I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction : John Steinbeck: American novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968
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The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force : Norman Cousins: American essayist and editor, long associated with the Saturday Review, 1912-1990
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous : William Proxmire
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.: Groucho Marx: American comedian, actor and singer, 1890-1977
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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers: Jose Narosky
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If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks: Frederick The Great
'There Are Cracks in Everything'
That's how the light gets in
By Jim Kirwan
Every nation has a set of myths by which its people live and die; the USA is no exception. We just finished Memorial Day and soon we'll be approaching the tortured-celebrations of July 4th. Both these national spotlights involve public mythologies that have guided this nation for decades; yet the events that these holidays are meant to commemorate are no longer even remotely questioned. War is cheap for most Americans, because the lesser people among us fight our wars not us!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17881.htm
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Has Baghdad Captured Petraeus?
By Stuart A.P. Murray
Now is the time, before it is too late, to lay the groundwork for all parties concerned with the destiny of Iraq to forge a truce that will permit General Petraeus and his army to leave Baghdad with some semblance of military honor.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17882.htm
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How to Sell a War
By Jeffrey ST. Clair
The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as "weapons of mass destruction" and "rogue state" were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17879.htm
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A 10-Step Plan for Antiwar Activists
By Bruce K. Gagnon
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Assassination Brings Lebanon Closer to Brink
By Robert Fisk
What will be the reaction to this latest and most outrageous of murders? In the aftermath of the bombing, amid the ghost-train wreckage and the overturned dodgems and the ash-covered swimming pools, there was only shock. But each crisis is worse than the previous.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17878.htm
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Iraq: At least 39 killed as U.S.Occupation Continues:
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Report: Iraq Qaeda group kills 14 abducted officers :
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Several mortar bombs land in Iraq's Green Zone:
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Iraq surge a failure, Bush told:
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Six Sunni mosques attacked in Iraq:
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Bahraini Shiites protest Iraq shrine bombings for second day:
In a protest called for by the Islamic Scholars Hoza (School) protesters marched through the streets of Nouaim, on the outskirts of Manama, chanting 'death to America' and 'death to Israel'.
http://tinyurl.com/28mvmt
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36 killed, 250 wounded in 24 hours of Gaza fighting:
The victims include some civilians. Thus, the number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of this latest wave of fighting have increased to 60, and the number of the wounded have mounted to at least 400
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7027.shtml
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Israeli tank shell killed 6, including 5 children :
Palestinian security officials said an Israeli tank shell killed six people - including five children - in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Thursday, but the Israeli military denied there was any army fire in the area.
http://tinyurl.com/262q68
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Abbas sacks Hamas-led government :
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Fatah fires LAW missiles at Hamas in Gaza, killing youth:
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Hamas captures second command HQ:
They planted the Islamic group's green flag on the roof of the intelligence services building - growing nearer to a complete conquest of the Gaza Strip.
http://tinyurl.com/2dnfxt
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Hamas overruns key security command :
One witness, Jihad Abu Ayad, says Hamas gunmen have been bringing men out of the building and executing them in the street in front of their wives and children.
http://tinyurl.com/2byucq
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Report: Hamas says it executed top Fatah militant in Gaza:
The Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades of Hamas said in a statement it "Executed the collaborator Samih al-Madhoun", a head of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Gaza. There was no immediate comment from Fatah, to which the Brigades belong
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3413049,00.html
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UN considers troops for Gaza :
The United Nations may send an international force to restore calm to the Gaza Strip wracked by deadly factional fighting.
http://tinyurl.com/2pj9z9
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Hamas: We can prove Fatah link to CIA:
The headquarters of the General Security Service, commanded by Ramallah-based General Tawfik Tirawi, fell to Hamas gunmen. Hamas said documents it found there prove that the Fatah-affiliated security apparatus has close ties with the Central Intelligence Agency
http://tinyurl.com/yoz5s6
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UN envoy blasts US for pro-Israeli agenda:
The United Nations' outgoing Middle East envoy has accused the US of using undue pressure to impose a one-sided pro-Israeli agenda on diplomacy in the region and urged Ban Ki-Moon, UN secretary-general, to consider pulling out of the international peace Quartet.
