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Syria: Thousands suffering neurotoxic symptoms treated in hospitals supported by MSF 27 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
From Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres – MSF) August 24, 2013. [A boy, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, is treated at a medical center in the Damascus suburbs of Saqba...
CIA finally admits it masterminded Iran’s 1953 coup 25 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
Originally published at Russia Today. [Monarchist demonstrators in Tehran downtown, August 26, 1953. (AFP Photo)] On the 60th anniversary of the 1953 military coup in Iran that overthrew the governmen...
Institutionalized US Spying: More Than NSA’s Involved 24 Aug 2013 | 08:41 pm
By Stephen Lendman. Washington has 16 known US spy agencies. NSA and CIA are best known. Perhaps few Americans know much about the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It calls itself “first in all-sour...
Egypt: from Anarchy to Insanity Needs Global Intervention 23 Aug 2013 | 09:22 pm
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. Egyptian riots – photo RT Egyptian military junta, historically hated and feared appears to have gained the upper hand in cold blooded massacres of the innocent civilians demo...
On Egypt’s Class-Struggle: Rabias of the World Unite 22 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
By Ramzy Baroud [Picture: Saint Rabia of Basra] “Lord! You know well that my keen desire is to carry out Your commandments and to serve Thee with all my heart, O light of my eyes. If I were free I wou...
The Detroit bankruptcy and the assault on democratic rights 21 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
By Jerry White. Originally published at WSWS. [Detroit neighborhood.] The bankruptcy filing last week by Detroit’s unelected emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, is the outcome of an anti-democratic conspira...
Corporate Charades: Introduction and Part 1. Ethics Programs 20 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
By Gary Brumback. Introduction If the 16th century statesman and philosopher Sir Francis Bacon could have foreseen America’s 21st century corporations he would have appended “and so too is pretense” t...
When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto 19 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
By Henry A. Giroux. [Image courtesy Socl120.] Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. ...
The Frog Who Crushed The Planet Did a French Yuppie really create the Finance Crisis? 18 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
By Greg Palast. Originally written for Vice Magazine. You just knew it had to be one of those brie-biting, Sartre-spewing, overly-garlicked Frenchmen who pushed the Earth’s finance system over a cliff...
New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites 18 Aug 2013 | 12:05 am
By Theodore Meyer. Republished from ProPublica. [Photo courtesy Environmental Geeks United.] A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of ...
