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Oct 23 2009
The Nobel Audacity Prize Goes to Cheney
Op_ed
By MWC News   

If there were a Nobel Audacity Prize, former Vice-President Dick Cheney would deserve to win it, hands-down. This guy is unbelievable. He’s taking President Obama to task for “dithering” by not immediately sending 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

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Backstroking the Jewish Tomorrow
Op_ed
By Gilad Atzmon   

Following the recent agreement announced by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s chief, Mohammad ElBaradei regarding Iranian Uranium enrichment, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak called on the international community “to give Iran a deadline for halting its nuclear program and impose additional sanctions against Tehran”. For some reason the Israelis are convinced that Nuclear energy is a ‘Jew only property’ The Jewish state insists on keeping its neighbours in a state of nuclear panic alert.

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Tags:  Gilad Atzmon Jewish Jerusalem Israel's future
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Monitoring Social Media Sites
Investigating Reports
By MWC News   

Wired magazine has revealed the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency has invested in a software firm called Visible Technologies that specializes in monitoring social media sites, including blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. Wired reporter Noah Shachtman writes, “America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates—even check out your book reviews on Amazon.”

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The Phony Radicalism of Michael Moore
Op_ed
By Sheldon Richman   

With phony radicals like Michael Moore around, the ruling elite has nothing to worry about.

The filmmaker likes to pose as a radical critic of the status quo, but he isn’t. All the evidence you need is in his latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story. Sure, he rails against home foreclosures, bank bailouts, low wages, other real and imagined problems, but his solution would not disturb the sleep of any big banker, corporate bigwig, or political big shot.

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Tags:  Sheldon Richman Phony Radicalism Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story
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The Rotten Fruits of War
Society + Culture
By MWC News   

Five months ago, shortly after the Pakistani government had begun a military offensive against suspected Taliban fighters in the northernmost area of the country, we arrived in Islamabad, the capital, as part of a small delegation organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org). Our initial travel plans had focused on learning more about civilian suffering caused by U.S. drone attacks.

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Tags:  Dan Pearson Kathy Kelly U.S. drone
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H1N1: Preparing for The next plague
Political Views
By MWC News   

It really amazes me how the mainstream media is whipping up the hype and hysteria over the H1N1 virus as we move into the Fall and closer to doomsday. Is the H1N1 virus more severe than the common flu by which hundreds die each year in the U.K for instance?  Perhaps it’s not. 

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Tags:  Michael Werbowski H1N1 Swine flu Mexico City
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Obama vs. FOX
Political Views
By MWC News   

President Obama is getting criticism for going after Fox News. I fault the White House too: for not going far enough. The real issue is not Fox's right wing "bias." The real issue is that FOX News seems to be trawling for assassins. Here's the letter White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs should write. Or maybe it should come from the head of United States Secret Service.

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Tags:  Frank Schaeffer Fox News Glenn Beck Rupert Murdoch
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Obamacare Targets Entitlements
Op_ed
By Stephen Lendman   

Meeting with the Washington Post's editorial staff on January 16, President-elect Obama pledged to reform entitlements saying the process would begin straightaway by convening a "fiscal responsibility summit" before delivering his first budget to Congress.

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The Drug War Leads to Gun Control
Political Views
By MWC News   

A fundamental principle of interventionism holds that one government intervention inevitably leads to more interventions, in order to “fix” the problems of the previous interventions. At the end of this road lies omnipotent government and the loss of freedom.

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger Drug War Gun Control
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Yes Men- Climate Cover-Up
Investigating Reports
By MWC News   

The Yes Men aren’t the only group accused of pulling off a hoax in the debate over climate change legislation. In August, the American Petroleum Institute—the oil industry’s top lobbying group—was found to have asked member oil companies to help recruit employees, retirees and contractors for anti-climate bill rallies around the country. Critics said the API was trying to fake a grassroots movement to give a false impression of widespread public opposition to tackling global warming.

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Tags:  James Hoggan Climate Cover-Up Global Warming
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Support the Troops by Legalizing Drugs
Political Views
By MWC News   

For decades libertarians have been arguing that the only way to put drug gangs out of business is by legalizing drugs. There is no way that drug gangs could compete against legitimate drug producers in a free market. Drug gangs thrive only in an environment of illegality, where such traits as murder, robbery, kidnapping, and corruption play an important role.

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger Legalizing Drugs libertarians marijuana
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Autumn in Shanghai
Society + Culture
By Gilad Atzmon   

Shanghai is modernity in action, it is up for business, its many staggering new high-rise buildings, spear the imagination as well as the sky. It is saturated with festive almost unreal glamour, it is soaking in wealth, it is overwhelmingly proud and yet, it is humane, very humane in fact. It is habitable, it is relatively quiet, it feels safe, it welcomes you on board. It is the Western Metropolis wannabe, yet it is in the East.

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Tags:  Gilad Atzmon Jazz Festival Autumn Shanghai
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Obama Steps Up Drone Raids Despite Death of Civilians
Investigating Reports
By Sherwood Ross   

Since taking office, President Obama has sanctioned at least 41 Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) drone strikes in Pakistan that have killed between 326 and 538 people, many of them, critics say, “innocent bystanders, including children,” according to reliable reports. The drone is a remotely controlled, unmanned aircraft.

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JFK-CIA-Joannides Scandal
Political Views
By MWC News   

Last Friday, October 16, the New York Times, for the first time, shined a light onto the JFK-CIA-Joannides scandal with a story entitled “C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery.” The story soon began appearing in other mainstream newspapers and on Internet websites.

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger JFK Joannides CIA Scandal New York Times
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IF Stone: An Iconic Radical Journalist
Society + Culture
By Stephen Lendman   
Born Isador Feinstein in 1907, his brother Louis said he changed his name at age 30 because "he didn't want to turn a reader off who might be anti-Semetic, right away, to avoid anti-Semitism in his work." Most people called him Izzy, and when he died in 1989, biographer DD Guttenplan said "he had (so) transformed (himself) from America's premiere radical journalist into a respectable icon of his profession" that all four major television networks announced his passing.

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Judges Want to (Bleep)
Society + Culture
By Bob Boldt   

In a bit of irony he might find fitting for one of his movies, detained film director Roman Polanski has received a Star on the Warsaw, Poland Walk of Fame.

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Tags:  Bob Boldt Roman Polanski Warsaw Poland
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