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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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Alan Woods on Turkey, Russia, and the Syrian War - YouTube

Alan Woods - editor of In Defence of Marxism - discusses the Turkish provocations against Russia, with a Russian plane being shot down by Turkish fighters th...
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Paul Krugman vs. Noam Chomsky: This Is the History We Need to Understand Paris, ISIS

Paul Krugman vs. Noam Chomsky: This Is the History We Need to Understand Paris, ISIS | real utopias | Scoop.it
Krugman mocks idea that US imperialism's at root of all evil. But scars of our meddling are key to the Middle East.
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South Korea: Forever Dependent on America

South Korea: Forever Dependent on America | real utopias | Scoop.it
"Sixty-one years after the end of the Korean War, the ROK still refuses to defend itself."
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Event Video: Noam Chomsky, Paul Jay, Annie Machon & Zain Raza

Event Video: Noam Chomsky, Paul Jay, Annie Machon & Zain Raza Our future depends on your donation: (ENG) An informational event was hosted by acTVism ...
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Undermining US Power—An Interview with Peter Bohmer - CounterPunch

Undermining US Power—An Interview with Peter Bohmer - CounterPunch | real utopias | Scoop.it
(What follows are my answers to a written interview from Kourosh Ziabari, a writer and reporter for the Iran Review, a major Iranian foreign policy news an
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Chaos and Hegemony » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Chaos and Hegemony » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names | real utopias | Scoop.it

With last fall’s U.S. Congressional elections, the Barack Obama ‘era’ has entered its final phase. Shortly before coming to power, the new U.S. president had sparked a massive uproar when he proclaimed a new ‘Pacific century.’ Since then, roughly two years before the end of his term in office, we can see more clearly. First and foremost, the proclamation of an allegedly new orientation towards the Pacific served the purpose to put Europe, and particularly Germany, under pressure so that they fill the allegedly emerging security gap.[1] In reality, however, it is not the Pacific that forms the epicenter of U.S. geostrategic interests, neither – despite the Crimea crisis – is it the ‘old (European) world,’ but it is still the Middle East. For the latter’s fate defines whether American hegemony stands or falls.

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Noam Chomsky: USA Terrorism (2015)

Noam Chomsky: USA, Terrorism, March, (2015) https://youtu.be/272vNvH0-jc Noam Chomsky, on, Communism, Revolutionary, Violence, the American, Left, and Zizek, (2015) ...
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The US is Pushing The World Towards Nuclear War - CounterPunch

The US is Pushing The World Towards Nuclear War - CounterPunch | real utopias | Scoop.it
The US is Pushing The World Towards Nuclear War
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Michael Parenti   :   Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy:    Information Clearing House: ICH

June 28, 2011 "Information Clearing House--Why has the United States government supported counterinsurgency in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and many other places around the world, at such a loss of human life to the populations of those nations? Why did it invade tiny Grenada and then Panama? Why did it support mercenary wars against progressive governments in Nicaragua, Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, Western Sahara, South Yemen, and elsewhere?


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Noam Chomsky: The Long, Shameful History of American Terrorism

Noam Chomsky: The Long, Shameful History of American Terrorism | real utopias | Scoop.it
President Obama should call our country's history of supporting insurgents abroad for what it is: U.S.-backed terrorism.
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Wallerstein - Lecture on The Decline of US Power - The GCC Countries: Politics and Economics conf.

