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War in Iraq
Defeat Without End
By Robert C. Koehler
We’ve already failed in Iraq, and throughout the Middle East and Central Asia — failed with consequences beyond reckoning. God knows...
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Democracy Is a Beautiful Thing
By William Blum
Why was the primary vote for former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich so small when anti-Iraq war sentiment in the United States is supposedly so high?...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:31:16 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Another World is Necessary
By Serene Assir
The Palestinian people of Gaza moved the world by breaking out and materially reclaiming their stolen freedom of movement, rights to travel to and from their country, and...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:32:18 Average Rating:  | Views: 36 | # Comments: 4 | Tags:
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Defending Israel to the “End Times”
By Bill Berkowitz
These are busy days for Christian Zionists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19270.htm
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:33:11 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 25 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Israeli Soldiers Speak Out
Video
A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. - After thorough introspection, these young men...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:34:12 Average Rating:  | Views: 37 | # Comments: 4 | Tags:
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Hillary Clinton Again Lies about Iraq
By Stephen Zunes
In Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton lied again about Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19266.htm
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:35:03 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Mukasey's Radical Worldview Is Now The Norm
By Glenn Greenwald
Mukasey explicitly embraces the most extreme theories of presidential omnipotence and lawlessness and displays as much Cheney-ite contempt for the notion of Congressional...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:36:01 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 23 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Stepford Republicans:
All Caught on Tape!
By Jeff Cohen
Stepford Wives become robotically subservient only to their husbands; they pose no threat to the rest of us. But Stepford Republicans become...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:37:19 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The Madness of John McCain
By Justin Raimondo
A militarist suffering from acute narcissism and armed with the Bush Doctrine is not fit to be commander in chief....
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:38:42 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Hot Democratic Properties
By Alexander Cockburn
From Hillary's Whitewater Deal to Bill's Uranium Mine to Obama's Ba'athist Ties.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19267.htm
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:39:44 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Hacking Democracy
Video
This documentary exposes the vulnerability of computers - which count approximately 80% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections - suggesting that if our votes...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:40:53 Average Rating:  | Views: 38 | # Comments: 3 | Tags:
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Iraqi PM warns of imminent battle against Qaeda:
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday held a war council and warned of an imminent battle against Al-Qaeda, a day after two mentally impaired women bombers killed 98 people in...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:42:23 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Layla Anwar
: Lethal Agreements in Baghdad.:
Oh, please listen to this puppet with his three day unshaved beard and his silver ring from Qum. Listen to what the puppet has to say about...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:43:24 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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US Qaeda strategy fatally flawed
: analysts:
In its ideological struggle against Al-Qaeda, American anti-terrorist strategy too often overlooks the basic tenets of the infamous Chinese warlord Sun Tzu, namely: know your...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:44:33 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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US Mercenaries Outnumber Troops:
There are 196,000 mercenaries working for the Defense Department in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are 182,000 U.S. forces in both countries.
http://snipurl.com/1ywol
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:45:42 Average Rating:  | Views: 36 | # Comments: 4 | Tags:
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In Iraq, Three Wars Engage U.S.:
Three separate but related wars are being waged in this country now, and the third one, against Shiite extremists, is the most worrisome, according to the commander and senior staff of the U.S....
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:46:51 Average Rating:  | Views: 53 | # Comments: 5 | Tags:
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In Iraq, Three Wars Engage U.S.:
Three separate but related wars are being waged in this country now, and the third one, against Shiite extremists, is the most worrisome, according to the commander and senior staff of the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:47:59 Average Rating:  | Views: 37 | # Comments: 4 | Tags:
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Conway: 2-front war will overstretch Corps:
The Marine Corps cannot endure a long-term presence in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the service’s top officer said.
