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Indoctrination & Education: Who’s Really Brainwashing Our Children?
Nima Shirazi Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. – Maria Montessori, physician and educator I am certainly not in the habit of…
The Big Lie of Afghanistan
By Malalai Joya In 2005, I was the youngest person elected to the new Afghan parliament. Women like me, running for office, were held up as an example of how the war…
Alberto Gonzales’s Advice to Bush on How to Avoid War Crimes Prosecution
by: Jason Leopold On January 25, 2002, then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales advised George W. Bush in a memo to deny al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners protections under the Geneva Conventions…
On the Table & Off the Map: Threats, Lies, and Iranian Elections
by Nima Shirazi (Editor’s note – this article was written by Nima Shirazi just before the elections in Iran. Official results for those elections remain hotly disputed. There is great turmoil…
The CIA’s Drone Wars
By Gareth Porter The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned predator drones in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal…
Obama’s Cairo Speech, Part I: A New Beginning or The Old Hypocrisy?
By Nima Shirazi On Thursday June 4, 2009 – the day before the 42nd anniversary of Israel’s conquest of remaining Palestinian land, two days before the 65th anniversary of D-Day, and…
A Speech of Lies To Enforce a SYSTEM of Oppression
From Revolution newspaper’s website As you read this, the U.S. is either waging, bankrolling, or threatening war all across the Middle East and South Asia. Hundreds of millions of people…
Obama, Cheney, and the “Debate” Over Torture
From the website of Revolution newspaper Two major speeches were given on May 21, 2009. One was by Barack Obama. He defended his move to suppress thousands of photos that, according to…
The Grift That Keeps on Giving: Bibi’s ‘Innocent’ Gift to Obama
By Nima Shirazi When heads of state convene, gifts are exchanged. So far, despite distributing an iPod, a stack of DVDs, and a rare copy of the "Star-Spangled Banner," President Barack…