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"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions". Noam Chomsky
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" He who recognizes no humanity in others, loses it in himself."-- author unknown
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Meade ~
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,795 www.icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,759
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,262,888,222,631 http://www.costofwar.com/
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The Suicide of Liberty
By Paul Craig Roberts
It is unclear whether the US, as we have known it, will survive its next presidential election.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29386.htm
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The "Very Scary" Iranian Terror Plot
By Glenn Greenwald
U.S. government accusations = Truth. All Serious people know that.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29388.htm
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The Fast and Furious Plot to Occupy Iran
By Pepe Escobar
The House of Saud who's been conducting the fierce counter-revolution that has smashed any possibility of an Arab Spring in the Persian Gulf.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29390.htm
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UN Member States must Demand Action Against NATO War Crimes
By Shenali Waduge
If the US used the Nuremberg principles to charge Germany for "starting an unprovoked war" shouldn't the US be charged on similar grounds?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29389.htm
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Arrest Bush
Amnesty: Canada 'Required' to Arrest George W. Bush
By Michel Comte
"Torturers must face justice and their crimes are so egregious that the responsibility for ensuring justice is shared by all nations,"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29387.htm
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Wars in the 21st Century: From Drones to Cyber Wars
By Prabir Purkayastha
The US has resisted all attempts till now to have an international treaty on cyber war. This is in line with its basic position on all matters of international law - it applies to all countries but not to the US - the case for US exceptionalism.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29391.htm
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There Never Was an Egyptian Revolution
By Ahmed Amr
The thrill is gone, the euphoria has faded and our mass delusions have been swept away to make room for the reality that there never was an Egyptian revolution.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29385.htm
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Targeting Syria - The 'Bad News' For The Guardian
By Media Lens
The standard media version of events, repeated endlessly, for example, by the BBC and ITV. We are to understand that the Syrian government is responsible for a vicious repression of peaceful protestors.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29393.htm
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A Global-wide Liberty Plaza of the Mind
Capitalism and Its Discontents of the American Autumn
By Phil Rockstroh
Come out of self-exile; you are the change you can believe in.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29394.htm
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My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Hit Bankers Where it Hurts
By Matt Taibbi
Occupy Wall Street could be better and more dangerous.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29395.htm
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Report: 25% Of Millionaires Pay Lower Taxes Than 10.4 Million Middle-Class Americans
By Tanya Somanader
Preferential treatment of investment income and the reduced impact of payroll taxes on high earners lets about 94,500 millionaires pay taxes at a lower rate than 10.4 million "moderate-income taxpayers,"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29392.htm
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Global Revolution
Video Stream
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29304.htm
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Hard News
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US Kills 12 People In Pakistan:
At least 12 people have been killed in two separate US drone attacks in Pakistan. An unmanned aircraft bombed insurgent targets in the semi-autonomous tribal areas in north-western Pakistan
http://bit.ly/ql9umf
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U.S. diplomats barred from travel without permission in Pakistan: -
Pakistani police Wednesday refused American diplomats to go out of the port city of Karachi without proper travel documents, local media reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-10/12/c_131187841.htm
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Fourteen killed as deserters battle with Syrian troops:
Fourteen people were killed in gunfire in two Syrian towns Thursday, an activist group said, most of them in clashes between troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and gunmen believed to be army deserters.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111013/wl_nm/us_syria_clashes
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Heroic defense of Sirte: NATO supported rebel forces retreat from Sirte under heavy "Qadhafi" fire:
The NTC forces, which had been hoping to mop up the last pockets of resistance in two residential neighbourhoods in the northwest of the city, withdrew at least two kilometres (more than a mile) to the central police headquarters they captured on Tuesday, the correspondent said.
http://www.brecorder.com/world/africa/31630-ntc-forces-pull-back-in-sirte-under-heavy-qadhafi-fire.html
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Libya: Gaddafi fighters hit back in Sirte, NTC backtracks capture claim:
Libya's new regime fighters retreated under heavy fire from loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte today as their leaders backtracked on an announcement they had captured one of his sons.
