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"The
crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious,
remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You
have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical
manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for
universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of
hypnosis." - Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Lecture
"The
real battle for Americans today is a battle to reassert our
independence from an overbearing and unsustainable state. Today, we can
all celebrate that there are fundamental cracks in the federal state's
veneer, and we can be grateful for the options we still have in our own
lives to live free, to practice charity and faith, creativity and
productivity and to rediscover our own power as individuals and
communities." -- Karen Kwiatkowski - (1960-) retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel
"Liberty has never come from Government. It is always come from the subjects of Government. The history of Liberty is the history of resistance." Woodrow Wilson |
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"Our
society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're
being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put
away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." - John Lennon
"The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological "atmosphere" or "climate" favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others." - Arthur Balfour "When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." - Dresden James "Chief among the spoils of victory is the privilege of writing the history." - Mark Alexander |
| June 01 / 02, 2012 |
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Op-Ed Articles
Report: Obama Ordered Secret Attacks On Iran's Nuclear Program
By Haaretz
Stuxnet worm was part of joint U.S.-Israel effort to sabotage computers that control Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities.
Iran Nuclear Irony Lost On The West
By Jamal Kanj
The five-plus-one should be guided by reason, not by Israel's irrational paranoia.
Unending Wars against Mankind: Afghanistan and Iraq
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD
Wars
are planned and orchestrated by the few, the privileged ruling elite;
humanity becomes the targeted victims of the few for global hegemonic
governance.
When You Hear About Massacres, Reach For Your Truth Detector
By Danny Schechter
When is a massacre a massacre, and how can we find truth in the fog of intense war propaganda?
"Might Makes Right" Says Conspirator of Syrian-Iranian Conquest
By Tony Cartalucci
2005 interview profiles psychology of those behind the Houla Massacre.
Zionism A Rebellion Against Judaism
By Uri Avnery
When
Theodor Herzl raised his flag, almost all East European Jews were
still living in a ghetto-like Orthodox atmosphere, ruled by the rabbis.
Will Americans Speak Out Against Obama's Drone Warfare?
By Medea Benjamin
While
purporting to represent the world's greatest democracy, US leaders are
putting people on a hit list who are as young as 17, people who are
given no chance to surrender, and certainly no chance to be tried in a
court of law.
Hope Burning
By Robert Scheer
A
steely warrior who, according to a lengthy leaked insider account in
The New York Times, hurls death-dealing drones at anyone who threatens
the good old USA. Including children.
Obama At Large: Where Are The Lawyers?
By Ralph Nader
The rule of law is rapidly breaking down at the top levels of our government.
WikiLeaks, War Crimes and the Pinochet Principle
By Amy Goodman
"This week's developments bear crucially on the public's right to know, and why whistle-blowers must be protected."
Coming: Even more FBI Warrantless Searches?
By Nat Hentoff
Wow!
Have presidential rivals Obama and Mitt Romney said a word about this?
Don't they care when the Constitution is being ravaged? Will this come
up in any of their debates or in press interviews during the campaign?
"Democracy" For Sale
Conservative Groups Plan to Spend $1 Billion to Retake the White House
By Suzanne Merkelson
The
$1 billion total surpasses the $750 million that Barack Obama, one of
the most prolific fundraisers ever, collected for his 2008 campaign.
America's Corporate Immigrant Detention Racket
By Sadhbh Walshe
Who
benefits from immigrants awaiting hearings being locked up in worse
conditions than criminal convicts? Only private prisons.
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| Hard News
Violence in Iraq kills 18 : Bombs targeted a
crowded Baghdad restaurant and a police patrol Thursday, among attacks
that killed at least 18 people and wounded 53 in Iraq's bloodiest day
in more than a month
http://is.gd/0uXQl1
Countdown to al-Maliki no confidence vote has begun - Iraqiya spokesperson: "The
political blocs expect al-Maliki to resign before the beginning of the
process to withdraw confidence from him in the Iraqi Council of
Representatives, which is set to begin in the next few days."
http://is.gd/NkSHpp
Saudi Arabia's oil war plan hinted: Saudi Arabia
and its Sunni allies may right now be boosting oil production, aiming
to plunge the market price to as low as US$60 per barrel. The ultimate
goal is to cripple the economies of Shiite Iran and Iraq, an insider
view suggests.
