Pentagon’s contradiction and imperialist decline by Sara Flounders

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WWP: 50 years of struggle for revolution and socialism
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Pentagon’s contradiction and imperialist decline
by Sara Flounders
http://www.workers.org
Nov 19, 2009
The following excerpted talk is by WWP Secretariat member, Sara Flounders, at the Nov. 14-15 Workers World Party National Conference in New York.
Twenty million people a year in the U.S. get sick from contaminated water. Forty percent of [...]

Obama’s China Junket: “We’re Opening Doors for Wall Street and Nothing More” By Mike Whitney

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By Mike Whitney
ICH
November 17, 2009
Barack Obama took Hu Jintao to task this morning, scolding the dejected-looking Chinese leader at a press conference held in Beijing. Obama delivered one ferocious jab after another, claiming that China’s dollar-peg has cost the US millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs while creating gigantic trade imbalances which have destabilized the [...]

Immortal Technique on war, revolution and US democracy, Part 2

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Updated: replaced video; RT renamed it
RussiaToday
November 16, 2009
The US government uses foreign wars to distract people’s attention from internal problems. That’s according to rapper and political activist ‘Immortal Technique’. In an exclusive interview with RT’s Marina Portnaya he says America’s bad decisions are covered up with lame excuses.

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Jane D’Arista: Democratize or replace The Fed (Parts 5-6)

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TheRealNews
November 16, 2009
Anatomy of casino capitalism Pt.5
Jane D’Arista: The Fed should be replaced by a central bank run in the public interest

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Anatomy of casino capitalism Pt.6

Free The Forgotten Bird Of Paradise By John Pilger

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By John Pilger
ICH
November 16, 2009
When General Suharto, the west’s man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered “a gleam of light in Asia”, rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million “communists” was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard Nixon called “the richest hoard of natural [...]

Ralph Nader: End the War on Drugs + Book Fair with Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges

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“Only the Super Rich Can Save Us”
with Ralph Nader
C-SPAN Video Library
Nov. 15, 2009
Ralph Nader talked about his novel “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” Seven Stories Press; September 22, 2009. In his book he speculates on what could happen if America’s wealthiest individuals decided to work for the collective good. Mr. Nader, a consumer [...]

Plan Colombia – Cashing In on the Drug War Failure (2004)

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Free-Will Productions website
56:20
Video Documentary Directed by Gerard Ungerman – Narrated By Ed Asner
Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure documents what many believe to be dangerous hypocrisy on the part of the American government. The film gives particular attention to the reasons behind the drug trade (Colombia is the world’s biggest cocaine [...]

El Salvador’s gold fight goes international

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TheRealNews
November 12, 2009
After activists block its mining permit, Canadian gold mining corporation is using a US free trade agreement to sue the government of El Salvador

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from the archives:
Gold, impunity and violence in El Salvador