"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Resistance
is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an
obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest
the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. - Noam Chomsky
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Take The Pledge
"I
pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in
Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into
its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington,
D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as
long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo,
our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate
machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in
human needs and environmental protection instead of war and
exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,792
www.icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,689
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,239,675,045,079
http://www.costofwar.com/
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The Truth About the Situation in Libya
By Brian Becker
Cutting through the government propaganda and media lies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28925.htm
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NATO, Sleeper Cells Drove Rebels' Tripoli Push
By Hadeel Al-Shalchi and Rami Al-Shaheibi
"Honestly, NATO played a very big role in liberating Tripol"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28927.htm
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US Outsourcing Regime Change
NATO Partnership in Libya Serves as Model, Panetta Says
American Forces Press Service
"It
is a good indication of the kind of partnership and alliances that we
need to have for the future" US Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28929.htm
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Disaster Capitalism Swoops Over Libya
By Pepe Escobar
Think
of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster
Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass destruction, we had R2P
("responsibility to protect"). Instead of neo-conservatives, we had
humanitarian imperialists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28931.htm
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Turning Libya Into A New Afghanistan:
By RT
"The
majority of people who are fighting Gaddafi are Muslim extremists or
people who believe they must create an Islamic state in Libya,"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28930.htm
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Libyan Bombing Illegal Says Concerned Group
By LIVHUWANI MAMMBURU
More than 200 African intellectuals say Nato's bombing of Libya is part of a re-colonisation of the continent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28928.htm
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WikiLeaks: U.S. Seeks Info Through Patriot Act:
PATRIOT Act order unsealed
By Wikileaks
The
Order demands Dynadot handover the following information: 1. Subscriber
names, user names, screen names, or other identities; 2. mailing
addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, e-mail addresses,
and other contact information; (including any credit card or bank
account number) and billing records.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28932.htm
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FBI Organizes Almost All Terror Plots In the US
By Russia Today
Agents
are sent in to converse within the community, find suspects that could
potentially carry out "lone wolf" attacks and then, more or less,
encourage them to do so.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28933.htm
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9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?
By Paul Craig Roberts
The
US government's account of 9/11 is the foundation of the open-ended
wars that are exhausting America's resources and destroying its
reputation, and it is the foundation of the domestic police state that
ultimately will shut down all opposition to the wars.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28935.htm
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The Dumbest Rally of All Time
By Mike Whitney
Unless we can unseat the class that sees the world only through its portfolios, they may well take us all the way down.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28936.htm
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Iceland's On-going Revolution
By Deena Stryker
The last thing the powers that be want is for Iceland to become an example. Here's why:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28934.htm
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Fifty soldiers, militants killed in south Yemen:
Eleven
Yemeni soldiers and 39 suspected Islamist militants were killed in some
of the worst violence to grip the volatile south since mass protests
began in January against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, residents and
officials said.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/fifty-soldiers-militants-killed-in-south-yemen
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14 "Taliban Militants" Killed in Afghan Raid:
At
least 14 Taliban militants were killed in a joint Afghan and Nato
forces operation in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, Afghan Ministry of
Interior Affairs said.
http://tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/3767-14-taliban-militants-killed-in-afghan-raid
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Pakistan: Concern grows as US kills 4 people in North Waziristan:
Residents said the four slain men were local tribesmen. Their bodies were damaged beyond recognition.
http://bit.ly/nAtU5h
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Afghan national spying for US killed in North Waziristan:
The note stated that he was caught spying for the US in the area and he was provided punishment to death on this heinous crime.
http://bit.ly/oNRDlj
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US offers to restore military aid to Pak:
The
United States has offered to restore 800 million dollars in military
aid to Pakistan, if it reverses its decision of expelling US military
trainers from the country
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-53541.html
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More than 400 killed, 2,000 injured in Tripoli battle:
Libya
rebel leader: More than 400 people were killed and at least 2,000
injured in the three-day fight to seize control of the Libyan capital
Tripoli from Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's forces, Chairman of the Libyan
National Transitional Council told Al Arabiya on Wednesday.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/24/163836.html
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Gaddafi forces stage fightback in Tripoli:
Thick
smoke hung over the Bab al-Aziziya complex, where rebels and Gaddafi's
forces were fighting in the early afternoon with light weapons, heavy
machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and mortars
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8289310/libya-rebels-attack-gaddafi-compound
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Dmitry Medvedev on Russia's policy regarding Libya:
The
situation remains essentially one of dual power in the country, and
despite the rebels' latest successes in their offensive on Tripoli,
Gadhafi and his supporters still have some influence and military
potential.
http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/2733#sel=7:1,11:135
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Libya's Post Gadhaffi Future - Who gets the Oil?:
Who
will eventually control this asset, with oil prices currently at
roughly $84 a barrel, generating an income of more than $12.6 billion
per day?
