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This show was broadcast May 29, 2009.
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Coming up today and every Friday at 7:00pm Pacific - 10:00pm Eastern - 03:00 GMT EARTHBEAT —Wax On, Wax Off - The Pros & Cons of Waxman-Markey
Today on Earthbeat host Mike Tidwell debates the massive… »»»

This show was broadcast May 28, 2009.
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Fri, 29 May 2009 13:32:46 GMT. presstv.com
A senior Iranian official says Israel and the US have had a hand in the mosque bombing that shook the southeastern city of Zahedan to its core.
“The bomb tragedy that occurred yesterday in the city of Zahedan is awash with Israeli and US fingerprints,” said Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers… »»»

This show was broadcast May 27, 2009.
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by Paul Craig Roberts, May 28, 2009. original.antiwar.com
“Obama Calls on World to ‘Stand Up to’ North Korea” read the headline. The United States, Obama said, was determined to protect “the peace and security of the world.”
Shades of doublespeak, doublethink, 1984.
North Korea is a small place. China alone could snuff it out in a few… »»»

By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Pyongyang Also Says Truce Ending War in 1953 Is Invalid
TOKYO, May 27 — North Korea vowed Wednesday to attack South Korea if ships from the North are searched as part a U.S.-led effort to stop vessels suspected of carrying missiles or weapons of mass destruction. It… »»»

This show was broadcast May 26, 2009.
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Coming up Tuesday at 9:00 am Pacific - 12:00 Noon Eastern - 17:00 GMTWill be archived here after the broadcast by Tuesday evening. “THE KEVIN BARRETT SHOW” Tuesday Hear a Live Interview with Glen Yeadon,—… »»»

Diary Entry by The Candid Blogger. May 25, 2009. opednews.com
For more than seven years, the American people have debated just who was actually behind the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. We have the government-sponsored 19 hijackers and a few boxcutters theory. We have the Israeli false flag theory, and all… »»»

Monday, May 25, 2009 www.washingtonsblog.com
Basketball star and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley succinctly summarized something a lot of us have previously said
The market capitalization of Citicorp is $17 billion. So the government could buy Citicorp for a fraction of what we’ve already obligated the taxpayer for. And in buying Citicorp,… »»»

By Clive Anderson, CounterPunch. Posted May 25, 2009. alternet.org
Bush explained to French Pres. Chirac that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Mid-East and must be defeated.
The revelation this month in GQ Magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question…. »»»

This show was broadcast Monday, May 25, 2009.
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GUNS AND BUTTER with Bonnie Faulkner
How Alan Greenspan’s Junk Economic Doctrine Helped Popularize Junk Mortgages — Dr. Michael Hudson
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This Show was broadcast by No Lies Radio on May 23, 2009. It is now archived — Use Player
Every Saturday - Anti-War - Progressive Truth Teach-in at 9:00am Pacific — 12 noon Eastern — 17:00 GMT Will be archived here after the broadcast by Monday.
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http://www.myprops.org/content/EVIDENCE-OF-GOVERNMENT-MANIPULATION-IN-THE-STOCK-MARKET-Dan-Shaffer-explains-on-Fox-Business-News-video-and-transcript/
With 2 minutes 30 seconds remaining in the video, Dan Shaffer, President of Shaffer Asset Management, gives shocking evidence of direct government intervention in the stock market:
“Something strange happened during the last 7 or 8 weeks. Doreen you probably can concur on this — there was a power underneath the market that kept holding it… »»»

By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. Posted May 23, 2009. alternet.org
By the now, it’s maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it’s revealed that the suspects are a hapless bunch of ne’er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece of… »»»

This Show was broadcast by No Lies Radio on May 22, 2009. It is now archived — Use Player
Coming up today and every Friday at 7:00pm Pacific - 10:00pm Eastern - 03:00 GMT EARTHBEAT —Roundtable on Waxman-Markey & New Car Emission Standards
As the behemoth Waxman-Markey climate bill lurches forward - environmental… »»»

