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naomi wolf: US fascist coup owes legacy to bush
from paul joseph watson: Author Naomi Wolf, who made headlines earlier this year after she identified the ten steps to fascism that were being followed to a tee by the Bush administration, spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about the origins of what we see unfolding today, Prescott Bush’s attempt to launch a Nazi…
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daniel ellsberg’s dire warning
from thought criminal: Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming attack on Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at a recent American University symposium… “Let me simplify … and not just to be rhetorical: A…
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here’s hoping mcclellan’s book brings down bush
from first post: Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan is ready to blow the lid off the Bush administration with an astonishing admission that not only did he lie for his masters, but was told to do so by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush chief of staff Andrew Card, chief political adviser Karl…
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ex-secret service agent reveals jfk plot in chicago
from raw story: Abraham Bolden, a former Secret Service agent, tells CNN that he knew of a plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy in Chicago several weeks beforehand. Bolden is writing a book about the alleged plot titled “The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The true story of the first African American on the White House…
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jfk buff takes potshots at other assassination theories
from home news tribune: Just as the date Sept. 11 will jar memories between now and the end of the 21st century, the date Nov. 22 still stirs memories for a generation old enough to have watched Ed Sullivan introduce the Beatles, Walter Cronkite give up on Vietnam and Nixon swear he was not a…
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ford knew of cia coverup in kennedy assassination
from raw story: Did the CIA orchestrate a cover-up in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? According to the publisher of a new book, who appeared on Fox News Wednesday morning, the last living words of former President Gerald Ford fingered the CIA in the orchestration a cover-up of Kennedy’s assassination. Ford, who died…
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norman mailer dead at age 84
from ap: Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country’s literary conscience and provocateur with such books as “The Naked and the Dead” and “The Executioner’s Song” died Saturday, his literary executor said… Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. Michael Lennon, who…
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why they called it ‘the manhattan project’
from new york times: By nature, code names and cover stories are meant to give no indication of the secrets concealed. “Magic” was the name for intelligence gleaned from Japanese ciphers in World War II, and “Overlord” stood for the Allied plan to invade Europe. Many people assume that the same holds true for the…
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kurt vonnegut dies at 84
from afp: Kurt Vonnegut, the creator of wry science fiction and black comedy built on his experience as a World War II prisoner of war who survived the horrific Dresden bombing, died late Tuesday, the New York Times reported. Vonnegut was the author of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” widely rated as one of the finest American novels of…