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"Weapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them. Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint. Peace is his highest value. If the peace has been shattered, how can he be content? His enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. He doesn't wish them personal harm. Nor does he rejoice in victory. How could he rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?" --Lao-tzu (Tao Te Ching trans. by Stephen Mitchell)
"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it." --Leo Tolstoy
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th president of the U.S.
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Op-Ed Articles
I Spit on Your Grave
Video : Marines Urinating On Corpses
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Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again
By Ralph Nader
Iran and the Terrorism Game
By Glenn Greenwald
Advice to a Generic Candidate
By Fred Reed
Fools and Fanatics and Bull Feather Merchants
By Jeff Huber
West Planning No-fly Zone to Aid Syrian Rebels
By Bloomberg
Three Years after the Bombs Fell
By Ahmad Barqawi
It's exactly three years ago that 1,417 innocent Palestinians lost their lives in Gaza while the whole world kept silent. And it's three years ago -to the day- that humanity and everything about it was squashed down to invisibility. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30226.htm
States Attempt to Instill 'Work Ethic' by Rolling Back Child Labor Protections
By Michelle Chen
Republican Socialists, Democratic Capitalists
By Ted Rall
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| Hard News
20 Killed in Sunni, Shiite clashes in Yemen: : Twenty gunmen were killed Thursday in clashes between Zaidi Shiite rebels and Sunni Salafist gunmen in northern Yemen, a security official said. http://bit.ly/Aeu7lh
Yemen's rival forces given two-day deadline to demilitarize:
A Yemeni committee of security and military agencies has given rival forces two days to remove military barricades and gunmen from the capital Sana'a as part of an effort to "re-establish security" in the country, reported state news agency SABA Thursday. http://bit.ly/x4Hf8H
14 Pak troopers killed in ambush in Balochistan: Fourteen paramilitary troopers were killed in an ambush by militants in Balochistan, one of the deadliest attacks in the restive province of southwest Pakistan in recent months. The banned Baloch Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attack http://bit.ly/wzCPhY
Murder, Inc:
U.S. Kills Six People In Pakistan: A second drone strike in two days killed six militants in North Waziristan in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border on Thursday. http://natpo.st/yhVmA8
Pakistan: New Price Tags on Stranded NATO Supplies :
At a meeting last week in the eastern city Lahore in the Punjab province, it urged the government to quit the "war on terror" and threatened a countrywide movement against "U.S. terrorism in Pakistan." http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106422
Pakistan's top soldiers in crisis talks: Army chiefs hold discussions behind closed doors, as memo scandal deepens divide between military and civil government. http://bit.ly/x1C1Nc
Situation explosive: PM, allies on trial: At a time when Pakistan economy is in oxygen tent, and domestic situation is filled with divisive tendencies, the latest decision of the prime minister to sack the defence secretary and accuse the army and the ISI chiefs of violating the constitution, has driven the country to a critical and dangerous point. The situation is now explosive http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=134993
Afghan district chief, four others killed in blast: A suicide car-bomber killed five people including a district governor and wounded 10 others near Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said. http://yhoo.it/yTyjD2
Taliban set terms as US pushes for talks: Group says it will step up "political efforts" but not give up armed struggle as US prepares way for Afghan peace talks. http://bit.ly/w7g5vB
Assessing the Afghan war: Guess what? We aren't winning: So, America, remember the Vietnam War? Because the war in Afghanistan just gave me a bad case of deja vu. http://bit.ly/xv2Bgr
Iraq attacks kill five policemen, town mayor:
Gun attacks in Baghdad and predominantly Sunni west Iraq on Wednesday left five policemen and a town mayor dead, security and medical officials said. http://bit.ly/z1Eb30
Marine Says Sergeant Ordered Massacre In Haditha: A Camp Pendleton Marine says his commanding officer ordered bloodshed before his squad killed 24 Iraqis, including women and children, in 2005. http://bit.ly/xlAhau
US troops 'told to lie' about Iraqi killings: A US soldier has told a military jury in California how his commander killed five Iraqi civilians in the western al-Anbar province in 2005 and then asked him to lie about it. http://bit.ly/yXwGUL
Four US suspects nabbed in Baghdad: The US nationals were wearing flak jackets and were armed with pistols -- equipped with silencers -- and automatic weapons when they were arrested in a Shia neighborhood in central Baghdad. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220686.html
Syria: Camera crew captures attack that killed journalist : The French journalist, had been in a government-escorted media group visiting a pro-Assad neighbourhood of the divided city of Homs http://tgr.ph/yyNHWK
Russian weapons ship arrives in Syria - paper: The Russian Foreign Ministry said the ship carried a "dangerous cargo," but did not elaborate. According to the documents, the cargo sender was the Russian state arms trader Rosoboronexport. http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120112/170725460.html
Syria to form new government in early February: A new government to include opposition members will be formed in Syria early next month, the Al-Watan newspaper close to Syrian authorities reported on Thursday. http://en.rian.ru/world/20120112/170724619.html
No proof of nuclear bomb development by Iran - Patrushev:
"All this talk about Iranians being almost a week away from creating a nuclear bomb, we have been hearing it for many years now. The presence of a military aspect in Tehran's nuclear program has never been proved by anyone," Patrushev said in an interview with Interfax. http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=300758
Iran: 'Nuclear assassinations disgrace IAEA': Marandi said all of Iranian scientists who had been targeted by terrorist attacks "have had their names given by the IAEA to third parties." http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220672.html
