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ARTICLES: Bradley Manning's Court Statement FULL ARTICLE SOURCE ARTICLE Shadow Lives by Victoria Brittain FULL ARTICLE Anything that Moves -- Book Review by Chris Hedges FULL ARTICLE Drone Reality by Tom McNamara FULL ARTICLE Israel Demands Apology for Cartoon by Raphael Ahren FULL ARTICLE The Suffering in Syria by James Abourezk FULL ARTICLE Capitalism's Structural Crisis and Imponderables by Immanuel Wallerstein FULL ARTICLE Mali and the Scramble for Africa by Ben Schreiner FULL ARTICLE The Gravest Threat to World Peace by Noam Chomsky FULL ARTICLE The U.S. as Orwellian State -- Oliver Stone Interview FULL ARTICLE The Torture Chronicle by Philip Giraldi FULL ARTICLE The Matrix-like Reality of U.S. Media by Jonathan Cook FULL ARTICLE Crony Capitalism's Power Couple by Robert Scheer FULL ARTICLE The Torture Chronicle by Philip Giraldi FULL ARTICLE Vote for the B- by Robert Scheer FULL ARTICLE Why I Am Voting Green by Chris Hedges FULL ARTICLE Drones: The Luxury of Fighting Wars from Offices by Said Temsamani FULL ARTICLE Burmese Monks Target Rohingya Muslims by Hanna Hindstrom FULL ARTICLE A Failed Formula for World-wide War by Nick Turse FULL ARTICLE In Amerika there will never be a real debate by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE Rigged Presidential "Debates" by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE The American Dream Becomes a Myth interview with Joseph Stiglitz FULL ARTICLE Africa's Friend? by Patrick Bond FULL ARTICLE We Can't Remake the World by Ron Paul FULL ARTICLE When Is a Terrorist not a Terrorist? by Danny Schecter FULL ARTICLE Trappist Monastery Vandalized Near Jerusalem by Isabel Kershner FULL ARTICLE Daraya Massacre by Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE Temples and Mosques by Falguni Sheth FULL ARTICLE Islamophobic Violence by Glenn Greenwald FULL ARTICLE Bailout Investigator's Troubles FULL ARTICLE The Science of Genocide by Chris Hedges FULL ARTICLE Welcome to Nazareth by Jonathan Cook FULL ARTICLE Syria -- What's really Happening by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE The Drone and the Bomb by Ed Kinane FULL ARTICLE Israel Obstructs Peace and Gets Rewarded by Jonathan Cook FULL ARTICLE Banks Gamble on Food Prices and the Poor Lose by Grace Livingstone FULL ARTICLE The Fine Art of Political Backstabbing -- Obama and Wisconsin Recall by Clancy Sigal FULL ARTICLE Pompous Prevaricators of Power -- The Perversity, Futility or Jeopardy Thesis by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE In Camus' Image -- Rebel, Live Out the Absurd, Die Happy by Thomas Naylor FULL ARTICLE Making the U.S. a Police State by Jennifer Abel FULL ARTICLE Counterrevolution -- the Next Deadly Chapter by Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE Limping Out of Afghanistan by Immanuel Wallerstein FULL ARTICLE Snarling Banker by Jim Hightower FULL ARTICLE Open Letter to President Obama on Jobs Act by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE The Theater of the Absurd -- U.S. / Israeli Relations by Thomas H. Naylor FULL ARTICLE Palling About With Terrorists by James Abourezk FULL ARTICLE Higher Education Under Attack by Immanuel Wallerstein FULL ARTICLE Averting All-Out Civil War in Syria by Franco Galdini FULL ARTICLE The War on Democracy by John Pilger FULL ARTICLE The Wrong of Detention without Trial by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE Deciphering the Qatar Enigma by Patrick Seale FULL ARTICLE Intervention vs. Non-Interference in States' Internal Affairs by Global Policy Forum FULL ARTICLE LTC Daniel L Davies Tells the Truth about Afghanistan FULL ARTICLE The Afghan War’s Nine Lives by Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan FULL ARTICLE Can Democrats Landslide Republicans? By Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE The Campaign Against Whistleblowers in Washington by Peter Van Buren FULL ARTICLE Reclaiming the Republic -- David Johnson's Interview with Lawrence Lessig FULL ARTICLE New Global Land Rush Trampling Farmers Rights by Dan Klotz FULL ARTICLE Truth and Fiction in the News Business by