"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments".  Michael Parenti

 

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,770 icasualties.org/oif/

 

 

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NATO only attacks (as does the US and its allies) the poor and underprivileged of the 3rd world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28182.htm

 

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We have the Israelis in a complete state of military and economic dependency - and yet they are calling the tune, and not Washington. What's up with that?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28180.htm

 

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The 28-year-old Jewish American woman was allegedly tackled by members of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during Netanyahu's speech to Congress after she yelled, "stop Israeli war crimes."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28184.htm

 

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Interviews with several AIPAC delegates in the streets outside the conference reveals widespread ignorance by attendees of the controversial annual DC meeting.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28185.htm

 

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By Paul Craig Roberts

 

Independent thought is not a concept with which very many Americans are familiar or comfortable.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28178.htm

 

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If Greece goes under, then it could take Portugal, Ireland and (perhaps) Spain along with it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28179.htm

 

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Max Keiser interviews Dr, Paul Craig Roberts.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28183.htm

 

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What is the point of having the world's best medical facilities if citizens don't have the money to access healthcare?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28181.htm

 

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Medical officials said 24 tribesmen were killed in the fiercest fighting on Sanaa's streets in years. Government officials said 14 soldiers were killed and 20 were missing.
http://bit.ly/mNA5VY

 

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Shia Muslims say they are facing persecution from the authorities, including raids on homes and torture.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/201152483619116456.html

 

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Powerful Yemeni tribe turns guns against leader Saleh:

 

Fighters for a powerful Yemeni tribe sealed off key government buildings -- including headquarters of the ruling party -- as the revolt against President Ali Abdullah Saleh spilled into the heart of the capital on Tuesday amid fierce clashes with government forces.
http://bit.ly/jw6cgW

 

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Libyan officials said at least 19 people were killed in the six loud explosions within a duration of 10 minutes, following powerful strikes 24 hours earlier, including one on Gaddafi's compound. The state television blamed the attack on "colonialist crusaders".
http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/151494/20110525/gaddafi-tripoli-nato-airstrikes-france.htm

 

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At least three people were killed with some 150 others injured in NATO airstrikes in Tripoli early Tuesday near the area around leader Moamer Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya residence, local TV reported.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90855/7389303.html

 

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 Use of helicopters, which can attack small targets, represents significant escalation of conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/23/apache-helicopters-libya-britain

 

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Presstitute alert: ... :
Libyan combat stymies moves on antiaircraft threat:

 

The fierce combat in Libya has unleashed a once-hidden arsenal of portable anti-aircraft missiles that the government fears could easily be siphoned off to terror groups, giving rise to a potential threat to commercial aviation that the U.S. is only beginning to confront, government officials and arms experts said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110515/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_libya_anti_aircraft_missile_threat

 

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President Barack Obama has gone to war in Libya without requesting a declaration of war from Congress. But he said he would abide by the War Powers Resolution. However, his 60 day grace period for bombing ended on Friday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/lying-about-libya_b_866268.html

 

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The blast took place in Panjhwayee district as the construction crew were on their way to work, said Sher Shah Yousifzai, a senior police official in the province.
http://bit.ly/jTrfEe

 

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"The patrol had left their base and was moving to rendezvous with another patrol when the soldier was fatally struck by an improvised explosive device.
http://bit.ly/ldAy9Z

 

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Afghanistan's intelligence services said on Monday that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had "disappeared from his hideout" in Quetta, Pakistan, up to five days ago but could not confirm his death.
http://bit.ly/l6YDgF

 

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Troops recaptured a Pakistani naval air force base yesterday after a 16-hour battle with as few as six Taliban gunmen
http://bit.ly/lCSKVy

 

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The former head of Pakistan's ISI, Hamid Gul, tells Channel 4 News that he is "100 per cent sure" a Taliban attack on a major naval air base in Karachi was an "American operation".
http://www.channel4.com/news/karachi-attack-a-us-operation-claims-ex-pakistan-general

 

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It's a subject Americans can't stop discussing and one Pakistan hates talking about. The Mehran attack has once again focused world attention on the security of the country's fast-growing nuclear arsenal
http://bit.ly/izssGf

 

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Washington often acts as if Pakistan were its client state, with no other possible patron but the United States.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/24/pakistan_china_miscalculation

 

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The delivery of the wreckage meets a key US demand of Pakistan in the wake the May 2 mission to kill the al-Qaeda leader who was the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_pakistan-returns-us-helicopter-from-osama-bin-laden-raid_1547159

 

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A total of six people were killed and 27 others wounded in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in central and northern Iraq
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7389630.html

 

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"Jerusalem must never again be divided. Jerusalem must remain the united capital of Israel."
http://f24.my/mCLiTH

 

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Rights groups say they have documented names of civilians allegedly killed by security forces since protests erupted.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/2011524182251952727.html

 

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CIA has for a long time done things on its own way without informing other countries. This behaviour is in their culture. This is a clear crime against international law and a violation of our sovereignty, says Ove Bring, professor in international law to SvD.se.
http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=7235

 

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New York Times reporter James Rise subpoenaed in CIA leak case:

 

The U.S. Justice Department subpoenaed New York Times reporter James Risen on Monday to testify at the criminal trial of a former CIA operative cited in Risen's 2006 book.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/24/new-york-times-reporter-james-rise-subpoenaed-in-cia-leak-case/

 

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The spectacle of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly declaring publicly last week that the FBI was not interested in pursuing a major terrorism case developed by the NYPD suggests that the relationship between the two law enforcement agencies has sunk to an all-time low.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/len-levitt/new-york-citys-terrorism-war_b_862526.html

 

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The government's use of paid, untrained informants, concocted plots and racial profiling of Muslim communities in its frantic effort to stop so-called homegrown terrorism has raised serious human and civil rights concerns.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/05/manufactured_threats_of_homegrown_terrorism.html

 

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"Ugly beds" stacked in gyms, tiny cages for suicidal prisoners-the photos that helped convince Supreme Court justices to downsize California's overcrowded lockups.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/california-prison-overcrowding-photos

 

 

 

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Tom Feeley