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Turkey’s Unrest: A Fight for Secularism

Turkey’s Unrest: A Fight for Secularism

By Rick Staggenborg It is often agonizing for Americans who recognize their government as being the greatest threat to peace and freedom in world history to see how ignorant most of their fellow citizens are to what is obvious to the rest of the world; however, recent events are opening the eyes of citizens in […]

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La Navase: Conservation of Biodiversity by Haiti’s Sustainable Practices

La Navase: Conservation of Biodiversity by Haiti’s Sustainable Practices

An unspoiled Haitian island, called La Navase, has been claimed by the United States and renamed “Navassa Island,” although it lies a mere 25 miles southwest of the city of Jeremie and 37 miles from Haiti’s western-most peninsula. La Navase is uninhabited by humans, but Haitians have fished its coasts for more than two centuries, […]

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Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the West’s Unholy Alliance to Wreck and Exploit

Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the West’s Unholy Alliance to Wreck and Exploit

Syria: Fog of proxy war and conflicting agendas As furious fighting rages in Syria for control of Qusair, a border town of critical strategic importance, the dense and toxic fog of that country’s proxy war is spreading to Lebanon and Iraq. With Hezbollah becoming directly involved in the conflict to back Assad, the patchwork coalition […]

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Drones: The Global Empire’s Current Weapon of Choice

Drones: The Global Empire’s Current Weapon of Choice

In Lichfield, England, in the 18th century, Mr. Richard Greene ran a museum that was quite revealing about colonial power. As a visitor entered one room of this museum, in one cabinet on the right there was an array of high velocity-weapons from a former day that showed the historical development of muskets and pistols […]

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Boston Marathon Bombing: More Justification for Repression and Endless Global War on Terror

Boston Marathon Bombing: More Justification for Repression and Endless Global War on Terror

By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery We might never learn the motive behind the Boston Marathon bomb attack on Monday, April 15, 2013, which is reported to have killed three people and injured more than 170. It could be as simple as an unhinged individual going postal on tax day or a sinister  message to […]

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