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Americans Are Hell-Bent on Tyranny

Paul Craig Roberts

Here in Great Moral America we only hold accountable celebrities and politicians for their sexual indiscretions. Tiger Woods is paying a bigger price for his girlfriends than Bush or Cheney will ever pay for the deaths and ruined lives of millions of people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24245.htm



Racism and War: The Dehumanization of the Enemy

By Mike Prysner

Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24249.htm



A Christmas Remembrance

By William A. Cook

Having witnessed American warships firing their guns at naked islanders in the Marquesas, Tahiti, and Hawaii and watched "rapacious hordes of enlightened individuals" seizing the "depopulated land" from the natives, reducing them to starving "interlopers" in their own country, he realized that the superior white Christian civilization epitomized absolute savagery and that cannibals treated others with more humanity than these self-identified enlightened me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24248.htm

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Red Mass?

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The nature of modern American politics has been off-the-wall weird for a dozen years now. We've seen a president impeached for lying about sex. We've seen another president who was selected instead of elected in an orgiastic festival of Florida and federal fraud. We saw an administration use the darkest day in our history as an excuse to scare us, spy on us, steal from us and start false wars in our name. We've seen a vice president go on national television and advocate the benefits and blessings of torture. We came within an eyelash of seeing the first woman president elected in this still-misogynist nation, and did see the first African-American president elected in this still-racist nation."

http://www.truthout.org/red-mass56086



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The Stupid and Evil Party
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gottfried/gottfried115.html

Republican Political Correctness
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gottfried/gottfried116.html

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The Cheney offense

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

12/23/09

According to John Bolton, the conservative magazine Human Events chose Dick Cheney as its ‘conservative of the year’ because of his ‘persuasive positions on substantive policy matters.’ In fact, Cheney was chosen for his ability to effectively manipulate American fear to defend the lawlessness of the prior administration. In a year when the GOP has tried to ride a wave of understandable but wrongheaded populist anger and anxiety over rising deficits, it chose as its figurehead a conservative who thinks deficits don’t matter and whose crowning achievement is making torture a central part of the Republican platform. … The Obama administration’s national security policies differ in substance from those of the Bush administration’s second term mostly at the margins...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_cheney_offense



Changing the narrative for war

Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

12/29/09

In spite of the calamities of the past eight years, there continues to be no shortage of neoconservatives in one’s face in the media, advising their fellow Americans that wars can be won quickly and decisively and that using military force to change how other nations behave is sound policy. The Washington Post features Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, all three Kagans, John Bolton, and Eliot Cohen on a regular basis. The Wall Street Journal editorial page is the epicenter for those who favor muscular interventionism...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=482


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Neocons 'The Transparent Cabal'

Video

Press TV interview with Dr. Stephen Sniegoski (Author of 'The Transparent Cabal')
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24366.htm



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Scott Galindez, Truthout: "In August of 2005, Cindy Sheehan, who had lost her son in Iraq, set up camp outside George Bush's vacation home in Crawford, Texas. She had a simple question; she wanted to know what the 'noble cause' was for which her son had died. Thousands of people joined Cindy in Crawford, and Camp Casey became a national story that breathed new life into the antiwar movement."

http://www.truthout.org/1222091



Hell No, We Won't Go ... Again

Camillo "Mac" Bica, Truthout: "After years of war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, with the sacrifices of battle borne by less than one percent of the American people, and with no real indication that President Obama has a legitimate plan or a sincere intention to end combat operations anytime soon, increasing numbers of people from both sides of the political spectrum are calling for reinstatement of the draft."

http://www.truthout.org/1222093



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Reason
by David Harsanyi

12/21/09

President Barack Obama grimly warned America last week that if his health care plans fail, the nation will go ‘bankrupt.’ Sure, adding another trillion-dollar entitlement program to our $12 trillion of debt may seem like a counterintuitive way to stave off economic ruin, but who are we to argue? The president’s got smarts. And as is the case with so many issues, Obama adorned his rhetoric with sharp warnings of calamity should he fail, fabricated consensus to buttress his case and a promise of rapture should he succeed...

http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/21/all-the-presidents-mendacity



The troops protect our freedom, and other lies I learned in school

Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
12/19/09

When it comes to guaranteeing stability and promoting democracy, the United States’ record is pretty clear. ‘Global security’ and ’stability’ mean the security and stability of a particular global order guaranteed by the United States — a global order that reflects the interests of the coalition of class forces that control the American government. The United States’ record with regard to ‘enabling democracy’ is also clear. When it has best served the interests of the corporate world order to replace a dictatorship with a formal democracy, the United States has done so. But when it has best suited the interests of corporate power to overthrow a democracy by force, the United States government has not hesitated to do so...

http://c4ss.org/content/1558



Data shows stimulus package a waste of money

US News and World report
by Peter Roff

12/19/09

To put it kindly, the stimulus package that President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rushed through Congress at the beginning of his presidency has been a flop. It is not just that the $789 billion package has not had the effect the White House promised it would; it’s that it may actually have been counterproductive, actually lengthening the recession by effectively taking money out of the private economy, where it could have been used to create jobs and for investment purposes. Instead it has been parceled out by the government, which has been unable to track where it has gone or what impact it has really had on job creation. And that has led to any number of fallacious statements by senior administration officials about jobs ‘created or saved’...

