All empires eventually eat away at their own and devour themselves by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
August 31, 2011

The commemorative ceremonies that are planned for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 massacre are those of pathos for the victims and their families, of praise for both the pursuit of the supporters of the attackers and the performance of first responders and our soldiers abroad.

Flags and martial music will punctuate the combined atmosphere of sorrow and aggressive defiance to those terrorists who would threaten us. These events will be moments of respectful silence and some expressions of rage and ferocity.

Looming Tragedy: As NATO Members Eat, Libyans Starve by Felicity Arbuthnot

by Felicity Arbuthnot
Featured Writer
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London, England
2 September 2011

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.)

As Eid, the great post Ramadan celebration of that month of abstinence, self sacrifice and reflection, dawned on Libya, marked there this year on August 31st, the NATO “liberated” country, after seven months, looks a lot like “liberated” Iraq after eight years.

A Reflection on Dick Cheney, U.S. Terrorist by Ed Ciaccio

by Ed Ciaccio
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Featured Writer
August 31, 2011

Dick Cheney, now touting his very warped version of reality in his book, is nothing less than a war criminal and a torturer, of course, and, as Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin suggests, his book should rightly be placed in the crime section of bookstores. In a world which actually lived according to its professed principles of justice, Cheney would now be locked up and awaiting trial at the Hague as one of the many war criminals from both the Bush and Obama administrations, instead of making the rounds of talk shows and spending his blood-stained book advance money.

Rick Rozoff: Libya: NATO Acquires Military Outpost In Third Continent

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
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Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
August 31, 2011

Voice of Russia
August 31, 2011

Libya: Another country for NATO to take root in
John Robles

Interview conducted on August 27 with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to Global Research.ca.

Voterism: A Government for The New Millennium by William John Cox

by William John Cox
Featured Writer
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www.thevoters.org
August 31, 2011

Are you tired of trying to figure out if there’s any real difference between Republican and Democratic politicians, and whether there’s a difference between liberals and progressives, libertarians and anarchists, independents and moderates, or tea partiers and neoconservatives?

Are you fed up with being forced to chose between the lesser of two evils when electing a president, and are you afraid to cast a vote of conscience because the worser of two evils might get elected?

And All of a Sudden, She Understood In a Way She Would Never Forget by Daniel N. White

by Daniel N. White
Featured Writer
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August 29, 2011

Living in Austin, Texas, you still, this many years on, are living in the shadow of LBJ. His footprints are all over this place, if you know what to look for. I doubt that’s the case for most other presidential stomping grounds, certainly isn’t from what I’ve seen of other presidents’ home towns. Austin, current trendy poster child for creative urban post-industrial America was a pretty damned hick and small place in LBJ’s day, and LBJ’s larger than life personality, and his immense force of will, put one hell of a mark here on these parts here.

Corporate America Sends a Labor Day Message by Walter Brasch

by Walter Brasch
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www.walterbrasch.com
Sept. 4, 2011

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For most Americans, the only significance of Labor Day is that it concludes a three day weekend.

For Kirk Artley, it means he has about six weeks left of employment.

On Aug. 24, RR Donnelley, a Chicago-based megacorporation that claims to be “the world’s premier full-service provider of print and related services,” told Artley and the other 283 workers at the Bloomsburg, Pa., plant that “economic conditions” forced the closing of the book printing facility. The workers said they would take significant pay cuts if that would save the plant. RR Donnelley rejected the offer.

Ann Wright: Gaza Freedom Flotilla and Save Jeju Island, interviewed by Cindy Sheehan

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Updated: added the transcript Sept. 15, 2011

by Cindy Sheehan
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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
Sept. 4, 2011

This Sunday (September 4), Cindy welcomes good friend of peace and of Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, the notable woman of conscience, Ann Wright. Ms. Wright won’t steer you wrong! On this show she will talk about the recent Gaza Freedom Flotilla which she was a leader on the American boat and her recent trip to Jeju Island in South Korea where the Korean occupants are making a courageous stand against a US Naval base being built there.

Ralph Nader on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline + 1,252 arrested in front of the White House

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StopKeystoneXL on Sep 2, 2011

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