Articles by Norman Pollack

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UN Human Rights Council—Report of Independent Commission: Israel’s Ravagement of Gaza
Norman Pollack - CounterPunch, 29 Jun 2015

Norman Pollack examines Israel’s array of war crimes.

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Blackwater’s Death Machine – The Privatization of Repression
Norman Pollack - CounterPunch, 14 Jul 2014

Blackwater on one hand, Obama, with his hit list and targeted assassination on the other, and in between, CIA-JSOC paramilitary operations geared to regime change, together constitute the package of Obama’s liberal humanitarianism, bringing democracy to the ignorant at gunpoint.

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Ukraine as Stalking Horse: The Rise of Fascism in the West
Norman Pollack - CounterPunch, 24 Mar 2014

We can say that the primal factor in fascism’s internal composition is capitalism, not your everyday Smithian variety happily ensconced in Econ. 101 textbooks, but the real thing at an advanced form of development.

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National Security State, Advent of Fascism: Obama’s Fanaticism over Secrecy, Surveillance and Repression
Norman Pollack – CounterPunch, 29 Jul 2013

Secrecy is the ideal camouflage for surrounding, covering, and protecting the class-state, its system of power, its elites’ hidden agenda, and the political-cultural mechanisms which engineer consent to the national purpose as defined from above, not so much to hide ordinary hanky-panky–favoritism to contractors, political contributors, etc.– but war crimes real time.

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