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By Linda Milazzo

When will we change the course of corporate media? When will sane Americans take media to task? Can't we end this media madness before the fabric of our society irreversibly tears?

Across America people suffer end-of-life illness. They agonize in pain. They agonize in fear. They're in drug induced stupors. Modest people soil themselves in front of friends and family. They avert their eyes in shame. They lose and regain consciousness. They welcome the unconscious moments that shield them from feelings of helplessness and burdening those they love.

This is no way to live. This is no way to die.

Throughout the recent debate on the health care bill, the media - in particular cable TV and talk radio - inflamed the rhetoric on the bill; on the bill's size, its number of pages, its fiscal impact, its social impact, excluding abortion, surviving death panels...

DEATH PANELS?!

Every action has a reaction, every destructive action has destructive reactions!

This report is just a part of the legacy we've left to an entire small Country of innocent people, as well as their neighboring countries, whose doctoral leader was under our thumb, right up till his hanging, as to the policies of that whole region we push in the names of Freedoms and Democracy!

The damage done over the previous decade, the pandora's box destroyed, the tens of thousands killed and maimed, the millions turned into refugee's within and running to escape, the children who've grown up in the destruction and death around them, the now selective cleansing of once neighbors and friends.

It isn't only the war of choice that has reaped the damage but the hate, and fear, rhetoric coming from within our country as well as from others who also use it to control their own, now a decade of it as it continues.

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From KBOO

David Swanson, author and activist talks about his new book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming A More Perfect Union." The host is Marianne Barisonek.

 Swanson talks about how the office of Presidency has acquired more and more power while Congress neglects its duties. He offers ideas on how we the people can rebalance the political structures.

Powers taken by George Bush will become cemented into place during the Obama administration unless Congress takes action. The aberrations of the Bush years will become norms and now is the time to undo the damage.

Many of the abuses committed by the Bush presidency were given legitimacy by the actions of his predecessor, Bill Clinton. 

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Los Angeles, Mimi Kennedy's House, David Swanson's "War Is A Lie" Book Tour, December 19, 2010. Sponsored by KPFK.
http://warisalie.org
Video by Lionel Heredia
Editing by Joe Keating

“Another Name On The Wall” Now On YouTube

Washington, DC: Justice Through Music, www.jtmp.org, partners again with the band Op-Critical, www.myspace.com/opcritical, in a new music video rendition of Roger Waters’ “The Wall,” to focus attention on the heartbreak of endless wars. “We made a few changes in the lyrics,” said Op-Critical’s Storm, “with the most powerful being: ‘Daddy, what’d you leave behind for me? On the Mall you left another name on the Wall.’” The video, posted a few days ago on YouTube, has already had thousands of views and rave reviews.

The chorus hook is sung by the fabulous Harmonic Angels Children’s Choir whose members are featured in the video. Roger Waters said that he encourages artists to use the song to resist all forms of oppression and that he sees artists as playing a vital role in resistance to repression and brutality. "I applauded and supported the resistance of schoolchildren in South Africa to that repressive and brutal regime," he said, "and also applaud and support the resistance of Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank to the repressive and brutal occupation they endure."

The music video was animated and directed by world renowned Scottish film director Matt Brown.

Justice Through Music is a non profit charity that works with famous bands to inspire young people to get involved with social causes. The organization has worked with Op-Critical on a number of music videos focusing on Darfur, Torture, Nuclear Weapons, Fracking, Propaganda, and Arlington Cemetery.

Source: Justice Through Music

OPENING REMARKS

MUSICAL INTERLUDE

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

By Ray McGovern

The WikiLeaks affair is, in my view, of transcendent importance. Lately, Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a movement of intelligence and intelligence-related folks, have been active in supporting WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Having given them our annual award in London on October 23, it was a natural to attempt to come to his aid in the face of the incredibly vehement campaign to make him the issue, rather the horrid things about American behavior that the WikiLeaks documents reveal.

Here’s the statement we issued on Tuesday, and a live interview I gave CNN this evening:

Four Clips:
1. Obama
2. 9-11
3. War Lies
4. Wars vs. Crimes

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Glen Ford, Dean Baker, and David Swanson on this audio clip:

Black Agenda Radio - 12/06/10

December 6, 2010

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I highly recommend this powerful new movie: Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space for an important and frightening look at the next arms race, which it may still not be too late to head off:

Now!  Click here to listen or download Cindy's interview with Matt 'maximum gonzo' Taibbi and David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, the new blockbuster revelation masterpiece.  The discussion moves on, through the current fake mortgage crisis.  Matt Taibbi has much published material in Rolling Stone, and knows what he's talking about.  David Swanson is a well established activist with a long history in the peace movement.  He contributes his expert insight here, using his expertise to discuss the lies behind all wars.

Please be sure to use the "Click here" link above, and listen to these gems of wisdom, from two of our wisest.  Plus, get your very own copy of Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Major General Smedley Butler's woefully still not famous speech, "War is a Racket."  (And then, please do go read it!)

It's about Damn Time somebody not only talks about but uses the label of the failure of this so called capitalist system that did what it was long forecast it would Collapse!!!!!

Dec. 3: Rachel Maddow looks back at the consequences of Ronald Reagan's trickle-down voodoo economic policy that left the rich richer, the poor poorer and the national debt exploded.

 

Christane Brown’s Solution Zone is dedicated to speaking out about the hidden issues and buried facts of our day, separating truth from spin, and featuring in depth and often and explosive conversations with America’s best known progressive politicians, activists, bloggers and authors.

From Adam Roufberg at Radio Active Lunch on WVKR

Interview with David Swanson on his new bestseller War is a Lie. This book is a must read for all who question the nature of war, the justification of war, the fate of human kind, and the integrity of government. 

Listen to Part 1 >>

Listen to Part 2 >>

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More on the book: http://warisalie.org

By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus -- The Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation (GIABO) rages on… Over the past few days the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria and Portugal have all held massive demonstrations against the Global Banking Cartel.

Ireland Vs. Global Banking Cartel…

More than 100,000 protest against Irish bailout

“More than 100,000 Irish citizens took to the streets of Dublin today to protest against the international bailout and four years of austerity.

Antiwar Radio Podcast Transcript: Scott Horton Interviews David Swanson, November 24, 2010

SCOTT HORTON: All right, y'all, welcome back to the show. It's Antiwar Radio. We're at Antiwar.com/radio, KaosRadioAustin.org, and at LRN.fm. All right, next guest on the show is David Swanson. He's the author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, and the new one is called War is a Lie, just out on October 30. Welcome back to the show. How are you doing, David?

DAVID SWANSON: Great. Great to hear you. How are you guys doing?

SCOTT HORTON: Doing really good. Really appreciate you joining us today.

DAVID SWANSON: My pleasure.

SCOTT HORTON: So, are you sure war isn't the truth?

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Nov 25 2010 - DOXA Documentary Film Festival launches its 2010/2011 Film Series Motion Pictures by introducing Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez’s documentary You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo.

Based on seven hours of recently declassified security camera footage from the Guantanamo prison, the film captures a series of interrogations of Omar Khadr by CSIS agents. What is revealed is the personal story of a child caught up in the larger forces of political action and the global war on terrorism. {read rest}