“Osama bin Laden is the world’s best-known terrorist, but how much of what we think we know about him is real? David Griffin examines this question in greater depth than any previous author. Based on the evidence, he suggests that bin Laden may have been dead for some time. If so, this means that some… »»»

democracynow.org 5-22-09
We get reaction to President Obama and Vice President Dick Cheney’s dueling speeches on torture from Vince Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Warren took part in a secret meeting Wednesday between Obama and several human rights groups. Warren says although he welcomes Obama’s willingness to hear critical views, he’s… »»»

Thursday, May 21, 2009 georgewashington2.blogspot.com
I’ve written numerous essays on the facts that the dollar is losing its status as world reserve currency, the bubble in treasury bonds may be ending, and the U.S. may very well lose its AAA sovereign credit status.
Bloomberg writer Mark Gilbert addresses all three facts today:
The… »»»

By Jodie Evans, AlterNet. Posted May 21, 2009.
The Pentagon portrays Afghanistan as a moral battle to “protect” its women. Afghan women tell another story: more war equals suffering.
For eight years, many Americans have justified the war in Afghanistan as a moral battle to “protect” Afghan women. But Afghan women tell another story: more U.S. war… »»»

By John Byrne, Raw Story. Posted May 22, 2009. alternet.org
Host Erich Muller says “It was instantaneous…and I don’t want to say this: absolutely torture.”
Chicago radio host Erich “Mancow” Muller decided he’d get himself waterboarded to prove the technique wasn’t torture.
It didn’t turn out that way. “Mancow,” in fact, lasted just six or seven seconds… »»»

You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.
That’s the upshot of the rules… »»»

By Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch. Posted May 16, 2009.
alternet.org
60 years have passed since a damaged jet dropped a hydrogen bomb near Savanah, Ga. — and the Pentagon still can’t find it.
Things go missing. It’s to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last October, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that the military’s accountants had misplaced… »»»

This Show was broadcast by No Lies Radio on May 19, 2009. It is now archived — Use Player
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This Show was broadcast by No Lies Radio on May 16, 2009. It is now archived — Use Player
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Monday, May 18, 2009 www.washingtonsblog.com
Bloomberg has a good article comparing the amounts pledged in the bailouts with relevant figures:
The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year …
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by Jeremy Scahill, May 17, 2009 www.original.antiwar.com
As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging portrait of the torture inside and outside Guantánamo. Among them: “blows to [the]… »»»

Written by www.daily.pk
Sunday, 17 May 2009 00:00
The military leadership on Friday told the national political leadership that there was no chance of moving the armed forces from Pakistan’s border with India for their deployment at the western borders.
In a five-hour-long in-camera briefing to the national leadership here at the PM House, the military leadership clearly… »»»

by Helena Cobban, May 16, 2009 — www.original.antiwar.com
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Barack Obama in Washington Monday, amid speculation that their two administrations may be heading for a confrontation worse than any they have known since 1991-92.
In 1991, as today, the U.S. president was determined to bring Israel into peace talks… »»»

Danny | 15.05.2009 15:20
www.indymedia.org.uk
If anyone at the G20 witnessed ‘violent protestors’ passing through police lines after flashing ID, can they please post it here. Consider making a formal complaint to the IPCC or contact info@tombrake.co.uk if you wish to remain anonymous.
This latest article is subtely biased but it does contain the basic facts-
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An MP… »»»

Written by www.daily.pk
Friday, 15 May 2009 00:00
Remember Star Wars? Do you remember the Pentagon’s Strategic Defense Initiative to build a massive missile defense system that raised so much controversy during the Reagan and first Bush years?
130 billion of our tax dollars were poured into developing that system. It was designed to detect and intercept missiles… »»»

Obama Considers Detaining Terror Suspects Indefinitely
Obama is weighing plans to detain terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool trials held for Guantanamo prisoners.
The Wall Street Journal
FOXNews.com
Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely… »»»

By Stephen C. Webster
Published: May 13, 2009
rawstory.com
Commission’s findings was derived from terror war detainees during brutal CIA interrogations authorized by the Bush administration, according to a Wednesday report.
“More than one-quarter of all footnotes in the 9/11 Report refer to CIA interrogations of al Qaeda operatives subjected to the now-controversial interrogation techniques,” writes former NBC producer… »»»

DEBKAfile
May 13, 2009, 8:21 PM (GMT+02:00)

Roxana Saberi’s release part of US-Iran swap?

