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Blast from the Past: PNAC's 1998 Letter to Clinton
"It was the opening salvo of a campaign to press forward a post-Cold War foreign policy of 'Pax Americana,' a world that the neo-conservatives who made up the bulk of the 25 people who signed PNAC’s statement of principles the previous June...
Posted 30 January 2008 09:33 PM by smileycoyote | 3 comment(s)
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The Federation of American Scientists & Secrecy News
I thought I'd highlight the awesome publication entitled Secrecy News. Kept track of here are the latest developments in intelligence and defense activities, from the newest budget adjustments to papers issued by shadowy groups like the JASON Group...
Posted 04 October 2007 04:46 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Mr. Bush's Next World Order
"...the thing about Iran's nuclear program that keeps Dick Cheney and his big oil pals awake at night is the specter that it could evolve into a world-class nuclear energy industry. That would put its senior partners Russia and China in the catbird's...
Posted 23 September 2007 11:43 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Mind Games
"Throughout the summer of 2003, Gardiner documented incidents that he saw as information-warfare campaigns directed both at targeted foreign populations and the American public. By the fall, he had collected his analysis into a lengthy treatise,...
Posted 26 May 2007 08:30 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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The War and the Spectacle
"Socially and psychologically repressed, people are drawn to spectacles of violent conflict that allow their accumulated frustrations to explode in socially condoned orgasms of collective pride and hate. Deprived of significant accomplishments in...
Posted 17 May 2007 06:21 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Kucinich Introduces Impeachment Articles Against Cheney
At this very moment, the resolution is being transmitted to members of Congress. Because this resolution is so weighty in its import, it's going to be important for members of Congress to have sufficient time to study the articles. This is unlike...
Posted 24 April 2007 08:42 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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April 2007: The Deadliest Month of the Iraq Occupation
We’re more than a third of the way through April now, and I haven’t seen this actually reported in the media anywhere, but unfortunately this has been the deadliest month for the U.S.-led coalition forces — on an average daily basis...
Posted 15 April 2007 08:36 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Bush's Shadow Army
MEET BLACKWATER USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has made its Praetorian Guard for the “global war on terror.” Blackwater has the world's largest private military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 contractors...
Posted 04 April 2007 03:06 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Washington's $8 Billion Shadow
" Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the "body shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including...
Posted 26 March 2007 05:05 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Saddam's Hanging: Psyops as Usual
You only have to look back a few years (we won't mention JFK) to find a huge event aimed at viewers with media complicity intended to induce trauma. Recently, in Iraq, we have a two pronged psychological attack, the first being aimed at placating...
Posted 01 January 2007 04:04 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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