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Steve Weissman, Truthout: "'Violence is a dead end,' he told them. 'It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.' One need not be a nonviolent activist to hear the wisdom of Barack Hussein Obama's words, especially as American drones continue to kill innocent Afghans or Pakistanis."

http://www.truthout.org/060509J

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America's Violent Extremism

By Paul Craig Roberts

Against al-Qaeda, whose "actions are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings," Obama invokes the Koran's prohibition against killing an innocent. Does Obama not realize that the stricture applies to the US and its "coalition of forty-six countries" in spades?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22771.htm



Obama in Cairo: A New Face for Imperialism

By Patrick Martin

The vague and flowery rhetoric, the verbal tributes to Islamic culture and the equal rights of nations, constitute an adjustment of the language being used to cloak the policy of US imperialism, not a change in substance.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22774.htm

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What President Obama Promised in Cairo

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "US policy in the broader Middle East over the next four years will be judged in the region according to whether the pledges that President Obama made in Cairo Thursday are kept."

http://www.truthout.org/060509R



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