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AUDIO: Robert Scheer Hosts John Kiriakou -- A Whistleblower on Torture

Kiriakou served two years in prison for exposing President Bush's "lie" about the U.S. torture program. He tells Scheer how the CIA -- an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets -- evolved into a "paramilitary force," how the U.S. drone program "creates terrorists" by killing innocent civilians, and how the Obama administration uses the Espionage Act as a political tool to threaten whistleblowers.

Quarterly Call For Donations and New Column

Quarterly Call For Donations

Paul Craig Roberts

Dear friends, readers often ask me what they can do as individuals. My answer is that there are three things you can do that are effective.

First, be aware that solutions are pointless until there is awareness. You can help to build awareness by recommending this site. If we could get as little as one, two, or three percent of the US population aware and determined, we can force on Washington a change of course.

10 Things More Likely To Kill You Than Islamic Terror

Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,

Guided by talking heads, American armchair warriors spout vitriol, increasingly calling to either treat Muslims like Jews in the Third Reich or simply bomb them into oblivion — and their cognitive dissonance is glaring. These contradictions are evident not least in the paralyzing fear so many ‘Mericans feel toward Muslims who courageously call for soldiers to do their bidding in the Middle East. Their crippling fear of Islamic terror, itself, is cloaked in contradiction.

ISIS Releases New Apocalyptic Video Depicting "Final" Battle With "Crusaders" In Syria

ISIS Releases New Apocalyptic Video Depicting "Final" Battle With "Crusaders" In Syria

Three weeks ago, we highlighted what we dubbed “the greatest piece of terrorist video propaganda in history.” The clip, a 5-minute Hollywood special produced by Islamic State’s al-Hayat Media (the nerve center for a labyrinthine network of “Wilayats”), begins with a glorification of the “caliphate”, as an English-speaking narrator notes that ISIS’ territory is now “thirty times the size of Qatar.”

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