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USS Liberty – Tragic Blunder or Mass Murder?

Martin Hanson “Never before in the history of the US Navy has a Navy board of inquiry ignored the...

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A Plague of Saints

J R Leach

In the digital age, the incessant calls to action reverberate across the virtual landscape, summoning legions of fervent warriors...

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Why the US National Security State Assassinated MLK

Edward Curtin “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous,” warned Rev. King, “than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”...

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The Ancient Agonies of the Unelected OverLords

Rosalie Steward They didn’t have a choice, those infant twins abandoned into the river Tiber. We can only imagine...

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Postcards from a Police State: 22 Years of Patriot Act Blowback

John & Nisha Whitehead “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the...

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A Message to Donald Rumsfeld’s Ghost About My Known Knowns

Edward Curtin On February 12, 2002 at a Pentagon news conference, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked by...

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Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout

Edward curtin Much has been made of the September 9, 2023 simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of the...

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The Other 9/11 – Chilean Coup 50 Years On

Michel Chossudovsky Half a century ago on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military led by General Augusto Pinochet, crushed the democratically...

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WATCH: Preserving our History with Neil Oliver

If history is a story, who’s writing it? And who’s trying to erase it? Join James Corbett and archaeologist,...

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Remembering the Paris Commune

Catte Black The original version of this article was first published in the before times – back in the...

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Wool Over Our Eyes

Todd Hayen It is curious to me that people do not understand that historically, perpetrators of evil have always...

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The New Normal Left

CJ Hopkins So, I went to London to speak to the Left … no, not “the Left” you’re probably...

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Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”

Edward curtin On the short roof outside the bedroom window, two black vultures sit, staring in.  They have come...

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Western Oligarchy

Simon Elmer One of the obstacles to understanding the managed and apparently deliberate destruction of the small and medium-sized...

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WATCH: WHO’s Sordid History of So-Called Pandemics

Meryl Nass interviews James Corbett for CHD.tv. Following on their previous discussions, they interpret recently drafted amendments to the...

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Lucid Summations When Tomorrow Is Today and MLK Day

Edward Curtin “What they [regular people] need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that...

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The Enlightenment & the Emancipation of Humanity

Charles Chevalier To what extent was Enlightenment one of human emancipation? As Hampson (1968) describes the period “an embarrassment...

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China: The World’s First Technate – Part 1

Iain Davis We are being rapidly transitioned into a new system of centralised, authoritarian global governance. This system is...

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Who Knew: We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here

Edward Curtin My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World...

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WATCH: Meet Smedley Butler

James Corbett’s latest “flashback” episode focuses on the Marine General who described war as a “racket”, and revealed an...

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