Alternative Media News Of The Week (May 13-19)
By JUSTIN KOLOMPAR
Published on May 20th, 2012
The following is a compilation of news articles from around the alternative media world during the week of May 13-19, 2012.
The Triumph Of The Unreal: 2012 London Olympics And Totalitarian Propaganda In The 21st Century - The…
Source: redpillnation
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
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Source: quote-book
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” - John Lennon
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Source: just-another-teenage-gal
#Yemen: #US Finally Confirms Ground Campaign in Yemen
Special Forces in ‘Focused Counter-Terrorism Campaign’
Jason Ditz | Antiwar.com
Doing away with the pretense that US troops in Yemen are exclusively there on a “training mission,” officials are confirming that “about 20 US special forces” are on the ground and engaged in a “focused counter-terrorism campaign.”
With drones pounding southern Yemen on a near daily basis, the confirmation shows that the troops are not just in Yemen, but are actually directing the Yemeni military in their suddenly aggressive offensive against the Abyan Province.
The revelation comes just days after the most recent denial by Leon Panetta, who insisted that there was no consideration of US ground troops inside Yemen. President Obama had likewise ruled out such a move repeatedly.
Though this is the first official acknowledgement of the mission, the Pentagon accidentally confirmed the operation in early March, when it announced that a US “security team,” which was never reported deployed in the first place, had come under attack in Aden.
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Source: news.antiwar.com
#Israel / #Palestine - Tear down the #wall! A man in Wellington, New Zealand protests against Israeli actions in the Occupied Territories.
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Source: historiographical
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I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as “models”; rather actions, thoughts, principles.
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Source: publicanthropology.org
#NDAA: Congress still okay with indefinite detention and torture of Americans. Even after a federal court deemed the NDAA unconstitutional, the US House of Representatives refused to exclude indefinite detention provisions from the infamous defense spending bill during a vote on Friday.
An attempt to strike down any provisions allowing for the US military to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge from next year’s National Defense Authorization Act was shot down Friday morning in the House of Representatives.
…Guantanamo for everyone.
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Source: rt.com
