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"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged" - Noam Chomsky
"The enormous gap between
what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders
are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments" - Michael Parenti
"Where is the justice of
political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer,
and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and
pillaging the very hills?" - Kahlil Gibran - 1883 - April 10, 1931
"The welfare of the people
in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the
further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience"
- Albert Camus: French novelist, essayist, and playwright.1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. 1913-1960
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." - James Madison: US fourth president, 1751-1836
"The death of democracy is
not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." - Robert M. Hutchins
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Fact Or 'Propaganda?
Decision To Attack Iran is Almost Final : Israel TV
By Times of Israel staff
Bomb Iran Fever
Pepe Escobar
Syria and the Invisible Hand of Foreign Intervention
By Eric S. Margolis
Vladimir
Jabotinsky, the father of Israel's right wing, observed nearly a
century ago that much of the Arab world was a fragile mosaic. A few
sharp blows, he wrote, would cause it to shatter, leaving Israel the
region's dominant power. Jabotinsky may have been right. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32147.htm
Syrian "opposition group" organizes to send funds to Insurgents
By Susan Cornwell
Terrorism as an Instrument of US Foreign Policy
UN-Backed Rogue States Plan Syria's Slaughter
By Felicity Arbuthnot
"The
Security Council reiterates the obligation of Member States to refrain
from providing any form of support, active or passive, to entities or
person involved in or associated with terrorist acts, including by
suppressing recruitment of members of terrorist groups ..." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32154.htm
Tales of an Empire Gone Mad
The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda
By William Blum
Afghanistan
in the 1980s and 90s ... Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s ... Libya 2011
... Syria 2012 ... In military conflicts in each of these countries
the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its associates) have been on
the same side. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32151.htm
We're Back to the Bad Days of Clandestine US Interfering Abroad
By Adrian Hamilton
12 Things You Should Know About Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan
By Igor Volsky
Romney's Death Squad Ties:
Bain Launched With Millions From Oligarchs Behind Salvadoran Atrocities
Democracy Now!
US Drops Investigations of Goldman Sachs
By Barry Grey
Senator
Carl Levin of Michigan, said the panel's two-year probe had found "a
financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest and
wrongdoing." He recommended that charges be brought and said, "In my
judgment, Goldman clearly misled their clients and they misled
Congress." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32145.htm
Financial Holocaust:
Bankster Fraud Has Driven 100 Million Into Poverty, Killing Many
By WashingtonsBlog
Erasing W
By Robert Reich
Worshiping Government
Message To The Voting Cattle
Video
From
early childhood most people are conditioned to listen to authority
when they try to figure out what is right and what is wrong instead of
listening to their own hearts, their own conscience and their own moral
values. The problem is not those in power, the problem is right between
your ears." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32152.htm
Stephen Colbert: Rooting Out Nonexistent Muslim Traitors
Video
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| Hard News
String of attacks in Iraq kill 10 people, including Shiite worshippers:
The car bomb struck a Shiite mosque as worshippers were performing
Friday prayers in a village near the former al-Qaida stronghold of
Mosul, a city 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad.
US Murders Another 10 People In Yemen: "We
see little evidence that these actions are generating widespread
anti-American sentiment or recruits for AQAP", White House's top
counterterrorism advisor
Bomb kills Yemeni officer, civilian: al Qaeda suspected: A
senior Yemeni military officer was killed when a bomb planted in his
car exploded in the southeastern city of Mukalla in an attack blamed on
al Qaeda, a security official said on Friday.
US murders 5 people in southern Somalia: More than two dozen people have also sustained injuries in the attack.
Air Force faces shortage of drone pilots: The
Air Force struggles to fill a shortfall of more than 300 drone pilots
to meet the U.S. military's enormous hunger for killing around the
world.
Six Afghan Civilians Killed By Roadside Bomb :
The
latest deaths come two days after a report by the United Nations said
more than 3,000 civilians had been killed and wounded in the first six
months of this year.
Three U.S. Soldiers Killed by Afghan Police in Helmand: An
Afghan police commander and several of his men killed three U.S.
soldiers in the southern province of Helmand, turning guns on them
after inviting them to a dinner to discuss security, Afghan officials
said on Friday.
Three US special ops troops killed, Afghan officials say:" A
man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot and killed three American
Marines, the U.S. military command said Friday. Afghan officials said
the victims were American special operations forces troops.