http://bit.ly/ovgkWH
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Libya: NATO supported rebels torture, abuse prisoners: Amnesty says:
"According to his cellmates, several days after beatings left him paralyzed from the waist down, he started vomiting blood and he died shortly after being taken to the hospital," the report said.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/12/2451208/libyan-rebels-abuse-torture-prisoners.html
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Libyan forces make chaotic advance into Sirte: Video -
"They are families inside fighting for their houses and their children who have died," said Mohammed, 23, who fled Sirte a few days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2e8yBadngw&feature=player_embedded
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Libya's rival military commanders fight war of words:
"Who is Abdulhakim Belhaj and who appointed him?" Naker asks. "We don't know him. We are the leaders, we are the revolutionists, we know everything."
http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201110/74693.php
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Smuggled Libyan weapons flood into Egypt:
Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt's already unstable Sinai Peninsula, according to current and former Egyptian military officials and arms traders in the Sinai.
http://wapo.st/pIoMsq
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23 years after Lockerbie, a father fights on for justice:
Anyone who examines the events of the trial in the Netherlands will see that the prosecution case against Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhima was laughable, a grotesque parade of paid witnesses, corrupt evidence and dodgy 'experts'.
http://bit.ly/oUI3Rg
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'US claim insults global intelligence':
Iran's envoy to the UN says US allegations about Tehran's involvement in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington are an "insult to the intelligence" of the people of the world.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204337.html
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We know, but we just don't have evidence:
Officials concede gaps in U.S. knowledge of Iran plot:
They said it was "more than likely" that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Quds Force commander Qasem Suleimani had prior knowledge or approved of the suspected plot.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/us-usa-iran-plot-idUSTRE79B7VO20111012
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Analysis: U.S. plot charges face skepticism in Middle East:
Riyadh's antagonism toward Iran was revealed in leaked U.S. cables that quoted Jubeir telling United States diplomats four years ago that the time had come to "confront Iran."
http://reut.rs/ptrtCd
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Engineering Consent For Attack On Iran
U.S. aims to "unite the world" against Iran:
The Obama administration was taking its case against Iran to the world Wednesday, trying to stir up an international response to charges that the Islamic republic plotted to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/12/national/main20119095.shtml
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Biden says Iran will be held accountable for plot:
"It's an outrage that violates one of the fundamental premises upon which nations deal with one another and that is the sanctity and safety of their diplomats."
http://bit.ly/rn19iC
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US Senator Kerry: 'All options' open on Iran plot:
Asked whether using force was a possibility, the Democratic lawmaker told reporters: "I don't think anything should be taken off the table at this point in time."
http://bit.ly/pcCe2i
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Perry says Iranian terror plot proves America must secure its southern border:
The Republican presidential hopeful used Tuesday's announcement that Iranian forces had sought to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. to call for more border troops, improved fencing along the Mexican border and increased border patrols including the use of predator drone surveillance.
http://wapo.st/r8DA5G
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Iranians May Have Consulted Three Stooges Script in Terror Plot:
How stupid are the Iranians? If the allegations by the United States are true, they hired a used car salesman in Texas to knock of the Saudi ambassador to the United States, and they also introduced the used car salesman to members of the Quds force like it was a cocktail party.
http://ti.me/n2SUF1
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Jewish communities hail thwarting of Iran terror plot:
Jewish communities in the US and Argentina on Wednesday congratulated law enforcement officials in Washington D.C. who earlier announced the foiling of a terror plot targeting the Israeli embassies in their respective countries.
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=241460
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US: Radar intelligence to protect Israel?
