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China: The New Bin Laden (Paul Craig Roberts)
May 11, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- George Orwell, the pen name by which Eric Blair is known, had the gift of prophecy, or else blind luck. In 1949 in his novel, 1984, he described the ...
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'We're a nation of laws!' What If Right Made Might? (Ted Rall)
Reimagining the Assassination of Bin Laden May 11, 2011 -- NEW YORK (Information Clearing House) -- President Obama murdered Osama bin Laden. I am surprised that the left has been so supportive -- ...
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Human Intelligence and the Environment -- Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky 2017. Wikimedia CommonsMay 10, 2011 (International Socialist Review) -- I’ll begin with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known ...
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Americans Are Living In 1984 (Paul Craig Roberts)
May 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The White House’s “death of bin Laden” story has come apart at the seams. Will it make any difference that before 48 hours had passed the story had ...
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Gaza Marathon: A Race for Freedom and Summer Camps (Ramzy Baroud)
Nader al-Masri trains on the sandy streets of Gaza City in 2008. Photo credit: Hatem Moussa, AP Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 10, 2011 -- Nader al-Masri is an inspiration. The 31-year-old ...
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My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death (Noam Chomsky)
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. May 7, 2011 (Guernica) ...
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Osama bin Laden’s Second Death (Paul Craig Roberts)
May 2, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in ...
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Palestinian Unity and the New Middle East (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 4, 2011 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the Hamas-Fatah deal in Cairo was both swift and predictable. “The Palestinian Authority must ...
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Osama Bin Laden Killed in U.S. Operation, Obama Says (Julianna Goldman)
May 1, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed by U.S. assets in a mansion outside Islamabad, U.S. officials said. President Barack Obamawill announce the death of the ...
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Petraeus: Can He Tell It Straight? (Ray McGovern)
Apr. 28, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The news that President Barack Obama has picked Gen. David Petraeus to be CIA director raises troubling questions, including whether the commander most associated ...
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VIDEO: Daily Show -- Bernie Sanders Extended Interview
Apr. 29, 2011 (The Daily Show With Jon Stewart) -- In this unedited, extended interview, Bernie Sanders believes the Republican plan to cut social programs while extending tax cuts for the wealthy ...
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