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MLK: A Call to Conscience

MLK: A Call to Conscience

The second episode of Tavis Smiley Reports examines Martin Luther King, Jr.’s stand against the Vietnam War and the influence of his legacy today. Tavis speaks with scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West, Vincent Harding and Susannah Heschel.

Watch here: MLK: A Call to Conscience on PBS. See more from Tavis Smiley.

THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER by James Hufferd, Ph.D. Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization

http://www.911grassroots.org/

911Grassroots

Individuals willing to be contacted for information and/or leading groups of activists striving for truth around the crimes of 9-11-2001. To request your name be added to this list, or to change or remove your information, please utilize the Contact form linked at the righthand column.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER
by James Hufferd, Ph.D.
Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization

Most of the recent big, commonly noticeable and objectionable changes in our controllable circumstances in America – including many downright atrocities – have happened since September 11, 2001. And a goodly number of them have developed as a direct consequence. Although that day still seems, in many ways, very recent, it appears to have marked not only a beginning of our current and accumulating woes, but also the end of a long age of relative bliss, freedom, and a degree of personal opportunity that we haven’t experienced since.

Noam Chomsky: The U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement is ‘part of a global program of world militarization’ by Afgh

http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/9264-a-global-program-of-world-militarization

Noam Chomsky: The U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement is ‘part of a global program of world militarization’
by Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers | December 16, 2011, 1:18 pm

[Editor's. note: This is a transcript of a conversation between members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Noam Chomsky, which took place on September 21, 2011. Each question was asked in Dari and translated by Hakim.]

Hakim: We are speaking from the highlands of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, and we wanted to start off by thanking you sincerely for the guidance and wisdom that you have consistently given through your teaching and speeches in many places. We want to start off with a question from Faiz.

Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"

Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"

Uploaded by MOXNEWSd0tC0M on Jan 2, 2012

January 01, 2012 C-SPAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7zotYU21qcU#!

How Congress Has Signed Its Own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act By Naomi Wolf January 02, 2012

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30139.htm

How Congress Has Signed Its Own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act

By Naomi Wolf

January 02, 2012 - "Naomi Wolf" --- December 12th, 2011 -- I never thought I would have to write this: but—incredibly—Congress has now passed the National Defense Appropriations Act, with Amendment 1031, which allows for the military detention of American citizens. The amendment is so loosely worded that any American citizen could be held without due process. The language of this bill can be read to assure Americans that they can challenge their detention — but most people do not realize what this means: at Guantanamo and in other military prisons, one’s lawyer’s calls are monitored, witnesses for one’s defense are not allowed to testify, and one can be forced into nudity and isolation. Incredibly, ninety-three Senators voted to support this bill and now most of Congress: a roster of names that will live in infamy in the history of our nation, and never be expunged from the dark column of the history books.

Wellstone: They Killed Him Snowshoe Films

http://www.wellstonetheykilledhim.com/indexnewyear.html

Wellstone: They Killed Him
The film examines the killers' means, motive and opportunity. High on the motive list is that Senator Paul Wellstone -- one of 23 senators who voted against the Iraq war -- was "sticking his nose into 9/11." Wellstone intimates say he was asking questions about 9/11....and thus was publicly executed as a warning.

Wellstone: They Killed Him - preview

How Many U.S. Soldiers Were Wounded in Iraq? Guess Again. By Dan Froomkin December 30, 2011

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30120.htm

http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00545

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/266-32/9181-focus-how-many-us-casualties-in-iraq-guess-again

How Many U.S. Soldiers Were Wounded in Iraq? Guess Again.

By Dan Froomkin

December 30, 2011 "Information Clearing House" - Reports about the end of the war in Iraq routinely describe the toll on the U.S. military the way the Pentagon does: 4,487 dead, and 32,226 wounded.

The death count is accurate. But the wounded figure wildly understates the number of American service members who have come back from Iraq less than whole.

Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, "Serial Fabricators" and the Tale of Iran and 9/11 12/29/ by: Gareth Porter TRUTHOUT

Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, "Serial Fabricators" and the Tale of Iran and 9/11
Thursday 29 December 2011
by: Gareth Porter, Truthout | Report

Behind a mysterious December 22 Associated Press story about "finding of fact" by a District judge in Manhattan Friday that Iran assisted al Qaeda in the planning of the 9/11 attacks is a tapestry of recycled fabrications and distortions of fact from a bizarre cast of characters.

Article is here: http://www.truth-out.org/crackpot-anti-islam-activists-serial-fabricators-and-tale-iran-and-911/1325172724

Justifying War with Iran By Russ Baker December 27, 2011 "WhoWhatWhy"

Original article with LIVE links:
http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/12/26/justifying-war-with-iran

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30084.htm

Justifying War with Iran

By Russ Baker

December 27, 2011 "WhoWhatWhy" -- A growing body of evidence points to a concerted campaign to prepare Americans and the world for war against Iran. This is not idle speculation. It fits a pattern that repeatedly preceded previous hostilities.

Here are the recent examples on Iran:

Iran rejects NY judge's ruling on Sept 11 attacks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=33vhq0puC7g

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/RestOfAsia/Iran-rejects-NY-judge-s-ruling-on-Sept-11-attacks/Article1-787107.aspx
Rest of Asia
Iran rejects NY judge's ruling on Sept 11 attacks
Associated Press
Tehran, December 25, 2011
First Published: 23:09 IST(25/12/2011)

Iran has rejected a New York judge's finding that Tehran is liable in the September 11 attacks along with the Taliban and al Qaeda. According to state TV, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman referred to last week's judgement as "clumsy scenario-making" by the US. The spokesman,
Ramin Mehmanparast, repeated Iran's insistence that al Qaeda has no presence in the country.

On Thursday, Judge George Daniels in Manhattan signed a default judgement finding Iran, the Taliban and al Qaeda liable in the 2001 attacks. The ruling came in a $100 billion lawsuit brought by family members of victims.

The findings also said Iran provides al Qaeda members a safe haven.

William Pepper on Sirhan Sirhan Black Ops Radio on Dec 22

http://www.blackopradio.com/pod/black558a.mp3

Show #558
Original airdate: Dec 22, 2011
Guest: William Pepper, George Bailey, Sherwood Ross
Topics: Sirhan Sirhan, JFK Research, President Obama

Part One - William Pepper (33:13) Real Media or MP3 download

Filed a Reply Brief on Nov 21, 2011, first time allowed to deal with the question of actual innocence
In 1969 there was a substitution of a bullet in evidence, the defense council was himself under indictment
Noguchi was not asked to identify the bullet, the judge and jury heard all this phony evidence
We have asked the court on the basis of this fraud to set aside the verdict and the sentence
The Brief deals with an extensive analysis of the Pruszynski tape, a recording of the sounds of the bullets fired
Thirteen bullets fired, Sirhan's gun held eight, RFK was shot from behind at powder burn range, Sirhan was in front
The Brief goes over hypno-programming, with declarations by Dr. Daniel Brown and Professor Alan Scheflin
The Brief at williampepper.com, the strongest statement ever made in this case
It's a political case, we can expect, the state will do everything to justify keeping Sirhan in prison

Operation Terror: The 911 Story You Are Not Supposed to Know

http://operationterror.com/

James McCullough, from the mysterious “Council,” gives a special assignment to CIA agent Aaron Delgado to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and pin the blame on Muslim Terrorists. Delgado and fellow agents, Phillip Singer and Chase Jordan, work with a group of unsuspecting engineers to develop unmanned jets that will hit their assigned targets.

The Army and the FBI begin to uncover the plot, forcing Delgado to intervene. The CIA agents are also forced to deal with an increasingly suspicious George Poole, the lead engineer working on the drones, who becomes skeptical on how the remote controlled planes will be used. A battle between good and evil ensues as the plot to attack America becomes a hard-hitting reality.

