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by Arundhati Roy The Guardian and OutlookIndia.com We've forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us...

by Michael Parenti December 7, 2008 GlobalResearch.com Author's website: www.michaelparenti.org. Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something about recent...

On Wednesday, November 19, 2008, Professors Anthony Hall, Graeme MacQueen, John McMurtry, and Michael Keefer discussed 9/11 and how this relates to the global community. The webcast was broadcast on the http://globalizationstudies.ca/ website. (This version...

ISLAMOPHOBIA AND THE ''WAR ON TERROR'': THE CONTINUING PRETEXT FOR U.S. IMPERIAL CONQUEST © Diana Ralph, Ph.D. Abstract The 9-11 attacks were the pretext which sold the myth of evil Muslim terrorists imminently threatening Americans. That tale...

Glass Bead Collective, Twin Cities Indymedia, and other independent media activists have released a new film, 'Terrorizing Dissent', an exposé of events at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Featuring first-person accounts...

Once again, America is at the Crossroads. But how do we pick Presidents? The Ballot Box or the TV box? Watch how TV writes the scripts, directs the action, and casts winners in the most significant...