Speaker: Immanuel Wallerstein (senior research scholar at Yale University, USA) Chair: Marwan Kabalan (associate researcher at the Arab Center for Research a...
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Immanuel Wallerstein: U.S. standing in the Middle East - Shabka

Immanuel Wallerstein: U.S. standing in the Middle East - Shabka | real utopias | Scoop.it
U.S. standing in the Middle East (and elsewhere) has been eroding for almost 50 years.
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Understanding the Aggressive US Stance towards Russia - Center for Research on Globalization

Understanding the Aggressive US Stance towards Russia - Center for Research on Globalization | real utopias | Scoop.it
To understand why US extremists (not the US public) in control of the state are putting us all in serious potential danger by choosing to target nuclear Russia, we have to look back, and, of course...
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From Empire To Imperialism - Boris Kagarlitsky - bluecoffeeandbooks.com

Book Summary: From Empire To Imperialism - Boris Kagarlitsky

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ISIL, US intervention and the rise of the Iranian model - Aljazeera.com

ISIL, US intervention and the rise of the Iranian model - Aljazeera.com | real utopias | Scoop.it
Western media's caricaturish coverage of Iran masks an uncomfortable truth.
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The Anxieties of Empire » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

The Anxieties of Empire » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names | real utopias | Scoop.it
Being overwhelmingly dominant militarily and economically is advantageous in countless ways, and being protected by a superpower that wields these advantages with  impunity has so far worked very well for the Israelis.  Zionists around the world have invested heavily to insure that the advantages keep coming.
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The Islamic State threat is overstated - Washington Post

The Islamic State threat is overstated - Washington Post | real utopias | Scoop.it

But Americans are misreading the recent Islamic State successes, which speak less to the group’s invincibility and inevitability than they do to external factors beyond its control. Despite its territorial gains and mastery of propaganda, the Islamic State’s fundamentals are weak, and it does not have a sustainable endgame. In short, we’re giving it too much credit.

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 Michael Parenti  -  Empire Vs. Democracy             : Information Clearing House - ICH

Internationally renowned Political Scientist Michael Parenti to the UW Oshkosh campus, Parentis discussion focused on the topic: Empire Vs Democracy.


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Is the US 'losing' Latin America? - Aljazeera.com

Is the US 'losing' Latin America? - Aljazeera.com | real utopias | Scoop.it


The argument is so pervasive that it has reached the level of conventional wisdom. The problem ...

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The Cochabamba Declaration: Latin America's Anti-Imperialist Offensive - Center for Research on Globalization

The Cochabamba Declaration: Latin America's Anti-Imperialist Offensive - Center for Research on Globalization | real utopias | Scoop.it

As a follow-up to the June summit meeting of the G77 + China leaders, held in Santa Cruz, the Bolivian government and the Bolivian Workers Central (COB) sponsored an “Anti-Imperialist International Trade Union Conference” in Cochabamba, June 30-July 2.


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the Unspoken Atrocities of US Imperialism: Chile and Indonesia - Center for Research on Globalization

the Unspoken Atrocities of US Imperialism: Chile and Indonesia - Center for Research on Globalization | real utopias | Scoop.it
Center for Research on Globalization the Unspoken Atrocities of US Imperialism: Chile and Indonesia Center for Research on Globalization The experiment was about trying to figure this out: What happens to a poor country that is hit by a brutal...
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Noam Chomsky (2014) "The Drone Campaign Has Absolutely No Counterpart"

Full Interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqzOnVoWgUg May 19, 2014.
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The Greanville Post —Vol. VIII- 2014 | Noam Chomsky: America Is the World Leader at Committing ‘Supreme International Crimes’

The Greanville Post —Vol. VIII- 2014 | Noam Chomsky: America Is the World Leader at Committing ‘Supreme International Crimes’ | real utopias | Scoop.it

It is therefore a mistake to remind readers daily of the Nuremberg judgment. Aggression is no longer the “supreme international crime.” It cannot compare with destruction of the lives of future generations to ensure bigger bonuses tomorrow.

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PSYOPs, “Media Warfare” and the “Weaponization of Information” in Iraq - Center for Research on Globalization

PSYOPs, “Media Warfare” and the “Weaponization of Information” in Iraq - Center for Research on Globalization | real utopias | Scoop.it

Another part of the problem is our collective failure to come to terms with the lies our government told to us about the US-led occupation.

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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation