"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion." Aldous Huxley

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"Observe all men; thy self most." -Benjamin Franklin

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"If you know yourself, then you know all people." - Tom Feeley

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I watched their heartbroken and incensed loved ones bury the 33 children, 32 women and 20 men.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28812.htm

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NATO is committing war crimes daily in Libya.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28811.htm

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Imagine it. People in an Afghan village pass sleepless nights, anxious that their home might be targeted by a U.S.-led night raid.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28817.htm

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Sanctioning Bank Markazi might, as mentioned by the Wall Street Journal's Jay Solomon, be interpreted as an act of war. But that doesn't seem to bother AIPAC.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28810.htm

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The U.S. almost surely will default on some of its currently acknowledged obligations. The only question is whether it will be public employee pensions, Social Security, Medicare, or bonds.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28815.htm

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Video of Mitt Romney's tense moments at the Iowa State Fair.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28816.htm

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Ex-national security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers-then covered it up.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28814.htm

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The attacks occur in southern Afghanistan, where most of the foreign forces are American or British.
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fgw-afghan-bombs-20110812,0,5333516.story

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Bombers killed up to six people on Thursday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, where a woman suicide attacker blew herself up and roadside explosives struck a police vehicle, officials said.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/11/161784.html

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In just a single attack on a madrassah in 2006 up to 69 children lost their lives.
http://tgr.ph/qtaPos

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The morally bankrupt Obama administration insists on using brutal and massive force against unarmed and hapless civilians in gross violation of international law and in flagrant breach of basic human rights.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=108381

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A report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) late last month is a devastating exposure of the brutal and inhumane tactics Pakistan's military and security agencies are using to suppress Baloch secessionists and nationalists in the country's poorest province.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/paki-a11.shtml

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had the names of five people killed and 16 wounded in morning raids by security forces backed by tanks on Qusair, near the Lebanon border, after overnight protests calling for Assad's removal.
http://bit.ly/mWW1f7

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White House: US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed during a phone call Thursday on the need for a "transition to democracy" in Syria, the White House said.
http://bit.ly/pRPS3E

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Mohammed al-Zawawi says two rebels died and 16 were wounded in Thursday's clashes.
http://bit.ly/nTadKt

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Patrick Cockburn: Libya's Ragtag Rebels are Dubious Allies:

Rebels, from the Wars of the Roses up to the present civil war in Libya, usually try to postpone splitting into factions and murdering each other until after they have seized power and are in full control. However deep their divisions, they keep them secret from the outside world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28813.htm

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People should ask themselves why Libya is so resilient and why the Rebels need so much foreign support for bombing fellow Libyans. If there really was so much popular support the uprising would have ended many months ago.
http://bit.ly/rib8Hi

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Arms controls continue to be flouted in the context of the Libyan armed conflict. Both France and Qatar have openly admitted to supplying arms to the rebels as a complementary strategy to the NATO-led air strikes.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201108111096.html

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The Obama administration on Wednesday expressed concern about a "creeping" trend of anti-American sentiment in Egypt, where it says it has noticed mounting attacks and criticism of U.S. aid and motives as the country transitions to democracy.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110810/ap_on_re_us/us_us_egypt

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Twin bomb attacks against the home of a police officer in western Iraq killed at least three people and wounded 24 others Thursday evening, security and medical officials said.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/three-killed-twin-west-iraq-blasts-174548212.html

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Demonizing Iran:
CNN Pundits Blame Iran For Attack On American Helicopter In Afghanistan:

You know, the Iranians don't always come in the front door and oftentimes they work through proxies and they insert themselves to cause Americans and American forces difficulty around the world
http://youtu.be/7QYng7qjtV0

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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:

We must not underestimate the threat of Iran.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/176367-keep-tehran-in-check

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The ministry is expected to approve the building of a further 2,700 homes, an official has said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14488066

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In case you missed it:

A recent Times Op-Ed article got it wrong: The Fourth Geneva convention explicitly prohibits colonizing occupied territories.
http://ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/illegal.html

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You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, weeklong junkets to a foreign country - paid for by a lobby for that country - would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips.
http://original.antiwar.com/alison-weir/2011/08/10/israel-lobby-dominates-congress/

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The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing's lack of transparency over its military aims.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1146313/1/.html

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PM says sites such as Twitter and Facebook 'can be used for ill' and that broadcasters should hand footage of riots to police
http://bit.ly/nqnoDH

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A tortured choice in famine: Which child lives?:

Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her 1-year-old daughter on her back and her 4-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia's drought and famine. When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some of the little water she had on his head to cool him, but he was unconscious and could not drink.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/a-tortured-choice-in-1097281.html

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The starting gun for one of the biggest fire-sales in western history was fired as Greek officials began appointing advisers for the country's ambitious privatisation drive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/01/greece-50bn-privatisation-drive

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The most important voice in the debate about the credit worthiness of America's debt, is not the twisted opinions of the US-credit rating agencies, but rather, that of China's credit rating agency
http://www.sirchartsalot.com/article.php?id=155

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Geithner Is Incompetent: Video -
http://bit.ly/peL396

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Groups affiliated with the conservative grassroots movement say defense cuts should be on the table as the supercommittee tries to compile at least $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts.
http://bit.ly/qXMU6L

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 As the newly appointed co-chairwoman of the 12-member, bipartisan committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget savings, Murray's campaign supporters now are sure to come calling for her help.
http://bloom.bg/n9M9Cd

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The official bailout of the financial system may be over, but the government is apparently far from finished propping up big banks, as evidenced by the news that Bank of America has struck a deal to dump a bunch of near-worthless home loans on U.S. taxpayers.
http://bit.ly/osGQgv

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Tom Feeley