http://tinyurl.com/ybfewtc



Losing the Bill of Rights

The American Conservative
by Jacob G. Hornberger

12/21/09

Last month, President Obama announced that Khalid Sheik Mohammed would be transferred to New York, where he would stand trial in U.S. district court for his purported role as principal architect of the 9/11 attacks. At the same time, Obama announced that other terrorist suspects would continue to be tried for terrorism in the Pentagon’s military-commissions system, which was established after 9/11. Which judicial system is chosen — the federal courts or military commissions system — has important consequences for accused terrorists. What all too many Americans fail to realize, however, is the enormity of the impact that this dual system of justice has had on the country’s constitutional order. The precedents created here will extend far beyond the war on terror...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/losing-the-bill-of-rights/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Judicial Watch posts documents in 'Pelosi Air Force Scandal'; travel tops $2 million

The Speaker's military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period - $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.

http://snipurl.com/u98q2


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After allotting over a trillion dollars for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq alone and packing off more than two million of its citizens to the two nations, the U.S. military establishment and peace prize president have already laid the groundwork for yet more wars. Boeing, Raytheon and General Electric won't be kept waiting.

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World's Sole Military Superpower's 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars

By Rick Rozoff

With a census of slightly over 300 million in a world of almost seven billion people, the U.S. accounts for over 40 percent of officially acknowledged worldwide government military spending with a population that is only 4 percent of that of the earth's. A 10-1 disparity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24298.htm



Superpower

Superpower presents a view of US foreign policy, which lies in stark contrast to that depicted by corporate media, popular pundits, and US heads of state.

The heart of Superpower lies in the analysis produced from a re-examination of history through a series of interviews with historians, documentarians, and academians such as Bill Blum, Chalmers Johnson, Michael Chossudovsky, and Noam Chomsky, and others with expertise in this subject such as the Executive Producer of The Unit, Command Sergeant (Ret.) Eric Haney; former Chief Economist for the US Department of Labor, Morgan Reynolds; three-time Noble Peace Prize nominee, Kathy Kelly; and Lt. Col. (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24256.htm



A Super Power Of Near Demonic Dimensions

Prof Noam Chomsky

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24302.htm



Ridding America Of The Warmongers

By Sherwood Ross

America today is a warfare state, the most powerful ever, and its leaders lie when they claim that small countries half way around the world with $5 billion annual military budgets represent a threat to Washington, which spends roughly $800 billion a year for war. That's more, by the way, than the $780 billion all 50 state governments combined collected in 2008 to run the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24301.htm



SERCO: The Biggest Company You Have Never Heard Of

Video

Over three-quarters of its 40,000 staff (spread across 38 countries) are civil servants, inherited when their governments outsourced the work they were doing to Serco.

Click to view.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24300.htm


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By Sen. Fritz Hollings

Everyone is crying for jobs, but no one seems to understand why there aren't any. And the reason for those opposing jobs is money.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24230.htm

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States' Jobless Funds are Being Drained in Recession
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/22-0



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Yemenis say 82 civilians, mostly women and children, killed in Dec. 17 US cruise missile strike
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9250/

US strike in Yemen 'will ultimately prove counterproductive'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9253/

Local source says 45 women and children from 2 Yemeni tribes and 1000 animals killed in Dec. 17 attack
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9256/

Christmas Eve strike in Yemen is culmination of US strategy shift
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9259/

Officials connecting story after story to Yemen to justify US escalation there
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9260/

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Cruise Missile Attacks in Yemen

By Glenn Greenwald

For many people, the mere assertion by anonymous U.S. Government officials that these attacks targeted "suspected al-Qaeda sites" will be sufficient to deem them justified.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24232.htm



Images of the dead children killed by the U.S. bombs in Yemen

Warning - Pictures reflect the reality of attacks on Yemen.
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Mullen praises Yemen air strikes, raises concern over Iran

The top US military officer Admiral Michael Mullen on Sunday praised US military strikes against a suspected Al-Qaeda cell in Yemen.

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'US aided' deadly Yemen raids

Video shows women and children killed in attacks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHyHWXEpFXw&feature=player_embedded



60 People Killed as Suspected al-Qaida leader in Yemen Escapes Raid

Witnesses put the number killed at over 60 and said the dead were mostly civilians, including women and children. They denied the target was an al-Qaida stronghold, and one provincial official said only 10 militant suspects died.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091219/ap_on_go_ot/us_yemen_al_qaida



Extrajudicial Killing: Yemeni air strike kills 30, targets home of US cleric

"If the American government helped in attacking one of [its own] citizens, this is illegal," said Aulaqi, his voice cracking. "Nidal Hassan killed 13 people and he's going to get a trial. My son has killed nobody. He should face trial if he's done something wrong."

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US reiterates support for Yemen forces after Qaeda raid

The White House on Thursday reiterated its support for Yemeni authorities after "Yemeni aircraft" killed 34 suspected Al-Qaeda members.

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On land wars in Asia.
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ICH

By David Michael Green

You know, I've really been trying not to write an article every other week about all the things I don't like about Barack Obama.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24229.htm

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For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/21-11

Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/21-9

America's Worst Environmental Disaster Continues with No Regulatory Relief in Sight
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/21-4



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