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"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it." - Noam Chomsky
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"Truth never damages a cause that is just." -Mahatma Gandhi
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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."- Maya Angelou
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,750icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,284
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US Killed 2,043 People, Mostly Civilians, in Pakistan: Report
By ANI
Regarding
civilian causalities and attacks on women and children, the report
said: "People in the tribal belt usually carry guns and ammunition as a
tradition. US drone will identify anyone carrying a gun as a militant
and subsequently he will be killed."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27174.htm
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US Senator Wants US Military in Afghanistan Forever
By The Irish Sun
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Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power
By James Petras
The
US Empire still retains major clients and nearly a thousand military
bases around the world. As client and puppet regimes decline, Washington
increases the role and scope of extra-territorial death squad
operations from 50 to 80 countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27176.htm
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Feminist Human Rights vs. the Conning of Patriotism
By Kathleen Barry
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The U.S. Lied?
Netanyahu: Israel Agreed to New Settlement Freeze
By Jonathan Lis
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Israel: The Next War
By Alain Gresh
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A Short Anthology of Racism in Israel
By Niva Lanir
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Choosing Suppression Over Justice
Acknowledging Political Islam
By Robert Grenier
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"Greatest Nation" Rhetoric Roars Back
By Robert Jensen
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TSA: Airports Are Only the Beginning
By Becky Akers
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Ralph Nader: 'The Left Has Nowhere to Go'
By Chris Hedges
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End of the Recession? Who's Kidding Whom?
By Immanuel Wallerstein
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The Secret of Oz
Video By Bill Still
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US Kills 8 People in Pakistan:
US
missile strikes targeting the same building killed eight people in a
region near Afghanistan today, including at least two people who were
retrieving bodies from the first attack, Pakistani intelligence
officials said.
http://bit.ly/fUWqf1
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Key party pulls out of Pakistan's ruling coalition:
The
second largest party in Pakistan's ruling coalition said Sunday it is
quitting the government and joining the opposition, depriving the
country's pro-U.S. government of a parliamentary majority and throwing
its future into doubt.
http://apne.ws/JflB3
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Two occupation force troops killed in Afghanistan :
Two
foreign soldiers were killed Saturday in Afghanistan, coalition forces
said, in the year's first deaths among Nato-led foreign forces after
the war's highest-ever annual death toll in 2010.
http://bit.ly/hjMK2z
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One civilian killed, five injured in western Afghanistan:
One
Afghan civilian was killed and five others including a policeman
injured Monday by a bomb in the western province of Herat, officials
said.
http://bit.ly/hsGcRx
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'We can see everything':
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Three Iraqis, two US occupation force soldiers killed in Iraq:
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Four people killed, 16 wounded in Iraq's violence:
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How The Media Inflated The Toppling Of The Saddam Statue:
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In case you missed it: :
The photographs tell the story... :
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In case you missed it: :
Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue:
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Tension flares amid Israeli attacks:
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Israelis kill man carrying bottle:
ISRAELI
troops shot dead a Palestinian carrying a bottle at a checkpoint near
the West Bank city of Nablus late yesterday, less than 48 hours after a
female protester died after being teargassed.
http://bit.ly/gMrRcx
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Chile, Paraguay to recognize Palestinian State:
Uruguay
also expected to recognize independent Palestinian state based on 1967
borders in March; Ecuador also due to open PA embassy.
http://bit.ly/ihA7aR
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Opposition groups urge Jordanian government to severe ties with Israel:
A
coalition of Jordanian opposition parties and trade unions on Monday
rebuked the government for secretly receiving the chief of Israel's
National Security Council, Uzi Arad, in Amman last week, and urged the
rupture of ties with Israel.
http://bit.ly/hIB1kf
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US Embassy Cables:: Israel preparing for war against Hamas, Hezbollah:
Although
approximately 1400 Palestinians, many of them civilians, were killed
during Operation Cast Lead, Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip in
December 2008, Ashkenazi vowed that the next round of fighting in Gaza
would entail an even greater cost in human life, saying that Israel
would not again accept "any restrictions on warfare in populated areas.
http://bit.ly/eGSbph
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Iran says it shot down two western spy planes over Persian Gulf:
Iran
has shot down two unmanned western reconnaissance drone aircraft in
the Gulf, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying
by the semi-official Fars news agency on Sunday.
http://bit.ly/hAnn16
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India to drop US dollar in Iran oil dealing:
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Iran, India working out mechanism to continue trade:
A
week after the Reserve Bank of India barred dollar and euro trade
transactions with Iran, the central banks of the two countries on Friday
discussed new mechanisms for two-way trade but the talks remained
inconclusive.
http://bit.ly/hOcgfd
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Euro stands just 20pc chance of survival in next decade:
The
euro stands just a one in five chance of surviving in its current form
for ten years, according to the Centre for Economics and Business
Research.
http://bit.ly/hRVzCD
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China-Russia oil pipeline opens:
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A bridge too far? China unveils world's longest sea bridge:
The
road bridge, which took four years and cost a cool £5.5billion to
build, will be open for use in the New Year and is almost three miles
longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
in Louisiana.
http://bit.ly/ghgbEk
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Bolivia rescinds fuel subsidy cuts:
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Britain's anti-terror control orders condemned as 'trademark of despots':
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UK: Police hoarding data on the millions who call to report a crime:
Millions
of innocent people have had their details recorded and stored on
police databases after reporting a crime, it has emerged.
http://bit.ly/fuyt6R
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After 16 Years Behind Bars for an $11 Robbery, the Scott Sisters Will Be Free at Last:
"To
date, the sisters have served 16 years of their sentences and are
eligible for parole in 2014. Jamie Scott requires regular dialysis, and
her sister has offered to donate one of her kidneys to her. - "Gladys
Scott's release is conditioned on her donating one of her kidneys to
her sister"
http://bit.ly/ec2shZ
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Now the Rich Get Richer Quicker:
If a just society is defined by the relationship between the well off and the very poor, we have big trouble.
http://bit.ly/hQzN0Y
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Millions of Americans Are Heading to Foodbanks for the First Time in Their Lives:
More
and more working Americans, many earning what were once middle class
incomes, are spending their time and scarce money to find their next
meal.
http://bit.ly/ejRhy8
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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