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"O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!" - Madame Jeanne-Marie Roland
- (1754-1793) - Source: November 8, 1793, her last words before being
executed on the guillotine, quoted in Alphonse de Lamartine's Histoire
des Girondins
"Experience
should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the
Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally
alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The
greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of
zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
--
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
- (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
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Julian Assange, Infinite Justice
Barack Obama, his mother, and the CIA
By William Blum
Take Note! When you fuck around with God's country you pay a price!"
What Killed Yasser Arafat?
Tests Hint at Possible Arafat Poisoning
By Al Jazeera
Nine-month investigation by Al Jazeera discovers rare, radioactive polonium on ex-Palestinian leader's final belongings.
Gingrich Speaks At Rally For Iranian 'Terror' Group
Video
Former
Republican presidential candidate and House Speaker Newt Gingrich
expressed his support for the MEK, an Iranian opposition group
considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
How the Israel lobby erodes US sovereignty
By Ahmed Moor
From writing laws to funding presidential campaigns, conservative Israelis have a strong pull on US politics.
How the US Rendered, Tortured and Discarded One Innocent Man
By Clara Gutteridge
Suleiman
joined the growing list of disappeared prisoners held at undisclosed
locations with no access to a lawyer, tracked by a handful of global
NGOs.
The Longest War
Overcoming Lies and Indifference
By Kathy Kelly
We
must think hard about ways to democratize our country, and reverse the
"unwarranted influence" over our society which, half a century ago, a
Republican president was warning us already belonged to the military
industrial complex.
We Must Bury Imperialism in Africa or Perish
By Gerald A. Perreira
There
can be no doubt that one of the gravest enemies of Africa has been the
imposition of European materialist ideologies and political systems -
whether they emanate from right or left.
Some Outrageous Facts about U.S. Inequality
By Paul Buchheit
Studying inequality in America reveals some facts that are truly hard to believe. Amidst all the absurdity a few stand out.
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82 "insurgents" killed in operations in Afghanistan: gov't: Afghan
police and army, backed by NATO-led coalition forces, have killed up
to 82 Taliban insurgents during operations in seven provinces within
the past 24 hours
http://is.gd/djyOAm
Afghan suicide car bomb kills at least seven: A
suicide car bomb attack outside a university in southern Afghanistan on
Monday killed at least seven people and wounded more than 20, officials
said.
http://is.gd/KV7hxS
Ministry of Defence names three soldiers killed by Afghan police: Three
servicemen killed on Sunday 1 July 2012 have been named as Warrant
Officer Class 2 (WO2) Leonard Perran Thomas of The Royal Corps of
Signals.
http://is.gd/OrgcGj
Terror of 'incorruptible' Afghan who turned his gun on British troops: In
a matter of seconds three soldiers lay dead while a fourth was
wounded. Their attacker, an Afghan man in a police uniform, was also
shot but survived and is currently under guard until he can be
questioned.
http://is.gd/iRj3GC
Clinton apologizes to Pakistan for airstrike deaths, says supply lines to re-open: Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton apologized Tuesday for the NATO airstrike
that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last year -- and announced that
Pakistan has in turn agreed to re-open supply lines into Afghanistan
that have been closed since the incident.
http://is.gd/zBGxu0 Musharraf: The U.S. has turned its back on Pakistan - Freeland File - Video - Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf tells Reuters' Op-ed Editor James Ledbetter that the reason for the change in his country's relationship with the U.S. lies in America's deep ties with India. http://is.gd/gw3g5D
36 killed in Iraq ahead of Shiite rituals: A
truck bomb blamed on Al-Qaeda killed 25 people at a crowded market in
central Iraq on Tuesday while attacks elsewhere claimed 11 lives, the
latest victims of a spike in nationwide unrest.
http://is.gd/CjlLKU
US Kills 5 people in Yemen: A US drone killed
five suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the Yemeni province of Shabwah on
Tuesday, when two missiles pulverised the car they were travelling in,
tribal sources said.
http://is.gd/AMjVVd
Syria running torture centre network - rights group: - Syrian
intelligence agencies are running a network of torture centres across
the country where detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned
with acid and sexually assaulted, Human Rights Watch said in a report on
Tuesday.
http://is.gd/JF8Y2Y
Russia accuses West of distorting Geneva Syria accord: - Russia
on Tuesday accused the West of seeking to "distort" the agreement
reached last weekend in Geneva on a plan for a political transition to
end the escalating conflict in Syria.
http://is.gd/c2qUxD
Syria's Assad regrets downing Turkish jet: President tells Cumhuriyet newspaper he would not allow the tensions between the two countries to turn into open combat.
http://is.gd/tk4Ma3
Report: Israeli warplanes attack facility in South Lebanon: Lebanese
TV station LBC says jet fighters targeted device near town of Zrariye;
incident represents rare disturbance along the border, which had
remained mostly quiet since 2006 war.
http://is.gd/48XPmk
Iran marks 24th anniversary of downing of Flight 655: The
U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air
Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988, killing all 290
passengers and crew members, including 66 children.
http://is.gd/5TqDuc
U.S. Homeland Security allocates $9.7 million to Jewish nonprofits: Organizations
and facilities considered vulnerable to terrorist attacks to receive
funding as part of grant program's seventh allocation.
http://is.gd/2kgxp3
US Army admits to investigating Bradley Manning supporters: The
US Army has confirmed that they are investigating the Bradley Manning
Support Network, an international activism group that advocates on
behalf of the imprisoned accused whistleblower.
http://rt.com/usa/news/army-bradley-manning-accused-227/
Twitter says US government requests keep rising: More requests for user information in the first half of 2012 than in the entirety of 2011, predominantly from US.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/07/20127371613243748.html
Pena Nieto set to become Mexico's president: Candidate from PRI party takes lead, while Leftist candidate Lopez Obrador threatens to challenge the outcome.
http://is.gd/3ofVUZ
For Mexicans, It Was the Economy, Stupid: Income
per person in Mexico has grown by just 0.9 percent annually. This is
terrible for a developing country, and less than half the rate of
growth of the Latin American region during this period - which was
itself not stellar. If we just look at per capita growth since the last
election, in 2006, Mexico finishes dead last of all the countries in
Latin America.
http://is.gd/JKsuTf George Monbiot: We were wrong on peak oil. There's enough to fry us all: A boom in oil production has made a mockery of our predictions. Good news for capitalists - but a disaster for humanity http://is.gd/v73fAi
Economists: Austerity looms large for France: According
to a report by France's national audit office on Monday, Paris needs
to come up with EUR 33 billion (USD 42 billion) in savings next year to
meet its European deficit goal of three percent of gross domestic
product.
http://is.gd/PdjWNJ
The European Financial Transactions Tax: Robin Hood or Sheriff of Nottingham?: Germany,
France, Italy, and Spain take time out from acute crisis talks to
agree on a long term policy solution: taxing financial transactions.
http://is.gd/5E5FbJ As long as the rich can speculate on food, the world's poor go hungry: To overcome poverty we have to overcome the causes of poverty, and the big causes of poverty today are untouched by aid. Poor countries are still forced to pay off unpayable debts. The global poor are facing ever-higher food prices, driven by speculation. And climate change is already destroying lands and livelihoods. http://is.gd/JSjC3q
"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 : 3,071
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,348,611,117,463
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