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"Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?" -"I never thought the Federal Reserve System would prove such a failure" - Carter Glass -- (1858-1946) US Senator (D-VA), Co-sponsor of the bill that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve system. - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Woodrow Wilson.
"What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures." - Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor- 1915
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Op-Ed Articles
Obama Wants World War III
By Michael S. Rozeff
Israels Useful Idiot
I Won't Let Iran Get Nukes
By Mitt Romney
America's Media War on Iran
By Stephen Lendman
Reports of Iran's Nuclear Ambitions Sound Like a Repeat of Iraq Eight Years Ago
By Gwynne Dyer
"We will not build two (nuclear) bombs in the face of (America's) 20,000," said Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in response to an International Atomic Energy Agency report this week that accuses Iran of doing just that. He called Yukiya Amano, the head of the IAEA, a U.S. puppet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29685.htm
"Israel's Advocate" to Leave White House for Pro-Israel Think Tank
By Jim Lobe
Ross was the only official in whom most American Jewish leaders had confidence. As most of them are Democrats who have long accepted Ross's faith in the 'peace process,' they viewed his role as the assurance that a steady, experienced, pro-Israel hand was on or near the tiller. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29683.htm
Israeli lobby drag America into wars
Washington's Enemy 'Doesn't Exist'
By Michael Scheuer
Terror and Revenge Engulfs NATO's Libya
By Franklin Lamb
The Profits of War
Bomb, Build, Benefit: UK Joins Gold Rush to Patch Up War-torn Libya
By RT
From The Archive WAR is a Racket. It Always Has Been
By Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4377.htm
From The Archives A Veteran Remembers
By Howard Zinn
They want us to forget what we learned at the Vietnam War's end: that our leaders cannot be trusted, that modern war is inevitably a war against civilians and particularly children, that only a determined citizenry can stop the government when it embarks on mass murder. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15587.htm
Veteran's Day
A Time To Honor Duped Murderers?
By fishychick
Congress Members Took Part in Insider Trading: Abramoff
By Eamon Javers
Can A New Labor Movement Save American "Civilization"?
By Bob Simpson
In Mexico, a Universal Struggle Against Power and Forgetting
By John Pilger
Mexico: Widespread Rights Abuses in 'War on Drugs'
By Human Rights Watch
Europe's Crash Landing
By Mike Whitney
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Hard News
US kill 38 more people in Somalia:
The US remote-controlled drones launched aerial attacks on Tabataa town, which is located in the southern Lower Juba region of Somalia. At least 38 people were killed and over 66 others were wounded in the terror strikes. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209381.html
Six killed in clash in northwest Pakistan: At least six people were killed in a clash between Islamist militants and members of a local pro-government militia in Pakistan's Khyber tribal district today, officials said. http://bit.ly/tj3FGC
Pakistan Drone Strikes Aided by Covert Emitters: A British lawyer has claimed that two innocent Pakistani youths were killed on October 31 in a strike that followed three days after one of them attended a protest meeting in Islamabad http://bit.ly/rEbkxa
NATO occupation force service member killed by insurgents in southern Afghanistan:
NATO says the attack took place Friday but provided no other information. The death raises to 495 the number of coalition troops killed in the country so far this year. http://wapo.st/spiyvF
US Soldier Is Convicted of Killing Afghan Civilians for Sport:
He was sentenced to life in prison but could be eligible for parole in less than 10 years. http://nyti.ms/sDgT2D
Two Iraqis killed, 11 injured in blasts in Baghdad: -
Two Iraqis were killed and 11 injured in successive blasts in Baghdad on Friday evening, a police source said. http://bit.ly/rqrwqs
UN Security Council panel fails to agree on Palestinian statehood bid:
The Palestinians currently have only eight supporters, diplomats say. If the Palestinian delegation chooses to force a vote without securing nine votes, the United States would not need to use its veto power to block it. http://bit.ly/u40Cv4
Despite major rebuke, Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin endorses slaughtering Palestinians: None of the paper's supposedly liberal columnists are willing to raise a peep in favor of Palestinian rights, and even if they were, they could face harsh reprisals for doing so http://bit.ly/vd4Qis
Australia: Obama to announce US marine base in Darwin:
PRESIDENT Barack Obama is to announce that the US will begin rotating marines through an Australian base in Darwin in a permanent new military presence, intensifying the alliance in a sign of heightened concern about China. http://bit.ly/sal2zt
Fighting reported in western Libya: Clashes were being reported Friday in western Libya between two rival groups vying for control of the base of a brigade formally led by one of the sons of ousted leader Moamer Gaddafi. http://bit.ly/vBA0Kl
Gadhafi son Saadi in Niger on humanitarian asylum: president: :
Niger has decided to grant Moamer Gadhafi's son Saadi asylum for humanitarian reasons, President Mahamadou Issoufou said Friday, adding that his brother Seif al-Islam is not in the country. http://bit.ly/rZ2OlC
Whistling in the wind:
Libyans will not allow Qatar to control their country: former NTC leader: "Qatar gave a lot to the Libyan revolution, but the Qataris are playing a role that is bigger than their actual potential. The Qataris possess soft power means, which is money and the media, but when a country stretches itself more than its capacity allows, it will be break in the middle," Jibril said. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/11/11/176492.html
Something smells : Key Mexico minister killed in helicopter crash:
Blake, 45, was the second interior secretary to die in an air accident during the presidency of Felipe Calderon, after Juan Camilo Mourino died in a small plane crash in Mexico City three years ago. http://yhoo.it/tajJoF
California Refuses to Accept Obama's Banking Sellout: There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, not even a law for a fifth strike, as The New York Times reported in the case of Citigroup, cited last month in a $1 billion fraud case. http://bit.ly/tOIG1Y
Ex-soldier 'kills himself' in tent shooting at Occupy Vermont protest camp:
Just two days ago an Oakland man claimed he was shot with a rubber bullet as he filmed a stand-off between police and anti-Wall Street protesters. http://bit.ly/shpuSG
"Let us be peace and joy"
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| Cost Of war
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: 4,801
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,799
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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