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"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." - Mark Twain
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." - Oscar Wilde
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw
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Why America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace
By Noam Chomsky
Hillary Reinforces US-China Mistrust
By Global Times
Soap Opera Over Kabul
By Fred Reed
We're One Crucial Step Closer to Seeing Tony Blair at The Hague
By George Monbiot
The Republicans Cross The Rubicon
By Paul Craig Roberts
California Passes Resolution Defining Criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism
By Tom Carter
'Managing' the Plaza:
America's Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartels
By Tom Burghardt
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| Hard News
27 Taliban Insurgents Killed In Afghanistan In Last 24 Hours:
Afghan police and army backed by NATO-led coalition forces have
eliminated 27 armed Taliban insurgents during operations within the last
24 hours.
Afghanistan: 20 Civilians Killed, 50 More Injured in Nangarhar Suicide Attack: At
least 20 civilians were killed and more than 50 others were injured in
a suicide bomb attack in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday
afternoon, the Ministry of Interior (MOI) said.
30 killed as Kurdish rebels clash with Turkish forces : Kurdish
rebels wielding rocket launchers and machine-guns attacked a security
base in southeast Turkey, triggering a firefight that left 30 people
dead, local officials said on Monday.
US Kills 13 Civilians, Including Three Women In Yemen: Families
of the victims closed main roads and vowed to retaliate. Hundreds of
angry armed gunmen joined them and gave the government a 48-hour
deadline to explain the killings, which took place on Sunday.
Yemenis protest botched US drone strikes:
Hundreds
of Yemenis including youth activists on Monday rallied in the
southeastern province of Hadramout against US drone strikes in the
country, demanding the government take actions to halt the killing of
civilians in botched air raids, witnesses told Xinhua.
USAID to double its "aid" to Yemen:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator said Tuesday that it would double its aid to Yemen.
Syria says envoy can only succeed if rebels lose outside support: Syria
said on Monday new U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi could only
make headway if outside countries ceased helping rebels opposed to
President Bashar al-Assad and instead declared support for a
U.N.-backed peace plan.
Syria: "Rebels" with Surface to air missiles. Video - Rebel
fighter shows off a captured Surface to air missile after rebel forces
overran a weapons stockpile in Abu Kamal. 8-31-12.
Record 100,000 refugees flee Syria civil war in August alone: The U.N. refugee agency says 100,000 refugees fled Syria in August alone, the highest monthly total since the uprising began.
Senior U.S. intelligence official: Israel won't strike Iran before November: U.S.
House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers,
who visited Israel last week, told a breakfast panel at the Republican
National Convention in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday that he believes the
Israeli government is likely to wait until after the elections.
To Calm Israel, U.S. Offers Ways to "Restrain" Iran: With
Israel openly debating whether to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities
in the coming months, the Obama administration is moving ahead with a
range of steps short of war that it hopes will forestall an Israeli
attack
US downgrades anti-missile drills with Israel; send CIA's Petraeus instead to ease tensions: Petraeus,
the 59-year-old former commander of the International Security
Assistance Force in Afghanistan, arrived in Israel on Monday to deal
with what the Jewish state's Debka news agency calls the "flames of
discord" that have been fanned feverishly in recent days
Former CIA Head: Iran Attack Will Push Iranians Toward A Bomb: "There
is no absolute certainty that all targets are known," he added. "They
will have to be revisited - which only the U.S. Air Force would be able
to do - and the operation will only set the Iranians back some time
and actually push them to do that which it is supposed to prevent,
getting nuclear weapons."
Iran completes 30 percent of missile defense system, says military official: Iran's
air force commander tells local media air defense system, to be
completed within a year, being developed in place of the Russia S-300
array that Moscow refused to sell to the Islamic Republic.
Democrats Remove Pro-Israel Language from Platform: The
Democrat Party has removed a section of its 2008 Party Platform in the
2012 version recently released online -- some key language in
expressing support for the state of Israel.
Israeli Ambassador Rebukes DNC Chair: The
Israeli ambassador to America, Michael Oren, has released a statement
rebuking the chair of the Democratic National Party.
Australian Zionists fear Israeli group Breaking the Silence and its message on IDF immorality: This
is an instructive story of how mainstream Australian Jewish
groups are petrified that a) the public will hear critical and
truthful views about Israeli behaviour in the West Bank and b) a
desire to "protect" Jews from even understanding what Israeli
occupation means.
Australia moves to buy $3b spy drone fleet: The
Australian Defence Force is quietly resurrecting plans to buy seven
huge intelligence and surveillance drones that could cost up to $3
billion. The unmanned aerial vehicles will be used for maritime
surveillance and intercepting asylum seeker boats.
Revealed: US flew spy drone missions from Australia: The
United States flew highly classified Global Hawk spy drone missions
from the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh in South
Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006.
Epoch of 'computer virus wars' starts?: The
US is going to arm itself with computer viruses in order to destroy
the "enemy's" computer networks. Until now, the US has been denying that
it had any plans of developing "computer weapons".
Nowhere to Hide: Secret Spy Sat Agency Plans Unblinking Array: America's
future spy satellites could be more numerous, autonomous, maneuverable
and cooperative, smarter and much, much more effective - together
forming a sort of high-tech, unblinking eye in space capable of finding
and tracking terrorists, insurgents, enemy ships and, well, pretty
much anything else on the Earth below.
Anonymous claims FBI spying on millions of Apple customers: Hackers
said Monday night they caught the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) red-handed spying on Apple customers, and published over 1
million unique device identification numbers they allegedly pulled out
of an FBI database.
Here's how to check if your Apple device UDID has been compromised by the AntiSec leak: If
you're worried that you might own one of the 1 million Apple devices
that have had their UDIDs leaked by AntiSec, reportedly from a breach
of an FBI agent's laptop, our rockstar tech team has put together a
tool to help you check.
EU funding 'Orwellian' artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for "abnormal behaviour": The
European Union is spending millions of pounds developing "Orwellian"
technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV images for
"abnormal behaviour".
Barclays makes £500m betting on food crisis: Outrage as bank revealed to be major speculator while millions face starvation
Depression, Suicides Rise as Euro Debt Crisis Intensifies: Europe
is approaching a crisis as the region's debt crisis and austerity
measures increase the rates of depression, suicide and psychological
problems - just as governments cut healthcare spending by up to 50
percent
Fears Rising, Spaniards Pull Out Their Cash and Get Out of Spain: In
July, Spaniards withdrew a record 75 billion euros, or $94 billion,
from their banks - an amount equal to 7 percent of the country's
overall economic output - as doubts grew about the durability of
Spain's financial system
US: June Foodstamp Recipients Hit All Time High : Three Times As Many Americans Enter Poverty As Find Jobs
Majority of New Jobs Pay Low Wages, Study Finds: While
a majority of jobs lost during the downturn were in the middle range
of wages, a majority of those added during the recovery have been low
paying, according to a new report from the National Employment Law
Project.
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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 : 3,170
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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