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<div><span><span><span>Musa al-Gharbi lays out the problems <span>with Obama's case against Syrian President <span>Bashar</span> al-Assad</span></span>.</span> </span></div>
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<div><span> </span> <span><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span>Gareth Porter investigates how <span>President Obama, in a rush to attack Syria, tried unsuccessfully to get the UN to call off its investigation.</span><br><br> </span></div></span></div>
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<div><span> </span> <span><br>Norman Pollack is not happy with how Obama commemorated MLK's great March on Washington. </span>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span>Chris Floyd writes that the <span>bloodthirsty nations of the US and Great Britain are planning to murder a <span>number of their fellow humans for no reason whatsoever.</span></span></span><br></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span>Jessica Namakkal looks at how study abroad programs are nothing more than neo-colonial tourism.</span><br></div>
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<br>John Eskow calls out the p<span>rudes who freaked over Miley's twerks at the MTV Music Awards.</span><br><div>
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SYRIA AND THE HYPOCRISY OF COLONIALISM: Jennifer Loewenstein explains why the Syria civil war is an engineered catastrophe by tracing the grim history of French and British colonial meddling in the Middle East; SNOWDEN & LATIN AMERICA: Daniel Edwards reports from Argentina on the reaction to Edward Snowden's revelations of NSA spying and the strong-armed tactics to keep him from gaining asylum in South America; WILDFIRES & CLIMATE CHANGE: Joshua Frank takes a Dantestque road trip through the Western Fire Zones; OBAMA'S EDUCATION, INC: Steve Horn exposes the Obama administration's playbook to privatize education and the cronies who stand to make a killing; DYSFUNCTIONAL ISLAND: Jeb Sprague reports on the bleak political situation on Hispaniola; MANNING & POLITICS OF CONTRITION: Binoy Kampmark on the meaning of Manning's apologia. PLUS: Jeffrey St. Clair on the new war on wolves; JoAnn Wypijewski defends the automobile; Kristin Kolb on the Work-Until-You-Drop ethic; Mike Whitney on Ben Bernanke's QE Ruse; Chris Floyd on whistleblowers and Lee Ballinger class politics in the music industry.</span></div>
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