revealed a secret cable describing ...[
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The Syrian army secured the Crac des Chevaliers – one of greatest medieval castles in the world – on Friday after Assad's forces reclaimed the UNESCO World Heritage site from rebel fighters a day earlier.
The seizure of the castle is the latest in a n ...[
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If you're hiding something from Microsoft, you'd better not put it on Hotmail.
It came out yesterday that the company had read through a user's inbox as part of an internal leak investigation. Microsoft has spent today in damage-control mode, changing its ...[
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The speech delivered by President Barack Obama in Brussels Wednesday was a call to arms for a US-NATO confrontation against Russia. With a series of lies and evasions, Obama presented a world turned upside down in which the US and European imperialists, w ...[
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In December, I wrote to the heads of six of the country's biggest financial institutions with a simple request: that they voluntarily disclose the financial contributions their companies make to think tanks. This disclosure would help make sure shareholde ...[
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