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American imperialism, the war on terror, overriding international law by John S. Hall.

A comprehensive series of tv programs chronicling the war(s) declared by the US during the Bush years. Made by PBS.

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An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs.

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Internet censorship is something we normally associate with countries such as Iran or China, but increasingly Western governmental and legal authorities are aggressively restricting the ability of users to view information unimpeded.

Such is the story with Wikileaks, one of the most essential websites launched in the last year and designed to publish leaked material from across the world, including the US Rules of Engagement in Iraq and news about Guantanamo Bay officials conducting covert attacks on the internet.

For some reason the original article cannot be accessed at the moment (too much traffic may be the cause) but here’s a cached version of it which you can read here.

COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a program of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.

Here is a list of people and organizations who have been confirmed targets of the COINTELPRO program.

You’ll find some unlikely names like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Muhammad Ali there too!

A few days ago the prestigious Milan daily, Corriere della Sera, published the translation of an article by Neocon, Robert Kagan. The Italian version of the article bore the title “Trattare Con Teheran? Meglio Farlo Subito” (Negotiate With Tehran? Better Do It Now.) The article was headed by a secondary title written in red: “The Nuclear Threat.”

As I read the four-column article I ticked what for me were dubious or false statements and claims, either of fact or opinion. Kagan’s apparently smooth article is predictably infected with an underlying hypocrisy and well known America-centrism making the writer’s occasional hypocritical attempts at any kind of balance laughable.

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From thismodernworld.org.

I found this video while looking at the following sites:

prothink.org

wakeupfromyourslumber.com

I also stumbled on this article which is extremely controversial:

Holocaust is Nothing But A HoloHoax.

A word of caution: some of the material in the above sites are obviously anti-zionist and in some cases may seem anti-Semite – the authors of these articles deny that they racist or anti-semitic and that they are simply telling us facts that you do not normally hear about in the main stream media. I’ve read quite a few of their articles as a reference point on what ‘the other side’ is talking about – they do not in any way reflect own opinions.

Three years in the making, Jon Ronson’s Crazy Rulers of the World explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence.

With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary – and plain bizarre – national secrets at the core of George W Bush’s war on terror.

This is a three part series originally shown on Channel4 in August 2007.

You can see the first part here.