It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin' that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here and the desert far away
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

- Leonard Cohen: Democracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR-qO4Y

=

"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome

=

Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.  Dalai Lama

===

=

=

William Hague chose to recognise the rebel leaders at the very moment some of them may have been shooting or torturing to death their chief military commander.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28709.htm

===

They call it "bug splat", the splotch of blood, bones, and viscera that marks the site of a successful drone strike.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28711.htm

===

Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair says.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28708.htm

===

Our leaders preach obedience by others to rules we choose not to follow, and criticize other countries for violating treaty norms that we have not accepted to become bound by ourselves.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28713.htm

===

Dispatches investigates the world of the Rupert Murdoch and the influence and political power he holds in the UK.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28715.htm

===

For the deal itself, will take America a long way down the road to banana-republic status.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28716.htm

===

The deal does not raise taxes on America's wealthy and most fortunate - Yet it puts the nation's most important safety nets and public investments on the chopping block.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28717.htm

===

The film explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent in Afghanistan on assignment for Vanity Fair, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (airborne).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28710.htm

===

Fresh attacks reported in Deir ez-Zor, a day after 142 people reported killed in Hama and elsewhere in the country.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/08/20118153040657423.html

===

Five NATO occupation force members were killed in Afghanistan Sunday in separate incidents, while 11 Afghans including a child were killed in a suicide car bombing in the country's south, dpa reported.
http://en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1912494.html

===

A suicide bomber in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province detonated his explosives-laden car Sunday, killing 12 police officers and a child and wounding a dozen others.
http://bit.ly/n6JFz9

===

The Chinese government has claimed Muslim activists trained in Pakistan were behind weekend attacks that killed 11 civilians in the Xinjiang region.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/08/2011814195475496.html

===

At least eight Afghan police officers have been killed and eight others left injured in a US-led airstrike in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/191774.html

===

The US drone fired two missiles at a vehicle in Azam Warsak, 15 kilometers west of Wana, the main town of the South Waziristan region, AFP reported on Monday.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/191785.html

===

The CIA station chief who oversaw the intelligence work before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been pulled out of Islamabad - the second time in seven months that the CIA's top spy in Pakistan has been replaced.
http://ind.pn/nz0fcg

===

The violence broke out in the western outskirts of Benghazi when rebel forces attacked a militia that had helped some 300 Gaddafi loyalists break out of jail on Friday.
http://bit.ly/q9s0yj

===

General Abdel Fattah Younis shot dead by Islamist-linked militia within the anti-Gaddafi forces, says senior opposition minister
http://ind.pn/padABh

===

UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox told BBC Radio that the death, attributed by the British press to Al-Qaeda elements within the rebel movement, remained a mystery but that militant influence within Libya was inevitable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/30/libyan-rebel-soldiers-killed-younis

===

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi were again in control on Monday of the village of Josh at the foot of the strategic western Nafusa mountains, AFP journalists at the scene said.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110801/wl_africa_afp/libyaconflictjosh

===

The regime controls around 20 per cent more territory than it did in the immediate aftermath of the uprising on 17 February.
http://ind.pn/padABh

===

Dr. Moussa Ibrahim Libya Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fwQ_mt7vwQQ

===

The picture is now clear to all that what we have been lied to by world Media outlets 5 months ago ... they gave us the impression that Gadhafi was a tyrant hated by his own people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTa4yAqqSI8

===

The shooting took place after Palestinians apparently threw stones at Israeli troops that were making arrests in the camp on the road from Ramallah to East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/191765.html

===

The Yemeni military admitted Sunday that its airstrikes have accidentally killed at least 11 allied tribesmen fighting Islamic extremists.
http://bit.ly/oLlAI7

===

Four soldiers were killed and 21 others injured when a car bomb exploded in reinforcement troops in Al Mansoura in the southern city of Aden, the ministry of defense said Sunday.
http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10021280.html

