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How America Tortures – a new report with drawings and a movie

December 13, 2019 Comments Off

How America Tortures by M. P. Denbeaux, & Seton Hall University. (2019) This report includes eight drawings by Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo detainee, illustrating his experiences during torture sessions. Abu Zubaydah is also a figure --->> read more -->>

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President Authorizes Coup in Iran

August 19, 2018 Comments Off

Intervention in Iran – 65th Anniversary On August 19, 1953 President Eisenhower authorized the CIA to support British efforts to launch a coup against the popularly elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in favor of Mohammad --->> read more -->>

Russian “Interference” and the American Empire – the lost ironies

November 5, 2017 Comments Off

With all of the current outrage over Russia’s attempts to influence our last presidential election one can only be struck by the notion that Americans don’t know their own history, even that which occurred within --->> read more -->>

Secret Sentry by Mathew Aid

Yottabytes and the National Security State

October 17, 2009 Comments Off

The current New York Review of Books has an article by James Bamford, “Who’s in Big Brother’s Database” that reviews the new book by Mathew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the --->> read more -->>

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Pondering at the Food Coop

November 1, 2008 Comments Off

November 1, 2008 So, here I am having coffee and my favorite lunch, a toasted bagel with peanut butter thinking about the approaching election. Finally this will conclude what has been an overly long campaign, --->> read more -->>

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