An estimated 30,000 public school teachers in Chicago walked off the job on Monday for the first time since 1987, leaving 350,000 students in limbo. Chicago has the third-largest school district in the United States and it is the city
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Democracy in Afghanistan is a self-made illusion. It is a Western-imposed farce that will be swept away if America and its allies stop propping it up with their bayonets.
The Islamic world contains the world’s greatest concentration of un-elected monarchs, …
Hoax exposed
[T]he commanders of the occupation armies have in effect fought the Afghan war throughout on lies and deceptions, not on the battlefield. It is they alone and their gullible political masters who talk of successes. But even their …
“NATO – kindergarten of the XXI Century”
One of the most popular topics in the Georgian media is the Caucasus-2012 strategic command staff maneuvers, which started on September 17, 2012.
The Georgian media regularly publish articles and broadcast discussions associated …
Reset to Reroute: Should Russia rethink Western relations?
“In the first years of Perestroika, Russia was definitely Western-oriented; Gorbachev had been speaking about a ‘common European home,’ while Yeltsin actually applied for NATO and EU membership.”
The only result of …
One more radar to strengthen the system
Andrey Karneyev
Last summer the Pentagon announced its plans to create an advanced missile defense system in the Asian-Pacific region. In the next few years a chain of modern missile defense radars can …
The Big Oil cartels, through the poisoning of the Gulf of Mexico with millions of gallons of leaking crude oil from risky deep water wells, have committed rape the now mortally wounded Gulf. And now these above-the-law perpetrators are back …
Towards Unmanned Global Warfare: The majority of foreign UAVs that countries have acquired are tactical UAVs for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions
China has signed 16 agreements with Colombo on Monday. The agreements range from visa exemption and marine development to economic and technology cooperation. The agreements also promised to expand investment and increase imports from the island, reported China Daily on …
Mitt Romney told supporters behind closed doors that he’s disadvantaged because he was born to a rich white family, that he’d have a better chance to win if his dad were a Mexican. It’s getting hard to decide if Romney …
The term “October Surprise” is one that always triggers speculation in political circles.
It refers to some covert initiative that a candidate takes in the month before the election to try to win an election.
Even as President Obama seems …
The fearmongering is on. Here’s a typical article, this one from the only daily newspaper in my hometown:
…“Defense spending could face large loss from federal cuts
“By: NATE DELESLINE III | [email protected] | 978-7243
“Published: September 17, 2012
“Charlottesville
Anti-US protests spread throughout Muslim world
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September 18 2012
Protests that began one week ago at US embassies in Egypt and Libya against an anti-Islamic YouTube video are rapidly spreading throughout the Muslim world. The wave of demonstrations reflects the burning anger of hundreds of millions over the predatory …
The chair of the Russian parliamentary committee for foreign affairs warned that the fall of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria would lead to a second Iraq, with Muslim extremists inevitably seizing power.
In a recent Web article, Aleksey Pushkov wrote that …
Today in Tskhinval the president of South Ossetia, Leonid Tibilov, has declared at a meeting with the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions that the Georgian side is conducting intensive preparations for a war around the perimeter of the border with …
East China Sea Conflict: Pentagon Chief Has A Lot Of Explaining To Do
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September 18 2012
The dispute over the Diaoyu Islands is essentially a US-made legacy of World War II.
The US’ intentional blindness to the illegal nature of Japan’s claims to the islands and the ambiguity they are intentionally trying to bring into the …
As LEAP/E2020 anticipated since the end of 2011, the end of summer 2012 marks the beginning of the revival for Euroland with the emergence of a positive dynamic fed by two lasting phenomena: …
Sparked by a deliberate provocation put together by Christian extremists, riots by groups of Islamic extremists are spreading across the world — a convenient symbiosis for both groups, as they use each other’s actions to “justify” their hysterically constricted worldviews.…
Will the U.S. learn a lesson from the death of its Ambassador in Libya?
Andrei Rezchikov
America and NATO bombed Libya and suffered as a result. These are the fruits of their own air raids. The country is divided, and …
Twenty-four hours after Al-Qaeda’s Hassan Mohammed Qaed (aka Abu Yahya Al-Libi) was killed in a drone strike in June, a group calling itself Brigades of Imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman detonated an IED outside the US Consulate in Benghazi.