===

"To the scholars ... of the family of Saud ... I say to you, your King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and his crown prince, his interior minister and his son Mohammed, are considered by us to be apostates and must be killed," said Qassim al-Rimi.
http://tgr.ph/nro7hg

===

The new donation takes Saudi financial aid to Jordan to 1.4 billion dollars over the past two months.
http://bit.ly/r3EtI1

===

A US-Iraqi raid north of Baghdad on Saturday killed a tribal sheikh and two of his family members, police said, as local leaders condemned what they branded a "massacre" of civilians.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=47412

===

Former PM to be held to account on Iraq in Chilcot report on war.
http://bit.ly/nWknwi

===

Presstitute Reeport::
Iran Helping Iraqi Insurgents...Make That Al-Qaeda:

 "Iran arming Iraq insurgents" was last month's story. Today's papers are telling a different story; the new line being pushed by U.S. officials is that Iran is supporting Al-Qaeda.
http://www.fair.org/blog/2011/07/29/iran-helping-iraqi-insurgents-make-that-al-qaeda/

===

"The missile defense system is not purely a defensive system," envoy Dmitry Rogozin said. "There are serious and authoritative experts in Russia and in other countries who fear that the creation of a European missile defense system, officially assigned the task of blocking a threat from Iran, may in fact be a pretext for preparing an attack on Iran."
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20110728/165438632.html

===

Must read:
Don't Get It Twisted, We Are Already At War With Iran:

This weeks Iran launched an Oil Bourse on Kish Island. At the same time, former CIA officer and middle east expert Robert Baer stated that Israel is preparing to possibly attack on Iran in the Fall. Meanwhile, a US Drone was shot down Iran and a senior Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated.
http://bit.ly/qjvC0v

===

The Monday attack comes as protesters have demanded an end to the Al Khalifa regime, complaining about injustice and discrimination.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/191803.html

===

Tens of thousands of famine-stricken Somali refugees were cold and drenched after torrential rains pounded their makeshift structures early yesterday in the capital, leading to appeals for aid.
http://ind.pn/orKba9

===

Hundreds of dead bodies can be found on the roads every day; this suggests that people, particularly the young, are abandoned to their fate.
http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=252156

===

Army deploys soldiers to central Cairo square to send home demonstrators on first day of Ramadan.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/08/2011811355629619.html

===

The New York congressman seeks to put the spotlight on Somali Americans as a domestic terror threat. The facts show otherwise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/31/al-shabaab-peter-king

===

A top German security official warns that the recent terror attacks in Norway could serve as a blueprint for other anti-Muslim militants across Europe.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/191736.html

===

Islamophobic parties in Europe have established a tight network, stretching from Italy to Finland. But recently, they have extended their feelers to Israeli conservatives, enjoying a warm reception from members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition. Some in Israel believe that the populists are Europe's future.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,777175,00.html

===

Is an attack on a military installation terrorism? How about the attacks on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 - were those an act of "terrorism, " as the U.S. government said they were?
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1107x.asp

===

If you're God, you're probably not sweating the results of the latest national polling survey putting your approval rating at a mere 52 percent for overall job performance.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11210/1163673-153-0.stm

===

Evo Morales, attending the UN General Assembly in New York, believes he may be targeted by a US-cooked plot to arrest him for trafficking cocaine. RT caught up with one of world's most extravagant heads-of-state.
http://rt.com/news/drug-plot-us-morales/

===

Deal Allegedly Gave Sinaloa Bosses Immunity in Exchange for Providing Info on Rival Drug Organizations
http://bit.ly/nVAtLJ

===

Two of those guns were found at the murder scene of a U.S. border patrol agent along the Mexican border in Arizona last December.
http://read.bi/pDKPOG

===

More than a dozen private firms wanted to work on a project like the one the state Education Department is set to award to a Rupert Murdoch-owned company in a $27 million no-bid contract.
http://nydn.us/rg58pj

===

The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?
http://mondediplo.com/2011/08/02iceland

===

Tom Feeley