Posted on May 18, 2008 by Mike Booth
In a week in which it comes to light that President George W. Bush revealed that God told him to invade Iraq–with all that implies–and former Repulican presidential candidate–and pretender to the vice-presidential slot along with John McCain–Mike Huckabee made a supposedly jocular comment in the middle of a speech to the American Rifle Association [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2008 by Mike Booth
Last March 13-16 some 250 American veterans of the Iraq and Afghan occupations gathered at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD for the “Winter Soldier – Iraq and Afghanistan” conference, a replica of a similar event which took place in Detroit in 1971, during the Vietnam War. This recent weekend was devoted to [...]
Filed under: Iraq, US media, United States, gringos, politics, sources | Tagged: NY Times, The Guardian, The Real News, Iraq, Afghanistan, our boys, Alternet, Truthout, Democracy Now, Indy Media, Winter Soldier, occupation, American mainstrr, American mainstream media, information blackout, media blackout | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 14, 2008 by Mike Booth
Asia Times Online published an article on May 10, 2008 entitled “An oil-addicted ex-superpower.” The American author, Michael T. Klare, Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, makes a chillingly convincing case for the fact that the United States’ massive borrowing to pay for its oil habit has already cost them their superpower [...]
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Posted on May 11, 2008 by Mike Booth
U.S. Artists Mount Countrywide Art Protest A couple of fine-art printmakers and veteran art activists have recently started a very interesting politiical ball rolling in the United States. Stephen Fredericks, of the New York Society of Etchers, and Art Hazelwood, longtime member of the California Society of Printmakers, have founded a movement–which they call a [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by Mike Booth
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by Mike Booth
Posted on April 30, 2008 by Mike Booth
Journalist Pepe Escobar is one of those remarkable Brazilians like the film director Fernando Meirelles or the photographer Sebastiao Salgado, rich in both human and professional qualities. In fact, all three of them are related to Sao Paulo. The first two were born in that city and Salgado studied economics at the university there. Escobar [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by Mike Booth
This video is The Real News Network’s Pepe Escobar commenting on the Israeli bombing of Syria on September 6 of last year, an event which went uninvestigated by the mainstream Western media.
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Mike Booth
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Mike Booth
In case you were wondering, here’s how to produce a thoroughly disoriented citizen: Tell him he’s superior to people from other countries. Put a gun in his hand. Flag-wave him to death. Repeat more, louder lies. Distract him with hard-core consumption. Make money his measure of all things. Make false promises. Bribe him. Frighten him. [...]
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