History

History

• "I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire": Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out
  Amy Goodman interview with Johan Galtung. Known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies, he’s spent the past half-century pursuing nonviolent conflict resolution in international relations.
• 56,000 Images Captured on Monitored Student Laptops at Pa. Schools
  The family of a student targeted by the monitoring has filed a federal lawsuit…. The student, Blake Robbins, was photographed over 400 times during a fifteen-day period last year, sometimes as he slept or was half-dressed. The district used images from
• 9-11-01
  Videos Show Building 7′s Vertical Collapse: You be the judge. The survival of several video recordings of Building 7′s collapse, though of low resolution, allow study of the building’s motion and the time of collapse.
• Bad, Worse, Worst and Beyond
  “This is what has been done to America, and it turned out to be a frightfully simple task. Once the rule of law is gone, there is nothing left to defend American rights and freedoms, nothing left to bring justice to the unjust, nothing left to stop those
• BP, Big Oil Get Big Win From Judges Not Judging: Ann Woolner. Bloomberg.com:
  “Right now, judges in Louisiana and Alabama are recusing themselves left and right from oil spill cases.”
• Fascism in five easy steps
  “…mature democracies turn fascist by a recognizable process, a set of five stages that may be the most important family resemblance that links all the whole motley collection of 20th Century fascisms together.”
• Former Interrogator Rebukes Cheney for Torture Speech
  “Cheney torture policy cost hundreds, if not thousands of lives”…
• Hired Gun Fetish
  By PAUL KRUGMAN, NY Times, Sept ’07
• John Perkins on "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption"
  “Today, we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forces driving corporate globalization. In his first book, ³Confessions of an Economic Hit Man², John Perkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to st
• Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
  The phrase military-industrial complex was first used on January 17, 1961, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower [1] in his farewell address to the nation in what is called his Military Industrial Complex Speech “In the councils of government, we must guard
• Naomi Wolf Interview
  “Here’s a video featuring a recent lecture by Naomi Wolfe. It’s an extraordinary look at how history is repeating itself in America today.
• Naomi Wolf: The End of America May Happen
  “An interview with author Naomi Wolf, whose new book, “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot,” may confirm your worries about democracy in America.”
• No End in Sight
  “dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush Administration’s decisions (in Iraq) and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening n
• North American Army created without OK by Congress
  U.S., Canada military ink deal to fight domestic emergencies
• Obama's War – Frontline
  Can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the “graveyard of empires?”
• Ohio 6-Year-Old Turns Up on Terror Watch List. Government refuses to take her off.
• Rething Afghanistan

  http://rethinkafghanistan.com/

• The Cancer from Within
  ” The Christian supremacist fascism first reported at the Air Force Academy is endemic throughout the military. From the top down, there has been a complete repudiation of constitutional values and time-honored codes of ethics and honor codes in favor of
• The FBI Deputizes Business
  By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law.
• The My Lai Tapes – Part TwoUS soldiers killed 504 innocent Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in Vietnam on March 16th 1968.
  Women and children were raped, cattle were slaughtered, houses burned and crops destroyed. It became known as the ‘My Lai massacre’ and its significance still resonates today. Only one solider, Lt William Calley, was prosecuted for what happened in My L
• The Myth of America: The truth about the birth of America.
  by: Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola, t r u t h o u t | “They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want. Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.” C
• The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein on the Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
  “Some of the most infamous human rights violations of the past thirty-five years, which have tended to be viewed as sadistic acts carried out by anti-democratic regimes, were in fact either committed with the deliberate intent of terrorizing the public or
• Tough on crime? Check. Smart on crime? Not so much.
  “We’re Texas and we’re famously tough on crime. So how come we still have so much of it?” Austin American Statesman Editorial
• U.S. Official Matthew Hoh Resigns in Protest of Afghanistan War Policy
  …the senior U.S. civilian in Afghanistan’s Zabul province resigned in protest because he believes the American effort there is simply fueling the insurgency…
• Unarmed man tazered to death by Canadian Police at airport.
  Warning: graphic violence
• Vietnam: American Holocaust
  “The United States killed between 3 and 5 million people in the Vietnam War. This feature looks at the history of that war and the how and why it happened using interviews with participates on both sides, speeches, conversation and actual wartime footage.
• Windfalls of War
  A comprehensive examination of companies that won contracts for work in Iraq and Afghanistan — and of their campaign contributions, led by General Electric and Vinnell Corporation (the former Northrup Grumman). …from the Center for Public Integrity.
• Worse Thank Vietnam?

  http://rethinkafghanistan.com/?akid=1115.451100.atatGE&rd=1&t=3

• Your cell phone, a bug for the FBI?
  YouTube: “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation”
• “The End of America”: Author, Feminist Social Critic Naomi Wolf Warns U.S. in Slow Descent into Fascism
  This is a video interview by Amy Goodman, on DemocracyNow.org…on the shocking similarities between Germany in the early 1930′s and America in 2007.