Intelligence to be gathered from a NATO early warning radar system planned to be deployed in Turkey to help spot missile threats coming from outside Europe will be used to protect all NATO allies, a US official has said, declining to say whether it will also be shared with Israel.
http://bit.ly/rdkJnf
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Hamas: Shalit deal would have failed had we insisted on top Palestinian prisoners:
Gaza-ruling militant group coming under fire for failing to release Fatah bigwig Marwan Barghouti; Gaza official: Hamas withholds final list fearing public backlash.
http://bit.ly/oQLA5Y
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Many freed Palestinian prisoners may be deported:
The deportations would be a blow to the prisoners' families, many of whom have waited decades to see their loved ones.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/13/ap/middleeast/main20119788.shtml
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Palestinians should vote in Jerusalem elections:
We are the only democracy in the Middle East, but for Jews alone.
http://bit.ly/nFtwJH
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Weaponized Drone Is Designed to Be Launched From Mothership Drone:
The Remora Unmanned Air Vehicle. It's smaller than regular drones, the size of a large missile. And that's precisely what it is: a remote controlled weaponized airplane. One that is designed to be launched from a large drone.
http://gizmodo.com/5849435/remora-weaponized-drone-is-designed-to-be-launched-from-mothership-drone
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Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive
The Guardian found evidence that the Journal had been channeling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down rate, misleading readers and advertisers about the Journal's true circulation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/12/wall-street-journal-andrew-langhoff?CMP=twt_gu
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Darrell Issa Subpoenas Eric Holder Over Gun Running To Mexican Drug Cartels:
The Goverment operation, which began in November 2009, watched "straw buyers" of guns in border states hand over guns to middlemen who, in turn, transferred the guns to Mexican drug cartels. However, ATF agents let over 2,000 guns "walk," and the guns ended up at crime scenes on both sides of the border.
http://huff.to/nT4Gja
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US Sheriffs: Secure Border to Block Cartel "Terrorists":
"I don't see the Mexican drug cartels as a gang," testified Sam Page, sheriff of Rockingham County, N.C. "I see them as a terrorist organization."
http://bit.ly/nLL7oF
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Canadian Evangelical School Cancels George W. Bush Visit:
After news leaked that Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, Ontario was planning an invitation-only fund-raising breakfast with George W. Bush, it only took two days for the Sept. 20 event to be canceled.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-braun/george-bush-tyndale-university_b_998778.html
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Exxon Aims to Bail on Payments for Valdez Damage:
In its filing to the US District Court in Alaska on September 30, the company argues that the agreement it reached with the government only covers "restoration" work-not additional "clean-up."
http://bit.ly/plnADu
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'Indignant' protests to sweep across world: -
"Indignant" activists, angered by a biting economic crisis they blame on politicians and bankers, vow to take to the streets worldwide on Saturday in a protest spanning 71 nations.
http://www.france24.com/en/20111013-indignant-protests-sweep-across-world-0
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UK unemployment, poverty at all time high :
It's the latest blow to the British economy - unemployment is at a seventeen year high.There are now over two and a half million unemployed people in the country, an increase of a hundred and fourteen thousand in three months.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJgPR91duyo
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Scotland's Poor Face 'World War Two Like Food Rationing' After Rising Prices, Says Oxfam Scotland:
Pensioners and those on the lowest incomes are struggling to feed themselves in the face of rising food prices, Oxfam Scotland said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/10/13/scotlands-poor-face-world_n_1008372.html
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Hundreds "Occupy Dublin" As Wall Street Tactic Spreads -
The State has sold itself completely to the financial cartels," a 42 year-old unemployed construction worker tells me. "They are transferring more wealth out of Ireland than British landlords ever did, and these are Irish people doing it!"
http://bit.ly/qQ7qDG
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Border guards put on alert for weekend protests: -
A Canadian border alert has been issued to prevent hard-core U.S. protesters from crossing the border to take part in marches and an occupation of the country's financial centres on Saturday.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/10/12/18816541.html
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Protesters suspicious of plan to clean up NYC park:
The owner of the private park where Wall Street protesters are camped out says it will begin enforcing park regulations, which prohibit everything from lying down on benches to storing personal property on the ground.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2016487402_apuswallstreetprotest.html
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I Am Not Moving - Short Film - Occupy Wall Street:
This video is meant to be a warning to our leaders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPFLw9S280&feature=player_embedded
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Home foreclosure proceedings on the rise again:
California and other Western states see the largest increase in banks' beginning the foreclosure process on homes.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-foreclosures-20111013,0,6869773.story
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
