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Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "War is a poison. It is a poison that nations and groups must at times ingest to ensure their survival. But, like any poison, it can kill you just as surely as the disease it is meant to eradicate. The poison of war courses unchecked through the body politic of the United States. We believe that because we have the capacity to wage war we have the right to wage war. We embrace the dangerous self-delusion that we are on a providential mission to save the rest of the world from itself, to implant our virtues-which we see as superior to all other virtues-on others, and that we have a right to do this by force. This belief has corrupted Republicans and Democrats alike. And if Barack Obama drinks, as it appears he will, the dark elixir of war and imperial power offered to him by the national security state, he will accelerate the downward spiral of the American empire."

http://www.truthout.org/111708D



GM Must Remake the Mass Transit System It Murdered

Harvey Wasserman, Common Dreams: "Bail out General Motors? The people who murdered our mass transit system? First let them remake what they destroyed."

http://www.truthout.org/111708C



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