Fidel Castro: The New Fletcher Prouty? by Sean Fenley

by Sean Fenley
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The Anything and Everything
Sept. 11, 2010

“[The Internet] has put an end to secrets… We are seeing a high level of investigative journalism, that is within reach of the whole world.”

-Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party (Cuba)

Those who have seen the JFK movie are, no doubt, intimately familiar with the ominous, deep ops know-it-all Mr. X. The role was, of course — played by the veteran actor Donald Sutherland — and the character was based upon the real life U.S. Army Colonel Fletcher Prouty. Another star of an Oliver Stone movie and military man, Fidel Castro, seems to be making his own attempt to be a kind of wide-ranging Mr. X of a certain variety, exposing hidden truth and subterranean information for the benefit of all of those who would care to hear. The Comandante seems to have gotten into the business of prognosticating events, exposing elite clandestine gatherings, and in general opining about the dark and shadowy forces that are coalescing behind closed doors.

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Amy Goodman: Sept. 11: A Day Without War

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by Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!
September 08, 2010

The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervor here, together with the continuing U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the escalating war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan), all fuel the belief that the U.S. really is at war with Islam.

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11th September – Hope or Hate? by Felicity Arbuthnot

by Felicity Arbuthnot
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11 September, 2010

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“No creature smarts so little as a fool.” (Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.)

Numerous commentators on the demented, hate filled ramblings of “Pastor” Terry Jones, who may or may not celebrate his 11th September by an evening of Qur’an burnings, have referred to the potential of Muslim retaliation across the globe.  General Petraeus is concerned about backlash to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, more or less reiterated his stance –  whilst saying they are powerless to stop his hate filled initiative. One can only speculate as to whether they would be as sanguine were it the Torah or Talmud being burned.

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Dennis Kucinich: 9/11 Truth and Reconciliation

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Please view the following video message and read the special speeches that Congressman Kucinich gave immediately after the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States and the subsequent analysis he presented just before the vote on the Iraq War.

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Rainbow Pie – So different yet so familiar By William Bowles

Updated: Sept. 24, 2010 added a video

By William Bowles
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11 September, 2010

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Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir By Joe Bageant. Portobello Books, London, 2010

‘Cotton never saw much cash, and never got rich by any means. Not on the ten-cent and fifteen-cent purchases that farmers made there for over one hundred years. Yet he could pay Jackson Luttrell for the tomato hauling—in credit at the store. That enabled Jackson to buy seed, feed, hardware, fertiliser, tools, and gasoline, and farm until harvest time with very little cash, leaving him with enough to invest in a truck. Unger could run his tomato cannery and transform local produce into cash, because he could barter credit for farm products and services. This was a community economic ecology that blended labour, money, and goods to sustain a modest but satisfactory life for all. — Rainbow Pie

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A Conversation with Noam Chomsky on Palestine & Israel

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by Frank Barat
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Filmed conversation with Noam Chomsky on Palestine/Israel.

Main topics covered are: Zionism, Right of return of Palestinian Refugees, one state/two states solution and the BDS movement.

Filmed by Frank Barat at the M.I.T, Cambridge, USA on 2 September 2010.

“Gaza in Crisis” Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat new book is out this fall in US and UK.

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How our lives have changed since 9/11 by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan
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September 11, 2010

(REMARKS FOR L.A. AND NYC 9/11 EVENTS)

Many people here today just woke up (whether abruptly or gradually) to the fact that the US Empire is a criminal construct capable of murdering, oppressing, impoverishing, and enslaving its own citizenry for the sake of power and profit.

Just because we awoke that day, doesn’t mean that the Bush regime was the first to perpetrate these crimes.

Speaking of awakenings, on the morning of 9/11/2001, right before I awakened from my sleep on the West Coast—I had a dream. Continue reading

From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001 by Michel Chossudovsky

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