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"Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials." - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death:
"When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility." - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
"Give the people a choice between freedom and sandwiches, and they'll take the sandwiches," - Lord Boyd Orr
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Op-Ed Articles
"Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections in November"
By Michael Carmichael
Netanyahu's agenda is much broader than knocking out Iranian nuclear installations for his aim is to reshape the political landscape in the USA and Israel shifting everything to the far, far right in order to create a new comfort zone for religious fundamentalists. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31695.htm
US and Israel to Hold Largest Ever Joint Military Exercise
By Aaron Kalman
Eyeballing Iran? US Commissions 361 Cruise Missiles
By Yitzhak Benhorin
Romney to Jewish Donors: 'I Get Israeli Briefings'
By RON KAMPEAS
Regime-Changers' Report Card
By Justin Raimondo
The policy is a reenactment of the strategy deployed against the former Soviet Union. The idea is to smash up the nation-states in the region - whether it be in the central Asian former Soviet republics, or in the Middle East - splitting them into ever-smaller and more manageable pieces. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31703.htm
A Cruel and Unusual Record
By Jimmy Carter
Collapsing U.S. Credibility
By Glenn Greenwald
Asperity, Austerity, and Control
Huxley, Orwell, and 1984
Must Read - By The Geogre
5 Reasons America Is Not -- And Has Never Been -- a Christian Nation
By Rob Boston
Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way
By Richard Wolff
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| Hard News
Fact or fiction?
Syrian forces 'fire at second Turkish plane': Turkey says Syrian forces fired towards a Turkish military transport plane involved in a search for an F-4 reconnaissance jet shot down by Syria last week, but didn't bring it down. http://is.gd/RXRWHW
Syria warns NATO against action over Turkish plane: - Syria described its shooting down of a Turkish warplane as an act of self-defence and warned Turkey and its NATO allies against any retaliatory measures. http://is.gd/bIKmfS
US to help Turkey hold Syria 'accountable': - The United States said on Monday it would work with NATO ally Turkey to hold Syria accountable for what U.S. officials believe was a deliberate act of shooting down a Turkish fighter jet. http://is.gd/ldKVAi
Russia Reflags Syria Arms Ship: Femco said that was necessary "in order to protect its interests, the security of the ship and its crew, all of whom are Russian citizens." Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday the MV Alaed carried overhauled disassembled helicopters to Syria, not gunships, as claimed by Western media http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20120625/174236904.html
Russia plans to keep Syrian base - Navy Chief:
"We need this base, it is functioning and it will keep on functioning further," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Vice Admiral Viktor Chirkov as saying. The admiral added that Russia needed the base to supply its navy ships on combat duty in the Mediterranean Sea, the Bay of Aden and in the Indian Ocean. http://rt.com/politics/russia-plans-syrian-base-670/
Turkey admits downed plane had strayed into Syrian airspace: Turkish President Abdullah Gul said the Turkish incursion into Syrian air space was not deliberate. "It is routine for jet fighters to sometimes fly in and out over borders," he said. "These are not ill-intentioned things, but happen beyond control due to the jets' speed." http://is.gd/ddlv8x
US deploys 4 minesweepers to Iranian Hormuz oil shipping lane : Video Report: Four US minesweepers have arrived in the Persian Gulf - the vital shipping route for the global economy. It comes after an Iranian military chief said the Islamic State might try to block the Strait of Hormuz to defend its interests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR5lhaEPRsY
Egypt's Mursi keen to renew long-severed Iran ties:
Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi voiced interest in restoring long-severed ties with Tehran to create a strategic "balance" in the region, in an interview published on Monday with Iran's Fars news agency. http://is.gd/xzmuy0
Egypt rejects report of Morsi comments about Iran ties: Fars News Agency had earlier quoted Morsi as saying that Egypt is eager to normalize its economic and political relations with Iran on the basis of common interests. - The Egyptian presidential office has now dismissed the report. http://is.gd/H9ZYaM
In case you missed it:
Mohammed Morsi: Brotherhood's backroom operator in the limelight: Morsi, 60, is an engineer who has taught in the US as well as at Egyptian universities. An expert on precision metal surfaces, he worked at Nasa on the development of space shuttle engines in the early 1980s. http://is.gd/9QiIi3
Iran will invite Saudi King Abdullah to NAM summit: "The Islamic Republic of Iran will extend [President] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's invitation to the Saudi King to participate in the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran," Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told IRNA on Monday. http://is.gd/svYZWm
Libya ex-PM Mahmoudi extradition from Tunisia 'illegal':
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has said that his country's extradition of Libya's former Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi was "illegal". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18574742
Paraguay's Lugo forms 'parallel cabinet': Fernando Lugo, the deposed Paraguayan president, says he is aiming to return to power, rallying allies at home and abroad to force congress to reverse a vote to remove him that he called a break with democracy. http://is.gd/yWko5V
WikiLeaks founder wants guarantee he won't be sent to US: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Monday called for diplomatic guarantees he will not be pursued by the United States for publishing secret documents if he goes to Sweden to face criminal allegations. http://is.gd/fNKhnI
Bradley Manning lawyers accuse prosecutors of misleading judge: In a motion ahead of Monday's pre-trial hearing, civilian lawyer says prosecutors are still denying defence access to documents. http://is.gd/mfxm5c
The Power of One: It takes a lot of guts to stand up against a foreign government and the might of the US military. Ten years ago, she was raped in Japan by an American sailor. Neither the local police nor the US navy did anything to help. http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8487894
Supreme Court upholds controversial AZ immigration law:
The court decided that one highly contentious part of the law could go forward - a provision requiring police to check the status of someone they suspect is in the United States illegally. http://rt.com/usa/news/supreme-court-immigration-law-689/
Spain requests €100 billion Euro loan to prevent financial meltdown: Spain formally requested a rescue loan of up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) from its eurozone partners in a letter released Monday. http://is.gd/ZdFPEU
28% of Americans have no emergency savings:
About 49% of Americans don't even have enough money saved to cover three months of expenses -- slightly worse than the 46% of Americans who reported having less than three months worth of savings last year. More than one-in-four don't even have a single penny saved. http://is.gd/IUV2Qy
Genetically Modified Grass Kills Cattle By Producing Warfare Chemical Cyanide: Shockingly (and quite disturbingly), the GM grass actually produced toxic cyanide and sent the cattle into a life-ending fit that included painful bellowing and convulsions. The deaths have led to a federal investigation centered in Central Texas, where the cattle had resided. http://is.gd/uSPxnr
"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 : 3,062
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,343,651,098,042
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