"In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic." - Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. Ideas, Ideals, and American Diplomacy

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"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

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Within Zionist world of illogic, Turkey's position will just reinforce Israel's narcissistic sense of victimhood.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29030.htm

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NATO leaders are guilty under US code of providing material support to terrorists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29023.htm

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A key rebel military commander's calling on the leaders of the National Transitional Council to resign - for being ex-Gaddafi loyalists. Political satirist Ted Rall sees a new civil war brewing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29026.htm

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Cameron, Sarkozy & Obama Train, Fund, Arm, Join & Lead al-Qaeda in Libya.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29024.htm

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Down Memory Lane
Dick Cheney's War Crimes

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi - Life in Iraq Under U.S. Occupation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29029.htm

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Two Years Ago Obama Decided Not to Prosecute Torturers, Now We Get An Account of Why.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29022.htm

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We still haven't told the truth about the crime which - we are supposed to believe - "changed the world for ever". Mind you, after watching Obama on his knees before Netanyahu last May, I'm really not surprised.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29027.htm

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Labor Day is an anachronism. It should be renamed Corporation Day or War Day to celebrate the success of Bush/Obama in eliminating labor unions as a countervailing power to corporate power and the elevation of War as the highest goal of the American state.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29028.htm

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To continue to pretend that the Democratic Party is a viable alternative to the GOP, is beyond misguided; it's delusional.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29031.htm

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Afghan forces backed by Nato-led troops have killed 21 Taliban militants and arrested 11, the interior ministry said.
http://bit.ly/pxafhi

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The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced on Saturday that a "combined Afghan and coalition security force" had killed "a key affiliate of the al Qaeda network during a security operation in Jalalabad district, Nangarhar province."
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/ex-gitmo_detainee_ki_1.php

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An investigator whom Lal's American lawyers retained to follow his case said that he saw the joint U.S.-Afghan case file on Lal and that there wasn't much in the way of evidence.
http://ht.ly/6kLJ0

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A non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack has killed at least seven people and wounded several others in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/197428.html

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Syrian security forces killed at least eight civilians on Sunday in raids on restive northwestern towns, residents and activists said, while the authorities blamed armed gangs for a bus ambush that killed nine people.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/05/165421.html

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Syria's national television has broadcast confessions of an individual that had cooperated with foreign media in fabricating footage on demonstrations in the country, Press TV reports.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/197392.html

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Russian envoy warns Syria about Western intervention: -

Deputy Russian foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Sunday that sanctions imposed on Syria by the US, UK and France could pave the way for military intervention in the country.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=417625

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Iran kills / wounds 30 Kurdish rebels:

A commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the military push was launched after giving the rebels a one-month "grace period" during Ramadan to withdraw from the area from where they have launched ambushes and sabotage attacks on gas pipelines.
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=201169

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A suicide bomber detonated his car at a checkpoint on Saturday, killing four soldiers in southern Yemen, where the army is fighting militants suspected of links to al Qaeda.
http://bit.ly/nOsiOe

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Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ouster marched yesterday in the Yemeni capital, raising tensions as troops deployed to try to prevent mass protests.
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MzUzOTM2NjY0OA==

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The Algerian authorities decided Sunday to close the land border crossings with Libya due to the unrest in the eastern neighbor, a senior official announced here on Sunday.
http://bit.ly/oV7Icu

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Foreigners complain of harassment by Libya rebels:

A Ghanaian teacher cowers in his house, certain he will be grabbed at a checkpoint because of his dark skin. Armed rebels detain 19 Ukrainian cooks and oil workers for several days on unsupported claims that they are really snipers for Moammar Gadhafi.
http://on.msnbc.com/n3AZoa

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Muammar Qaddafi's son Seif al-Islam has been travelling around close to Tripoli, meeting tribal leaders and preparing to retake the Libyan capital, his spokesman said on Friday.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/03/165183.html

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There are two Libyan conflicts going on - the real one on the ground being followed on social networks, and networking with friends and acquaintances who have contacts in Libya and the pink cloud cuckoo land broadcast by the western media, NATO's lackey.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/05-09-2011/118950-libya_tell-0/

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The documents were uncovered by the human rights activist group in the abandoned offices of Libya's former spy chief and foreign minister, Moussa Koussa.
http://natpo.st/riyflC

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CIA Rendered Rebel Commander To Libya At Qaddafi Request |:

