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Manipulation of the UN Security Council in support of the US-NATO Military Agenda> Coercion, Intimidation & Bribery used to Extort Approval from Reluctant Members

Manipulation of the UN Security Council in support of the US-NATO Military Agenda> Coercion, Intimidation & Bribery used to Extort Approval from Reluctant Members  By Carla Stea    January 10, 2012    Global Research United Nations Security Council decisions are portrayed as “the will of the international community,” and Security Council action in support of a national More

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Winslow Myers> Occupying Fears About Iran

Winslow Myers> Occupying Fears About Iran Saturday 7 January 2012 by: Winslow Myers, Consortium News | News Analysis via truthout  President Barack Obama speaks about Iran to reporters at the White House on Thursday, October 1, 2009. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times) In an election year, as many U.S. politicians compete to out-macho one More

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Video> Al Jazeera English> The decline of the American empire> Tom Engelhardt, editor, Tomdispatch; Susan Glasser, editor-in-chief, Foreign Policy & others

The decline of the American empire As the world is undergoing a profound transformation, what role will the US play in a post-American century? Empire Last Modified: 02 Jan 2012 15:36 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysqYqWdlrNY&w=560&h=315] The US has the world's biggest economy, the most influential culture, and the most potent military machine, with a budget that equals that of all More

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Video> Chris Hedges “Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be

Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrible" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zotYU21qcU&feature=colike An informative video:  The empire of consumption.  The fall of the empire.  Serving the interests of the corporate state.  Betrayal of working people in America.  Deregulation of the FCC.    Destruction of banking system.  Indefinite detention.  Reagan, More

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Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Buying Congress in 2012> Armed With Naïvete Time to Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Buying Congress in 2012 Posted by Bill McKibben at 9:47AM, January 05, 2012. Tom Dispatch Startling numbers of Americans are “underwater” — homeowners and students alike — and so, for that matter, is Congress, even if in quite a different way.  In these last years, it’s been flooded with money.  Millionaires, including at least 10 centimillionaires, now make up nearly More

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Coleen Rowley> VIPS Memo to Obama: Avoid Another Long War

Coleen Rowley Former FBI Special Agent VIPS Memo to Obama: Avoid Another Long War Posted: 01/ 5/12 09:08 AM ET   Huffington Post  Obama’s re-election campaign may be focusing almost exclusively on domestic economic issues but there are strong forces pushing him and the U.S to war again, this time with Iran. The dangerous brinkmanship More

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Lessons from Lost Wars in 2012

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Lessons from Lost Wars in 2012 Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:10am, January 3, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers:  We’re back, ready to do our best to keep up with what’s certain to be a tumultuous 2012, starting with an assessment of America’s lost wars in the Greater Middle East.  By the way, I made an More

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Steve Clemens> Child Victims of War

Feast of the Holy Innocents Steve Clemens>  Holy Innocents Talk at St Joan of Arc – Dec 28, 2011 Mennonista The President announced two weeks ago that the war in Iraq is over. The TV cameras showed the convoy of military trucks driving out of Iraq into Kuwait. All US Troops are now out of Iraq More

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Poem> On Drones and Targeted Killing

On Drones and Targeted Killing        Christmas Day, 2011 by David Harris  The Justice Department and the CIA Have discovered a most unusual way             of making decisions. Ignoring the law and the Constitution, they Write their own rules while the lobbyists pay             off the politicians. The city police from New York More

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Ray McGovern> Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth

Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth Ray McGovern   December 21, 2011   Consortium News Exclusive: The prosecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning for inconvenient truth-telling is more proof of how hypocritical Official Washington is, especially when Manning’s case is compared to how Bush administration officials walked despite clear evidence that they sanctioned torture and other war crimes, notes ex-CIA analyst Ray More

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