Alexander Cockburn FULL ARTICLE The Busted Economy by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE Bankers Bacchanal by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship FULL ARTICLE Hurrah for Egypt by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE The White House's Revolving Bankers by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship FULL ARTICLE Israel's Voting Blocks by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE How Libertarian Dogmatists Are Sabotaging Ron Paul's Campaign by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE Doomsday Clock Moved Closer to Doom FULL ARTICLE The Stolen War by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE Pakistan Speeds up Iranian Gas Pipeline by Tom Hussain FULL ARTICLE The Politics of Lowered Expectations by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE Diet Can Stop Brain from Shrinking By Helen Briggs FULL ARTICLE In the land of facades, mark the first signs of an Indian spring FULL ARTICLE Future Power Struggles in Iraq FULL ARTICLE Industrial Breast Transplants By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown FULL ARTICLE US Somalis Can’t Support Families During Famine, Thanks to Anti-Terror Laws By Channing Kennedy FULL ARTICLE Finland Sets Bar High for Teachers By Erin Richards FULL ARTICLE Bankers Are the Dictators of the West By Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE Not Made in America By Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE The Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis Back Again by Immanuel Wallerstein FULL ARTICLE Obama's China Syndrome by Michael Klare FULL ARTICLE Is public debt really a bogeyman? By Jomo Kwame Sundaram FULL ARTICLE How China Might Defeat America By Yan Xuetong FULL ARTICLE Exposed: US press 'freedom' By Pepe Escobar FULL ARTICLE Libya was always a civil war, and the victors are not merciful By Patrick Cockburn FULL ARTICLE A Framework for International Solvency -- A Jubilee Australia Policy Paper FULL ARTICLE Terror and Revenge Engulf Libya By Franklin Lamb FULL ARTICLE Mahler’s Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic By David Yearsley FULL ARTICLE Just Fed Up By Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE Office of Foreign Assets Control -- A Misadventure By Ann Jones FULL ARTICLE Pointless Civilian Killings in an Unwinnable War By Gareth Porter FULL ARTICLE The Road to Twenty One Presidential Debates By Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE The Great American Shakedown By Lawrence Weschler FULL ARTICLE The Spirit of the Age by Tariq Ali FULL ARTICLE Citigroup settles for $285 million; no Wall Street exec jailed yet By Kevin G. Hall and Greg Gordon FULL ARTICLE America’s New African Empire by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE US health care falls farther behind peers, report finds by Noam N. Levey FULL ARTICLE Qaddafi, From Beginning to End by Vijay Prashad FULL ARTICLE The Arab World's Unknown Son By Fouad Ajami FULL ARTICLE "Occupy" Movement Grows to Portland By Shamus Cooke FULL ARTICLE The Middle Class? What Happened ... By Andy Kroll FULL ARTICLE Ten years of meltdown in Pakistan By Ahmed Rashid FULL ARTICLE The ‘getting’ of Assange By John Pilger FULL ARTICLE "Occupy" Movement Grows to Portland By Shamus Cooke FULL ARTICLE The Middle Class? What Happened ... By Andy Kroll FULL ARTICLE Ten years of meltdown in Pakistan By Ahmed Rashid FULL ARTICLE The dead begin to speak up in India By Arundhati Roy FULL ARTICLE Thoughts on the Current Art Market http://www.gseart.com The Middle East's New Geopolitical Map by Patrick Seale FULL ARTICLE We Meant Well Author Interrogated / WikiLeaked By Peter Van Buren FULL ARTICLE Fiascos of American Foreign Policy by Patrick Seale FULL ARTICLE Did the Rabbani hit really kill peace talks? By Gareth Porter FULL ARTICLE The Responsibility of Intellectuals By Noam Chomsky FULL ARTICLE As the Drone Flies By Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment Peter Beinart FULL ARTICLE Prayers, Taunts and Weary Resignation in Jerusalem By Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE The Humiliation