Central Intelligence Agency communiques to Col. Muammar Qaddafi indicate that the CIA rendered Abdelhakim Belhadj to Libya at the request of Qaddafi's intelligence agency in 2004. Belhadj, who has a militant extremist past but is now the rebel commander in charge of Tripoli, says he was tortured while in CIA and Libyan custody.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/03/311651/cia-qaddafi-rendition/

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Cuba has announced the withdrawal of its ambassador and diplomatic mission in Libya and reiterated that it does not recognize the rebels' transitional government.
http://wapo.st/owq5nF

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West Point CTC Confirms LIFG Terrorists Leading Libyan Rebellion
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/09/west-point-terror-center-confirms-al.html

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Report: Turkey navy to escort aid ships to Palestinians in Gaza:

"The eastern Mediterranean will no longer be a place where Israeli naval forces can freely exercise their bullying practices against civilian vessels," a Turkish official was quoted as saying.
http://bit.ly/qkjEfI

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Turkish FM says Ankara intends to appeal International Court of Justice as soon as next week, following its rejection of the UN Gaza flotilla report, which stated that the blockade on the coastal enclave was legal.
http://bit.ly/oBu6NF

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Turkey's expulsion of the Israeli ambassador puts pressure on Egypt to downgrade ties following outrage over the killings of Egyptian policemen on the Sinai border with Israel, analysts said.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/03/165278.html

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 Erdogan to visit Egypt on September 12 to discuss strengthening military and diplomatic ties; move comes as Israel-Turkey diplomatic crisis deepens.
http://bit.ly/qANyNu

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Pro-Israeli apologists launch anti-Turkey propaganda:
Turks Turned Their Backs on America Before Dumping Israel

It is important to remember that long before Turkey tried to break the blockade of Hamas-run Gaza, its Islamic government had not only distanced itself from Israel but had begun to turn its back on the United States.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/09/04/turkey-israel-erdogan-us/

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The United States has launched a last ditch diplomatic drive to persuade Palestinians to scrap their plan to seek UN recognition as a state, The New York Times said.
http://www.france24.com/en/20110904-us-campaigns-avoid-palestinian-statehood-vote-0

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WikiLeaks US cable revealed that one of the primary reasons behind Israeli objections to Palestinian statehood is that lack of statehood keeps Palestinian territories outside the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which prosecutes war crimes.
http://bit.ly/qm0y2r

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'We Don't Do Gandhi Very Well': A new U.S. diplomatic cable out of the American embassy in Tel Aviv from February 2010 reveals that Israelis at that time were becoming increasingly frustrated with non-violent demonstrations by Palestinians in the West Bank.
http://bit.ly/njCVKW

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Sleeping with the enemy: Wikileaks:
PA officials highlighted need to keep coordination with IDF out the public eye:

 "Publicity about Israeli-Palestinian security coordination threatens the sustainability of the PA's security campaign. It is essential to depoliticize these contacts and keep them out of the public eye"
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/02/10JERUSALEM286.html

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After 450,000 Israelis turned up for nationwide protests, National Union of Israeli Students take down Tel Aviv tent, Jerusalem protest leaders decide to dismantle their tent encampment.
http://bit.ly/nR7rsG

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The Government faces a legal challenge next week over its decision not to hold a coroner's inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly.
http://bit.ly/qm2ITd

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The largest environmental civil disobedience in decades concluded at the White House this morning with organizers pledging to escalate a nationwide campaign to push President Obama to deny the permit for a new tar sands oil pipeline.
http://www.tarsandsaction.org/september-3-press-release-movement-born/

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Chinese banking officials considered buying up stakes in American banks during the height of the 2008 financial crisis, the McClatchy Newspapers reported Sunday, citing documents obtained from WikiLeaks.
http://bit.ly/nwkNw7

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Unemployed Nephew Couldn't Afford Antibiotics
http://www.wlwt.com/r/29044524/detail.html

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Simple: because so much of his job creation is minimum wage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/04/rick-perry-economic-miracle-texas

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Working class people are no longer just being Nickel and Dimed, they're being prosecuted by lenders, banks, and city officials.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/nickel-and-dimed-afterword

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Mass layoffs - when employers let go of 50 or more people at once - has jumped up 3 percent this summer, according to the unemployment numbers that came out Friday. Major companies like Borders, Bank of America, Cisco, Lockheed Martin, and Goldman Sachs have all recently announced mass layoffs.
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/number-of-mass-layoffs-jumps-up-3-percent/

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Why "efficiency" and "productivity" really mean more profits for corporations and less sanity for you.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speedup-americans-working-harder-charts

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Tom Feeley