History is the enemy as ‘brilliant’ psy-ops become the news by John Pilger

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by John Pilger
www.johnpilger.com
Global Research
June 21, 2012

Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. All along the Mekong river, where the forests were petrified and silent, small human mutations lived as best they could.

Today, at the Tu Du paediatrics hospital in Saigon, a former operating theatre is known as the “collection room” and, unofficially, as the “room of horrors”.

Sleeping Through the Coup by Philip A. Farruggio

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by Philip A. Farruggio
Featured Writer
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June 20, 2012

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” — Milan Kundera

Let’s face it, most of our fellow Americans are just that: Forgetting. How many out there have been narcotized by this newest installment of the infamous Presidential Horserace? In 2008 we had the rallying cry of ‘Hope and Change‘ from the 8 repressive years of the Bush gang. Military spending was at an all time high up to that point. We had false flag invasions and occupations of two sovereign nations.

Imam Musa Sadr’s Remains Discovered in Libya; Battle Over DNA use; Sheikh Yaacoub Alive or Dead?

by Franklin Lamb
Featured Writer
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Beirut, Lebanon
June 18, 2012

In early spring 1983, shortly before her death, the American journalist Janet Lee Stevens urged this observer to visit Libya and meet some friends of hers who were active in the Palestine armed resistance.  In those days, thanks to Yasser Arafat’s skill, passion, charm and cash, there were ten Palestinian groups publicly associated, and another half dozen more shadowy ones, sometimes in and sometimes out, depending on shifting political considerations, of the then large tent of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Paraguay: Obama’s Second Latin American Coup by Shamus Cooke

An enlargeable map of the Republic of Paraguay (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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by Shamus Cooke
www.globalresearch.ca
June 23, 2012

The recent coup against Paraguay’s democratically elected president is not only a blow to democracy, but an attack against the working and poor population that supported and elected President Fernando Lugo, whom they see as a bulwark against the wealthy elite who’ve dominated the country for decades.

The U.S. mainstream media and politicians are not calling the events in Paraguay a coup, since the president is being “legally impeached” by the elite-dominated Paraguayan Congress. But as economist Mark Weisbrot explains in the Guardian:

Venezuela Decries Attempted Coup in Paraguay, UNASUR Requests President’s Defense Guarantees

An enlargeable map of the Republic of Paraguay (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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By AVN / Prensa Latina
venezuelanalysis.com
June 22, 2012

The secretary general of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), Alí Rodríguez of Venezuela, said yesterday that guarantees ensuring a proper defense should be established in the proceedings against Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo.

Rodríguez said that due process must be respected in the case against the head of state, including providing the necessary time to prepare his defense.