of Barack Obama By Robert Grenier FULL ARTICLE Why the Middle East will never be the same again By Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE Obama Receives a Nigerian Scam Letter By Tom Engelhardt FULL ARTICLE The Middle East’s New Geopolitical Map By Patrick Seale FULL ARTICLE The Social-Democratic Illusion by Immanuel Wallerstein FULL ARTICLE Cheney’s Unintended Admissions by Robert Parry FULL ARTICLE National health scheme brings 'smart' insurance to India's poor by Anke Rasper FULL ARTICLE Of Kabul and Tet and Generals by Conn Hallinan FULL ARTICLE Shooting Ourselves in the Foot at the UN by M J Rosenberg FULL ARTICLE What the Future Will Remember About America’s Decline and Fall by Mike Davis FULL ARTICLE The U.S. at War Post 9/11 By Phyllis Bennis FULL ARTICLE Pakistani forces capture senior al Qaida commander By Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay FULL ARTICLE Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later By Noam Chomsky FULL ARTICLE 10 painful lessons of 9/11 By Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE Spending a Year in Pakistan By Bryan Farris FULL ARTICLE Miracle or mirage – what's the truth about Rick Perry's Texas? By Paul Harris FULL ARTICLE Israeli protests: 430,000 take to streets to demand social justice By Harriet Sherwood FULL ARTICLE The Islamophobia Network -- A Report from the Center for American Progress FULL ARTICLE Veto Over the Drones by Gareth Porter FULL ARTICLE Reading From Wall Street’s Script by Mike Whitney FULL ARTICLE The Melting Middle Class By Bernie Sanders FULL ARTICLE History repeats itself, with mistakes of Iraq rehearsed afresh by Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE Deep in the Heart of Fantasyland by Richard Reeves FULL ARTICLE Tripoli on the Cusp by Franklin Lamb FULL ARTICLE How Washington Could Create Jobs Right Now By Michael Winship, FULL ARTICLE Future Religion? By Adam Lee FULL ARTICLE Americans Have the Clock, But the Taliban Have the Time by Franklin C. Spinney FULL ARTICLE Burning Britain by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed FULL ARTICLE Retreat, Surrender, Can He At Least Plead? By Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE Carnal Confusion -- The Strauss-Kahn Handlers Crank Out the Lawsuits by Pam Martens FULL ARTICLE Primary Lessons -- Obama and the 2012 Elections by Vijay Prashad FULL ARTICLE Lowering America’s War Ceiling? by Tom Engelhardt FULL ARTICLE Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security by Robert Scheer FULL ARTICLE War is a Racket by Amy Goodman FULL ARTICLE Muslim “Terrorists,” White “Lone Wolves,” and the Lessons of Oslo by Michelle Chen FULL ARTICLE Crash Club -- Sputtering Economies by Mike Davis FULL ARTICLE Murdoch's Messengers by Alexander Cockburn FULL ARTICLE Class War Without Mercy by Gregory Elich FULL ARTICLE Explaining Obama by Steve Breyman FULL ARTICLE Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone? by Tom Engelhardt FULL ARTICLE A World Overwhelmed by Western Hypocrisy by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE Open Letter to President Obama from E.coli 0104:H4 by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE Leaving Elizabeth Warren Out in the Cold by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE A Brilliant and Courageous Statement by Fidel Castro FULL ARTICLE Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soar by Gareth Porter FULL ARTICLE The dark side of Dubai by Johann Hari FULL ARTICLE Palestine's Last Village Faces Bulldozers by Jonathan Cook FULL ARTICLE Sacred Mantras by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE A World Overwhelmed by Western Hypocrisy -- In America, Lawlessness is Now Complete by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE The Undoing of Libya by Vijay Prashad FULL ARTICLE Brainwashing the polite and professional way by John Pilger FULL ARTICLE The Coming Israeli Tsunami? by Immanuel Wallerstein FULL ARTICLE Deny! Deny! by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE Waging Another Unconstitutional War by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE Blurring the Civilian and