"By launching those attacks, are we creating more militants than in fact we are killing?" -  Robert Grenier - Former head of the CIA's counter-terrorism center

 

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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."  - George Orwell

 

 

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,772 icasualties.org/oif/

 

 

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They're known as "JSOC" -- Joint Special Operations Command. They report directly to the president and, "operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directive." John Nagl, a former counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. Petraeus, described JSOC's kill/capture campaign to FRONTLINE as "an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28166.htm

 

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You who used to love taking long strolls, are now a prisoner of four walls, afraid to venture...is it going to be sticky bombs, the silencer gun, or a kidnapping ?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28177.htm

 

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I've heard Congress people and others say repeatedly that the U.S. has no real or clear foreign policy for the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28171.htm

 

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Congress must protect the American people from the over-reach of any Chief Executive who is enamored with unilateralism, pre-emption, first strike and the power to prosecute war without Constitutional or statutory proscriptions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28170.htm

 

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Lauded by settlers and derided by commentators, the US president's AIPAC speech is portrayed as a victory for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28167.htm

 

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A former AIPAC spokesman demanded that Obama take a renewed public pledge of devotion to Israel, and circulated to the media statements of condemnation from numerous "pro-Israel" Democrats in Congress.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28169.htm

 

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The lobbies act like jealous gods who need to hear the prayers of their devotees said again and again. I am loyal, I am yours, forever, forever. Deviation means blasphemy and blasphemy means that the gods will bestow their cash blessings on someone else come the next election cycle.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28174.htm

 

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To accept that Obama is, as West said, a mascot for Wall Street means having to challenge some frightening monoliths of power and give up the comfortable illusion that the Democratic Party or liberal institutions can be instruments for genuine reform.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28168.htm

 

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The attempted rape and sexual abuse of an African cleaning woman by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) embodies, in microcosm, the entire historical and contemporary legacy of colonial neo-colonial relations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28175.htm

 

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Its leading companies are investing in the U.S. because they can do things here they would never think of doing at home.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28173.htm

 

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More than a third of all U.S. states allow borrowers who can't or won't pay to be jailed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28176.htm

 

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Many Americans know that the United States is not a democracy but a "corporatocracy," in which we are ruled by a partnership of giant corporations, the extremely wealthy elite and corporate-collaborator government officials.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28172.htm

 

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At least 17 Iraqis and two U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday in a wave of explosions, mostly in Baghdad, including a suicide bombing attack against police, security sources and the U.S. military said.
http://lat.ms/mJk78x

 

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Taliban's 16-hour brazen siege of Pakistan Navy's key Mehran airbase here came to an end after the elite commandos backed by hundreds of paramilitary personnel and helicopters shot dead four heavily armed militants after an intense battle, while two escaped.
http://bit.ly/kk8KRR

 

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Extrajudicial Killing: :
US Attack Kills 7 People In Pakistan::

 

The attack took place on the outskirts of Mir Ali, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of the district where US officials want Pakistan to launch an offensive against networks fighting in Afghanistan.
http://bit.ly/iVwIEU

 

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The Daily Times reported thousands of people from various political and religious groups took part in the Sunday protest called by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (Movement for Justice) party.
http://bit.ly/jZd2no

 

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"It is not Pakistan's war, this is America's war. This war has killed thousands of innocent Pakistanis, women and children," TI Chief Imran Khan told the gathering of around 7,000 supporters.
http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=15932

 

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Xinhua quoted an Afghan security official as saying, "It is correct that Mullah has been killed" in Pakistan.
http://bit.ly/jwSPkZ

 

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The Taliban said the report of his death was a propaganda spoof, created by the "occupation forces."
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110523/164177889.html

 

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Amid reports on Afghan TV that Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan, the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) has said that there was information that the elusive one-eyed Taliban leader was taken by Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) into its custody
http://bit.ly/m3O9hc

 

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Pakistan has asked China to build a naval base at its south-western port of Gwadar and expects the Chinese navy to maintain a regular presence there, a plan likely to alarm both India and the US.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3914bd36-8467-11e0-afcb-00144feabdc0.html

 

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4 NATO occupation force soldiers killed in Afghan blast:

 

The international military alliance says the blast happened Monday but does not provide further details or the troopers' nationalities. NATO typically waits for national authorities to announce casualties before giving specifics.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/05/23/nato-deaths-afghanistan-blast.html

 

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Suicide attackers armed with rifles and disguised in police uniforms Sunday stormed a traffic police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan and killed three officers, officials said.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/three-afghan-police-killed-suicide-attack-hq

 

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The opposition put the Friday death toll at 44 and Saturday's fatalities at 11, while the government said the figures were 17 and three. These fatalities could boost the overall figure to 875-900 over nine weeks of unrest if estimates given by human rights groups are correct.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0523/1224297548531.html

 

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The violence erupted when security forces attempted to storm the house of Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, the leader of the Hashid tribe to which Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh belongs, in the capital Sana'a.
http://bit.ly/k6lF5m

 

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Mission creep:
France and NATO to deploy helicopters in Libya: source:

 

Twelve helicopters were shipped to Libya on French helicopter carrier Tonnerre on May 17, daily Le Figaro reported earlier, to help break a military stalemate three months into an uprising against Gaddafi's four-decade rule.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/9501566/france-and-nato-to-deploy-helicopters-in-libya-source/

 

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Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney went on Libyan state TV over the weekend to condemn U.S. policy in the region, CNN reported.
http://www.ajc.com/news/cnn-mckinney-blasts-u-954720.html

 

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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has thwarted a Gulf bid to end four months of deadly protests, refusing to sign up to a plan for his departure from office, in a move that "deeply disappointed" Washington.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-disappointed-yemens-saleh-blocks-gulf-plan-131834003.html

 

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Bahrain's parliament once gave me a standing ovation, now I've been banned from the kingdom - both for pursuing human rights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/22/bahrain-change-view-human-rights

 

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Protesters calling for more rights and economic benefits dispersed by police in Rabat and Casablanca.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/2011522204645915126.html

 

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Chief negotiator Palestinians share the same principles laid out by U.S. President, including 1967 borders as basis for future Palestinian state.
http://bit.ly/lioVDX

 

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Israel's unwillingness to compromise on key issues might annul a two-state solution, making only power-sharing viable.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/2011522124514911313.html

 

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Barack Obama will announce during his first state visit to Britain this week that the White House is to open up its highly secretive national security council to Downing Street in a move that appears to show the US still values the transatlantic "special relationship".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/23/barack-obama-security-board-with-uk

 

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Tom Feeley