Dissent Mag

By RIA Novosti

29/03/08 — - MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran’s borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday.

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Published on Saturday, March 29, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
by Robert Naiman

Critics of the Bush Administration’s policies in Iraq have charged that the Bush Administration’s “surge” policy has failed, since its stated intention was to improve security to create the political space for “national reconciliation” in Iraq. Since national reconciliation has not taken place in Iraq, the surge has failed.

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Posted on Mar 29, 2008
foreclosure

By Stanley Kutler

With our economic and financial crises deepening, government insiders reportedly are debating whether we need to restore some regulation—or not. Given the state of things, we can expect further woes and no regulation.

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By Steve Kangas

INTRODUCTION

The following timeline describes just a few of the hundreds of atrocities and crimes committed by the CIA since 1943.1

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment.

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By Barry Grey
29 March 2008

Presidential candidates speak on housing and credit crises

After months of virtual silence on the collapse of the speculative binge on Wall Street that has plunged the US economy into recession, all three major US presidential candidates delivered speeches this week on the housing and credit crises.

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by Khadija Sharife

Modern-day “civil” wars reveal that the real struggle lies not in the perpetuation of so-called civilisational clashes but rather in the facade that nationalised constructs, as homogenous entities, have been blessed by those ethnic minorities trapped within boundaries. The reality is that nationalism as an ideology is virulent by its very nature; depending on the vilification of the “other” in order to promote the collective historical amnesia akin to concept of one nation/one state.

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