Military Roles in Endless War By William Astore FULL ARTICLE Two Jobs Obama Could Do Well By Andrew Levine FULL ARTICLE Peace Movement -- Rising above Politicians By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis FULL ARTICLE Wisconsin Fight Continues by Mike Elk FULL ARTICLE US Wars Have Served Al-Qaeda by Gareth Porter FULL ARTICLE Grandson of an Army Cook Addresses British Parliament by Simon Carr FULL ARTICLE Bibi and the Yo-Yos by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE Obama Strikes-Out on Global Warming by Bill McKibben FULL ARTICLE Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? by Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE The IMF itself should be on trial by Johann Hari FULL ARTICLE Le Rapist is a Socialist? Non! by Sherry Wolf FULL ARTICLE Bottoms Up -- Ass-Backwards in the Middle East FULL ARTICLE Why AIPAC is Dangerous for Jews By Alice Rothchild FULL ARTICLE Netanyahu's Win Is Israel's Loss By Carlo Strenger FULL ARTICLE Israel at a Strategic Dead End by Jonathan Cook FULL ARTICLE Weep Not for Strauss-Kahn by Diana Johnstone FULL ARTICLE Anti-Shia Pogroms Sweep Bahrain by Patrick Cockburn FULL ARTICLE Rubber Man by Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE The West is Trapped in its Own Propaganda by Paul Craig Roberts FULL ARTICLE Assassinating Bin Laden by Marjorie Cohn FULL ARTICLE Final Thoughts on the Death of OBL by Michael Moore FULL ARTICLE Bin Laden: Exposing Pakistan's Paradoxes by Asad Hashim FULL ARTICLE Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants? by Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE Parallels: The First World War and Now FULL ARTICLE Palestinian Accord By Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE The New York Times's tortured line on torture FULL ARTICLE 2016: When China Overtakes the U.S. by Mark Weisbrot FULL ARTICLE Divine Dispatches by Riazat Butt FULL ARTICLE Gulf is still a mess one year after oil spill by Carl Hiaasen FULL ARTICLE Don’t Betray Us, Barack — End the Empire by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick FULL ARTICLE Waiting for the Spark by Ralph Nader FULL ARTICLE Britain's Private Militias by George Monbiot FULL ARTICLE The Global Order: How the World Works by Noam Chomsky FULL ARTICLE The Middle East: Allies in Disarray by Immanuel Wallerstein FULL ARTICLE Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System by Chris Hedges FULL ARTICLE Pakistan Tells U.S. It Must Sharply Cut C.I.A. Activities by Jane Perlez and Ismail Khan FULL ARTICLE How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation (A response to George Monbiot below) by Helen Caldicott FULL ARTICLE Evidence Meltdown -- Effects of Radiation by George Monbiot FULL ARTICLE War-mongering liberals by Victor Hanson FULL ARTICLE Why no Libya policy is the best policy by Dennis Jett FULL ARTICLE Syria's British-born first lady divides the women of Damascus By Esther Addley FULL ARTICLE Deconstructing Nuclear "Experts" -- Why Fukushima is Deadly by Chris Busby FULL ARTICLE What price an Afghan life? by Peter Singer FULL ARTICLE America's Libyans -- All Libyans Lose by Vijay Prashad FULL ARTICLE Raymond Davis Release -- The Secret Deal by Shaukat Qadir FULL ARTICLE Intervening in Libya by Vijay Prashad FULL ARTICLE How Catastrophe Heralds a New Japan by Kojin Karatani FULL ARTICLE Is Obama Even Worse Than Bush? by David Swanson FULL ARTICLE Meltdown at Fukushima by Robert Alvarez FULL ARTICLE The Japanese Disasters by Gary Leupp FULL ARTICLE Imperial Anxieties by Vijay Prashad FULL ARTICLE Wrong Side By Uri Avnery FULL ARTICLE America's secret plan to aid rebels -- Obama asks Saudis to airlift weapons into Benghazi by Robert Fisk FULL ARTICLE Father Speaks for Son Killed on Humanitarian Aid Ship FULL ARTICLE All-American Decline by Tom Engelhardt FULL ARTICLE The CIA's Killing Spree in Lahore -- The U.S. and the Taliban by Mike Whitney FULL ARTICLE Conscience and Secretary Clinton by Ray McGovern FULL ARTICLE Diplomatic Immunity is Not Absolute by Yasmeen Ali FULL ARTICLE What was Raymond Davis Shooting for in Lahore? 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