Global-Praxis

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A brief description and links to some informative websites, in no particular order:

• War is a Racket: Download PDF of 2x Medal of Honor recipient, Marine Corps legend and anti-war advocate, Maj General Smedley Butler’s booklet. Something the D.I.’s forgot to mention in Boot Camp.
• Council on Foreign Relations: The principle policy-planning organ in the United States, establish a baseline for understanding the desired direction of elite national policy-makers here.
• Global Research.ca: Recommended as a resource by the American Library Association, GlobalResearch is a massive assortment of research that sometimes pushes the envelope of ‘conspiracy theory.’ Recommended to triple-check any leads that are found here.
• Z Communications.org: A radical-left community of common writers, top intellectuals and organizers featuring analysis, expose and video content. Sign up for free membership or gain further access with a monthly donation.
• Inter Press Service-Journalism and Communication for Global Change: ‘Giving a voice to the voiceless’ this global news agency, that receives funding from a variety of Western European nations and the UN among others, tends to focus on the global south.
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-By Challenging Media Bias and Censorship Since 1986, for those unfamiliar with the conservative slant in corporate-owned media, this site will provide a wake-up call.
• Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR): Co-founded by economists Dean Baker and Mark
  

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  Weisbrot,  CEPR was established to promote democratic debate on economic and social issues that affect people’s lives. Baker’s book in PDF format, The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Get Rich and Stay Richer, dispels the myth that conservatives support ’small government.’ Rather, it’s state-socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else.

• Tomdispatch.com: A project of the liberal-left Nation Institute; analysis, interviews and video from a site that bills itself as ‘A Regular Antidote to the Mainstream Media’
• The War on Democracy: Stream it here. A must-see John Pilger documentary on U.S. subversion of global democracy, emphasizing counter revolutionary coups in Latin America and ending with genuine pro. This DVD is difficult to find in North American format.
• Leading To War: Stream a compilation of a year and a half of public statements by Bush Administration officials detailing the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq prior to the March 2003 invasion.