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Shock Capitalism: The Swindlers Of 2008 Are Now Betting On World Hunger

Shock Capitalism: The Swindlers Of 2008 Are Now Betting On World Hunger

In his new book, “The Great American Stick Up”, journalist Robert Scheer makes one of the most lucid and accurate analysis of the 2008 global financial meltdown or what we call here the strategy of shock capitalism. Scheer connects the dots and  exposes “How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats enriched Wall Street while mugging Main […]

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Death Penalty: The Ultimate Denial of Human Rights

Death Penalty: The Ultimate Denial of Human Rights

Today is the world day against the death penalty, and Amnesty International is focusing its attention on the United States in the human rights organization’s global push to end capital punishment. The United States is the only country in the Americas that carried out executions in 2009. The paragraph below, from Amnesty International, best sums […]

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Guatemala: US Infected Hundreds With Syphilis In The Late 40’s

Guatemala: US Infected Hundreds With Syphilis In The Late 40’s

Most of us remember the so called “medical” tests conducted by the Nazis “doctors” in the concentration camps. Needless to say, the experiments in question were the worst kind of torture imaginable, and treated human beings like lab rats. However, during the late 1940’s the self described “benevolent” super-power was conducting similar inhuman experiments than […]

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Are Christian, Jewish and Muslim Fundamentalists Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages?

Are Christian, Jewish and Muslim Fundamentalists Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages?

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche announced, more than 120 years ago, that “God Is Dead.” In light of the global events of the last decade, Nietzsche’s assessment was merely wishful thinking. His widely quoted statement was first expressed in Die Frohliche Wissenschaft (The Gay Science) and again in his most famous book Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche’s […]

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EU Commissioner Compares Expulsions Of Roma To Vichy’s Deportation Of Jews

EU Commissioner Compares Expulsions Of Roma To Vichy’s Deportation Of Jews

Today in Brussels, the European Union Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, called France’s expulsions policy a “disgrace”. The EU commission is threatening legal action against France over the French government’s crackdown on its Roma population. Viviane Reding compared President Sarkozy’s policy to the World War II deportation of Jews perpetrated by the pro-Nazi government of Petain, […]

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