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"...our civilization, so addicted to knowledge, has fled from wisdom. Knowledge is very, very powerful. If it is not tempered and contoured by greater visions, like justice, compassion, beauty, grace and thinking of the next generation and seven generations to come -- then indeed, it is dangerous. " - - Matthew Fox
"Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice." - -- Norman Bethune
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Op-Ed Articles
The Western Plan to Dismantle Syria
By RT
West's Policy on Syria Could Ignite WWIII'
By RT
China Not Obliged To Besiege Iran
Editorial : China's Global Times
USrael and Iran
By William Blum
Dateline: Tahrir Square
By Eric Margolis
Contrary to misleading views promoted in the West, the Brotherhood is a very conservative, even timid, movement that advocates Islamic social justice, not violent revolution. Young Egyptians dismiss it as "your grandfather's party. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29886.htm
Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Offensive
By Glen Ford
A Disturbing Truth
The Deception of Media
By Madison Ruppert
The December 5th, 2011 cover of Time Magazine represents a disturbing truth: the American corporate-controlled establishment media presents a picture of the world that is meant to placate and pacify the people of the United States in favor of presenting reality as it is. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29881.htm
Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'
By Arun Gupta
85-year-old Woman Strip Searched at JFK Airport
By Nicholas Hirshon
The Rebirth of Social Darwinism
By Robert Reich
Satire
A Farewell from Herman Cain - My Final Thoughts
By Andy Borowitz
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| Hard News
25 killed in Syria, most in battle between army deserters and Syrian forces: The pre-dawn clashes between regime forces and defectors killed seven soldiers and policemen, as well as five defectors and three civilians, according to a British-based group of Syrian activists called the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights http://wapo.st/uYeMy3
Engineering Consent For Attack On Syria:
Why There Will Be a No-Fly Zone in Syria Erdogan, in his push for a no-fly zone, needed an Arab State to join him. He found it in Jordan, scared of a dragged-out crisis on its doorstep. France takes the lead for Europe, after the boost of its victory in Libya, and a president who wants to show his population that he is willing to fight for freedom in the Middle East. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-miller/why-there-will-be-a-nofly_b_1124904.html
Arab League gives Syria deadline on observers: The Qatari prime minister, announced the new deadline for Syria to avoid sanctions after a meeting in Doha to discuss the measures decided against Damascus over its crackdown on eight months of protests. http://bit.ly/v7JJmw
Preparing the Battlefield:
France withdraws embassy staff from Iran: France is repatriating a number of diplomats and their families from Iran following an attack on the British embassy in Tehran.French officials said the move was a temporary security measure. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16018000
Pakistan: Countrywide protests continue against Nato attack: Khateebs in Friday sermons condemned the blatant Nato aggression while leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami and other religious parties addressed protest rallies and called for a resolute stand against the aggressor. http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=10730&Cat=13
More deaths in Yemen violence: At least two killed in shelling in the city of Taiz following protests, taking the death toll in violence there to 17. http://bit.ly/sXb4Nz
One Killed as rival militias wage turf war near Tripoli: One local official was killed and a militia base reduced to ruins in a clash between rival armed groups near the Libyan capital, the latest flare-up of tension between militias that is destabilising the new Libya. http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=212863
Former Tripoli Brigade leader Mahdi al-Harati outed as US asset: al-Harati, who has been a Dublin resident employed as an Arabic teacher for 20 years, claimed, when contacted by police, that the stolen cash was "given to him by an American intelligence agency." http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/liby-d03.shtml
Iraqi PM says bombing was an assassination attempt against him: Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that a bombing earlier this week inside Baghdad's Green Zone was an assassination attempt against him, but he defended the nation's armed forces and said the breach did not signal a deterioration in security. http://bit.ly/u9daNU
In lead, Egypt Islamists tell rivals to accept vote: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called on its rivals to accept the will of the people on Saturday after a first-round vote set its party on course to take the most seats in the country's first freely elected parliament in six decades. http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111203/wl_nm/us_egypt_election
Egyptian election results 'disturbing' says Israel's defence minster: Early successes for Muslim Brotherhood prompt Ehud Barak to voice fears that international treaties will not be respected http://bit.ly/vSJV1I
Fact or fiction?
Iranian TV station 'faked' 1,370 Somali deaths by US drones: The Pentagon does not comment on drone strikes, so there are no official figures for the numbers of civilian deaths. For years, the US has been carrying out other covert missions in Somalia, but started using armed drones in Somalia in June. However the number of strikes reported by Press TV are questionable. http://bit.ly/sKOpIS
Russia to send observers to Kosovo to protect Serbs:
The First Deputy Speaker of the Russian Federation Council (the parliament's upper house) Alexander Torshin says that Russia must closely watch the situation in Kosovo and help ethnic Serbs who are being persecuted by the Kosovo authorities. http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/12/02/61409376.html
Border Pact: U.S. Cops go to Canadian cities:
Border deal fuels concerns in Canada: Armed U.S. police officers will for the first time be allowed to operate in Canada along with the RCMP as part of far-reaching changes in Canadian-American border operations to be unveiled next week by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama. http://bit.ly/vSvuM0
Exclusive: MF Global mixed funds, transferred abroad: The source also told Reuters that MF Global had been using customer funds for "several days if not weeks" rather than just a few days before the firm collapsed. Regulators had previously thought the firm was using customer funds on the Thursday and Friday before it filed for bankruptcy on October 31. http://reut.rs/vLxqem
In a world gone crazy:
13-year-old handcuffed and arrested for burping in class: A 13-year-old was handcuffed and hauled off to a juvenile detention for burping in class, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed against an Albuquerque public school principal, a teacher and a city police officer. The suit was filed on Wednesday, the same day the district in New Mexico was also sued by the family of a seven-year-old autistic boy who was handcuffed to a chair. http://bit.ly/ug2ukp
"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 : 2,823
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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