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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - -- Albert Einstein -- (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless." -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Russian writer Source: On Life and Essays on Religion
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Op-Ed Articles
Invoking 'Appeasement,'
Republican Candidates Blast Obama At Jewish Forum
By Andrea Stone
Gingrich Calls For Joint Operations' With Israel
To Attack Iran's Nuclear Program
By Ben Armbruster
"Force, Might and Beatings"
Indelible Images of the First Intifada
By Ali Abunimah
December 9, 1987 - exactly 24 years ago - is the day Palestinians remember as the start of the first Intifada, or uprising, against Israel's brutal and unending occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip that had begun 20 year earlier. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29936.htm
Pakistan Army Believes NATO Attack Planned: Reports
By Augustine Anthony
Confrontation on the Frontiers of China and Russia
Obama Raises the Military Stakes
By James Petras
AP Exclusive: Inside Secret CIA Prison
By MATT APUZZO
Top US General Worries About Euro, Potential Unrest
By AFP
The Euro: That Procrustean Bed...
By Adrian Salbuchi
Efforts by European leaders to shoe-horn a range of diverse countries into a rigid financial cage are doomed to fail. But that's all part of a long-term plan for a global super-currency which can only bring more hardship to ordinary working people. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29937.htm
An Idiot's Overview Of Why Western Capitalism Is Crashing
By Alan Hart
We're No. 1!
BY Cecil Acuff
Does America joyously lead the world in something? Yes, but 'tis not a joy, but the sad fact that the United States of America is a leader in incarceration. There are about 2.3 million people behind bars - one of every 100 citizens. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29933.htm
Your Money or Your Life?
Humanity Nears a Deadline to Decide Which it Will Surrender
By Kellia Ramares-Watson
"A Corporation Is Not A Person"
Sanders Offers Constitutional Amendment to Strip Corporations of "Free Speech"
By Pete Kasperowicz
Land of the Free, Home of the Hungry
By Gary Younge
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| Hard News
Engineering Consent For Attack On Syria?
Syria death toll rises to 24: Rights group:
Syrian security forces opened fire on civilians in several protest flashpoints on Friday, killing at least 24 people including four children, a rights group said.
http://bit.ly/tm1tJl
US concerned over imminent Syrian Assult: The US is 'extremely concerned' over reports of an imminent Syrian assault on the key city of Homs. Homs is at the heart of the revolt against Bashar el Assad's regime, where at least 10 people have been killed today alone. http://bit.ly/rVacNf
Arab states won't allow Syrian "massacre"-Saudi prince: A senior Saudi prince said on Friday that Arab states would not allow "the continued massacre" of the Syrian people, while saying he believed President Bashar al-Assad was unlikely to step down voluntarily. http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFL5E7N94EN20111209
Syria opposition wants rebels to halt attacks: Syrian National Council leader Burhan Ghalioun said he pressed the leader of the Free Syrian Army, to rein in operations after they launched a series of attacks on troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. http://reut.rs/u5CBvN
Factional Splits Hinder Drive to Topple Syria Leader: Soldiers and activists close to the rebel Free Syrian Army, which is orchestrating attacks across the border from inside a refugee camp guarded by the Turkish military, said Thursday that tensions were rising with Syria's main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, over its insistence that the rebel army limit itself to defensive action. http://nyti.ms/ts5h25
Seven killed as clashes erupt in northern Yemen:
At least seven people were killed when clashes escalated in northern Yemen between Houthi rebels and Islamists, media reported Friday http://bit.ly/s6VORb
Mosque suicide attack kills six in Afghanistan: A suicide bomber on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least six people including a district police chief, a government official said. http://bit.ly/sw91WA
Bomb kills three Pakistani soldiers: Bombers killed three Pakistani soldiers Friday as firefighters battled to control an inferno at a NATO trucking terminal attacked two weeks after Pakistan shut the Afghan border to US supplies. http://bit.ly/tTPdhX
US drone attacks come to an end in Pakistan? : Pakistan's northwestern tribal region near Afghan border has seen a halt in US drone attacks after Pakistan showed hostility in the wake of Nato attack in Mohmand Agency that killed 24 soldiers last month that led to suspension of Nato supplies. http://bit.ly/sXK049
Pakistan to deploy air defence weapons on Afghan border: Pakistan will deploy air defence weapons on the border with Afghanistan to pre-empt fresh attacks by NATO forces in the wake of a "pre-planned" air strike that killed 24 soldiers, a top military official has said. http://bit.ly/v2cRT2
Pakistani Editorial Says Nuclear War with India "Inevitable" as Water Dispute Continues: Potential nuclear war over water rights - such sentiments ought to light up switchboards from New Delhi to Washington. http://bit.ly/sPcwOE
Israeli raids kill three Gaza Palestinians, rockets fired at Israel: The latest fighting erupted on Thursday when an air strike on a car killed two Palestinians, one of them from Gaza's governing Hamas. http://bit.ly/t6xzro
Muslim Brotherhood to 'Re-examine' Camp David Accords: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt denies a report in Israeli newspaper Yediot Acharonot, according to which the movement has reached understandings with the United States and Israel, according to which the Muslim Brotherhood "understands the importance of safeguarding the peace treaty with Israel.' http://bit.ly/stC0B8
Islamists: Egypt-Israel peace treaty needs to be reviewed?: -
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said that the country's peace treaty with Israel needs re-evaluation by the country's new parliament, in press remarks by a senior member of the group published Friday. http://bit.ly/vPZmYt
Ambassador: Turkey 'cannot tolerate' Iran getting nukes: Turkey is committed to keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and has stopped other countries from taking materials in to help Iran's nuclear program, Turkey's ambassador to the United States said Thursday. http://bit.ly/sqU455
Gingrich wants Bolton as his secretary of state: Critics described him as hotheaded, and he famously loathed the U.N., which won him conservative fans. Bolton discussed a 2012 presidential run himself but decided against it. http://bit.ly/uQTQYH
Arab Spring brings distaste for US aid: "There is an interest in more autonomy and more transparency," he said. "If you're going to pump money in NGOs, who are you, why are you doing that, who are these NGOs, what are their agendas?" http://bit.ly/tm9VgX
GOP seeks to cut unemployment benefits: The Republican proposal is expected to reduce the total number of weeks unemployed workers are eligible for aid by as much as 40 weeks and tighten rules for eligibility. http://bit.ly/s2sFj4
Local Labor Groups Call For Unemployment Insurance Extension:
With the prospect of 305,400 Californians losing unemployment insurance on Dec. 31, local labor unions and unemployed workers held a candlelight vigil Thursday to urge Congress to extend their benefits. http://bit.ly/tgy5Ft
Corzine can't explain missing MF Global funds:
Former Wall Street high-flyer and Democratic politician Jon Corzine told US lawmakers Thursday he did not know what happened to an estimated $1.2 billion that disappeared from the accounts of now bankrupt broker MF Global. http://bit.ly/sDk0Vg
"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 :2,824
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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