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Democracy Now! Five Years of the "Same Rhetoric" — Immigration… "A Silent Coup": Jeremy Scahill & Bob Herbert on Corporate, Military Interests Shaping Obama’s SOTU

[youtube=http://youtu.be/g5nkfgkEh4A]  democracynow Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace). Rise Up Times is also on  Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. RELATED STORIES Kathy Kelly on Afghan Humanitarian Crisis, Civilian Casualties and More

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Democracy Now! Five Years of the “Same Rhetoric” — Immigration… “A Silent Coup”: Jeremy Scahill & Bob Herbert on Corporate, Military Interests Shaping Obama’s SOTU

[youtube=http://youtu.be/g5nkfgkEh4A]  democracynow Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace). Rise Up Times is also on  Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. RELATED STORIES Kathy Kelly on Afghan Humanitarian Crisis, Civilian Casualties and More

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▶ “There is a War on Journalism”: Jeremy Scahill on NSA Leaks & New Investigative Reporting Venture

[youtube=http://youtu.be/2gnheUUCmI4] Published on Dec 5, 2013 Six months ago today, Glenn Greenwald published his first article about Edward Snowden’s leaks from the National Security Agency in The Guardian newspaper. British police are now examining whether Guardian staff should be investigated for terrorism offenses over their handling of data leaked by Snowden. Jeremy Scahill talks about the More

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Mother Agnes Mariam: In Her Own Words on Syria

You know, before working in reconciliation, I thought the so-called “democratic world” was really protecting freedom of expression and political choices. I am not involved with politics but they are ‘framing’ me; politicizing me.  Am very shocked to learn that in this democratic world it is forbidden to think differently, talk differently and act differently More

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Tomgram: Jeremy Scahill, The Fantasy of a Clean War

Perpetual War  How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?    By Jeremy Scahill Posted by Jeremy Scahill at 6:27am, October 29, 2013  TomDispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. [This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books.] On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was More

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Glenn Greenwald Is Leaving the Guardian to Build His Own Media Empire

Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras Reportedly Joining Forces With Greenwald For New Site     Posted on Oct 15, 2013  truthdig.com   Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA) After making a little history with the British paper and website, the writer who broke the NSA surveillance story says he is leaving for a “once-in-a-career opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline.” Greenwald did More

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[Video] The Empire President: Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s “Neo Con” Doctrine of Military Force in U.N. Speech and Brazillian President Dilma Rousseff on Spying and the Internet

[youtube=http://youtu.be/rICwOoWesz4] Published on Sep 25, 2013 In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama openly embraced an aggressive military doctrine backed by previous administrations on using armed force beyond the international norm of self-defense. Obama told the world that the United States is prepared to use its military to defend what he called More

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[Video] The Empire President: Jeremy Scahill on Obama's "Neo Con" Doctrine of Military Force in U.N. Speech and Brazillian President Dilma Rousseff on Spying and the Internet

[youtube=http://youtu.be/rICwOoWesz4] Published on Sep 25, 2013 In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama openly embraced an aggressive military doctrine backed by previous administrations on using armed force beyond the international norm of self-defense. Obama told the world that the United States is prepared to use its military to defend what he called More

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(Video) Colbert Nation> Scahill on Dirty Wars & The Zimmerman Verdict

Monday July 15, 2013 Jeremy Scahill Author Jeremy Scahill discusses the secret war in Afghanistan, drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen and the Obama administration's "Terror Tuesday" meetings.  (05:24) [youtube=http://youtu.be/r_L8egBVVmM] Monday July 15, 2013 George Zimmerman Verdict Fox News' Geraldo Rivera explains why an all-female jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the Trayvon Martin murder case.  More

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(Video) Colbert Nation> Scahill on Dirty Wars & The Zimmerman Verdict

Monday July 15, 2013 Jeremy Scahill Author Jeremy Scahill discusses the secret war in Afghanistan, drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen and the Obama administration's "Terror Tuesday" meetings.  (05:24) [youtube=http://youtu.be/r_L8egBVVmM] Monday July 15, 2013 George Zimmerman Verdict Fox News' Geraldo Rivera explains why an all-female jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the Trayvon Martin murder case.  More

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David Sirota> America’s Newest Global War

In this unprecedented global war, President Obama has been backed by the combined power of Justice Department prosecutors, FBI surveillance agents, State Department diplomats and, perhaps most troubling of all, a cadre of high-profile Benedict Arnolds within the media itself. By David Sirota  Posted on Jun 28, 2013  truthdig.com Out of all the harrowing storylines in journalist More

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David Sirota> America’s Newest Global War

In this unprecedented global war, President Obama has been backed by the combined power of Justice Department prosecutors, FBI surveillance agents, State Department diplomats and, perhaps most troubling of all, a cadre of high-profile Benedict Arnolds within the media itself. By David Sirota  Posted on Jun 28, 2013  truthdig.com Out of all the harrowing storylines in journalist More

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