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Truth be Known posted by ted, 2010-07-11 08:12:45
The American push began in the Balkans and will end in Washington. Today it becomes abundantly clear that nothing will change until America’s wars are fought on American soil. (full story)
imperialism / international


Aphrodite and Eros Sea Deity Terrestrial God posted by fray, 2010-07-09 20:25:29
Circuits of ecstasy -- a Tantric variation on Jacob's Qabalistic Ladder of Lights -- all One. (full story)
prose/poetry / international


Former Top CIA Spy: How US Intelligence Became Big Business posted by Jeremy Scahill via fleet, 2010-07-09 07:45:03
Few who have seen the dramatic privatization of US intelligence operations from the inside ever speak about the role private contractors play in covert operations--certainly not in public. In late June, however, the CIA's former top counterterrorism official, Robert Grenier, participated in a rare public discussion on issues ranging from the incredible extent to which the US has relied on contractors to fill sensitive national security positions; to battlefield contractors in Afghanistan; to allegations of contractor involvement in "direct action" (lethal) operations, as well as commenting on Blackwater owner Erik Prince's reported involvement in a secret CIA assassination program. The former spy also criticized what he called attempts by the US military to "overstep their bounds" by conducting intelligence operations that traditionally have fallen under the purview of the CIA. (full story)
imperialism / international


Convergence posted by quin, 2010-07-07 22:22:48
perils of the heart (full story)
prose/poetry / international


The Collector posted by reed, 2010-07-05 19:50:48
rapture bellies to the core
dancing God there is no more
i am you
You are me
dancing
blissful
ecstasy ...
(full story)
prose/poetry / international


Inside The US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire posted by Peter Phillips via stan, 2010-07-04 19:51:57
We face what appears to be a military industrial media empire so powerful and complex that truth is mostly absent or reported in disconnected segments with little historical context. A case in point: The London Times reported on June 5, 2010, that American troops are now operating in 75 countries. Has President Obama secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US Special Forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world? If so, this increase is far in excess of special-forces operations under the Bush administration and reflects how aggressively Obama is pursuing al-Qaeda behind his public rhetoric of global engagement and diplomacy. Somehow this information didn’t make it into the US media. (full story)
mass media / international


Uncommon Thought posted by stele, 2010-07-03 21:22:36
bones and heroes (full story)
prose/poetry / international


Lux Rose posted by stylus, 2010-07-01 21:26:33
a consort like no other (full story and 1 comments)
prose/poetry / international


Aphrodite, born of the sea Transformations posted by aquis, 2010-06-29 10:50:00
beyond the superficial (full story)
prose/poetry / international


Dirt roads, desert towns and you posted by wist, 2010-06-28 10:05:59
day trips, night rides (full story)
prose/poetry / international


The Secret State's Mad Scheme to Control the Internet posted by Tom Burghardt via Kismo, 2010-06-27 21:13:47
Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously wrote that "war is the continuation of politics by other means." A century later, radical French philosopher Michel Foucault turned Clausewitz on his head and declared that "politics is the continuation of war by other means." In our topsy-turvy world where truth and lies coexist equally and sociopathic business elites reign supreme, it would hardly be a stretch to theorize that cyber war is the continuation of parapolitical crime by other means. (full story)
mass media / international


The Values of the People that control our Politicians posted by drex, 2010-06-27 07:35:51
From the Niger Delta to the off-shore Oil rig explosion in Western Australia, then to the most catastrophic act of vandalism and environmental destruction in history, the Gulf of Mexico failure of the US government to REGULATE the polluting and murdering CORPORATISTS – what’s a few million dead civilians in Oil rich Iraq and a DEAD ecology in the Gulf compared to the avarice of the bottom liners? (full story and 1 comments)
environment / international


[Killing] Plundering the Planet posted by Felicity Arbuthnot via stan, 2010-06-27 04:44:51
"The earth is not dying, it is being killed and those who are killing it have names and addresses" -- Utah Phillips [Great quote. Ed] (full story)
imperialism / international


Mage posted by quill, 2010-06-25 20:04:26
shaman of the stars (full story and 1 comments)
prose/poetry / international


Bodies in Space posted by rayn, 2010-06-22 23:14:18
flowing, easy and natural (full story)
prose/poetry / international


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