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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" -Eleanor Roosevelt
"We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves." -Nikki Giovanni
"Take your easy tears somewhere else. Tell yourself none of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop. With whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword or it is nothing." -Paul Monette
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Op-Ed Articles
U.S. Will Support Sanctions on Iran Central Bank
EU adopts new sanctions against Iran and Syria
By DPA and Reuters
Kirk and Menendez Join Forces on New Iran Sanctions Proposal
By Josh Rogin
Sanctions are only a Small Part of the History that Makes Iranians Hate the UK
By Robert Fisk
Woodhouse brought weapons into Iran for a still non-existent "resistance" movement and he eagerly supported the CIA's project to fund the "bazaaris" of Tehran to stage demonstrations (in which, of course, hundreds, perhaps thousands, died) to overthrow Mossadegh. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29860.htm
Turkey is Ready to Invade Syria
By M K Bhadrakumar
The Syrian Revolution Hijacked
By Peter Lee
Demons Unleashed in Libya
NATO's Islamists Continue Program of Ethnic and Ideological Cleansing
By Gerald A. Perreira
Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties
By Bill Quigley
France, Germany advocate new EU treaty: Sarkozy
By Polya Lesova
The European Central Bank Fiddles While Rome Burns:
By Ellen Brown:
Amid The Architecture Of Declining Capitalism
Memes, Death Genes And Real Estate Schemes
By Phil Rockstroh
People are catching on to the machinations of the 1%, to the scams of crime syndicates such as Wall Street and the IMF, to the means by which we have been coerced, by debt enslavement to neoliberalism's global company store, into spending the fleeting days of this finite life working for the inequitable power, wealth and privilege of these ruthless few. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29866.htm
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| Hard News
Eighteen Turkish citizens killed on Afghanistan-Pakistan border: As a result of military operations of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan 18 Turkish members of Taliban movement were killed, Turkish CNN Turk TV channel reported. http://en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1963974.html
Three "Insurgents" Killed, 29 Captured in Afghan Operations: Three "Taliban insurgents" were killed and 29 others were captured in Afghan forces' operation in the past 24 hours in different parts of the country, Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Thursday. http://bit.ly/rwP5Vc
Ex-Taliban to attend Afghan talks despite US disapproval: The group's attendance contradicts the US view there was no place for the Taliban at Bonn http://ind.pn/vyp3UF
NATO Kills 2 Pakistani Civilians: NATO forces killed two Pakistani men in Afghanistan on Thursday,. The officials said the two men, who were from the town of Chagai in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan, were gathering wood 30 km (18.6 miles) inside Afghanistan. http://reut.rs/vBNrtX
Pakistan : Video of NATO airstrike aftermath - Pakistan's military on Wednesday released footage showing what they said was the aftermath of the NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The video shows what appear to be several damaged buildings in a mountainous area and a cloud of smoke rising. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSoEeLgnm0&feature=player_embedded
Iraq: Bomb, gunmen kill 18 : A car bomb killed 10 people and gunmen executed eight more in Iraq's restive Diyala province on Thursday http://bit.ly/sJJp9W
8 civilians killed in ongoing Syrian violence: In the country's southern Deraa province, the Observatory said Syrian forces withdrew from the town of Dael, a day after seven members of Assad's security forces were killed there in clashes with army deserters now fighting to overthrow the embattled regime. http://bit.ly/s7Q1x2
Syria's opposition, army rebels agree to coordinate: The first meeting between the Syrian National Council and the Free Syrian Army earlier this week in Turkey appeared to mark a change of tack from the SNC's previous reluctance to back the armed struggle. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=49317
US backs sanctions against Iran's central bank: The Treasury Department's David Cohen told the committee that the administration backed France which last month called on its international partners to impose a freeze of Iran's central bank assets and an oil embargo. http://bit.ly/vX4xme
Obama: 'No ally more important than Israel': President Barack Obama is reassuring Jewish supporters that his administration is committed to the security of Israel. He says: "We don't compromise when it comes to Israel's security."
Israeli Defense Minister Warns of Iran, Says 'We Definitely Might be Put to the Test': - Israel does not want to take military action against Iran over its nuclear program, but at some point may have no other option, the Israeli defense minister said Thursday. http://fxn.ws/u1CxW1
Germany probing alleged Iran plot to attack U.S. bases on its soil: It speculated that Iranian agents were preparing to attack U.S. airbases in Germany if the United States took part in any kind of attack on Iran, which the West suspects of making nuclear weapons. http://bit.ly/sy5LpC
Yemen: Eight killed as security forces clash with tribesmen: Roads leading to Taez have been blocked by fierce fighting as agreement with Saleh fails to curb violence http://bit.ly/sCOWYA
Yemen opposition says interim govt lineup agreed: Yemen's political opposition and the party of outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh have agreed to the lineup of an interim government to lead the country to an early election next year, an opposition official told Reuters on Thursday http://reut.rs/v4O9AL
Revealed: The 'secret' app installed on millions of mobile phones that records your keystrokes, your browsing and reads your messages:
Installed as standard on U.S. phones to let networks http://bit.ly/v79bJP
Britons face new era of austerity: AS UP to 2 million public-sector workers took to streets across Britain to protest against pension changes, a leading think tank warned that families will be worse off in 2016 than they were 14 years earlier as they cope with more than a decade of austerity. http://bit.ly/vM7CrW
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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| Cost Of war
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:
4,801
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,820
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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