Newburgh Four: Poor, Black, and Jailed Under FBI 'Entrapment' Tactics

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29961.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/12/newburgh-four-fbi-entrapment-terror

Newburgh Four: Poor, Black, and Jailed Under FBI 'Entrapment' Tactics

In June, four men were jailed for 25 years over a US terror plot. The FBI painted them as dedicated fanatics, but were they lured by the promise of cash from a fake informant?

By Paul Harris in New York

December 12, 2011 "The Guardian" - - Imam Salahuddin Muhammad could hardly miss Shahed Hussain when he first appeared three years ago at his mosque in the dilapidated town of Newburgh, just 60 miles up the Hudson River from New York.

Hussain was flash, drove expensive cars and treated people to gifts of cash and food. He also had radical opinions that stood out in a mosque that welcomed Shia and Sunni followers and had good relations with local Jewish and Christian communities.

"This guy said women should not be heard, not be seen. I thought that was strange," Muhammad told the Guardian as he sat in his office inside Newburgh's mosque." Muhammad, who is a black American convert, had no idea how strange things would get.

Hussain would make Newburgh's Muslim community famous when earlier this year four other black Newburgh Muslims were jailed for 25 years for a 2009 plot to fire a Stinger missile at US military planes. They also planted car bombs, packed with lethal ball bearings, outside Jewish targets in the wealthy New York suburb of Riverdale.

Prosecutors painted them as America-hating terrorists bent on slaughter. All four followed the instructions of Hussain, who meticulously organised the scheme: from getting the missile and bombs, to reconnaissance missions, to teaching the tenets of radical Islam.

The "Newburgh Four" now languish in jail. Hussain does not. For Hussain was a fake. In fact, Hussain worked for the FBI as an informant trawling mosques in hope of picking up radicals.

Yet far from being active militants, the four men he attracted were impoverished individuals struggling with Newburgh's grim epidemic of crack, drug crime and poverty. One had mental issues so severe his apartment contained bottles of his own urine. He also believed Florida was a foreign country.

Hussain offered the men huge financial inducements to carry out the plot – including $250,000 to one man – and free holidays and expensive cars.

Obama: We asked Iran to give us our drone back By Laura Rozen | The Envoy

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/obama-asked-iran-us-drone-back-193035747.html

Obama: We asked Iran to give us our drone back
By Laura Rozen | The Envoy

"But Obama's comments on the seized drone will likely upstage the designated subject of the conference--and are all but certain to become instant fodder for late-night comedy and GOP primary campaign barbs."

Iran released a video of downed U.S. stealth drone on December 8, 2011. (Yahoo News still …
President Obama has a message for Iran: He would like America's downed spy drone back.

Obama revealed the request for the return of the drone--which fell to earth in Iran recently, and had been captured in video footage circulated by the Iranian government--during a Monday White House news conference. The president shared the podium with Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as both leaders discussed the future of American-Iraqi relations after the withdrawal of remaining U.S. forces from Iraq this month.

But Obama's comments on the seized drone will likely upstage the designated subject of the conference--and are all but certain to become instant fodder for late-night comedy and GOP primary campaign barbs.

'A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995' Available December, 2011

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20111205043307998

http://www.anoblelie.com/

'A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995' Available December, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 2011
ANobleLie.com

New Film, A NOBLE LIE: Oklahoma City 1995, asks questions about the Oklahoma City Bombing

Produced in Oklahoma, this newly-released documentary by FREE MIND FILMS and Director James Lane takes a fresh and in-depth look at the circumstances surrounding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

But instead of accepting at face value the Federal Government's deeply-flawed investigation, A NOBLE LIE features groundbreaking information and eyewitness testimonies that refute the official story.

The April 19, 1995 bombing that destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building involved far more revealing evidence than the FBI maintains. A NOBLE LIE presents interviews with police officers, first responders, victims, journalists and investigators whose evidence demonstrates that not all the perpetrators were brought to justice.

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