Making an Immortal Body of Truth by Richard C. Cook

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by Richard C. Cook
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February 12, 2010

As the world slides closer daily to what the Shivapuri Baba described as a 6,000-year societal catastrophe, it is certainly curious to observe how those who fancy themselves the rulers of mankind continue to attempt to gather all power, authority, and wealth into their hands.

Instead of attempting to devise a rational program to ameliorate the economic and ecological damage that has been perpetrated through financial control of the means of production based on a system of expropriation and usury, the ruling class and its minions in the military-intelligence complex imagine that they can create safe havens for themselves while ignoring the welfare of the masses upon whom they depend for their fabulous levels of income and wealth. Not to mention the forces of nature whose resources they think they own.

Bilin weekly demonstration reenacts the Avatar film

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February 12, 2010

The village of Bilin reenacted James Cameron’s new film Avatar during todays weekly demonstration. Five Palestinian, Israeli and international activists were painted blue, with pointy ears and tales, resembling the Avatar characters. Like Palestinians, the Avatars fight imperialism, although the colonizers have different origins. The Avatars presence in Bilin today symbolizes the united resistance to imperialism of all kinds.

NATO Expansion, Missile Deployments And Russia’s New Military Doctrine by Rick Rozoff

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by Rick Rozoff
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Stop NATO -Opposition to global militarism
February 12, 2010

Developments related to military and security matters in Europe and Asia have been numerous this month and condensed into less than a week of meetings, statements and initiatives on issues ranging from missile shield deployments to the unparalleled escalation of the world’s largest war and from a new security system for Europe to a new Russian military doctrine.

A full generation after the end of the Cold War and almost that long since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the past week’s events are evocative of another decade and another century. Twenty or more years ago war in Afghanistan and controversial missile placements in Europe were current news in a bipolar world.

No Nukes by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
February 12, 2010

A generation of Americans has grown up without a single nuclear power plant being brought on line since before the near meltdown of the Three Mile Island structure in 1979. They have not been exposed to the enormous costs, risks and national security dangers associated with their operations and the large amount of radioactive wastes still without a safe, permanent storage place for tens of thousands of years.

All Americans better get informed soon, for a resurgent atomic power lobby wants the taxpayers to pick up the tab for relaunching this industry. Unless you get Congress to stop this insanely dirty and complex way to boil water to generate steam for electricity, you’ll be paying for the industry’s research, the industry’s loan guarantees and the estimated trillion dollars (inflation-adjusted) cost of just one meltdown, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, plus vast immediate and long-range casualties.

Dr. Julien Mercille on The trail of Afghanistan’s drug money, interviewed by Sibel Edmonds and Peter B. Collins

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with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
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February 12, 2010

Dr. Julien Mercille discusses the trail of Afghanistan’s drug money, the false impression given by the latest UN report on the effects of Afghanistan’s drug production, and the role of other nations and institutions including western banks. He talks about the predominant view of the US and NATO held by the majority in Afghanistan today, his interview with Malalai Joya, Afghanistan’s youngest Member of Parliament, who is well known for openly challenging the US, NATO, warlords and the Taliban, the current state of progressive movements in Afghanistan, and more.

All the (un)usual suspects. What is RT.com up to? By William Bowles

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12 February 2010

Full page ads in the London Independent? Though the word ‘Russia’ is nowhere to be seen, instead it’s RT.com. What we used to know as Russia Today is engaged in a no doubt expensive marketing and advertizing campaign here in the UK. But RT.com is a far cry from its crude beginnings four years ago as a mouthpiece for the Russian state. The question is, what kind of animal is it now?

An RT newspaper ad. RT’s ‘biased’ programming enraged some people.

Dennis Kucinich: Middle Class is America’s Bedrock, Not its Piggy Bank

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by Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Washington, Feb 12, 2010

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement following reports that tax increases on middle class families may be considered:

“The middle class has already shouldered the burden of serving as Wall Street’s piggy bank for the last decade. Now middle class families are left holding the bag in the form of massive household debt, a disproportionate share of job losses and declining incomes. We cannot look to the middle class to solve our economic problems. Quite the contrary: we need to solve the problems of the middle class. With a strong and vibrant middle class, economic growth and deficit reduction will follow.

The Zero Point of Systemic Collapse by Chris Hedges

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Feb. 12, 2010

Crossposted from Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters Feb. 8, 2010

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Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job to save a dying system but to replace it: “We think we are the doctors. We are the disease.” All resistance must recognize that the body politic and global capitalism are dead. We should stop wasting energy trying to reform or appeal to it. This does not mean the end of resistance, but it does mean very different forms of resistance. It means turning our energies toward building sustainable communities to weather the coming crisis, since we will be unable to survive and resist without a cooperative effort.

Climate Scientist: Record-Setting Mid-Atlantic Snowfall Linked to Global Warming

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Feb. 12, 2010

As record snowfall crippled the mid-Atlantic this week, many Republicans used the blizzard-like conditions to argue that global warming is a hoax. We speak to climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who argues the extreme weather is in fact a part of global warming. [includes rush transcript]

Descent Into Barbarism: The US and NATO Wage War on the World by Finian Cunningham

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by Finian Cunningham
Global Research, February 9, 2010

The argument is won: capitalism as an effective system to organise society and provide for human needs has expired. The evidence is conclusive. Trillions of dollars to kickstart the economy in the US and Europe may have given an ephemeral lease of life to the financial class to spin the casino wheel once again, but it is more apparent by the day that the tentative “recovery” has spluttered to a standstill. Gridlocked by unprecedented levels of personal and national debts, the engine of production – the real economy – is in a state of rigor mortis.

This collapse has been a long time in the making. Decades of easy credit was up to now a way for the ruling class – government, corporations, financial institutions – to let the majority of workers subsidise the chronic loss in their livelihoods, which have been drained since the mid-1970s by the oligarchy’s self-aggrandisement from wage cutting, regressive taxation and public spending cuts. The political class – whether liberal or conservative, right or left – have facilitated this giant wealth-siphoning process.

Noam Chomsky: The War on Drugs, Religion and Fascism (2009)

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July 10, 2009

Citizen Radio interviews professor Noam Chomsky about the War on Drugs, religion, and what makes him happy.

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