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"Technology
will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for
conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security
forces need be appraised" - Zbigniew Brzezinski
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey -, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
"It
also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the
people around us are of what is really happening to them." -Adolph Hitler
"We
live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general
public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy
flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its
secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."-Katherine Graham
"Claim everything, explain nothing, deny everything" -Senator Prescott Bush - 1966 interview for Columbia University's oral history project on the Eisenhower administration.
"The only choice you have is whether you're in this fight, or victim of it. "
- Bill Noxid
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Manufactured Realities
The Truth About The Arab Spring, Occupy Movement And Anonymous
By Bill Noxid
Once set in motion this elaborate
plan to gain the support of people worldwide was intended to grow
organically through appealing to and manipulating the genuine and
humanitarian desires and instincts of the people, while using them as
cover for their true intentions.
Iran Can Sue US And Israel Over Threats
By ICH
Professor Francis A. Boyle has made a
proposal to the Government of Iran that it sue the United States, the
United Kingdom, France, Israel and other European States over the
current crisis in the Persian Gulf that creates an imminent threat of
igniting World War III.
EU Embargoes Iran over the Nuke Issue
By Akbar E. Torbat
The US has exaggerated the danger of Iran's nuclear program to the point that no one with common sense can believe it.
Netanyahu to Obama: When We Say "Jump" You Answer, "How High"?
By Franklin Lamb
Presidential candidate Barack Obama
is being targeted by the US Israel lobby from A to Z, (Ackerman, Gary
& Aipac to Zuckerman, Mort & the Zionist Organization of
America) as no American President seeking re-election has been in the
country's 236 year history.
Watch: What killed Arafat?
Death by Polonium?
By Al Jazeera
A nine-month Al Jazeera
investigation into the mysterious death of the late Palestinian leader,
Yasir Arafat, reveals that he may have been poisoned.
Overcoming The Conspiracy Against Palestine
By Ali Abunimah
"Be certain that Yasser Arafat's
final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not
yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of
President Bush, I will give my life to keep." Those words were written
by the Fatah warlord Mohammed Dahlan.
McChrystal: Time To Bring Back The Draft
By Josh Rogin
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former
top commander of international forces in Afghanistan, said this week
that the United States should bring back the draft if it ever goes to
war again.
President Bush Should be Criminally Investigated for Torture'
Video And Transcript
Philippe Sands is a Professor of Law
at University College, London. Sands explores the legality and
ramifications of the US program of state-sponsored torture behind
closed doors at Guantanamo Bay.
Libor: The Crime of the Century
By Robert Scheer
Forget Bernie Madoff and Enron's Ken
Lay-they were mere amateurs in financial crime. - Modern international
bankers form a class of thieves the likes of which the world has never
before seen.
GlaxoSmithKline Fined for Selling Dodgy Drugs to Children
By Reuters
GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay
$3bn to settle what government officials describe as the largest case
of healthcare fraud in US history.
The Voting Dilemma
By Lawrence Davidson
The level of disappointment with
Barack Obama among progressives is palpable. He has carried on his
predecessor's attack on civil liberties, bailed out the banks instead
of jailing the bankers, failed to fight for a public option to
healthcare, kowtowed to the Zionists, and used drones to kill (mostly)
civilians.
Beyond Misery in America
By Charles P. Pierce
I'm Mitt Romney, bitches, and I'm all you got left.
U.S. Helicopter Blasts Afghan Man to Pieces...
As The Pilot Sings 'Bye, Bye Miss American Pie'
Video
It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile.
In Case You Missed It
The New American Century
Video Documentary
"In the White House, they weren't thinking of 9/11 as an attack, but as a gift!" - Robert Steele, former CIA agent.