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Filming, they
Turkey Facilitates Relocation of Al Qaeda Terrorists from Northern Pakistan to Syria
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September 18 2012
Turkish Airline Flying Al-Qaeda from Pakistan to Syrian Borders
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey’s national air carrier, Turkish Air, has been transiting Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants from North Waziristan in Pakistan to the Turkish borders with Syria, sources revealed on Saturday, mentioning …
Russia Is Sitting on “Trillions of Carats” of Diamonds
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September 17 2012
Enough to Supply the Global Diamond Market for 3,000 Years
Russia has just declassified a secret it has been keeping for 40 years: it is sitting on trillions of carats of diamonds, enough to supply the global diamond market
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The overriding elite military and intelligence agenda remains the conquest of oil and gas resources.
When rich companies with politically-connected lobbyists fund their own research and distort outcomes for their own ends, we are in serious trouble. Due to the corporate takeover of science, our choices, rights and freedoms are currently in the process of …
Russia Today
September 16, 2012
US to flex naval might in Persian Gulf war games
The US Navy is leading its largest-ever war games in the Persian Gulf, with warships from 25 countries being deployed in the region. Tehran, in …
Xinhua News Agency
September 16, 2012
Air strike kills 8 civilians, wounds 7 in Afghan’s Laghman province
MEHTERLAM, Afghanistan: An air strike carried out by NATO-led troops in the eastern Laghman province 90 km east of capital city Kabul killed …
The major U.S. news media continues its biased coverage of the Israel-Iran standoff, tilting consistently in favor of Israel, in part, by ignoring Israel’s actual nuclear arsenal and hyping Iran’s hypothetical one. Even a rare wrist-slap from the Washington Post’s …
Angry anti-US protests, including the storming of embassies, continued for a fourth day Friday from Indonesia to Morocco. Sparked by a rabidly anti-Islamic video posted on YouTube, the demonstrations have seen clashes with security forces leading to over a dozen …
The poverty report released Wednesday by the US Census Bureau is another shattering refutation of the Obama Administration’s claims to be overseeing an economic “recovery” and working to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.
The report revealed that the ranks …
Chicago Teachers Union Sellout
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September 16 2012
It’s in the air. Union bosses and city officials struck a deal. A previous article headlined Capitulation in Chicago?Final details aren’t known, but bet on it. It’s baked in the cake. By the time this article circulates, it may be …
The ingredients for a catastrophe in the making are being mixed in a minute-to-minute unfurling global crisis before our very eyes. It sounds like a bad film plot — but that will come later. This is real. Handled well it
First published in December 2012
by Zheng Yangpeng
Too many businesses in China are still reluctant to give up their reliance on exports, despite the government’s calls for a more domestic-driven economy.
That’s according to Michel Chossudovsky, a …
The circulation on the Internet of the trailer for a film, The Innocence of Muslims, sparked demonstrations across the world and resulted in the killing in Benghazi of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya was interviewed by Life Week, a major Chinese magazine based in Beijing. What follows is the English transcript of the interview with Xuxu Jingjing.
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XUXU JINGJING: In your opinion, why did Mustafa Abu …
The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal.
American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris
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A disturbing report published in the Japan Times reveals, almost forty years later, that Okinawa Island was used to store the toxic U.S. defoliant Agent Orange used by US forces during the Vietnam War. “Over the past 18 months, dozens …
The Charter Cities initiative cedes city-sized sections of Honduras to corporations and/or foreign governments indefinitely. Investors make their own laws, build their own police force, administer services.
The threat to global peace does not lie with Iran, or with China for that matter or any other bogeyman the Pentagon cares to dream up.
US-Backed Terrorists in Syria Responsible for Ambassador’s Death in Libya.
The US has sworn to “make pay” those responsible for the death of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens. In reality, those responsible for Stevens’ death are fully armed, funded, trained, and …
[W]hatever objectives it started with, now it has become their objective to continue the conflict. And because of that they will keep on looking for new enemies and new threats. It was Osama bin Laden then, it is Taliban now, …
The assault on the US consulate building in Libya Tuesday night was a planned attack by al-Qaeda militants that may have involved infiltrators within Libya’s new security forces.