British Occupation Force Soldier Killed In Afghanistan:
A soldier from 3rd Battalion The Rifles has been killed while on patrol in Helmand Province in Afghanistan, the MoD has said
Britain faces legal challenge over secret US 'kill list' in Afghanistan: Britain's
role in supplying information to an American military "kill list" in
Afghanistan is being subjected to legal challenge amid growing
international concern over targeted strikes against suspected
insurgents and drug traffickers.
Libyan general shot dead by gunmen in Benghazi: Gunmen
shot dead a Libyan army general in the eastern city of Benghazi on
Friday, a security source said, the latest in a string of attacks in
the cradle of last year's revolt.
Pro-Islamist elected to head Libya assembly: Regarded
as a moderate Islamist close to the Muslim Brotherhood, Megaryef was
elected to the assembly on the ticket of his former exiled grouping,
now renamed the National Front Party.
US Using "Al-Qaeda" To Engineer Consent For An Attack On Syria Al-Qaeda
building well-organized network in Syria: U.S. intelligence officials:
Al-Qaeda has advanced beyond isolated pockets of activity in Syria and
now is building a network of well-organized cells, according to U.S.
intelligence officials
Syrians flee Aleppo as insurgents rebels plan new push: Syrian
rebels vowed to fight on in Aleppo a day after being driven out of a
key district under heavy shellfire, and residents fled in cars crammed
with belongings during a lull in fighting.
The Syrian insurgents Libyan Weapon:
Sitting
in an empty classroom flanked by several Syrian and Libyan fighters,
Mahdi al-Harati explains how he came to be the leader of Liwa
al-Ummah.
A insurgent falls in Aleppo - but this one was from Istanbul: Opposition
politicians from Turkey's border region say the lawyer was one of
several hundred non-Syrian fighters, many of them Islamist militants,
who entered Syria via Turkey in recent months.
Accusations of war crimes rob Syrian rebel fighters of moral high ground: The
Syrian government forces have borne the brunt of international
condemnation of violence in Syria, but with the strengthening and
militarization of the opposition, accusations of human rights abuses
and war crimes are now falling on the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) as
well.
Amnesty's hypocrisy: Aleppo: Why We Should Be Alarmed: Apparently Amnesty was unable to uncover an "insurgent" war crimes. "They obviousely don't read ICH."
U.S. adds Hezbollah to Syria sanctions list over ties to Syrian Government: : The United States denounced the Lebanese "militant group" Hezbollah for backing Syrian Government on Friday
U.S. Believes Iran NOT Pursuing Nuclear Weapon: The
United States still believes that Iran is NOT on the verge of having a
nuclear weapon and that Tehran has not made a decision to pursue one,
U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Presstitute and war pimp alert:
New intelligence reveals Iranian military nuclear program advancing faster than previously thought: Western
diplomat and Israeli officials who asked not to be named say U.S.,
Britain, France, Germany and Israel share same intelligence
information, agree that assessment.
In case you missed it:
Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map? - Does
He Deny The Holocaust?: An analysis of media rhetoric on its way to
war against Iran - Commenting on the alleged statements of Iran's
President Ahmadinejad .
Venezuela arrests American 'mercenary', says Hugo Chávez: Venezuelan president suggests unnamed man is part of conspiracy against government related to upcoming election
Voter ID laws: the Republican ruse to disenfranchise 5 million Americans:
Under
the guise of fighting nonexistent voter fraud, the GOP is attempting
the greatest election-stealing conspiracy in US history
Rand Paul: Government spied on Americans 'gazillions' of times:
Does
the government really peer into the personal business of everyone in
America? According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senator Rand Paul
(R-Kentucky) has put the number of instances that the feds have spied
on Americans in the "gazillions."
NYPD and Microsoft launch advanced citywide surveillance system: System has live video feeds, huge databases of recent crime patterns and can take input direct from the field in real time
Hidden government laser scanners will end privacy: Within
the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will
instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a
new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters)
away.
Global Opinion of Obama Slips, International Policies Faulted: Solid majorities in Germany (62%), Britain (58%), France (57%) and Spain (57%) name China as the world's top economic power.
US debt just grew by $11tr: The
US fiscal gap, calculated (by us) using the Congressional Budget
Office's realistic long-term budget forecast - the Alternative Fiscal
Scenario - is now $222 trillion. Last year, it was $211 trillion.
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"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: 4,883
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,139
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,361,541,247,802
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