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22 militants, 5 Afghan police killed in Taliban massive attack: "An
unknown number of Taliban militants launched an attack on police
checkpoints in Regi area of Musa Qala district at around 3 a.m. local
time Sunday and the clashes lasted for four hours, leaving five
policemen and 22 militants dead,"
http://is.gd/lwkrdD
6 NATO occupation force troops killed in roadside bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan: The
deaths take the number of NATO troops killed in the last two days to
eight, one of the deadliest periods of violence for foreign troops in
weeks.
http://is.gd/qYCqQ8
US kills 24 in Pakistan's Wazristan tribal region: Although
Pakistan's foreign office stated earlier this week that drone strikes
were counter-productive and were a violation of the country's
sovereignty, the US has rejected calls to stop the attacks.
http://is.gd/PnGMTA
People need to know identities of those killed in drone strikes: Imran: Chairman
Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf Imran Khan has strongly condemned US drone
strike in N Waziristan which killed 24 people. Imran Khan stated that
the latest drone attack speaks volumes about the so called "close
working partnership" between Pakistan and the United States in the
ongoing war.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=163850
Pakistani party alliance urges mass participation in anti-NATO march: An
alliance of dozens of religio- political parties on Saturday appealed
to the masses to participate in a long-march against the government's
decision to restore supply line for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-07/07/c_123384014.htm
14 killed as vehicle hits landmine in southwest Pakistan:
Fourteen people were killed and seven others injured when a vehicle hit a landmine in a remote area of Balochistan province in southwest Pakistan today, officials said. http://is.gd/at3FiQ
At least 11 killed in Syria, "says opposition": At
least 11 people, including a "rebel fighter", were killed Sunday in
Syria, reported the opposition, days before the United Nations starts
discussing the situation in the troubled country, dpa reported.
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/2044773.html#popupInfo
After admitting to failed peace plan, Kofi Annan arrives in Damascus: Kofi
Annan arrived in Damascus on Sunday evening for talks with President
Bashar al-Assad, his spokesman said, a day after the international
peace envoy admitted that his peace plan had so far failed to end 16
months of bloodshed.
http://is.gd/W1WUMd
Syria's Assad says Annan peace plan must not fail: Bashar
al-Assad said U.N. envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan - was being hindered
by countries including Turkey and Saudi Arabia providing support for
"terrorists". "We know that (Annan) is coming up against countless
obstacles but his plan should not be allowed to fail, it is a very good
plan," Assad told German television
http://is.gd/SFq5ij
Iran, Russia emphasize need to implement Annan plan in Syria: Both
sides also called on foreign players to avoid adopting unilateral
measures against Syria and emphasized the need for respecting Damascus
sovereignty as well as the Syrian people's viewpoints in determining
their fate.
http://is.gd/cpaXcq
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria:
Turkey signals resort to UN action over Syria crisis: Turkey has started to build a case for stronger UN involvement in quelling the violence in Syria within the framework of Article 39 of Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which envisages the use of force or the threat to use force in the case of a breach of peace or act of aggression.channel Das Erste in an interview. http://is.gd/JzD8aA
Assad military conducts large-scale exercises as fighting spills into Lebanon: Assad's
military began large-scale exercises simulating defense against
outside "aggression," the state-run news agency said Sunday -- an
apparent warning to other countries not to intervene in the Syrian
crisis.
http://is.gd/OOQz39
Iran warns against 'catastrophic' attack on Syria: "Iran
supports Assad's reform plans and the talk about forcing him to go
into exile is a joke," Hossein Amir Abdollahian told reporters in Amman,
where he invited King Abdullah II to attend an August summit of
Non-Aligned Movement.
http://is.gd/YlljDi
US sends reinforcements to Gulf amid Iran tensions: A
US navy ship that had been slated for decommissioning has been sent
instead to the Gulf to help mine-clearing operations, the US Fifth
Fleet based in Bahrain said, the latest move in a gradual US build-up
as tensions with Iran smoulder.
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=276589
Russian official urges Moscow to deliver S-300 air defense missiles to Iran:
Chairman of the Russian Defense Ministry's Public Council Igor Korotchenko has called on Moscow to fulfill its contractual obligations to Tehran and deliver S-300 air defense missiles to Iran, MNA reported. http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/2044746.html
Iran will never stop enrichment: MP: An Iranian lawmaker says Iran will never accept complete halt to enrichment activities.
http://is.gd/Apkp5T
Iran plans to sell oil via private group, evade ban: - Iran
has reached agreements with European refiners to sell some of its oil
through a private consortium, an official said on Saturday, a move
designed to circumvent sanctions intended to put pressure on Tehran to
halt its disputed nuclear program.