http://tinyurl.com/2d7yde
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Israel likely to stay on the sidelines as Palestinian civil war rages in Gaza:
Israel has been left with no good options by Hamas's near conquest of the Gaza Strip. Weapons sent to Fatah would probably fall into Hamas' hands and any all-out Israeli assault on Hamas could inflame the region.
http://tinyurl.com/27mmdg
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Hamas rejects border force plan :
Hamas has rejected the idea of an international force deployment along Gaza's border with Egypt, saying it would treat such a body as an occupying power.
http://tinyurl.com/2yyrqp
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One-state solution "gaining ground" UN envoy admits:
In a leaked confidential report. Recently retired UN special envoy Alvaro de Soto wrote "that the combination of [Palestinian Authority] institutional decline and Israeli settlement expansion is creating a growing conviction among Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, as well as some Jews on the far left in Israel that the two State solutiuon's best days are behind it."
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7025.shtml
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Occupation 101: Gaza's Reality : 4 Minute video:
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Jewish outrage over sister city plan:
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Thirty four "Taliban" said killed in occupied Afghanistan :
Eight Taliban, one of them a suspected courier for the movement, were killed in Afghanistan as officials reported the deaths of another 26 in separate clashes.
http://tinyurl.com/2ee5c3
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Taleban capture coalition soldier in Afghanistan :
The US-led coalition said yesterday it was investigating reports that a soldier was missing in Afghanistan, as the Taleban claimed to have captured a foreign trooper.
http://tinyurl.com/2y87ez
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Report paints grim picture of Afghanistan:
The situation in Afghanistan last fall was steadily deteriorating, with deep fractures developing in the south and west and the position of President Hamid Karzai shakier than ever before, according to a report prepared for top levels of the Canadian government.
http://tinyurl.com/ywn5d8
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Iran arming Afghan Taliban, U.S. says:
Gates' comments, following accusations by a State Department official, were the strongest yet by a Cabinet secretary about Iran's support of the terrorist group in Afghanistan
http://tinyurl.com/yrrmzj
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Afghan Minister Dismisses Burn's Claims About Iran/Taliban Links:
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Presstitute, liar and war pimp: Daniel Pipes: :
Can the IAF take out Iran's nukes?:
The Jewish state stands alone against a regime that threatens to "wipe Israel off the map" and is building the nuclear weapons to do so.
http://tinyurl.com/323rlq
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IAEA Head: Iran Attack 'Act of Madness' :
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Lieberman asked to resign from his own party:
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'President' Lieberman: A Cautionary Tale :
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Obama Says He'll Use Force Unilaterally to Protect "Vital Interests" :
"I will not hesitate to use force, unilaterally if necessary, to protect the American people or our vital interests whenever we are attacked or imminently threatened. We must also consider using military force in circumstances beyond self-defense"
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/1675/2/
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World oil supplies are set to run out faster than expected, warn scientists:
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Michael T. Klare: The Pentagon v. Peak Oil -
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The Finkelstein Principle :
In an era when intellectual freedom is routinely suppressed; and at a time when people of good character and moral integrity have become the unprotected endangered specie, here comes Finkelstein walking self-assuredly like a mammoth of moral rectitude.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/1673/2/
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Secret Surveillance Evidence Unsealed in AT&T Spying Case:
More documents detailing secret government surveillance of AT&T's Internet traffic have been released to the public as part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against the telecom giant.
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_06.php
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FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control' :
A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names. Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/1674/2/
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FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data:
An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions
http://tinyurl.com/229ssd
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Bush administration push for 'one-size-fits-all justice':
The Bush administration is trying to roll back a Supreme Court decision by pushing legislation that would require prison time for nearly all criminals.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6131349
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The President Shafts Enron's Victims :
Wall Street's investment banks just got another step closer to making defrauding investors an accepted line of business. And Enron's employees who lost their pensions and the small investors who got fleeced in the Enron frauds just got shafted again -- this time at the urging of President George W. Bush.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20070613/cm_huffpost/052039
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China overtaking US for fast internet access as Africa gets left behind:
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Let Us Work Towards Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