http://snipurl.com/1ywfr
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:49:05 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran vows to defend Persian Gulf against all :
"The powerful armed forces of Iran do not pose a threat to any force at the regional level," he said. "But, in case they confront any kind of threat, they will provide a...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:50:12 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Incase you missed it:
Iran Oil Bourse to deal blow to dollar :
Iran's Finance Minister Davoud Danesh-Jafari told reporters the bourse will be inaugurated during the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:51:17 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Middle East Internet Blackouts Spur Geopolitical S
Unprecedented mass Internet outages throughout the Middle East and Asia after no less than four undersea Internet cables were cut without explanation are spurring suspicions that a major event...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:52:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 27 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Ships did not cause Internet cable damage:
Damage to undersea Internet cables in the Mediterranean that hit business across the Middle East and South Asia was not caused by ships, Egypt’s communications ministry said on...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:56:44 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Attacks by Taleban soar, figures show:
Attacks by the Taleban in Afghanistan surged last year, previously unpublished figures from allied military forces fighting insurgents show....
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 04:58:17 Average Rating:  | Views: 37 | # Comments: 4 | Tags:
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Chavez
Chavez says Venezuela's military 'on alert' for possible threats from Colombia:
President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela's military is on alert for possible threats from Colombia, warning the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 05:02:33 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 23 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Tony Blair
I'll be president of Europe if you give me the power - Blair:
Former PM consults old Downing Street allies on campaign for new EU role...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 05:03:57 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 26 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Sub
In the first counterterrorism strategy of its kind in the nation, roving teams of New York City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-05 05:05:02 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 25 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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quotes
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy": - James Madison
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"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:17:04 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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George Bush Delivers The Horse's Head
By Mike Whitney
In the last two weeks, the Gulf leaders have watched nervously while the Federal Reserve has slashed rates by a whopping 125 basis points. The cuts are steadily eroding the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:18:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Bankers Gone Bonkers
Global Finance and the Insanity Defense
By Pam Martens
With Wall Street capital disappearing as fast as foreclosures are climbing, one foreign head of state had an epiphany. French...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:19:58 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 29 | # Comments: 2 | Tags:
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Disowned By The Ownership Society
By Naomi Klein
Washington think-tanker Grover Norquist predicted that the ownership society would be Bush's greatest legacy, remembered "long after people can no longer pronounce or...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:21:29 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 14 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Bush Authorized US Troops In Iran And Syria
Leaked Classified Documents Show
By ERIC SCHMITT and MICHAEL R. GORDON
American military forces in Iraq were authorized to pursue former members of Saddam Hussein’s government and...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:23:24 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Why Were The Tapes Destroyed?
By Paul Craig Roberts
Many Americans are content with the 9/11 Commission Report, but the two chairmen of the commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton are not. Neither was commission member...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:25:05 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The Great Betrayal
By Patrick J. Buchanan
McCain says we may be in Iraq a hundred years and warns, “there’s going to be other wars.” Take the man at his word....
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:26:07 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 24 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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When Morality Demands Winter Soldiers
By Camillo "Mac" Bica
In March of this year, the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) will convene the Winter Soldier hearings in Washington, DC. "Winter Soldiers,"...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:27:23 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 10 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Suharto
: 'One Of The Greatest Mass Murderers Of The 20th Century'
By Chris Kline
The military and intelligence attachés in the US and British embassies were sending helpful death lists to...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:29:10 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 49 | # Comments: 2 | Tags:
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Opinion: U.S. Must Atone For Aiding Suharto
By Joseph Nevins
The death of Suharto, the strongman who ruled Indonesia for more than three decades, is cause for reflection in the United States, particularly as Americans choose our next...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:30:30 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The Year of Living Dangerously
By Manuel Valenzuela
If you are not angered, indeed enraged, by the current state of the United States, then you have not been paying attention, or you just do not care enough about the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:31:36 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Debunking The Health Care Bugaboo
By Mary Pitt
When one dares to broach the idea that "universal health care" is the only practical answer, all the politicians grab their own wallets and scream about...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:33:43 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 14 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Mosul residents stock up ahead of 'decisive battle
Residents of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul are hastily stocking up with supplies ahead of what Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says will be a "decisive battle" against Al-Qaeda,...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:34:50 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Pentagon won't detail war spending plan:
When the Pentagon unveils its budget request Monday for the next fiscal year, it will back away from a commitment it made to Congress just a year ago -- to estimate how much the wars in Iraq and...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:36:19 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran: ?
US claims rise in Iran-made bomb attacks in Iraq :
Attacks using Iranian-made roadside bombs in a key part of Baghdad rose in January to the highest level in a year, the U.S. military...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:37:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Progress towards resolving Iran inquiry--ElBaradei
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Sunday he was making progress in finishing an inquiry into Iran's nuclear past ahead of his next report awaited by those powers mulling new...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:38:52 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 13 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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U.S. labels Iran's rocket tests as "unfortunate" :
The United States described on Monday Iran's launching a rocket into space as "unfortunate," which, the White House said, will isolate the Islamic republic from the international...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:39:54 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran oil bourse scheduled:
Iran was scheduled to inaugurate its Oil Bourse this coming week. That probably isn't going to happen because all internet access in Iran was cut over the weekend (the undersea cables were...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:40:58 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Internet cable cut in Middle East –
Should Iran be worried?:
There has been some concern that the undersea internet cables, that have been cut recently, are perhaps no accident?...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:42:01 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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US anti-missile ship to dock in Haifa:
An American missile ship set to dock at Haifa Port on Monday is equipped with an anti-missile defense system that could be deployed in the region in the event of an Iranian missile attack against...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:48:25 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Kabul furious at British plan to retrain Taliban:
A secret British plan to build military training camps for former Taliban fighters in Helmand province has sent relations between Afghanistan and Britain to an all-time low, officials have...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:49:47 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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600 suicide bombers present in Karachi: report -
Six hundred would-be suicide bombers have been deployed to Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi to target security forces, a media report said on Monday.
http://snipurl.com/1yzfw
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:51:08 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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2 Killed as Israeli PM vows 'relentless' war on "t
Shas Chairman Eli Yishai called on the government Monday to cease negotiations with the Palestinian Authority immediately, following the attack which left a woman dead and 11 more people...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:52:33 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 14 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Russia's ambassador to NATO
warns of confrontation with Poland:
Russia's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Sunday warned of a new confrontation between Warsaw and Moscow in connection with...
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McCain is Now the Neo-Con Candidate:
Jim Lobe:
McCain’s little ditty about “bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb-Iran” — not to mention his willingness to maintain U.S. troops in Iraq for decades, if not centuries...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:56:00 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 23 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Illusion of Choice:
The illusion of choices in the US elections: Does it herald the dissolution of these United States of America?
http://www.qumsiyeh.org/illusionofchoice/
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:56:56 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 59 | # Comments: 5 | Tags:
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Bush proposes 3.1 trillion-dollar budget:
Bush's spending plan, sent to Congress for the fiscal year starting October 1, forecasts heavy deficits for the government -- 410 billion dollars for the current year and 407 billion for the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 06:58:28 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Quotes
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion": Thomas Paine
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"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 07:00:50 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 27 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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A Pre-election Attack on Iran Remains a Possibilit
By Leon Hadar
President Bush still believes the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons – and so do the Israelis. So for journalists to assume that neither the U.S. nor Israel will...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 20:38:49 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The Machine Gun of Capitalism
Dead soldiers, peak oil and mind-boggling profits; praise Jesus, the machine's still working
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
A flurry of pink slips fluttered over the job sector as...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 20:44:13 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Powell’s UN Fiasco: Fresh and Festering
By Ray McGovern
A handful of former CIA intelligence officers joined me in forming the VIPS movement in Jan. 2002, after we concluded that our profession had been corrupted to...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 20:45:18 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 11 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The Lights Have Been Turned Off
By Gideon Levy
If all the residents of the Gaza Strip deserve to be punished because of the Qassam rockets, then maybe all Israelis deserve to be punished because of the occupation?...
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10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted
By Sara Robinson
I'm both a health-care-card-carrying Canadian resident and an uninsured American citizen who regularly sees doctors on both sides of the border. As such, I'm in a unique...
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U.S. occupation forces kill Sunni civilians, tensi
Iraqi police, relatives and neighbors said a couple and their 19-year-old son were shot to death in their beds. Iraqi police also said two girls were wounded and one later died. AP Television...
