"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. Noam Chomsky

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How do the Americans feel about their President supporting terrorists who have connections to Al-Qaeda?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28630.htm

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NATO, once committed, must prevail by force of arms, as it still could with a modest demonstration of American leadership.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28631.htm

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Most Americans turn a blind eye to the violent acts being carried out in their name.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28632.htm

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Rupert Murdoch's news organisations are not in the news business. What they crave is influence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28634.htm

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As eavesdroppers go, Rupert Murdoch, the moral force behind Fox News, is an amateur.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28636.htm

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YouTube video uploaded by B'Tselem shows an IDF officer cocking his gun and pointing it at a Palestinian man.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28633.htm

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Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Pat Robertson et al., these late empire zealots of shopping mall, militarism, and heterosexual hegemony, harbor a comic, yet mortifying vision of the conditions they believe would bring rebirth and renewal to the nation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28635.htm

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Is Greece simply a case of a country full of lazy people who spent beyond their means and are now paying for their own decadence? Or, is there something much larger at stake?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28637.htm

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Enda Kenny says Cloyne report on child sex abuse by priests highlights dysfunction and elitism in Rome.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28638.htm

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A war strategy built around drone attacks is not only unethical, but will hurt US interests in the long run.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28629.htm

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I think it's important for Pakistanis, who are on the receiving end of the humiliation and much worse that drone attacks inflict, to hear an American say it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28628.htm

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It is without question that Americans are in love with the military. Even worse, though, is that their love is unqualified, unconditional, unrelenting, and unending.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28627.htm

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Since becoming prime minister just fifteen months ago, Cameron has had 26 meetings with Murdoch's executives. Cameron's wife was likely the only person to get more meetings with the PM than Murdoch's executives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28626.htm

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"Rupert Murdoch has been operating what amounts to a private intelligence service."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28625.htm

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What was it about the relationship with Murdoch that made Tony Blair feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to - ordering the country's armed forces to war?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28624.htm

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Egan-Jones has become the first US rating agency to downgrade the country's sovereign credit rating from triple A to double A plus as it focuses on the rapid rise in outstanding debt over the past five years.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28622.htm

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Rupert Murdoch donated $1m to a pro-business lobby in the US months before the group launched a high-profile campaign to alter the anti-bribery law.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28623.htm

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Barack Obama holds forth on the legality of various conflict thingamajigs. Take a closer look at Libya, Yemen and Pakistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28621.htm

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Pakistani security forces killed 10 militants in the northwestern tribal region of Kurram Agency during a clash with militants. In another incident, a roadside bomb killed four suspected militants, including a son of a Taliban commander, and injured three others in South Waziristan, a tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7445660.html

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Four Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers were killed when several rounds of artillery and mortar shells fired from across the border in Afghanistan fell in the Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan Agency on Tuesday.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?241699

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Putting aside for a while the question of whatever Sovereignty we are left with, the bigger issue relates to the effectiveness of these drone strikes which in essence are creating more targets to deal with instead of limiting them.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=104227

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The United States is threatening to cut off aid to Pakistan unless it is given access to the wives of Osama bin Laden.
http://bit.ly/oMB3yT

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Three policemen including a police officer and two Taliban insurgents were killed on Wednesday when gun fighting broke out in Kandahar city
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7446449.html

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At least 4 Afghan civilians were killed and 11 others were wounded in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said.
http://bit.ly/r6Fb3G

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Three members of the Pennsylvania National Guard have been killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11201/1161661-100.stm

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Stupid is as stupid does:
CIA trains covert units of Afghans :

Covert forces of CIA-trained Afghan paramilitaries are being built up to continue the US-led war on the Taliban as thousands of US troops prepare to leave the country.
http://ind.pn/rdsy6b

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CORRUPTION HAS permeated every layer of Afghan society in the past 10 years, affecting everyday lives and sullying the highest levels of government.
http://bit.ly/ni9NeI

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Al-Watan newspaper said the recent violent acts which Homs has passed through were an "imported sectarian grudge instigated by foreign parties," adding the army redeployed in many areas to put an end to "violent acts among residents that have erupted when terrorist groups kidnapped three young men and mutilated their bodies."
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7445939.html

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is expected to deliver a new speech on the situation in the country. It will be his fourth public address since the protests against his regime started in mid-March. According to sources close to the embattled leader he is going to introduce several "surprises".
http://bit.ly/nnc6o0

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Units of the army troops carried out a heavy shelling targeting several al-Qaida hideouts on Tuesday, killing 9 members of the terrorist group and wounding dozens of others in Yemen's southern volatile province of Abyan
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7445941.html

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Mohammed Idris, a doctor at the hospital in the nearby city of Ajdabiya, said eight rebels were killed and dozens wounded Tuesday. That raised to at least 34 rebels killed in five days of fighting, according to Idris.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/libyan-troops-kill-8-rebels-1.1102719