http://www.rt.com/news/saudi-arabia-oil-plot-754/
Attack on US base kills 14 in Afghanistan: NATO: A
suicide truck bomber attacked a US-run base on Friday, sparking
clashes that killed up to 14 people in eastern Afghanistan near the
Pakistani border, officials said.
http://is.gd/BCjBq6
Pakistan military denies return of US trainers: The
Pakistani military on Thursday denied claims by US officials that a
group of American trainers had returned to the country several months
after their departure following a deadly NATO air strike that had
killed 24 soldiers.
http://is.gd/uJUmmW
U.S. kills 11 in south Yemen: Residents said the
men, who were thought to have included some foreigners, were inside a
house in the town of al-Mahfad in Abyan province in south Yemen
http://is.gd/h2mo5G
As violence rises, US and allies "pulled" into Yemen: U.S.
policymakers might talk down "boots on the ground" in Yemen but with
an estimated several hundred military advisers already deployed,
Washington and its allies are already being drawn ever deeper into the
country.
http://is.gd/6rwW48
Starving and broke: Yemen: Wracked by internal strife, Yemen is on the edge of collapse while US meddling isn't helping,
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1100/op2.htm
Syria: Armed groups carried out Houla massacre: "It
appears that all the victims came from peaceful families who refused
to rise up against the government or take up arms, but had rows with
armed groups," the general stated, adding that facts and evidence
showed the victims had been killed at close range.
http://www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=122140
'Negotiated solution' can end Syria crisis: Putin: "This
is what we talked about with the German chancellor, to find a
political solution to these problems. Can it be done or not? On the
whole, I believe it is possible," Putin said.
http://is.gd/IGjG7h
Russia not supplying arms for Syria civil war-Putin: "We
have a good, long-standing relationship with Syria, but we do not
support any side from which the threat of a civil war may emerge," Putin
told a joint news conference with Merkel. "As for supplying weapons,
Russia does not provide weapons that could be used in a civil
conflict," he added.
http://is.gd/MYWHdb
Syrian group claims kidnap of Shia pilgrims: A
previously unknown armed group calling itself the "Syrian
Revolutionaries - Aleppo Province" claims to have kidnapped a group of
Lebanese Shia pilgrims in exchange for an apology from Hezbollah leader
Hassan Nasrallah.
http://is.gd/jKx1bU
Israeli soldier, Palestiniann killed in border clash: A
Palestinian resistance fighter "broke into Israel" on Friday and
killed a soldier before being shot dead himself in a rare cross-border
attack that Israel blamed on the Islamist group Hamas.
http://is.gd/1nmZit
Israeli MP: Send human rights activists to prison camps: "All
human rights activists should be imprisoned and transported to camps
we are building," she said, referring to detention facilities Israel is
constructing in which African immigrants will be held.
http://is.gd/K3trij
Egypt court to deliver Mubarak trial verdict on Saturday:
If convicted, the 84-year-old former ruler could face the death penalty. http://is.gd/zHugEd
Study: 13% of deployed Marines consider suicide: More
than one in 10 Marines who deployed overseas reported having suicidal
thoughts or plans to attempt suicide, according to a study looking at
suicidal predictors.
http://is.gd/8j9wdQ
Once-Censored WWII Documentary Shatters Cliches: The
Army was so frightened that the film would hurt recruitment that when
Huston tried to screen it for his friends at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York City, a couple of military police came and seized
http://is.gd/Zkw1gb
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gains ground in Mexico polls: Lopez
Obrador has the support of 34 percent of likely voters, putting him
only four points behind the political race's front-runner.
http://is.gd/lsZ4wk
Spanish minister says future of euro at risk: Spain
saw its bond yields shoot up again after the country's economy
minister said that the future of the euro would be determined in the
next few weeks and would depend on the stability of Spain and Italy.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/06/20126103529525895.html
Irish voters back EU fiscal pact: official results: The
EU has been spared a headache thanks to the ratification of the treaty
-- which would enforce stricter budgetary discipline in countries that
sign up -- as a "no" vote could have fuelled a growing backlash against
austerity in Europe.
http://is.gd/wDeDEf
Paul Krugman: The Austerity Agenda: Slashing spending while the economy is deeply depressed is a self-defeating strategy, because it just deepens the depression.
http://is.gd/Bx30ZG
U.S. Unemployment rises to 8.2% in May: The unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent in May as only 69,000 jobs were created.
http://is.gd/ve05zl
"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 : 3,024
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 |
