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Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "As the link between the media and corporate power becomes more integrated, the visual theater of terror mimics the politics of the 'official' war on terror. Echoing the discourse of the 'official' war on terror, the violence of extremist groups as well as state-sanctioned and corporate violence are understood almost exclusively within the discourse of moral absolutes pitting good against evil."

http://www.truth-out.org/states-paralysis-americas-surrender-spectacle-terror62387



The Guns of August: Lowering the Flag on the American Century

Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch: "In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August. It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal documents and information not available to participants. They were acting, as Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara put it, in the fog of war. So where are we this August of 2010, with guns blazing in one war in Afghanistan even as we try to extricate ourselves from another in Iraq?"

http://www.truth-out.org/the-guns-august-lowering-flag-american-century62384



How Truth Can Save Lives

Ray McGovern, Truthout: "I need to speak out now because I have been sickened watching the Herculean effort by Official Washington and our Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) to divert attention from the violence and deceit in Afghanistan, reflected in thousands of U.S. Army documents, by shooting the messenger(s) - WikiLeaks and Pvt. Bradley Manning."

http://www.truth-out.org/how-truth-can-save-lives62398

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The prison state

CounterPunch
by Michael Yates

08/17/10

It is easy now to forget that the agents of repression — the police, the FBI, the courts, the government itself — consciously and actively targeted those who were active in and led the civil rights and Vietnam war resistance movements. They infiltrated and acted as provocateurs in movement organizations; they arrested innocent people; they enacted and enforced draconian laws; they illegally tapped phones and spied on any and all persons suspected of ’subversive’ activity; and they tortured and murdered those who they deemed to be the most dangerous radicals...

http://counterpunch.org/yates08172010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Sharply Embarrassed By WikiLeaks
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