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 "This war was imposed on us, and our only choice is to fight - men, women and children - with all our weapons to liberate [the rebel strongholds] of Benghazi, Misrata and Al-Jabal Al-Gharbi [the Nafusa mountains southwest of the capital].
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Were-in-our-home-Gaddafi-says-20110720

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Venezuela's Chavez urges Libyan leader to resist:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday sent a message of support to embattled Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, urging him to resist and calling on European nations to worry about their own domestic issues.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1141038/1/.html

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Venezuela surpassed Saudi Arabia in oil reserves, OPEC reported. But analysts say the quality of those reserves is an issue.
http://bit.ly/pAuZrt

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Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down a US spy drone which was flying over the central Iranian province of Qom, a lawmaker says.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/189873.html

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The Iranian navy plans on deploying warships to the Atlantic Ocean as part of a programme to ply international waters, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayari said in statements published Tuesday.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110719/wl_mideast_afp/iranmilitarynavyatlantic

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War is a racket:
Did U.S. firm use bribery to land fuel contract for U.S. forces in Iraq?:

A lawsuit in Florida has cracked open a rare window into the cloistered world of high-level war contracting, as a billionaire oilman defends himself against allegations that his company paid off Jordanian government officials to control supply lines of fuel to U.S. forces in Iraq.
http://on.msnbc.com/rdSlgh

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Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned for the murder of Israelis during the Second Intifada, says UN move part of a new strategy that will open door to 'peaceful, popular resistance'.
http://bit.ly/qW69If

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Local media reports Ofer Mizrahi, killed in the Christchurch earthquake in February, was part of a team trying to infiltrate sensitive computer systems.
http://bit.ly/oazcSH

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 "I call upon the international community, as represented by the Security Council, to take a decisive stance on this act of piracy," al-Araby added.
http://presstv.com/detail/189890.html

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The Israeli parliament passed a law Monday banning boycotts against the state and its settlements, a move critics call an unconstitutional assault on democratic values.
http://bit.ly/rpjFIA

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The Murdoch's corporation or the other British media which are deliberately turning a close eye to his roles in recent wars?
http://www.presstv.com/detail/189505.html

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A former producer with Fox News claimed in a lengthy essay gaining new traction this week that the conservative television station has a "Brain Room" in its New York headquarters, which enables employees to view private telephone records with ease.
http://read.bi/q5vL1P

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United Nations says 3.7 million people 'now in crisis' and more than 10 million affected by worst drought in decades.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/2011720756724143.html

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Ortega says U.S. support for the "Contras" that fought against his Sandinista government following the 1979 overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza caused $17 billion in damages.
http://wapo.st/ozYOwI

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 Congressional investigators probing the controversial "Fast and Furious" anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at least six Mexican drug cartel figures involved in gun smuggling also were paid FBI informants
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cartel-guns-20110717,0,6972222.story

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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho discovers 'colossal' budget hole:

Portugal's new leader Pedro Passos Coelho has told the nation to brace for further austerity measures after his government discovered a "colossal" €2bn (£1.7bn) hole in the public accounts.
http://tgr.ph/nTLkRZ

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"I think that all the talk about default is really an admission that the United States is running a gigantic Ponzi scheme," said Peter Schiff, CEO of Conn.-based brokerage Euro Pacific Capital.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/debtlimit-FreedomFest-Schiff-economy/2011/07/18/id/403996

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Moody's said on Tuesday that Maryland, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia were put on review for their high federal employment levels and Medicaid exposure
http://on.ft.com/onjXtH

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All three major credit rating agencies have now threatened the United States' coveted status as the world's most secure economy. Its AAA rating identifies U.S. Treasury bonds as one of the world's safest investments - and has helped the nation borrow at extraordinarily cheap rates.
http://wapo.st/nERknc

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The warning from Fitch Ratings comes after Moody's and S&P warned last week that they would lower the U.S. rating from the top mark of AAA if the country is unable to repay its debts next month.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59273.html

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 Report Bank Will Need $50 Billion More In Capital Cushion
http://bit.ly/pLKGYx

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Ratings agency Moody's on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43790768

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Georgetown Law professor Adam Levitin did not mince words in his appearance before Congress in January, stating bluntly that JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank Of America and Wells Fargo are all insolvent
http://bit.ly/qnRnBq

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 End Corporate Welfare and Corporate Tax Loopholes
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis

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The real reason Big Macs are cheaper than more nutritious alternatives? Government subsidies
http://www.salon.com/news/david_sirota/2011/07/15/vegetable_price_politics/index.html

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Dozens of police departments nationwide are gearing up to use a tech company's already controversial iris- and facial-scanning device that slides over an iPhone and helps identify a person or track criminal suspects.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-crime-identification-iris-idUSTRE76J4A120110720

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Tom Feeley