Inconvenient Truths of US Pakistan policy
By William A. Cohn
In our fervor to fight, we are facilitating the most likely scenario for nuclear devastation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22655.htm
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Obama’s Great Afghanistan Gamble
By Robert Dreyfuss
Everyone knows 17,000 more troops can’t win the war in Afghanistan. So what’s the exit strategy?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22662.htm
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“If you can’t outbreed the enemy, cull `em.”
Terrorism Breeds Terrorism
By Paul Balles
It’s time to stop making excuses for American military barbarism abroad. It’s time to stop creating terrorists by US terrorism in the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22653.htm
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Chasing Ghosts in Afghanistan and Iraq
What Was I Fighting For?
By Rick Reyes
We would ransack homes, destroying windows and doors, chairs and tables, families and lives–detaining and arresting anyone who seemed suspicious. The problem, of course, was that it was impossible to distinguish militant Taliban members or Al Qaeda from innocent civilians. Everyone became a suspect.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22660.htm
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Anti-American?
Ads You Won’t See In The US Or Online
By Nicholas Carlson
History is written by the winners.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22651.htm
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Rumsfeld and Cheney: Torture as Self-justification
By Jeff Sparrow
“He’s a ruthless little bastard. You can be sure of that.” So said Richard Nixon, a man who knew something about ruthlessness and bastardry, about Donald Rumsfeld back in 1971.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22654.htm
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Colin Powell Got Snookered at CIA
By Ray McGovern:
How was it, that Secretary Powell ended up citing a “sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist network” to depict a relationship that did not exist? Fair labeling: Reading what follows may not make you quite as ill as reading the Department of Justice torture memos, but it may well sicken-and anger-you just the same.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22661.htm
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Unexceptional Americans:
Why We Can’t See the Trees or the Forest
The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
By Noam Chomsky
Torture has been routinely practiced from the early days of the conquest of the national territory, and continued to be used as the imperial ventures of the “infant empire” — as George Washington called the new republic — extended to the Philippines, Haiti, and elsewhere.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22659.htm
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Bibi and Israel at Dead End
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Netanyahu wants Obama to commit to go to war if necessary to denuclearize Iran, but he cannot force Obama to fight a war he cannot want. Obama wants Netanyahu to accept a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem, but lacks the clout in his own country and Congress to force Netanyahu to comply.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22650.htm
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By Cindy Sheehan
To those of you who don’t support me, sorry to tell you, I am not, or never will give up. If I survived burying my oldest son for lies, I can survive any crap you or the Robber Class throws at me. The system seriously underestimates the love and commitment of a mother wronged. There are two illegal occupations raging, still, and more than enough work to do to wrest our country out of the hands of militarists/corporatists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22656.htm
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Netanyahu: US to present new plan:
The prime minister termed the plan “interesting,” and said that it would involve not just the Palestinians and Israelis, but also a number of moderate Arab states.
http://snipurl.com/id8l6
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Abbas unveils Palestinian cabinet:
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has unveiled a new government that excludes Hamas but comprises half of the cabinet from his Fatah faction.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/05/2009519133817748184.html
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Lieberman named to U.S.-Israeli gov’t post: –
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be in charge of the country’s strategic dialogue with the United States, the Cabinet said Sunday.
http://snipurl.com/id8nh
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Democrats won’t fund Guantanamo closing:
President Barack Obama’s allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison until the administration comes up with a satisfactory plan for transferring the detainees there, a top Democrat said Tuesday.
http://www.adn.com/uspolitics/story/800758.html
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Present Economy worse than Depression: Video:
Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of “The Black Swan” and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics. Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zZ6qNWeGw
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Brazil and China eye plan to axe dollar:
Brazil and China will work towards using their own currencies in trade transactions rather than the US dollar, according to Brazil’s central bank and aides to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/996b1af8-43ce-11de-a9be-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