http://is.gd/XVJaO5
U.S court orders Iran to pay $813 million for 1983 Beirut bombing: "After
this opinion, this court will have issued over $8.8 billion in
judgments against Iran as a result of the 1983 Beirut bombing," Judge
Royce Lamberth wrote in a ruling this week, a copy of which was seen
Friday by AFP.
http://is.gd/jhnAbL
Israeli Spies are Active in Iran, and They are the Assassins: Israel's
foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, sends operatives into and out
of Iran on a regular basis; and the mysterious men on motorcycles who
have assassinated at least four Iranian nuclear scientists are
Israelis.
http://is.gd/4wtFZ6
'Israel sent me to poison Arafat,' says Palestinian prisoner:
Video released by Lebanese media apparently shows Palestinian prisoner in Ketziot prison saying he was recruited by Israeli security forces to infiltrate Yasser Arafat's compound in 2004 and put poison in his food http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4976
UN council appoints panel to probe illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank: Three
independent experts to conduct a fact-finding mission for UN Human
Rights Council on how illegal Israeli settlements affect Palestinians
in the West Bank.
http://is.gd/f6zZNv
7 killed in Iraqi suicide bomber attack: - Iraqi
officials say a suicide bomber has killed seven people at the home of a
pro-government militiaman in the western city of Ramadi, AP said.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/114961/
Six Yemenis shot in Aden march, protest leaders say: Yemeni
security forces shot dead a protester in Aden on Friday and wounded
five others at a south Yemen separatist movement demonstration, a member
of the group said, but an official said protesters had fired on
security forces.
http://is.gd/JRd5J4
Yemen Airstrikes Punish Militants, And Civilians: For
the first time, the casualty figures and the reactions of local
residents can be checked against the official version of events.
http://is.gd/jRnSeD
Egypt: Morsi Defies Military, Orders Dissolved Parliament to Reconvene: Egyptian
President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday called the Islamist-dominated
parliament to reconvene, in defiance of a military decree dissolving
the legislature on the basis of a ruling by the country's highest court
http://is.gd/qSbfld
Russia ready to brand NGOs as 'agents': In
Russia, foreign-funded NGOs that do political work will have to call
themselves "foreign agents" if policymakers have their way.
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16079153,00.html
Massive Mexican march over vote 'fraud': Fifty
thousand protesters marched through Mexico City on Saturday to denounce
Enrique Pena Nieto's victory in the July 1 presidential election.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/121164
Is the media fair in Latin America?: Video report - There
have been allegations of dirty tricks in Mexico's election and also
allegations of media bias against the left, not just in Mexico but also
elsewhere in Latin America.
http://is.gd/HdYi3Z
Sheldon Adelson Probed For Illicit Ties With Chinese Officials, Gangsters:
There was once a time, not so long ago, when Sheldon Adelson - the 79 year-old gambling mogul who recently vowed to spend $100 million to elect Mitt Romney - would have considered such profligate political largesse beyond his means. http://is.gd/c8Xq26
US military to spend $40m on Guantanamo prison renovation: The
US military has planned to install a $40 million fiber optic cable
between the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba and the US mainland,
indicating the US government will continue holding the notorious
facility.
http://is.gd/6FVNCV
X-ray vans to hit the streets of America? : From
armed tank-like trucks to military grade pepper spray, civilians are
being treated more and more like villains, and now X-ray vans may be
hitting the streets sooner than you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adxu2Qkt2xc
Electric eye on America: US set to deploy drones for home use: The
US Army has completed a two-week demonstration of a new ground-based
sensor system for its drones. It now hopes to get the drones certified
for domestic flights, but critics are concerned that their use could
breach privacy rights.
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-army-domestic-drones-619/
Athens plans huge wave of privatisations: Greece's
ruling coalition unveiled an "everything must go" sale of the
country's assets over the weekend as Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras
gushed that privatisation was his "top priority.
http://is.gd/YOnLGb
Jail The Bankers: Joseph Stiglitz: Man who ran World Bank calls for bankers to face the music
http://is.gd/ELdEfh
"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 : 3,075
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,350,289,407,144
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