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News You Won't Find On CNN -9/2/02
Putin's Ruthless Gambit The Bush Administration Falters in a Geopolitical Chess Match By Michael T. Klare To fully grasp the recent upheavals in the Caucasus, it is necessary to view the conflict as but a minor skirmish in a far more significant geopolitical struggle between Moscow......Read More

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"The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings.......Read More

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News You Won't Find On CNN - 9/3/08
Act of war U.S. Troops Kill 20 in Pakistan Attack By Hafiz Wazir "Suspected" U.S. commandos from Afghanistan killed 20 people, including women and children, in a pre-dawn raid inside Pakistan, officials said, an attack branded as an assault on the nation's sovereignty.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-05 23:01:02 | Rating:

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"If the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be......Read More

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News You Won't Find On CNN - 9/4/08
Meet the Senator Most Likely to Start a Nuclear War The Real McCain By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR McCain the Maverick is a merely a fine-honed act, underscored by these kinds of casual hypocrisies. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20689.htm === Going on an......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-05 23:05:52 | Rating:

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"Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang": Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 (B 11:16-7)......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-05 23:08:53 | Rating:

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War Statistics
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,255,026" http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html === Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,154 http://icasualties.org/oif/ The......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-05 23:10:14 | Rating:

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The War Prayer
by Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-05 23:13:06 | Rating:

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Nerws You Won't Find On CNN - 9/8/08
Video Shows US Carnage In Afghanistan Harrowing video film backs Afghan villagers' claims of carnage caused by US troops Tom Coghlan in Kabul These are the images that have forced the Pentagon into a rare U-turn. Until yesterday the US military had insisted that only seven......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-09 05:33:58 | Rating:

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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty: Simone Weil = A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his......Read More