Western Pathological Liars Hold World To Ransom by Finian Cunningham

LIES

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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from PressTV
August 28, 2013

The US, British and French governments have engaged in a decade of constant lies and war crimes around the world. The intermittent imperialist adventures of these capitalist powers over the past century have now subsumed into a seamless, never-ending state of permanent war on the world, as American fascist ideologues have long salivated for.

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Opposition to Iraq War May Save Syria by David Swanson + Gareth Porter: US intelligence has no hard proof Assad used chemical weapons

Syria

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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
warisacrime.org
August 29, 2013

Evidence of “weapons of mass destruction” is “no slam dunk,” U.S. officials are saying this time around, reversing the claim made about Iraq by then-CIA director George Tenet.

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I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision, by Michael Parenti

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

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by Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
August 29, 2013

The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington—in which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famed “I Have a Dream” speech—has recently won renewed attention from various print and electronic media in the United States.  Continue reading