Condemning Torture, Condoning Mass Murder

By Charles Davis

The idea that war crimes and civil liberties violations are strictly conservative affairs is particularly comforting to wide-eyed Democrats in awe of America’s First Black President ™, and it affords the heirs to the same liberal establishment which brought us Vietnam and Hiroshima another opportunity to grandstand about their commitment to human rights even as the noble humanitarian Barack Obama continues to extra-judicially murder foreigners with unmanned drones. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22644.htm

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The Disease of Permanent War

By Chris Hedges

The hollowness of our liberal classes, such as the Democrats, empowers the moral nihilists. A state of permanent war means the inevitable death of liberalism. Dick Cheney may be palpably evil while Obama is merely weak, but to those who seek to keep us in a state of permanent war it does not matter. They get what they want. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22646.htm

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Obama’s Animal Farm

By James Petras

The Democratic Pigs are now pursuing the same brutal, military policies of their predecessors, the Republican Porkers, only now it is in the name of the people and peace. Orwell might paraphrase the policy of President Barack Obama, as ‘Bigger and bloodier wars equal peace and justice’.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22642.htm

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Buyers Remorse

Is It Too Late To Swap Obama For McCain?

By Mike Whitney

I don’t know about you, but I believe that America is based on the idea that every man has certain basic rights, and the most fundamental of all those rights is the right to know why the state has thrown your ass in jail. That’s numero uno! It’s called habeas corpus and the whole judicial system rests on that one foundation stone. People like Obama, who don’t believe in habeas, shouldn’t even call themselves “American” in my book because they don’t believe in the underlying principles. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22640.htm

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Obama Must Cow Netanyahu

Obama-Netanyahu must not be Kennedy-Khrushchev

By Juan Cole

If Netanyahu comes away thinking he can thumb his nose at Washington, the whole Middle East could be in flames by the end of Obama’s first term. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22647.htm

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One State the Alternative to Two-State Solution

By Hani Hazaimeh with agency dispatches

“If Israel continues not to accept solving the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution, then the other option before us is one democratic state in which Muslims, Christians and Jews live side by side enjoying the same rights,” Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa said on Sunday. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22648.htm

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US Chiefs Can’t be Sued for ‘Terror Torture’

By Robert Barnes

The court ruled 5 to 4 that the top officials are not liable for the actions of their subordinates absent evidence that they ordered the allegedly discriminatory activity. The decision followed the court’s ideological split between conservatives and liberals, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy siding with the conservatives and writing the opinion. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22645.htm

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Netanyahu to tell Obama: Time ‘running out’ on Iran:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will use his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to stress that “time is running out” for stopping Iran’s nuclear program, so Obama must not spend more than a few months on his planned dialogue with Tehran unless real progress is achieved.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086235.html

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Obama: Iran existential threat to Israel:

With respect to concerns Israel might carry out an air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, the US president said that since Israel is “right there in the range” of Iranian missiles, “their calculation of costs and benefits are going to be more acute.”
http://snipurl.com/iacsr

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Israel begins new illegal settlement, despite U.S. opposition:

Israel has moved ahead with a plan to build a new illegal settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, pursuing a project the United States has already condemned as an obstacle to peace efforts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086339.html

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ICC to hear Israeli war crime case:

A Human Rights group has filed a lawsuit against Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the war crimes they have committed in the Gaza Strip
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95173&sectionid=351020202

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Hamas rejects Gaza-only joint security force:

Hamas movement on Monday rejected the idea of forming a joint Palestinian security force in the Gaza Strip that would not also operate in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
http://snipurl.com/iaczv

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U.S.: Lawyers, Rights Groups Outraged by Gitmo Decision:

Human rights advocates are furious at President Barack Obama’s decision to prosecute some Guantanamo detainees through the same military commissions he criticised during his campaign as a “flawed” system that “has failed to convict anyone of a terrorist act since the 9/11 attacks”.
http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=46881

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Republicans salute Obama’s military tack

: Moves anger liberal Democrats
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/17/republicans-salute-obama-military-tack/