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Exposing The Crimes Of Empire
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"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."-- Ambrose Bierce, American writer, 1842-1914
"War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder." - J. Krishnamurti
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Op-Ed Articles
Gaza: Remembering Cast Lead
By Stephen Lendman
Israel's Useful Idiot
Romney Takes Swipe at Ron Paul on Iran Nuke Policy
By Emily Friedman
Exit America
By Vijay Prashad
War is God
By Michael Carmichael
Congress, Obama Codify Indefinite Detention
By Sheldon Richman
Recall:
Montanans Organize to Remove Senators Who Voted For Traitorous Detainment Bill
By Mac Slavo
Vote Obama
If You Want A Centrist Republican For US President
By Glenn Greenwald
Department of Homeland Security
Using Fake Facebook and Twitter Accounts to Monitor Posts
By Electronic Privacy Information Center
The Book of Jobs
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
U.S. Lawmakers Get Richer As Voters Struggle
By Andrew Jones
Occupy Wall Street: How Cash Has Corrupted Congress
By Jeff Smith
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| Hard News
3 NATO occupation force troops killed by bomb in Afghanistan:
Three NATO service members have been killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said Wednesday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the target was a U.S. military convoy. http://usat.ly/uroOSG
Karzai: Afghan gov't will accept Taliban office in Qatar: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says he will accept Taliban insurgents opening a representative office in the Gulf state of Qatar for the purpose of holding peace talks, although Saudi Arabia or Turkey would be preferable venues. http://bit.ly/uoODuv
Afghanistan to Disband Irregular Police Force Set Up Under NATO: President Karzai has taken steps to disband a little-known, irregular police force financed by the American military. Some members of the force are former militiamen and thugs known as much for extorting money from ordinary citizens as for intimidating insurgents.
Afghanistan signs first major oil deal with China: Afghanistan's first major oil exploration contract will see state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation develop three oil fields in the relatively peaceful north of the country along the Amu Darya river. http://bit.ly/snFd2R
Pakistan: IHRC rejects NATO probe into border attack:
International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has officially rejected the findings of a US-NATO investigation into the recent attack on a border outpost. http://bit.ly/vrrqtY
Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing: In the space of three years, the administration has built an extensive apparatus for using drones to carry out targeted killings of suspected terrorists and stealth surveillance of other adversaries. http://wapo.st/rW0VK7
5 killed in Yemen clashes: Yemen's army exchanged machinegun fire with Al-Qaeda suspects in the country's south in clashes that left two soldiers and three militants dead, military and local officials said on Wednesday. http://yhoo.it/t3iCpd
US grants Yemen president unconditional visa, officials said: The assistant secretary general of the General People Congress Party Sultan al-Barakani affirmed that the US embassy in Sana'a had informed them that the president was offered unconditional visa to the US. http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10021740.html
Four Syrian soldiers killed in ambush, activists say: Activists say at least four soldiers have been killed and 12 others wounded in southern Syria in an ambush carried out by a group of military defectors. http://bit.ly/uevSSu
Syria: Arab League Monitors Say 'Nothing Frightening' in Homs:
The head of the Arab League's monitoring mission in Syria has angered protesters by saying he saw "nothing frightening" in the flashpoint city of Homs. http://bit.ly/sDS0CZ
Qatar builds up anti-Syria Wahhabi army: The Doha-funded army has been mobilized in the form of military battalions and brigades in bases in Syria's northern neighbor, Turkey. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218149.html
Four policemen killed in northern Iraq attacks: At least four policemen were killed Wednesday in two separate attacks in the northern Iraqi province of Mosul, according to security sources. http://bit.ly/w4wBrw
Nouri al-Maliki warns of 'rivers of blood' in Iraq: Iraq's Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, warned Saturday that efforts to create an autonomous Sunni region within Iraq would divide the country and lead to "rivers of blood." http://bit.ly/vbp2kA
Iraq blocs talking to Iran over standoff: sources: Charges that Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi ran a death squad have plunged Iraq into political crisis, and representatives of several parties have spoken to top officials in Tehran, according to senior political sources in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish region, where Hashemi is holed up. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/12/27/184852.html
Iran to 'block' Gulf oil if sanctions proceed: No oil will be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz if the West applies sanctions on Iran's oil exports, Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi has warned. http://bit.ly/twldne
U.S. Navy warns Iran against blocking Strait of Hormuz: A spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet is warning Iran that any disruption of traffic flowing though the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil route, "will not be tolerated." http://bit.ly/urOpmp
One killed, in Israeli attack on Gaza: :
Palestinian medics named the dead man as Abdallah al-Telbani, 22, and said he was riding in a motorised rickshaw in Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the strip when the attack took place late on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if the other casualties were riding with him. http://bit.ly/vtcQXO
Israeli army chief says second Gaza attack inevitable: Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz on Tuesday marked the three- year anniversary of the Operation Cast Lead, hailing it "an excellent operation that achieved deterrence for Israel vis-a-vis Hamas Xinhua reported http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1974986.html
Jewish zealots strike fear in flashpoint Israel town: The ultra-Orthodox make up only about 10 percent of Israel's population of 7.7 million. But their high birthrates and bloc voting patterns have helped them secure welfare benefits and wider influence. One of Netanyahu's biggest partners in the coalition government, Shas, is a party run by rabbis. http://reut.rs/uzJgae
NATO's Libya campaign targeted in Russian human rights report: The Foreign Affairs Ministry has released its first report into the state of human rights in countries abroad, taking particular umbrage with NATO's bombing campaign in Libya. http://themoscownews.com/russia/20111228/189332559.html
Protesters block main highway in Libya's capital; About 200 men have blocked a main highway in the Libyan capital and stormed the local city council demanding justice over the death of 15 soldiers from their neighborhood in an ambush.
Australia Buys $950 Million Worth of Military Planes from U.S.:
Australia will purchase from the United States 10 military planes and other equipment worth $950 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency informed the U.S. Congress on Wednesday on the sales of C-27J aircraft, missile warning systems and radar. http://bit.ly/u1b9LY
U.S. Fukushima Medical Study Estimates 14,000 Dead U.S. Infants from Fallout:
TEPCO maintain that the effects of the disaster have been contained. Not so, according to a just published peer reviewed medical paper appearing in the U.S., which indicates that Fukushima's pernicious consequences have traveled across the Pacific. http://bit.ly/vKeIFv
TEPCO says it 'no longer owns' Fukushima fallout: IN terms of sheer chutzpah, Tokyo Electric Power Co's claim that it no longer owns the radioactive isotopes that spewed out of its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March takes some beating. http://bit.ly/uq6P7c
25,000 radioactive sites in Russia: There are as many as 25,000 hazardous underwater objects containing radioactive waste in Russia, emergency ministry officials said Monday. http://bit.ly/vjq56a
Reports: Cuba frees thousands of prisoners: Amnesty deal to grant freedom to nearly 3,000 people, including five political prisoners and 86 foreigners. http://bit.ly/tCoo58
Brazil economy 'overtakes Britain':
Brazil's rise to world's sixth-largest economy is part of larger trend where many emerging economies are growing fast. http://bit.ly/t1D3RD
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley |
| 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 : 2,842
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
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