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Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax 06.18.2009 There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite.

Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon 06.10.2009 In early June, Peruvian President Alan García, an ally of US President Barack Obama, ordered armored personnel carriers, helicopter gun-ships and hundreds of heavily armed troops to assault and disperse a peaceful, legal protest organized by members of Peru’s Amazonian indigenous communities protesting the entry of foreign multinational mining companies on their traditional homelands.

Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures: Diplomacy, Militarism and Imagery 05.20.2009 President Obama’s greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media. His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence.

US-Latin American Relations in a Time of Rising Militarism, Protectionism and Pillage 05.18.2009 One of the most striking aspect of contemporary US-Latin American relations is the profound divergence between the hopes, expectations and positive image of the Obama regime and the policies, strategies and practices which are being pursued.

Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice 05.17.2009 “The Deltas are psychos… You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force…”, a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980’s.

Procuring Academics for Empire: The Pentagon Minerva Research Initiative 03.31.2009 The Pentagon’s military strategists have recognized that they have suffered political losses, with strategic consequences in their recent military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

World Depression: Regional Wars and the Decline of the US Empire 03.25.2009 All the idols of capitalism over the past three decades crashed. The assumptions and presumptions, paradigm and prognosis of indefinite progress under liberal free market capitalism have been tested and have failed.

Israel Asserting Middle East Supremacy: From Gaza to Tehran 01.30.2009 Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany bombed, invaded and annexed countries and territories as a prelude to their quest for World Empire. Israel’s drive for regional dominance has followed in their footsteps, imitating their style:

The Art of Plain Speaking :: Electric Politics 01.27.2009 [Audio] George Kenney asks James Petras about the 'Israel Lobby,' what's behind it, what makes it different than the tobacco lobby, the NRA, or the AARP. Total runtime fifty six minutes.

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