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Cuando me pidieron que interviniera en la concentración del sábado en Fort Meade en apoyo del soldado raso Bradley Manning, me planteé a mí mismo cómo podría proporcionar algún contexto alrededor de lo que se pretende que Manning ha hecho.
(En mi charla, para no pensar que tenía que insertar la palabra “pretende” en cada frase, pedí [...]

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When I was asked to speak at Saturday’s rally at Fort Meade in support of Pvt. Bradley Manning, I wondered how I might provide some context around what Manning is alleged to have done.
(In my talk, so as not to think I had to insert the word “alleged” into every sentence, I asked for unanimous [...]

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While we go on waging unwinnable wars on false premises, the Pentagon papers tell us we must not wait 40 years for the truth
The declassification and online release Monday of the full original version of the Pentagon Papers – the 7,000-page top secret Pentagon study of US decision-making in Vietnam 1945-67 – comes 40 years [...]

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Un reverendo llegó al podio de una enorme y famosa iglesia a un lado de Harlem y, con su inconfundible voz, su maestría retórica, y una ira digna que surge desde lo más profundo del ser humano, habló de la violencia inaguantable en las comunidades de su país, de la pobreza injusta que la genera, [...]

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The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks is preparing to release up to 400,000 US intelligence reports on the Iraq War. The disclosure would comprise the biggest leak in US history, far more than the 91,000 Afghanistan war logs WikiLeaks released this summer. We speak to the nation’s most famous whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the secret history [...]

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But on Sept. 29 she will introduce Kissinger at the State Department Historian’s conference, giving him a platform to continue 40 years of Orwellian deception in which he has sought to blame Congress for the fall of Indochina rather than accepting responsibility for his massive miscalculations and indifference to human suffering.

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Chomsky: “El pasado mayo, Wikileaks dio a conocer un informe de la CIA sobre cómo mantener el apoyo de Europa a la guerra: el subtítulo decía: “Por qué contar con la apatía quizá no sea suficiente”. Este informe debe recordarnos que los Estados tienen un enemigo interno: su propia población, que debe ser controlada cuando la política estatal encuentra oposición entre el pueblo. Las sociedades democráticas no dependen de la fuerza sino de la propaganda, manipulando el consenso mediante “una ilusión necesaria” y una “sobresimplificación emocionalmente poderosa”, por citar al filósofo favorito de Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr.

Así que la batalla para controlar al enemigo interno sigue siendo altamente pertinente. De hecho, el futuro de la guerra en Afganistán puede depender de ella.”

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We got our troops there remarkably quickly. We’re quite capable of removing them at a similar pace. We could, that is, leave. There are, undoubtedly, better and worse ways of doing this, ways that would further penalize the societies we’ve invaded, and ways that might be of some use to them, but either way we could go.

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Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch
Source: TomDispatch

by Alfred W. McCoy
The crisis has come suddenly, almost without warning. At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad to much worse than anyone could have imagined. The insurgents are spreading fast across the countryside. Corruption is rampant. [...]

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Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch
Source: TomDispatch

by Pratap Chatterjee
February 7, 2010
Sitting in air-conditioned comfort, cans of Coke and 7-Up within reach as they watched their screens, the ground controllers gave the order to strike under the cover of darkness. There had been no declaration of war.  No advance warning, nothing, in fact, that [...]

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