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cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law,
and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers (at trial) is
in the highest degree odious, and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist" - Future of Freedom Foundation - fff.org
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| May 05/06, 2012 |
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Op-Ed Articles
Syria: The West's Greatest Fear
By Dan Glazebrook
The
strategy was simple, clear, tried and tested. It had been used
successfully not only against Libya, but also Kosovo (in 1999), and was
rapidly underway in Syria.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31253.htm
Putsch Against War
By Uri Avnery
Israeli generals and secret police chiefs get together for an attack on the politicians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31251.htm
A Decade of War-for What?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
the
Taliban have shown themselves willing to persist against huge odds, to
fight and die in considerable numbers for the kind of country they
wish to live in-and the kind of regime they wish to live under. Our
allies have not remotely matched their zeal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31247.htm
The Fraud of "Humanitarian Wars"
By Glenn Greenwald
All wars, even the most unjustifiably aggressive, are wrapped in the same pretty rhetorical packaging. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31246.htm
Disinformation On Every Front
By Paul Craig Roberts
It is interesting that it is only presidents who work to reduce conflict who become targets for assassination.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31257.htm
The President's Private War
'What monstrous nonsense all this is'
By Andrew Napolitano
Who
will keep us safe from a president who wants to use drones here? How
long will it be before local American governments - 313 of which
already possess drones - use them to kill here because they are surgical
and a substitute for due process?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31254.htm
40 Years after Kent State:
The Shredding of Constitutional Liberty Still Goes On
By Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn
The permanent wars carried out by the US military and its Nato spawn bring home their own violence and tragedy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31249.htm
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
This Is Happening In America?
By Nat Hentoff
Where
are the Sons of Liberty, the Committees of Correspondence and the
insistently courageous city councils now, when they are crucially
needed to bring back the Bill of Rights that protect every American
against government tyranny worse than King George III's? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31245.htm
The Constitution and Internment Camps Due Process and the Japanese-American Internment
8 Minute Video
Tens
of thousands of American citizens had their citizenship suspended,
including women and children against whom there was no evidence for the
"enemy alien" designation, were held in U.S. internment camps for
years. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31244.htm
Can Americans be Sent to Propaganda Prisons?
Army manual for re-education camps applies to US citizens
By RT
The
recently unearthed military manual, FM 3-39.40 Internment and
Resettlement Operations, - establishes blueprints for putting the
country's own citizens into guarded Army detainment centers. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31252.htm
Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity
By Paul Krugman
0ur
political dysfunction is largely because of the transformation of the
Republican Party into an extremist force that is "dismissive of the
legitimacy of its political opposition."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31248.htm
Adieu Sarkozy?
By Alain Gresh
What did the first round of voting on 22 April tell us about the French presidential election?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31250.htm
Off With King Sarko's Head
By Pepe Escobar
Why?
Hubris. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, aka neo-Napoleonic King
Sarko, former king of bling bling, "Chouchou" to [Italian] First Lady
Carla Bruni, may be his own worst enemy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31255.htm
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33 killed in Afghan attacks: Five
policemen were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, and
28 Taliban fighters were killed in separate military operations,
officials said on Saturday. http://bit.ly/JCtYy1
2 NATO occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan: NATO
said the two were killed in the country's south, but the coalition's
statement did not provide details about the attack or the nationality
of the service members killed. http://bit.ly/KvjzY8
Wife sees GI slain amid Afghan video chat; The
Texas-based wife of an Army officer serving in Afghanistan witnessed
her husband's death as the two video-chatted via Skype, his family said
yesterday. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/6867077/
20 killed in Pakistan market bombing : Five
of the dead in the blast in the Bajur tribal area were local members
of the security forces, including one who had received an award for
bravery in fighting Islamist militants, government administrator Abdul
Haseeb said. http://bit.ly/Kzo81U
U.S. Kills Ten People In NW Pakistan: At
least 10 people were killed and one was injured in a U.S. drone strike
early Saturday morning in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North
Waziristan, reported local Urdu TV channel Express. http://en.trend.az/regions/world/ocountries/2022435.html
John Brennan: Tell the Whole Truth About Drone Strikes: Sign
our petition demanding that White House counterterrorism adviser John
Brennan tell the American people the whole truth about CIA drone
strikes. http://bit.ly/IKQp4u
Pakistan, a failed country: US Congressman tells Gilani: "It
is becoming increasingly clear to Members of the US Congress that
Pakistan is a failed state and no amount of US aid money will ever
change that," Mr Rohrabacher wrote in a letter to Gilani. http://bit.ly/Ja2ep2
13 Killed, Dozens Hurt in Dagestan Bombings:
Twin suicide car bombs killed at least 13 people and wounded just over 100 more in the Dagestani capital Makhachkala late Thursday, in what police are calling a terrorist attack. http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=35584
Russia names brother and sister as Dagestan suicide bombers: MOSCOW
- A brother and sister are believed to have carried out dual suicide
bombings in Russia's Dagestan that killed at least 13 people and
injured more than a hundred, the regional president said Saturday. http://bit.ly/KvkDvo
