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Aug. 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit. Since 1940, the United States has spent $5.8 trillion on nuclear weapons programs, more than on any single program except Social Security, according to a Brooking Institute study billed as the first...
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2012 11:03am PDT
A fascinating shift has happened in the U.S. mainstream media: After a year of anti-Syria war propaganda and lies, glimmers of truth are making their way into the public’s view. This may be too little too late: the country is being torn at the seams into the nightmare of ethnic-religious cleansing and massacres....
Posted: Sun, Aug 5, 2012 11:29pm PDT
Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 28 Through August 3rd, 2012....
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2012 11:42pm PDT
Reflexive opposition to Uncle Sam’s machinations abroad is generally a good thing. It is a progressive instinct that progressively declined in the 1990s, as presidents Bush Sr. and Clinton deftly deployed the U.S. military to execute “humanitarian” missions in Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans and progressively increased in the 2000s, as Bush Jr. lurched from quagmire to disaster in transparent empire-building exercises in Afghanistan and Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2012 2:32am PDT
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Posted: Tue, Jul 31, 2012 12:44am PDT
Anaheim police shot and killed on July 21st and again July 22nd. The people have been standing up to resist these police murders. As the people have stood up, protesting in the streets and within the local police station itself, police have used projectile weapons on peaceful protesters. Some protesters responded by breaking windows in the area and setting trash cans ablaze. Now police have taken a full-on siege mentality, erecting barricades around their police station and donning military ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2012 1:38pm PDT
The U.S. media has made its intentions clear: the 'rebels' attacking Syria's government must have more support to advance Syria's "revolution.” This was the result of the much-hyped advance of Syria's rebels into the country’s two largest cities, which the western media portrayed as a defining moment in global democracy. But "journalists" like these have blood on their hands, with much more in the works....
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2012 6:19am PDT
