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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant fundsdemanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real." - General Douglas MacArthur
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Day of Mass Action to Stop War on Iran February 4, 2012 ==== An Alternative View
What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update By Boris DOLGOV Petrodollar Pumping US Policy on Iran, Backfire Looms By Michael T. Winter Israel's War on Democracy By Conn Hallinan We Are All Suspects Now By John Pilger A Journey To The End Of Empire:
It Is Always Darkest Right Before It Goes Completely Black By Phil Rockstroh Atrocious acts can be committed by the state, with increasing frequency, because, over the passage of time, such outrages will have been allowed to pass into the realm of the mundane, and are thus bestowed with a patina of acceptability. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30414.htm Hatuey's Rebellion
The First American Freedom Fighter By William Loren Katz This February 2nd stands as the 500th anniversary of the death of Hatuey, an Indigenous American fighter for independence from colonialism not mentioned in the same breath as Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30416.htm Whitewashing Black History Month By Gary Younge What Real Journalism Looks Like
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Syria troops move on new rebel areas near capital: Syrian troops battled army defectors in a string of towns in the mountains overlooking Damascus on Wednesday in a new assault to crush rebellious areas around the capital, activists said. http://apne.ws/e0ToK2
Syrian rebels upbeat despite government advances: Amateur video shows the Free Syrian Army exchanging gunfire with government forces as they take cover behind a rebel tank. http://tgr.ph/Ai63H0
Canada pulls most diplomats from Syria: -
Canada has evacuated all but a few of its embassy staff from Syria as that country teeters on civil war, the foreign minister said in Ottawa. http://bit.ly/y0iVCG
Pakistan Taliban leader, 20 others killed: - Security forces conducting an operation in Pakistan's tribal region killed a Taliban commander and 20 other suspected militants, officials said Wednesday. http://bit.ly/wymyzZ
Militants kill 14 paramilitary troopers in southwest Pakistan: At least 14 paramilitary troopers were killed in a militant attack on a security post in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan, official sources said on Wednesday. http://bit.ly/zrKe63
Parcel with Anthrax sent to Pakistani premier's house: Pakistani police said Wednesday they were investigating how and why a parcel containing anthrax was sent to the prime minister's official residence in the capital Islamabad last month. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/01/191907.html
Pakistan dismisses Nato report on Afghan Taliban links: Pakistan's foreign minister says her country has no hidden agenda in Afghanistan, in response to a leaked secret Nato report on Islamabad's links to the Afghan Taliban. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16832359
Man in Afghan army uniform kills NATO soldier: "An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing one service member," the NATO-led ISAF said in a press release, Xinhua reported. http://en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1986613.html
Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO: The U.S. military said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw, raising the prospect of a major failure of Western policy after a costly war. http://reut.rs/xPnxxB
Afghan Taliban deny they're ready to talk peace: Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid rejected those reports as "baseless," saying in a statement that exploratory talks between the insurgency and the U.S. and its allies have not yet reached the stage for negotiations. http://bit.ly/AxIgne
Islamist sect kills 5 people in northeast Nigeria: The Borno state police spokesman said Tuesday that Boko Haram gunmen attacked an air force barracks, a police station and an army checkpoint Monday, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of the sect's stronghold in the city of Maiduguri. http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120131/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_violence
Seventeen Executions In One Day In Iraq: All seventeen executions took place yesterday, bringing the total number so far this year to 51. 68 people were executed in 2011. http://bit.ly/wdSBpH
UN nuclear inspectors upbeat on Iran visit, but say further talks needed: Both sides describe the three days of talks as 'good'; Iran says it was ready to show IAEA delegates its nuclear facilities, but 'they didn't ask for it'. http://bit.ly/zvKnqq
Destination Persian Gulf? US nuclear sub and destroyer enter Red Sea: Two ships of the US Navy, the nuclear submarine USS Annapolis and the destroyer USS Momsen have passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Although their destination is confidential, they are now getting dangerously close to the Persian Gulf. http://rt.com/news/us-submarine-passes-suez-115/
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran:
Iranian (retaliatory) attack on America and allies increasingly likely - intelligence chief: Western officials say that in the past year there has been a notable increase in activity around the world by suspected members of Iran's Quds force, which they say could reflect positioning of units capable of carrying out reprisal attacks against western and Israeli targets if Iran was itself attacked. http://bit.ly/zTa6D7
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran:
Iran said greater threat, while al-Qaida declines: Top U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday asserted that Iran has the means to build a nuclear weapon but has not yet decided to follow through, in contrast to Israel's insistence that time is running out to stop Iran from developing such a weapon.. . http://sg.news.yahoo.com/al-qaida-decline-threats-us-multiply-153319818.html
Mossad chief holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran nuclear "threat", Senate panel reveals: During a broadcasted meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA Director, panel Chairperson indicate they met Tamir Pardo in Washington this week; U.S. official: Iran willing to attack U.S. targets if threatened. http://bit.ly/yejRTV
Israel sets up elite command unit to strike behind 'enemy' lines: The "Depth Corps" has been organised with the aim of co-ordinating deep penetration operations in other countries at a time when the defence ministry acknowledges that the number of covert Israeli operations abroad has increased significantly in the last year. http://ind.pn/x8d13h
Ban Ki-Moon, U.N. Secretary General, Urges Israel To Halt illegal West Bank Settlements Construction: U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has harshly criticized Israel's continued settlement construction and urged it to submit detailed proposals in low-level border talks with the Palestinians. http://huff.to/z5EuGT
U.S. criticizes Israel plan to subsidize illegal West Bank settlement construction: Comments by top State Department official come after Netanyahu cabinet announces plan to encourage immigration into 557 illegal 'national priority' settlements, which reportedly include 70 in the West Bank. http://bit.ly/wRTkvw
UN chief calls on Israel to make 'goodwill' gestures toward Palestinians: Ban told Peres that Israel must make some confidence-building gestures toward the Palestinians, in order to carry on with the direct talks between the sides in Jordan. http://bit.ly/xA0TH8
4 punished for blowing whistle on Dover AFB body handling: Four civilian employees at the Port Mortuary at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base were illegally punished after blowing the whistle on the mortuary's mishandling of dead troops' remains. Between 2004 and 2006, Dover Air Force Base workers dumped the remains of 274 troops in a Virginia landfill without notifying the soldiers' families. http://bit.ly/zbK9xS
Assange appeals 'invalid' warrant: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has asked the Supreme Court to block his extradition to Sweden on the grounds that the European arrest warrant issued against him is "invalid and unenforceable". http://bit.ly/wdY3GO
Group Says FBI Snoops on Wikileaks Supporters: A nonprofit government watchdog claims the FBI refuses to release information on "the government's identification and surveillance of individuals who have demonstrated support for or interest in WikiLeaks." http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/31/43485.htm
Romney: 'I'm not concerned about the very poor': Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he's "not concerned about the very poor" because they have an "ample safety net" and he's focused instead on relieving the suffering of middle-class people hit hard by the bad economy http://bit.ly/wUJJ2f
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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 : 2,882
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
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