12 "Qaeda" men killed in Yemen: - Pro-government
gunmen fighting Qaeda alongside the Yemeni army have killed 12
"suspected militants" as jihadists attacked the southern town of Loder,
one of the fighters said on Friday. http://bit.ly/J7MQ9r
Airstrikes kill 5 militants in Yemen: Military
officials say Yemeni airstrikes killed five militants in the south,
underlining a promise by the country's new president to intensify the
battle against al-Qaida militants. http://bit.ly/IQbdrc
8 killed in separate attacks in northeast Nigeria : Separate
attacks in northeast Nigeria targeting a village and a wedding party
killed at least eight people Saturday in a region that remains under
near-daily assault by a radical Islamist sect, authorities said. http://wapo.st/ILAPfh
Rival Sudans agree to AU roadmap: The two countries have until next Tuesday to restart stalled negotiations and three months to reach an agreement. http://aje.me/JGkAOm
Sahel region faces malnutrition crisis: UN says one million children at risk of dying of hunger in parts of Africa's Sahel region amid drought and unrest. http://aje.me/ILSNx2
Syria: Bombs kill at least 5 people activists say : An
explosion in a car wash in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed
at least five people on Saturday, activists said, while another blast in
the capital destroyed nine cars. http://wapo.st/J6qZ2e
Two bombs explode on Damascus highway: residents: Two
bombs detonated on a central Damascus highway on Saturday, destroying
nine cars, residents said, in a further sign that rebels fighting to
topple President Bashar Assad are shifting tactics towards homemade
explosives. http://bit.ly/IPgyT8
Annan plan for Syria "on track," spokesman says: A
peace plan for Syria brokered by international mediator Kofi Annan is
on track despite reports of violations of the cease-fire, Annan's
spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said on Friday. http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article624884.ece
Young Syrians urging renewed focus on peaceful protests, not armed revolt, to topple regime: The
woman wearing a blood-red dress stood in the middle of a busy
intersection outside Syria's parliament holding up a red banner: "Stop
the killing, we want to build a homeland for all Syrians." Drivers
tooted their horns and supporters clapped. http://world.topnewstoday.org/world/article/2169040/
Policeman Killed as 300 detained in Egypt following clashes outside Defence Ministry: The official said at least two of the detainees are also facing charges of killing one soldier during the clashes. http://bit.ly/IV0WNm
10 Palestinian hunger strikers transferred to Israeli hospitals: Hamas threatens retaliation if any prisoners die. http://bit.ly/L9LMGY
Rationalizing ethnic cleansing:
'Let go of two-state solution insanity' - says Illinois congressman who supports transfer: Those Palestinians who wish to may leave their Fatah- and Hamas-created slums and move to the original Palestinian state: Jordan. http://bit.ly/KtRjVT
Thousands in Jordan call for end of peace treaty with Israel: Thousands
of Jordanians took to the streets on Friday demanding an end to the
country's 18-year-old Wadi Araba peace treaty with Israel http://bit.ly/IK9etN
Palestinian on hunger strike must leave bed to see lawyer, Israel Prison Service says: Human
rights groups demand hunger striking prisoners be allowed to see their
attorneys, say that if matter isn't resolved immediately they will
appeal to the High Court. http://bit.ly/IG5KGe
Manipulating American Zionists?
Israel's atomic arsenal could fall victim to a new U.S. nuclear policy: Senior Haaretz analyst Amir Oren says that if Obama wins in November, he will likely push for dramatic new reductions in nuclear arsenals; in addition to the U.S. and Russia, Israel may also have to give up some of the nuclear warheads it reportedly holds. http://bit.ly/JYD0eu
Science advisory group doubts European missile shield can protect United States from attack: The
academy says the plans would protect Europe effectively, some
lawmakers already are asking why the U.S., at a time of tight budgets,
should spend billions of dollars on a system that provides limited
homeland defense. http://wapo.st/KaDH2K
Egypt junta imposes new curfew in Cairo: - A
new curfew has been imposed in the Abbasiya district of Cairo to
contain protests. The military junta in power in Egypt has imposed the
curfew from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. http://bit.ly/ILXuH7
Leader in eastern Libya urges election boycott in region,: Eastern
leaders say nothing has changed since the toppling of Gadhafi's rule.
"We don't want to be part of the national congress. It's just another
form of marginalization by the West," al-Zubair said. http://wapo.st/JjaujY
Libya's rebel leader with a past: Abdel Hakim Belhadj, a returned jihadist from Afghanistan, heads the Tripoli Military Council. Can he be a stabilising force? http://mondediplo.com/2012/05/08libya
Show trial:
Guantanamo Judge Grapples With Disruptive Terror Suspects: The Sept. 11, 2001, conspiracy case began at Guantanamo Bay Saturday as a battle of wills between a military judge and the five defendants, who ignored most of the morning proceedings while their lawyers repeatedly challenged as unfair the military commission set up to try them. http://on.wsj.com/J4ORoC
Leaders fall in Europe crisis: Is Nicolas Sarkozy next?: French
President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to be kicked out of
office in elections Sunday. If he goes, he'll be in good company: Just
about every European country that has been hit by the debt crisis, and
held elections since it began, have thrown out their leaders. http://bit.ly/KAacVe
So, Boris Johnson remains mayor - and it's not all Ken Livingstone's fault: It
was nail-bitingly close but, despite his terrible record, Johnson won.
Who's to blame for this triumph of image over substance? http://bit.ly/KnYjr1
What the UK elections mean for Europe: The
coalition government in Downing Street was the clear loser in the
local elections, but the biggest headache for David Cameron is not the
expected re-election of Boris Johnson as London Mayor - a challenger for
the Premiership, but the seemingly good showing of the UK Independence
Party. http://www.neurope.eu/article/what-uk-elections-mean-europe
Argentina's Model, an Alternative to Austerity:
Argentina's record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports http://bit.ly/L8clfA
Social Security Is Not Going Broke:
Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty? Why, Social Security, of course, which ended 2011 with a $2.7 trillion surplus http://reut.rs/J1wDUV
"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: 4,807
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,990
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 |
