Category Archives: USA

Exclusive: Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 26. May 2021 by

The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called “signature reduction.” The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.

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The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 7. October 2017 by

The corporate state has made it very hard to make a living if you hold fast to this radical critique. You will never get tenure. You probably won’t get academic appointments. You won’t win prizes. You won’t get grants. The New York Times, if they review your book, will turn it over to a dutiful mandarin like George Packer to trash it—as he did with my last book. The elite schools, and I have taught as a visiting professor at a few of them, such as Princeton and Columbia, replicate the structure and goals of corporations. If you want to even get through a doctoral committee, much less a tenure committee, you must play it really, really safe. You must not challenge the corporate-friendly stance that permeates the institution and is imposed through corporate donations and the dictates of wealthy alumni. Half of the members of most of these trustee boards should be in prison!

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Real Americans Question 9/11

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 17. April 2017 by

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights described how the Constitution had been shredded based on assumptions about the 9/11 attacks. By then, it had also become clear that the government was actually giving aid and comfort to the enemy (violating Article 3) through arming and training terrorists. One might think it obvious that stopping such actions would be the goal of all Americans but to do so one Congress member has had to spell it out in legislation.

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U.S. and EU Sanctions Are Punishing Ordinary Syrians and Crippling Aid Work, U.N. Report Reveals

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 4. October 2016 by

Five years of devastating civil war and strict economic sanctions have plunged over 80 percent of Syrians into poverty, up from 28 percent in 2010. Ferdinand Arslanian, a scholar at the Center for Syrian Studies at the University of St. Andrews, says that reduction in living standards and aid dependency is empowering the regime.

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Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 10. May 2015 by

It would be wonderful if the [Vietnam] war were critically studied and its glorification subjected to massive public opposition combined with teach-ins, multimedia presentations, marches, and demonstrations. These could be directly tied to the interminable and deadly war on terror and the ongoing conversion of the United States into a police state.

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Anti-Empire Report #130

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 13. July 2014 by

William Blum Official website of the author, historian, and U.S. foreign policy critic. The Anti-Empire Report #130 By William Blum – Published July 12th, 2014 What would a psychiatrist call this? Delusions of grandeur? US Secretary of State John Kerry, … Read more . . .

US – UK Aggression against Iraq

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 18. November 2013 by

  US – UK Aggression against Iraq An immoral, shameful, counter-productive, illegal and criminal act Statement by Elias Davidsson, Reykjavik, Iceland For immediate release. 17. Dec. 1998 Immoral: To attack an impoverished nation, unable to defend itself, knowing that such … Read more . . .

American Job Loss Is Permanent

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 1. November 2010 by

American Job Loss Is Permanent By Paul Craig Roberts October 28, 2010 “Information Clearing House” — — Now that a few Democrats and the remnants of the AFL-CIO are waking up to the destructive impact of jobs offshoring on the US economy and … Read more . . .

People’s War in Vietnam

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 19. February 2009 by

JOHN M. GATES: THE U.S. ARMY AND IRREGULAR WARFARE, CHAPTER EIGHT http://www.wooster.edu/History/jgates/book-ch8.html People’s War in Vietnam   Perhaps because I thought Timothy J. Lomperis had made some of the same errors I had found in the work of Colonel Harry … Read more . . .

Competing interests divide U.S. China policy

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 8. December 2006 by
Events this spring, however, revealed the rivalry within the Bush administration between a "business wing" that favors increased trade and investment ties with China, and a "defense wing" that is very concerned that the capital and technology flowing to China is creating a dangerous rival with global ambitions.
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