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Iraq pushes ahead with oil plans:
The Iraqi government is inviting major oil multinationals to participate for the first time in the development of the oil industry, without waiting for the passage of crucial but controversial...
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US 'must remain in Iraq' :
Republican White House hopeful John McCain yesterday insisted the US must maintain a long-term presence in Iraq and accused Democratic rivals of caving in to the forces of "evil"....
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McCain: 100 years in Iraq "would be fine with me"
The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting...
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U.S. commander
says Iran not involved in hostilities in Iraq:
The U.S. commander in Iraq’s central province of Diyala has said he has witnessed no hostile act from the Iranian side in the region over...
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NPR reporter says Iraq remains `in shambles':
Amos said that many Iraqis capable of transforming the country have left. ``Two million people have fled Iraq,'' which she described as ``still in shambles.
http://snipurl.com/1z4l5
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 20:54:11 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Military Balance report
sees 'willpower gap' in NATO over conflicts :
The current military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan will have long-term implications for US defence strategy as Washington will find it...
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Pakistan Taliban declare ceasefire:
Pakistani Taliban fighters announced a ceasefire on Wednesday after months of clashes with security forces and suicide attacks across the northwest of the country....
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Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran::
U.S. says Iran may be able to make nukes by 2009 :
The head of American intelligence said Tuesday that it is unclear whether Tehran has returned to its production of nuclear weapons in the...
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Iran retains nuclear plans
, says US intelligence chief:
The senior US intelligence official yesterday stressed that a recent report on Iran had concluded that Tehran had halted only one part of its alleged nuclear...
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Iran
General Staff fear U.S. attack while Bush in power :
"While Bush is in power, that is throughout 2008, U.S. military action against the Islamic Republic is still likely," Gholamali...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:00:13 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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IAEA chief
warns against military action to solve Iranian nuclear issue :
ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said a military strike to settle the Iranian...
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Ahmadinejad Withdrawing Nuclear Proposal:
"But if others formulated it again, we would study it — under one condition: that the Iranian people's right to enrich uranium be preserved," the Iranian leader said....
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S. Africa protests plan to sanction Iran:
South Africa on Tuesday protested a "rush" by the five veto-wielding Security Council members to adopt new United Nations sanctions against Iran, saying it wants to wait for a report...
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Iran says Gulf shields its banks from U.S. pressur
U.S. allies such as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are helping shield Iran's banking system from Washington's "financial terrorism", the governor of Iran's central bank said on...
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Connecting The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots :
The last week has seen a spate of unexplained, cut, undersea communications cables that has severely disrupted communications in many countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia....
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:07:00 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Gaza besieged as Israel and Hamas launch attacks:
In Gaza, MPs of the Hamas-dominated parliament cancelled today's session, fearing an Israeli attack after the chairman of the Knesset's security and foreign affairs committee, Tzachi Hanegbi,...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:09:21 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Demand answers about the USS Liberty attack:
If senators and representatives want to take up an issue that has insulted service members and their families, they can look at the Liberty, an American spy ship that was strafed, napalmed and...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:10:36 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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In case you missed it:
Dead in the Water : Video:
BBC Four investigative report regarding, Israels attack on the USS Liberty . Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli...
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Al Qaeda seen planning attack on U.S.:
Senior al Qaeda leaders have diverted operatives from Iraq across the globe and are increasing preparations to strike the United States, senior intelligence officials told the Senate Select...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:14:13 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 25 | # Comments: 2 | Tags:
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Cheney:
Eavesdrop because terrorists don't fight by the rules of international law :
“The terrorists waging war against this country don't fight according to the rules of warfare or...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:15:36 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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CIA admits torture of at least 3 people:
A senior intelligence official said after the hearing that it was unclear whether the CIA could legally use waterboarding in the future, given changes in U.S. law.
http://snipurl.com/1z4mh...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:17:25 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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CIA admits torture of at least 3 people:
A senior intelligence official said after the hearing that it was unclear whether the CIA could legally use waterboarding in the future, given changes in U.S. law.