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Libyas-Post-Gadhaffi-Future-Who-gets-the-Oil.html
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Democracy at work:
Dead or Alive: Libya: Rebels put £1m bounty on Gaddafi's head:
Libya's rebel council has offered a £1m reward for the capture, dead or alive, of deposed ruler Colonel Gaddafi.
http://tgr.ph/oOqgCE
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Kadhafi says he quit compound in 'tactical withdrawal':
"Bab
al-Azizya was nothing but a heap of rubble after it was the target of
64 NATO missiles and we withdrew from it for tactical reasons," he said
in a speech carried by the website of a television station headed by his
son Seif al-Islam.
http://yhoo.it/ox5Tsc
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NATO, sleeper cells drove rebels' Tripoli push:
They
called it Operation Mermaid Dawn, a stealth plan coordinated by sleeper
cells, Libyan rebels, and NATO to snatch the capital from the Moammar
Gadhafi's regime's hands.
http://bit.ly/pQ8LYZ
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Turkish Foreign Minister: NATO To Stay In Libya:
NATO
will "remain" in Libya until security is fully restored, said Turkey's
foreign minister, who became the first international leader to visit
Benghazi following the defeat of Moammar Gadhafi.
http://bit.ly/qeK9HB
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Canadian drones gave Libyan rebels a boost :
Nearly
a month ago...a fishing boat brought a former Canadian soldier to the
besieged rebels stronghold carrying with him two small cases packed with
high-tech gear.
http://bit.ly/nXkHnf
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Syria: UN - first 'predictable' steps:
The
steps being taken in the UN and ICC to take international legal
measures against Syria were predictable. Syria was warned that the
recent outbreaks of violence would be an opportunity for those opposed
to its government to make moves to destabilise its regime and prosecute
its leadership.
http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/syria-un-first-predictable-steps
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West pushes opposition to topple Assad:
The
Syrian opposition has set up its own National Council with the
headquarters in Istanbul and the declared aim of coordinating the
overthrow of President Bashar Assad, the opposition said in a statement.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/24/55104403.html
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Western diplomats hope to impose UN sanctions on Syria:
Western
diplomats were hoping Wednesday to push through United Nations
sanctions against the Syrian regime, a day after the UN Human Rights
Council strongly condemned Damascus for the violent repression of
pro-democracy protesters, DPA reported.
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1922591.html
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"Israel" kills Palestinian, breaks calm:
Palestinian
medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a resistance fighter
was killed, on Wednesday at dawn, and another resident was injured when
the "Israeli" Air Force fired missiles at a car driving in Tal Al Sultan
area, west of Rafah city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip
http://english.alresalah.ps/?action=showdetail&seid=646
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Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware:
Sen.
John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar
Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware, as one of the United States'
partners in the war on terror," according to a U.S. diplomatic cable
released Wednesday by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
http://bit.ly/nS4C92
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WikiLeaks: U.S. Seeks Assagne Info Through Patriot Act:
The
production order comes on the same day of WikiLeaks releasing another
batch of cables - this time 35,000 - primarily culled from U.S.
embassies in China and Libya.
http://bit.ly/qzel4x
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Wikileaks: Fresh Batch of Diplomatic Cables:
The
cables are available at a searchable database and sorted based on the
location: Libya, China, Israel, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Germany,
Afghanistan, France, Indonesia, Rwanda, Turkey, Poland, Syria, Bahrain,
South Africa, Somalia
http://bit.ly/pEME0w
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WikiLeaks releases 3,925 diplomatic cables about Israel:
Whistle-blower
site publishes unclassified US State Department documents on peace
process, Vatican-Jewish relations, terror attacks.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=235246
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With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas:
NYPD
operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways
that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the
federal government.
http://bit.ly/pFlpnS
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European Bank Job 'Bloodbath' Surpasses 40,000:
UBS
AG (UBSN)'s decision to cut 5 percent of its workforce brings to more
than 40,000 the number of jobs cut by European banks in the past month
as the region's worsening sovereign debt crisis crimps trading revenue.
http://bloom.bg/nmUWHf
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Bank of America Threatens Foreclosure On Elderly Couple Who Paid Mortgage Early:
ABC
News reports that the bank made a mistake earlier this year, by
initiating the foreclosure process on an elderly couple that had the
audacity to submit a mortgage payment a week early.
http://read.bi/piM7i2
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