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"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell
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Al-Qaeda Now a US Ally in Syria
By Joseph Wakim
Ground Zero Redux
By Pepe Escobar
Washington's Double-take at the Non-Aligned Movement Revival
By Thierry Meyssan
Contagious Paranoia
By Paul Balles
Israeli Filmmaker in Hiding After Deadly Protests
By Associated Press
Politics and Plutocrats: A Parade of Inequality
By Gar Smith
How Sheldon Adelson Could Save $2.3 Billion Under Romney's Tax Plan
By Travis Waldron
The Pauperization Of America
By Wolf Richter
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| Hard News
Syria rebels kill 18 soldiers, clash near Aleppo airport: :
Syrian rebels killed at least 18 soldiers in a car bomb and ground
attack on a military position in Idlib province Wednesday, as fighting
also raged in the country's commercial capital, Aleppo.
Video shows aftermath of Free Syrian Army executions : Warning:Ddisturbing images. - An amateur video shot in Aleppo has shown the aftermath of a mass killing carried out by syrian rebels
West accepts terrorism when it's politically expedient - Russian FM: Western
nations accept acts of terrorism when it suits them politically,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. Lavrov was commenting on a
refusal by Western members of the UN Security Council to condemn
recent attacks in Syria.
8 killed as Somali president escapes assassination bid: Explosions
and gunfire have rocked the Mogadishu hotel where the newly elected
Somali president was meeting with Kenya's foreign minister and other
dignitaries, witnesses say.
U.S. has no right to block Israel on Iran - Netanyahu: - Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said the United States
had forfeited any moral right to stop Israel taking action against
Iran's nuclear programme because it had refused to be firm with Tehran
itself.
White House snubs Netanyahu, refuses Israeli PM's request to meet with Obama: The
White House's response marks a new low in relations between Netanyahu
and Obama, underscored by the fact that this is the first time
Netanyahu will visit the U.S. as prime minister without meeting Obama;
PM to meet with Clinton
White House denies Obama is snubbing Binyamin Netanyahu during US visit: The
White House denied any intentional snub of Netanyahu, saying that the
president was not able to meet the Israeli leader in New York because
the pair would not be in the city on the same day. It also said
Netanyahu did not request a meeting in Washington, "nor was a request
for a meeting ever denied". However, Israeli officials continued to
assert in private that Obama appeared to have snubbed the Israeli
leader.
Obama, Netanyahu reaffirm 'united determination' on Iran: Phone
call between PM, US president follows announcement that Obama will not
meet Netanyahu when he's in US; earlier Netanyahu declared that those
who don't place "red lines" on Iran, have no right to give Israel "red
light."
MI6 chief made secret trip to meet Israeli PM to head off plans to bomb Iran's nuclear programme: In
an indication that the Government believes a strike on Tehran's
nuclear programme could be imminent, Sir John Sawers is understood to
have made a personal mission to deliver a clear message that Britain is
opposed to action now.
Gilad Atzmon: Israel, The Day After - Op-Ed - : Daniel
Gordis, a committed Zionist intellectual, is concerned about the
inevitable collapse of the Jewish state and its impact on world Jewry in
general and American Jews in particular.
Kuwaitis rally for democratic reforms: Thousands of protesters gathered outside the parliament demanding the election of a PM from outside the ruling family.
U.S. ambassador, 3 other Americans killed in Libyan attack: Ambassador
Chris Stevens, 52, died as he and a group of embassy employees went to
the consulate to try to evacuate staff as the building came under
attack by a mob firing machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades. He
was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since
1979.
Video: US consulate in Benghazi on fire: Video
Obama: We Will Bring Justice to the Attackers: "Make
no mistake. We will work with the Libyan government to bring to
justice the killers who attacked our people," Obama said in the White
House Rose Garden, flanked by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Marines headed to Libya to reinforce security: The
Marines are members of an elite group known as a Fleet Antiterrorism
Security Team, whose role is to respond on short notice to terrorism
threats and to reinforce security at U.S. embassies. They operate
worldwide.
U.S. Sending Drones to Hunt Libyan Attackers: CNN
reports that the United States will send unmanned drones to Libya to
look for jihadist camps, as the White House now accepts the belief that
the Benghazi attack was the premeditated work of terrorists.
Egypt protesters breach US embassy over 'insulting' film: The American flag, which was flying at half mast to mark the 9/11 attacks, was replaced by an Islamist banner.
'It's not our fault': Steve
Klein said that he did not feel guilty for the murder of John
Christopher Stevens and that the mob who carried it out were to blame
as they were following Mohammed's violent teachings.
Killing of US ambassador in Libya is yet more blowback for western intervention: Instead
of learning the lessons from the last decade of endless war, Barack
Obama, David Cameron and their Nato allies are threatening more war
against Syria and Iran.
Widespread distrust of US extends beyond Middle East, poll shows: American
influence on the world stage is being sapped by widespread distrust of
US intentions, not just in the Middle East and south Asia but also
among traditional European allies, according to a survey of global
opinions.
Iraq: back to the future: Nouri al-Maliki's has some way to go before he matches Saddam Hussein's terror - but the charge sheet is growing
European Parliament criticises failure to investigate CIA torture and renditions,: Today
the European Parliament adopted by an overwhelming majority a new
resolution condemning the role of European states in the CIA's secret
detention and torture programme.
American Gulag: Guantanamo prisoner who died battled confinement: Adnan
Latif spent a more than decade at Guantanamo, where he repeatedly went
on hunger strike and once slashed his wrist and hurled the blood at
his visiting lawyer. He also received some mental health treatment at
the detainee hospital, according to his lawyers and court records.
"500 Days": Author Kurt Eichenwald's New Account of How Bush Admin Ignored Warnings Before 9/11: Newly
disclosed documents provide further evidence the administration of
George W. Bush ignored repeated warnings about Osama bin Laden's plans
to attack the United States.
Big Brother or peeping tom? UK installs CCTV in school bathrooms, changing rooms: Over
200 UK state schools have installed cameras in bathrooms and changing
rooms to monitor students, a recent surveillance survey reported.
British parents will likely be shocked by the study's findings.
America's Under Water: Debt Equals 103 Percent of GDP: According
to the most recent official estimate by the federal Bureau of Economic
Analysis, the Gross Domestic Product for 2012 will be $15.6061
trillion--or about $440.5 billion less than the $16.0466 in debt that
the federal government had accumulated as of the close of business on
Monday.
U.S. Poverty: Census Finds 46.2 Million Impoverished As Median Income Drops: The Census Bureau said the 2011 poverty rate was 15 percent, statistically unchanged from 15.1 percent in 2010.
Nine million use credit cards and payday loans to cover monthly household bills: Almost a fifth of people are using costly forms of credit each month to help pay household bills, according to new research.
Report Blames Big Banks For 800,000 Preventable Foreclosures: Just
how many more people could have qualified under the administration's
mortgage modification program if the banks had done a better job? In
other words, how many people have been pushed toward foreclosure
unnecessarily?
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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 : 3,173
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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