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Greatest Purveyor of Violence

The allure of combat is a trap, a ploy, an old, dirty game of deception in which the powerful, who do not go to war, promise a mirage to those who do.
--Chris Hedges

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Reverend Martin Luther King delivered his "Beyond Vietnam" speech in New Yorkh on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered.

He called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

Press TV: Ken O`Keefe Discusses New Film `Rebellion` Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz

A story that is both captivating and relatively unknown in the US.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - In this edition of the show Faiza Ahmed reviews the film; Rebellion, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Her guests are Dave Calhoun, film critic with Time Out Magazine, and Ken O'Keefe, activist and Salem-News.com writer.

It was April 1988, Ouvea island, New Caledonia, when 30 French policemen were taken hostage by a group of Kanak separatists.

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

The "shot heard 'round the world" is a phrase that has come to represent several historical incidents that mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.

(BOSTON) - Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere...

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march..." By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch

C-SPAN Breaks Story About Investigation Into What Happens to MIA and POW Americans

Watch the special program Saturday, April 20, noon EST; repeat airing Sunday, April 21, 11 a.m. EST on cable C-SPAN stations.

(NORFOLK, Va.) - Author Amy Water Yarsinke, a veteran author of more than 55 non-fiction books on American history, is known as “the POW Hunter” due to her experience in military intelligence.

An American in the Basement is an expose about the betrayal of Captain Scott Speicher and the cover-up of his death, according to the author.

Wounded U.S. Army Captain Goes to War Zone in Afghanistan

“Our injuries don’t define us. We control our own destinies and set the example on how to live our lives positively and be inspirational to our fellow Americans as well as an asset to our country.” - Salem-News.com writer James Van Thach

(NEW YORK) - Why would an already wounded soldier return to the War Zone?

Captain James Van Thach, a Vietnamese American law graduate of Touro Law Center, retired from the United States Army in March 2009, decided it was time to return to a war zone on Operation Proper Exit, a program sponsored by the Troops First Foundation.

G8 and Abbas Still Block Road to Middle East Peace

Palestinians should not be bullied into pleading or bargaining with a brutal occupier for their freedom.

(LONDON) - Yesterday the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London issued the following statement on the British government's website...

It is a driveling, sniveling way to mark 65 years since the massacre at the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, near Jerusalem.

Pope Francis Linked to Exocet Missile Acquisitio​n, According to British Government Source

Margaret Thatcher's Death and Queen's Pending Resignatio​n are Connected.

(BRUSSELS / LONDON) - Whatever it is that dwells in Rome behind the mask of religion and empire is inexorably being revealed.

And its mask slipped further yesterday with more startling revelations involving the new Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio.

Bob Bergdahl, Father of Current POW, Sgt Bowe Bergdahl Speaks Out

They focused on demanding that the U.S. government formally request and negotiate for the return of all live Americans held in captivity in foreign countries.

(WASHINGTON DC) - On Tuesday, 9 April 2013 a Freedom March was held in Washington, DC. by P.O.W. Activist Organization "Honor-Release-Return".

Bob Bergdahl, the father of current POW, Sgt Bowe Bergdahl and Former POWs Mike Benge, Larry Stark, Carmel Whetzel, all spoke at the event.

US Fighter Jet Crashes in Persian Gulf, Crew Rescued: Navy

Meanwhile, the United States has said it will stage a military maneuver with its allies in the Persian Gulf waters.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - A US Navy jet fighter has crashed into the Persian Gulf near the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, but the crew members survived the crash, the Navy has said.

An engine failure presumably caused the F/A-18F Super Hornet’s crash on Monday, The Associated Press reported.

Shift in War Hawks

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” --Noam Chomsky

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Watch out for a shift in war hawks. Before the Iraq war, at least a dozen in the U.S. Administration and major media spread enough propaganda to silence the majority of Americans.

These hawks, acting more on behalf of Israel than America had a natural shill in the Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi who fabricated evidence about WMDs and al Qaeda in Iraq.