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"People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome." - George Orwell
"Every ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it! ...
If America ever does seek Empire, and most nations do, then planned reforms in our domestic life will be abandoned, States Rights will be abolished -- in order to impose a centralized government upon us for the purpose of internal repudiation of freedom, and adventures abroad.
The American Dream will then die -- on battlefields all over the world -- and a nation conceived in liberty will destroy liberty for Americans and impose tyranny on subject nations." - George S. Boutwell - (1818-1905) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury under President Ulysses S. Grant
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Op-Ed Articles
America's 23-Year War
By Anthony Gregory
If nothing else, this war has been effective at one thing: it gives cover for the steady erosion of human rights. Indefinite detention and surveillance -- is there reason to believe any of this will end so long as the U.S. is at war? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31423.htm
US Prepares Multi-front Proxy War Against Syria
By Chris Marsden
The UN is well aware that Washington is pursuing a deliberate policy of destabilisation in Syria in order to justify a war for regime change waged by its allies-above all in Riyadh, Ankara and Doha-with Washington's military support. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31418.htm
An Ongoing Disaster
Libya, Africa and Africom
By Dan Glazebrook
Syria, Yemen, and America's Quest for Imperial Dominance
By Eric Draitser
U.S. Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by Israel
By Gareth Porter
"If you don't talk we'll kill you."
By Mike Riggs
The Power Principle
Documentary About U.S. Foreign Policy
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Thoughts on an attack by a Jewish mob
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Warrantless Spying Fight
By Glenn Greenwald
Ooooh, we're being spied on!
Browbeating Cyclops vs. Rambos
By Linh Dinh
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| Hard News
Suicide Attack Kills 12 In East Yemen: Security officials and tribal leaders say at least 12 people were killed in eastern Yemen when a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a crowd. http://bit.ly/KLTRy8
Suicide bomber kills two "Houthi rebels" in Yemen: A suicide bomber killed two members of a Shi'ite Muslim rebel group in northern Yemen on Friday, a local official said. http://bit.ly/JsLo62
US kills 10 people in Pakistani village mosque;: At least 10 people were killed and several others sustained injuries when unmanned US predator drone targeted a mosque in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan Agency on Thursday. http://bit.ly/JwTibm
32 Britons could be killed in drone strikes, claims lawyer: "I understand that there are 32 people who British intelligence are concerned about and may provide intelligence to the US that could result in them being killed," he said. http://bit.ly/LM92MM
U.S. slashes Pakistan aid over jailing of 'bin Laden doctor': A Senate panel expressed its outrage over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million - $1 million for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high treason. http://bit.ly/Jsz2Lp
Groups Concerned Over Arming Of Domestic Drones: Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in Texas told The Daily that his department is considering using rubber bullets and tear gas on its drone. http://cbsloc.al/LqJ9vB
Explosions kill three in southern Afghanistan: Afghan officials say explosions in three cities of southern Afghanistan have killed three and wounded at least nine others. http://ind.pn/LxLZCn
NATO occupation force solider killed Afghanistan: Kabul (BNA) a NATO soldier was killed in the south of Afghanistan yesterday. The identity of this solider has not clear http://bit.ly/K5dHqP
UN report says Syrian army, rebels deal in death and torture: The Syrian regime and an increasingly organized rebel force are carrying out illegal killings and torturing their opponents http://on.freep.com/KmzEzS
Rebel face control: US 'to screen Syrian opposition for arms supply': Washington is an inch from starting shipping arms to the opposition in Syria, anonymous US officials say. The biggest hitch is that it wants to be sure American guns will be pointed in the right direction and won't end up in the hands of Al Qaeda. http://www.rt.com/news/us-arms-syria-opposition-187/
Syria rebels release Lebanese hostages: The 13 Shiites were taken hostage on Tuesday as they returned from a pilgrimage in Iran. A group of women who were travelling with them had already been released. http://bit.ly/KHBW9O
World powers not prepared to recognize Iran's right to enrich uranium: U.S. official; Head of U.S. delegation headed to Israel to brief Netanyahu, advisers on talks. http://bit.ly/JMzGUo
US negotiator at P5+1-Iran talks visits Israel for 'consultations'"; The senior American negotiator present at the recent talks between the major world powers and Iran in Baghdad has arrived in Tel Aviv for 'consultations.' http://bit.ly/MNbORd
Israelis attack African migrants during protest against refugees: Seventeen arrested after protesters go on 'unbridled rampage' targeting African workers and looting shops serving refugees http://bit.ly/JKTBDi
Video - Welcome to Racist Israel: Video - At a demonstration in south Tel Aviv demanding the immediately expulsion of all non-Jewish African asylum-seekers, a lone Israeli woman who does not agree with the rest of the crowd is shouted down with ferocity and told that she deserves to be raped http://bit.ly/KYFDd7
Libyan Tuaregs Flee to Algeria Amid Reports of Ethnic Cleansing: Sources inside the Libyan city of Ghadames told El-Khabar that the Tuareg tribes have been subjected to ethnic cleansing for the past eight months. The Ghadames tribe, which is backed by forces affiliated with the National Transitional Council, is allegedly carrying out these acts. http://bit.ly/KOPkyr
Were Egypt's first elections really free and fair? The Military Council wrote the rules to get the results that it wanted. The election was not transparent at all, so Shafiq and other non-revolutionary candidates were able to spend a fortune without telling voters where they got the money http://bit.ly/Js33uG
Judge demands Guantanamo videos: A federal judge has ordered the Defense Department to turn over to the court three video recordings showing Guantanamo prisoners being forced out of their cells. http://politi.co/JrB9LU
Propaganda firm owner admits attacks on journalists:
The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of websites used in an attempt to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor. http://usat.ly/KjfyGB
"Infocrafting" or Propaganda Online?: The websites, fake social media accounts and other mischief, such as altering Wikipedia entries, all painted the journalists in a negative light. Some posts suggested that the two were working in cooperation with the Taliban. http://bit.ly/JnjxOG
WikiLeaks case, Bradley Manning seeks dismissal of 10 charges: An Army private charged in a massive leak of U.S. government secrets to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks is seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts he faces. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76718.html
Texas man gets 20 years for trying to contact al Qaeda: Prosecutors said he had been coordinating his plans with a man he thought was a recruiter for AQAP, but who in reality was a confidential source for law enforcement. http://bit.ly/L1wIaW
Canada: Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested As Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day : More than 400,000 filled the streets of Montreal this week as a protest over a 75 percent increase in tuition has grown into a full-blown political crisis. http://bit.ly/MEYWKp
"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 : 3,011
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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