Iran lacks avenues for condemning hits on scientists;
Iran may be outraged at the killing of another nuclear scientist in broad daylight, but it lacks viable avenues for international condemnation or prosecution of what could be an attempt to sabotage its nuclear program. http://reut.rs/yFrdsD
Iran newspaper calls for retaliation against Israel over killing of nuclear scientist: A column by the chief editor of an influential Iranian paper says Iran should respond in kind to Israel's alleged clandestine war on Iran by assassinating Israeli officers. http://bit.ly/xGNzFN
The Signs Pointing to Israel's Role in the Assassination of an Iranian Nuclear Scientist: When 32-year-old Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was assassinated in a car bomb attack Wednesday, Iran immediately accused Israel of carrying out the attack. At this point, it's increasingly difficult to argue to the contrary. http://bit.ly/yfHu0p
Israel is pushing U.S. toward Iran war, Russian official says: Russia fears Israel will push the United States into a military conflict with Iran which could retaliate by blocking oil shipments from the Gulf, a confidant of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. http://bit.ly/yy7fGh
US aircraft carrier sets course for Gulf: US' "Abraham Lincoln" aircraft carrier with a group of combat ships has set a course for the Persian Gulf, an official with the US' 7th fleet based at the Japanese port of Yokosuka said Wednesday. http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/11/63690602.html
Russia warns EU over Iran oil sanctions: "If the EU follows the Americans and imposes an embargo on purchases of Iranian oil...then the Europeans will suffer first and foremost, and not the US, it has plenty of its own reserves," Secretary of Russia's National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev told Interfax. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220652.html
EU prepares contingency plan for Iran oil sanctions:
EU President Villy Soevndal announced today that the new Libyan regime and Gulf kingdoms are ready to fill shortages in Europe's oil supplies if Brussels imposes an embargo on Iran. http://bit.ly/zCwwMR
Japan joins US, EU in Iranian oil embargo: As the EU finalises sanctions against Iran, Japan has become the latest country to impose measures against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme. After talks with US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner the Japanese finance minister said Tokyo would begin reducing its imports of Iranian oil. http://bit.ly/wuFwPD
Lieberman, Graham warn of a nuclear Iran:
Two Senate defense hawks plan to introduce a resolution opposing any strategy that accepts and tries to contain a nuclear-armed Iran, calling such an approach "a catastrophic mistake." http://politi.co/wN5BER
EU report: Israel policy in West Bank endangers" two-state solution" : Survey by European Heads of Mission in Jerusalem, Ramallah criticizes Israel for the 'forced transfer' Palestinians from Area C, defined by the Oslo Accords as those parts of the West Bank under full Israeli control. http://bit.ly/zgsx5W
Supreme Court upholds ban on Palestinians living with Israeli spouses :
The decision to refuse to allow couples to live together in Israel was initially taken by the government in May 2002. http://bit.ly/xr2LiV
Professor of Hate: Israeli "scholar" urges ethnic cleansing of Bedouins: A prominent Israeli professor at the University of Haifa, Arnon Sofer, is urging the government to act fast to ethnically cleanse Palestinian Bedouins lest Israel be "destroyed" by them. http://bit.ly/xWj5Nd
Nigeria: Boko Haram Defends Killings of Christians:
Alleged Boko Haram Leader, Abubkar Shekau, has posted a video on the Internet declaring that recent attacks on Christians were reprisals for the deaths of Muslims in the northern parts of the country. http://allafrica.com/view/resource/main/main/id/00030324.html
Nigerian oil union issues shutdown deadline: Largest union says it will shut down oil and gas production from Sunday over government's ending of fuel subsidies. http://bit.ly/zKdtMI
US Marine Corps' Africa mission may be growing:
A select group of Marines is quietly battling terrorism across a wide swath of Africa as part of the first wave of what could become a long-term mission for the Corps. http://bit.ly/xk1LgL
Brotherhood dominates Egypt polls: Previously banned Muslim Brotherhood on course to most seats in new parliament. http://bit.ly/zct5fb
Too many victims of the war on terror remain imprisoned across the world: Hamidullah Khan was 13 when he disappeared from Pakistan in 2008. He is still locked up in an Afghan jail http://bit.ly/zQYrEr
UK spies won't face criminal charges for torture: Human Rights Watch found a cache of documents in the abandoned office of Gadhafi's former intelligence chief, Moussa Koussa, after the fall of the regime. Among them was a fax the CIA sent to Koussa in March 2004, which purportedly showed that the agency would support MI6 and Gadhafi in seeking Saadi's rendition. http://bit.ly/Af4iaZ
Gulag USA:
A Decade in the Purgatory Called Guantanamo: Hundreds of protesters, dozens outfitted in orange jumpsuits and black hoods, took to the streets outside the White House on Wednesday to demonstrate against torture and indefinite detention on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106420
Gulag USA:
Guantanamo Bay lawyers to halt written communication: Military attorneys representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will stop communicating in writing with their clients because the commander of the military detention center has authorized officials to review mail coming from detainees' lawyers. http://wapo.st/xmw1w3
Chart of the Day: Greek workers work 48% more hours than Germans:
The conventional narrative about the European debt crisis largely accepts the contention that the periphery of Europe have different work habits and these account to a large extent the economic and financial problems. http://bit.ly/zCWCUY
Greek youngsters abandoned as parents struggle: 4-year-old found clutching note: 'I can't afford her' - Country also running out of medicine - Aspirin stocks low as austerity measures bite http://bit.ly/xfRBMq
White-Collar Workers Join Crowd Straining Food Banks: After losing her job as a consultant for nonprofits, Martha Heassler and her husband, a graphic artist, no longer had money for their daughter's college education, new clothing or groceries. http://bloom.bg/zT5Z0X
"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 : 2,859
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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