http://snipurl.com/1z4mh...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:17:32 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 13 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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CIA admits torture of at least 3 people:
A senior intelligence official said after the hearing that it was unclear whether the CIA could legally use waterboarding in the future, given changes in U.S. law.
http://snipurl.com/1z4mh...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:17:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The New Crime of Thinking:
It looks like the term “thought police” just might take on a whole new and real meaning. This depends on what happens in the U.S. Senate after receiving House bill H.R. 1955...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:19:07 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Bush veto threatened
for US surveillance bills that do not protect telecommunications companies:
President George W. Bush issued a veto threat Tuesday in the debate to update terrorist surveillance laws, rebuking...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:20:11 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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In case you m issed it:
The Blue Pill People :
There are none so blind as those who will not look. If you are one of those who will look, take a look around....
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:21:32 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 23 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Quotes
"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear: Herbert Sebastien Agar
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"The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:23:33 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Read this newsletter online
http://tinyurl.com/dy6yy free
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:24:33 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 23 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Weekly Stats
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,173,743"
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-06 21:31:40 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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In Opposition To The Protect America Act
By Rep. Ron Paul, M.D.
The mis-named Protect America Act allows the US government to monitor telephone calls and other electronic communications of American citizens without a warrant. This...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 05:16:56 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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"I Have ... A Cunning Plan"
By Lawrence Of Cyberia
We want all this land, but we don't want those Arab people what live on it. These days, you can't simply bundle people onto wagons and cart them away, you have to...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 05:17:53 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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American Justice - To the Dark Side
We are all torturers now
4 Minute Video
This is the America that our leaders want us to be proud of? This is the America we have built? This is who we are?...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 05:49:49 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The Evolution of Evil
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Activists and dissidents should understand that evil forces and tyrannical governments have evolved. Just as human knowledge and science expand, so do the strategies...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 05:54:09 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iraqis Are People, Too
3 Minute Video
Arrogance, Racism Or American Exceptionalism ? You decide.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19262.htm
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 05:55:16 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iniquities and Inequities of War
By Ray McGovern
I also thought of the two dozen Guantanamo detainees who tried to starve themselves to death two and a half years ago. They, too, were strapped onto gurneys, while thick...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 05:56:40 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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John McCain is Dr. Strangelove
1 Minute Video By Robert Greenwald
"There will be other wars" Click to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19263.htm
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 05:57:49 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Clinton Reflux Syndrome
By David Michael Green
There’s one hell of a lot of clean-up that needs to be done in America, and that includes some serious payback to the criminals (read Republicans) and their...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 05:59:04 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Sitting Out the Election
By Mary Pitt
It is reminiscent of the summer months in television entertainment. All that we have to anticipate is a choice among reruns. On the Republican side, we are left with a...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 06:00:12 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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UK troops
accused of "off-the-scale" torture in Iraq :
A lawyer representing nine Iraqi civilians accused British troops on Friday of "off the scale" torture and abuse in Iraq, and...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 06:01:26 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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US Envoy
:Security Talks With Iran As Early As Next Week In Iraq :
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker told The Associated Press Friday that Iran continues to play a negative role in training and...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 06:02:54 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 10 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Bush: Don't show Iran US is 'paper tiger':
US President George W. Bush on Thursday warned that a hasty pull-out from Iraq would ruin fragile progress there and convince extremists and Iran that the United States is a "paper...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 06:04:00 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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How the U.S. Has Undermined Pakistani Democracy:
Pakistani Opposition Leader Imran Khan
"Not many people in the U.S. know, that the Pakistan army has lost most soldiers then U.S. army in Iraq and Afghanistan put together. The...
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 06:06:11 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Afghan reports offer bleak assessments :
Exactly two years ago, the Afghan government and its many international backers met in London to plot a plan for the future, but the progress reports do not make for pretty reading....
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thehughman1 on 2008-02-07 06:08:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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U.S. Accused of Overlooking Rights Violations :
The Bush administration is giving lip service to promoting democracy by endorsing suspect elections in Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan while allowing human rights violations in tho | | |