According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information
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Hypocritical Reactions to the Murder of US Ambassador in Libya…
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September 14 2012
The first thing that comes to mind about the murder of the US Ambassador and his three staff in Benghazi, Libya today is the cruel irony. Indeed this is the man who served as envoy to the rebels/mercenaries during the …
Washington announced plans last spring to expand its missile defence shield and install its components not only in Europe, but also in Asia and the Middle East. US Assistant Secretary of Defence for Global Strategic Issues Madelyn Creedon said at …
"I asked myself, how could this happen, how could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction." – Hilary Clinton, US Secretary of State
Japanese Action Upsets Post-World War II Order In Asia
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September 14 2012
Japan’s ‘purchase’ of the Diaoyu Islands challenges post-WWII order in Asia
Today, the Japanese government’s move in regards to the Diaoyu Islands issue is a clear violation of what it had accepted and should alarm all those who suffered in …
US to help Georgia modernize air defence system
Artyom Kobzev
The situation around Iran is becoming tenser. Georgia is presenting itself as a reliable U.S. ally. To confirm this, it has sent it forces to Afghanistan. In fact, at a …
Russia warns US on consequences of regime change
[T]he so-called Arab Spring has come full circle: newly liberated Libya, which just passed through a brutal civil war that pitted pro-Gaddafi forces against a Western-backed opposition, is responsible for the death …
U.S. Middle Eastern Policies Backfire
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September 13 2012
Time for U.S. to rethink its Mideast policies after ambassador’s tragic death
By Wu Liming
BEIJING: The attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya on Tuesday were hair-raising, and the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens …
Mitt Romney has articulated few substantive differences between himself and President Obama on foreign policy, but a Romney victory could dramatically change the U.S. approach to the world because he, like George W. Bush, is surrounding himself with neocon advisers, …
The Obama administration has dispatched an elite unit of Marine special forces to Libya after the killing of the US ambassador and three other US personnel in the storming of the American consulate in Benghazi Tuesday.
The killing of …
As expected, the Court caved. On September 12, headlines reported it. The Financial Times said “German politicians declared the road clear for the creation of the eurozone’s (500 billion euro) rescue fund after the country’s constitutional court rejected a petition …
This week, secret ‘negotiations’ are underway in a remote resort in Lansdowne,Virginia for the greatest global corporate coup in history. It’s called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and if you haven’t heard about it, then you are in the majority because …
Following the deaths of American ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three members of his staff in a coordinated attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi on September 11, Washington is deploying two Aegis class destroyers off the …
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“Innocence of Muslims” consultant Steve Klein is a veteran anti-Muslim organizer with close ties to the Christian right in CaliforniaThe US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three US diplomats were killed in attacks and rioting provoked by
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Media Reports on the Tragic Assassination of US Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens
New York Times
September 12, 2012
J. Christopher Stevens arrived in Benghazi, Libya, in April 2011 aboard a Greek cargo ship carrying a dozen American diplomats and guards …
A new study has found that people who received a flu shot before the outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic were more likely to catch the swine flu virus, a startling discovery given the fact that experts have blamed …
The 11th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks passed Tuesday with diminished official commemoration, as attempts to exploit the tragic deaths of that day as a pretext for Washington’s unending wars have grown ever more hollow.
In New York …
The Information Minister…slammed the UK for lifting an aid freeze on Rwanda, hinting that the international forces, which have previously benefitted from the internal strife in the DRC through laundered minerals, “are back at it again”.
He said the AU …
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak lauds the achievements of his government in delivering economic growth while other countries struggle to avoid recession. That ability to deliver consistent economic development is threatened by the proposed US-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership, shaped in secret …
Chicago teachers in forefront of fight against bipartisan assault on education
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September 12 2012
The strike by 26,000 Chicago teachers completed its second day on Tuesday. Tens of thousands of teachers and their supporters gathered at a mass rally in downtown Chicago, filling several city blocks.
