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Empire or Republic: Imperial Wars and Domestic Epidemics

“You Can’t Have Wars and Public Health”

James Petras • November 2, 2014

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Washington escalates its military interventions abroad, launching simultaneous air and ground attacks in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; multiplying drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; training, arming and financing proxy mercenaries in Jordan, the Gulf States and Iraq; and dispatching National Guard battalions to West Africa, ostensibly to combat the Ebola epidemic, though they lack... Read More

The Ebola Story Doesn’t Smell Right

Paul Craig Roberts • October 29, 2014

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The federal government has announced that thousands of additional US soldiers are being sent to Liberia. General Gary Volesky said the troops would “stamp out” ebola. The official story is that combat troops are being sent to build treatment structures for those infected with ebola. Why combat troops? Why not send a construction outfit such... Read More

The Suicide of a Great Nation

Ebola and ISIS Are Symptoms of Decline

Philip Giraldi • October 21, 2014

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Yale Professor Paul Kennedy’s seminal 1987 work the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers explores how powerful nations tend to self-destruct economically based on their tendency to take on responsibilities and missions that are peripheral to their core interests and which stretch their resources to a point where they go into political decline and... Read More

Karen Greenberg: Will the U.S. Go to "War" Against Ebola?

Tom Engelhardt • October 21, 2014

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Sometimes, if you want to catch the essence of a moment, however, grim, you need to turn tohumor. Recently, the New Yorker’s resident satirist Andy Borowitz produced one of his patented fake news stories that began this way: “The president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, attempted on Wednesday to defuse the brewing controversy over his... Read More

The Entry of Ebola Into the US Has Hallmarks of a Planned Happening

Paul Craig Roberts • October 21, 2014

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More information is available that suggests the the government had advance information that ebola was coming to the US and that the government expects a much larger outbreak of the disease in the US than it admits. Keep in mind that Washington is evil and has been killing people in seven countries for thirteen years... Read More

Fighting the Last War

Will the War on Terror Be the Template for the Ebola Crisis?

Karen Greenberg • October 21, 2014

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These days, two “wars” are in the headlines: one against the marauding Islamic State and its new caliphate of terror carved out of parts of Iraq and Syria, the otheragainst a marauding disease and potential pandemic, Ebola, spreading across West Africa, with the first cases already reaching the United States and Europe. Both wars seemed... Read More

US Army Withheld Promise from Germany That Ebola Virus Wouldn’t be Weaponized

Paul Craig Roberts • October 20, 2014

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German High Government Official Seeks Washington’s Reassurance that the US did Not Weaponize the Species of Ebola that Germany Made Available to Washington Washington has not provided the reassurance. By providing the virus to Washington prior to effective reassurances, Germany is complicit in the breakout of a bio-warfare grade of ebola, which has now spread... Read More

Is the US Government the Master Criminal of Our Time?

Paul Craig Roberts • October 20, 2014

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UPDATE: As I read this notice from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the US National Institutes of Health, the US Government and Pharmaceutical corporations have been conducting ebola tests on humans. This is official confirmation of Dr. Boyle and Dr. Broderick’s reports that the US government has conducted ebola experiments. Perhaps the vaccine was not effective,... Read More

Back In the Day: Ebola "Classic"

Peter Lee • October 18, 2014

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The Intertubes tell me Ebola is a big thing nowadays. Some netizens maybe too young to remember the first Ebola scare, back in 1989, an outbreak among monkeys in a research facility near Washington, D.C. The event was chronicled in a best-selling book, The Hot Zone, and today it was announced that Ridley Scott is... Read More

Ebola Update

Paul Craig Roberts • October 11, 2014

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A number of readers have read reports that the CIA was active in West Africa just prior to the ebola outbreak, and some have read reports that the ebola strain is a weaponized version engineered to spread by air and surface contact. Some readers ask me to confirm or refute these reports, and others want... Read More

US Has More Sanctions Against Russia Than Against Ebola

Paul Craig Roberts • October 9, 2014

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We have known since . . . well, when haven’t we known that our public officials are incompetent. Their incompetence is always expensive, but now it risks a worldwide ebola pandemic. With so little known about a deadly disease, one would think that with ebola on the rampage in three west Africa countries, air flights... Read More

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot

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John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.

Sydney Schanberg

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America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars

Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?