According to DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources from Iran, the release of US journalist Roxana Saberi Tuesday, May 12, was part of an exchange deal under which Washington agreed to free four senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers captured in Irbil, northern Iraq in January… »»»

truthdig.com 5-12-2009

White House / David Bohrer

Vader, Decider, Enabler?: Former Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi applaud former President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address on Jan. 23, 2007.

By Robert Scheer
Should the members of the 9/11 Presidential Commission not have been informed that two of the “key witnesses” upon whom their… »»»

By Arun Kumar - Tuesday, May 12 2009
Thaindian, as reprinted at Information Clearinghouse with Meet the Press clip May 11, 2009 “New Karala” — Washington, May 11: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir… »»»

This Show was broadcast by No Lies Radio on May 12, 2009. It is now archived — Use Player
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Written by www.daily.pk
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 06:45
The official 9/11 story is chock full of holes in which individuals were not held responsible for their actions, the truth was continually short-circuited and much information was based on secondhand C.I.A. and Pentagon “torture” reports. Over 80% of Americans reject the official 9/11 story: Allen L Roland
Every six… »»»

May 11, 2009
washingtonsblog.com
The Red Cross is the organization charged with deciding what is torture and what isn’t.
The International Committee of the Red Cross interviewed Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - the alleged 9/11 mastermind - at Guantanamo Bay.
Here’s what KSM told the Red Cross (see below for more from a review of this report):
During the harshest period… »»»

Lalit K Jha
Press Trust Of India
May 11, 2009
WASHINGTON: In a new revelation, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the CIA of the United States and his country’s ISI together
created the Taliban.
“I think it was part of your past and our past, and the ISI and CIA created them together,” Zardari told the NBC… »»»

originally published at worldcantwait.org Thursday, 30 April 2009 06:50

By Dennis Loo
If you ask most people what Obama has done about Guantanamo, most would say, “He shut it down.”
Most don’t know that Obama has said he might take as much as a year to shut it down.
If you ask most people what… »»»

by Steve Niva, May 07, 2009 — antiwar.com
Suicide bombings are back in Iraq, signaling that the Iraq War is far from over. After a significant downturn, with only six suicide attacks between December 2008 and March 2009, there have been 25 suicide bombings in Iraq in the last two months, contributing to the worst… »»»

DEBKAfile — May 6, 2009, 1:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
India’s biggest ever counter-terror exercise took place this week on the plains of Punjab near the Pakistan border. DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that the three-day maneuver ending May 5 was staged by massed mechanized and parachute units of the elite Kharga Corps trained by Israel military instructors in… »»»

By Eliot Spitzer — Slate
Posted Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at 12:29 PM ET
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner The kerfuffle about current New York Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Stephen Friedman’s purchase of some Goldman stock while the Fed was involved in reviewing major decisions about Goldman’s future—well-covered by the Wall Street Journal here and here—raises a… »»»

This Show was broadcast by No Lies Radio on May 5, 2009. It is now archived — Use Player
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by Jeremy Scahill, May 05, 2009
Part of the deadly serious problem with the Obama administration’s position on (not) holding accountable CIA torturers, their lawyers, and the Bush administration officials who authorized and ordered all of these crimes is this: It sends a message to other governments that if Washington does it, we can too. Especially… »»»

YouTube — teeya2299 — May 04, 2009
US soldiers have been encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan’s predominantly Muslim population, video footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to show. Military …

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Daniel’s statement as to why he is speaking out:
My own reasons for speaking out on this issue are fairly simple. I didn’t choose it; it chose me. Upon being hired to act the part of a post-9/11 NYC firefighter on Rescue Me, my research for the character led me to take a more objective look… »»»

This Show was broadcast by No Lies Radio on May 2, 2009. It is now archived — Use Player
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This Show was broadcast by No Lies Radio on May 2, 2009. Highlight video is archived below.
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Richard Gage, AIA at National Architect’s Convention in San Francisco.Lecture-Press Conference Sat at 4 pm Pacific - 7 pm Eastern - 00:00 GMTOn the spot reports from convention floor all day… »»»