Striking teachers march to rally in downtown …
Occupy the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)
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September 12 2012
Dr. Margaret Flowers scales a tripod, blocks trade negotiators entering upscale golf resort; other activists erect a 75-foot high banner suspended by 10 weather balloons
"I have met with these brave fighters, they are not Al-Qaeda. ... They are Libyan patriots who want to liberate their nation. We should help them do it." - Sen. John McCain, Benghazi, April 22, 2011.
The results of the September 4 general election in Quebec produce mixed reactions among supporters of all the major parties.
The pro-sovereignty Parti Québécois becomes the government, and PQ leader Pauline Marois the first woman premier, but with only a
By Andrew Schoerke, member of Veterans For Peace
http://warisacrime.org/content/war-miscalculation-mistake-or-accident
The U. S. Navy is currently assembling four Carrier Strike Groups in the Arabian Sea and when in place it will be the most powerful carrier task force assembled since WW
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Turkey: Devastating Economic Consequences of Syrian Crisis and Iran Sanctions Regime
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September 11 2012
New economic figures just out show that Turkey’s erstwhile rising star as a powerful emerging economy has suddenly taken a plunge.
Second-quarter economic data show that the country’s halcyon days of stellar growth of more than 8% during 2010 and …
Canada’s abrupt move to sever all ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran manifestly springs from a strong pro-Israeli sway which has permeated the political structure of the country.
Naturally, the Israelis were tremendously gladdened by this move which they …
Why the prospect for peace in Syria is remote is because the premise of the problem put forward by Brahimi, the Western powers, and their regional allies is entirely faulty, as it was when previously proffered by Annan. This premise …
On 7 September, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Canada is suspending all diplomatic relations with Iran, expelling all Iranian diplomats, closing its embassy in Tehran, and authorizing Turkey to act on Canada’s behalf for consular services there. Baird …
US dispatching more drones to Yemen – Source
by Hamdan al-Rahbi
Sanaa, Asharq Al-Awsat – Informed Yemeni sources, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on the condition of anonymity, revealed that the al-Anad Air Base in southern Yemen’s Lajih province had received …
Says that 9/11 was “False Flag” Terror, Just Like the Strategy of Tension in Italy
Ferdinando Imposimato is the honorary President of the Supreme Court of Italy, and former Senior Investigative Judge, Italy.
Imposimato presided over several terrorism-related cases, including
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Israeli Rabbi Calls for Prayers for Iran’s Destruction
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September 09 2012
An influential Israeli rabbi has called for prayers for Iran’s destruction, a week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to court his support for a possible attack on a nuclear programme Israel sees as an existential threat.
The sermon by …
Dutch voters will elect a new parliament on Wednesday, 12 September. Since well over a month, aided by state television and the compliant corporate-controlled media, politicians of the main parties have been trying to attract the attention of the voting …
Another dismal US jobs report
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September 09 2012
Less than 12 hours after US President Barack Obama gave his speech at the Democratic National Convention, a disastrous jobs report released Friday shattered the administration’s pretenses to be presiding over an economic recovery.
The US economy added only …
A recent Reuters report confirms what has been known for several months. According to a French surgeon stationed in Aleppo, the FSA fighters objective is to topple Bashar al Assad with a view to installing an Islamic state.
What the …
“The Democratic national convention in Charlotte has been plunged into chaos with a row over Israel threatening to overshadow Bill Clinton’s speech as the second day of business was mired in a clumsy and embarrassing climbdown.
Barack Obama intervened personally
Welcome to the newly redesigned Global Research website!
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September 08 2012
Dear Readers,
Welcome to the newly redesigned Global Research website!
We are very proud to launch an updated version of our website, featuring the same timely and analytical content as before, in a display that will be easier for our …
Week in Review: US Elections and the Global Crisis
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September 07 2012
Global Research brings to the attention of our readers the following selected articles.
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Canada closes Iranian embassy, suspends diplomatic ties, September 07, 2012
Closing ranks with the US and Israel, Canada has denounced Iran as the biggest threat to global security and said it will expel all of the Islamic Republic’s diplomats from its territory by September 12th.
“Canada views the government
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If political conventions are ranked on a one to ten scale for intelligence, I give the Republican Convention zero and the Democrats one.
How can the United States be a superpower when both political parties are unaware of everything that …
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