"Your task
is not to seek for love, but merely to
seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi
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Syrian
Rebels Get Arms and Advice Through
Secret Cmmand Centre in Amman
By Phil
Sands and Suha Maayeh
A secret
operations command centre in Jordan,
staffed by western and Arab military officials, has given vital support to rebels fighting on Syria's southern front, providing them with weapons and tactical advice on attacking regime targets.
Beirut
Murder: Dirty Tricks Get Dirtier
By
Finian Cunningham
This pattern of
sectarian destabilization within
Lebanon and across the Middle East by external forces is consistent with the latest murder of Mohamad Shatah in Beirut.
New
Iran Sanctions Bill Could Drive Wedge
Between Israel Lobby, U.S. Public
By
Chemi Shalev
Americans
couldn't care less about AWACs - but
are dead set against war with Iran.
Mandela
Is Dead:
Why
Hide The Truth About Apartheid?
By
Fidel Castro
The Apartheid
regime -that brought so much
suffering onto Africa and arouse so much indignation in most nations throughout the world- was the fruit of European colonial powers and was turned into a nuclear power by the United States and Israel.
I
Worked On The US Drone Program.
The
Public Should Know What Really Goes On
By
Heather Linebaugh
Few of the
politicians who so brazenly proclaim
the benefits of drones have a real clue how it actually works (and doesn't).
The US
is a Knuckle-dragging, Low Grade
Moronic Culture - George Galloway
By John
Robles
"Saudi Arabia
is a gangster state and Bandar is
increasingly the chief capo. He is the man who goes around delivering the severed horse's head into the bed of whomsoever they wish to intimidate."
NSA
Reportedly Intercepting Laptops Purchased
Online to Install Spy Malware
By T.C.
Sottek
The NSA, in
collaboration with the CIA and FBI,
routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries for laptops or other computer accessories in order to implant bugs before they reach their destinations.
Put the
NSA on Trial
By
David Sirota
With potential
perjury by top officials, and
new questions about spying, let's stop assuming everything is legal.
Could
Edward Snowden get a fair trial in the U.S.?
Video
NSA
whistleblower Thomas Drake and Edward
Snowden's legal advisor Jesselyn Radack explain why they believe the NSA leaker wouldn't get a fair hearing in the United States.
What
If?
A New
Years Dream
By
Emanuel E. Garcia
What
if
Mr. President
went to battle
Against secrecy
in government
And commanded
that each
Meeting,
council, caucus, courtroom and committee
Be televised
and recorded
For the
citizenry?
Forty
Percent Of Workers Made Less Than
$20,000 Last Year
By
Bryce Covert
Nearly 40
percent of all workers in the country made
less than $20,000 last year, more than half of all workers made less than $30,000.
Christmas Versus
Xmas: A Political Reading
By
James Petras
The Christmas
story does not resonate with the owners,
investors and publicists of big commercial enterprises who have converted the multitude into worshipers of their little plastic cards. |
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News
19
Syria rebels killed in fight for air base:
monitor:
At least 19
rebels were killed in eastern Syria on
Sunday in clashes for control of Deir Ezzor military air base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
EU
leaders should 'hang heads in shame'
over failure to take in Syrian r efugees -Amnesty says:
UK one of ten
EU countries which has failed to
resettle vulnerable Syrian refugees
Nigel
Farage calls on government to let
Syrian refugees into UK:
"I think
refugees are a very different thing to
economic migration and I think that this country should honour the spirit of the 1951 declaration on refugee status that was agreed," he told BBC News.
Iraq
attacks kill at least 18, including
army general: police, medics:
At least 18
people were killed in attacks
across Iraq on Sunday, including a military general in a bombing in the northern city of Mosul, police and medical sources said.
Yemeni
army tank shells funeral: death
toll rises to 20:
The death toll
from the army shelling of
funeral tents on Saturday in South Yemen has risen to 20. Shells hit a gathering of men and children paying condolences to the family of a secessionist protester who died in a clash with the government forces.
Yemeni
gunmen strike Hadramawt
oil pipeline:
"Gunmen
belonging to an alliance of
Hadramawt tribes blew up the oil pipeline linking Masila oilfield to al-Daba port in the town of Shahr," the unnanmed official said on Saturday.
Saudi
Arabia pledges $3bn to
Lebanese army:
Lebanese
President Michel Suleiman
announces largest grant ever given to the country's armed forces. He said the funds would allow Lebanon's military to purchase French weapons. He did not provide any further details of the deal.
French
president to meet Hariri in
Riyadh:
French
President Francois Hollande will
meet former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Syrian opposition leader Ahmed Jarba in Saudi Arabia, where he arrived Sunday, said a member of his entourage.
Lebanon
rocket fire draws Israeli
artillery strike:
Rockets
launched from south Lebanon
struck northern Israel on Sunday and Israel responded with artillery shells across a border that has been largely quiet since a war in 2006.
Palestinians have
no partner for
"Peace" Haaretz Editorial: -
Even Israel's
friends have given up
on defending its positions, and some are already supporting sanctions against Israel.
Palestinian
villagers' complaints of
squatter violence are going unheard:
Residents of
the West Bank village are
repeatedly attacked, but very few complaints to the Israeli police and army produce indictments.
Fact or
propaganda?
US deal
will trade off 'Jewish' Israel
for 1967 lines - report:
US Secretary of
State John Kerry will
offer Israeli and Palestinian negotiators a political trade-off: Israeli recognition of the 1967 lines as a basis for the future Palestinian state, in return for Palestinian recognition of Israel as the state of the Jewish people
Kerry
reportedly says he will consider
freeing Israeli as part of prisoner swap:
Israel's
Channel 10 TV station first reported
Friday that Kerry offered to free Pollard as part of an exchange for the release of a fourth group of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails as peace talks resume between the two sides.
PLO
urges Hamas to sever ties
with Muslim Brotherhood:
A Fatah
representative in the PLO executive
committee said Hamas should detach itself from the Brotherhood, warning of political, economic, and security consequences if Hamas remained "subordinate" to "this banned terrorist group."
Bahrain
opposition leader Sheikh Ali
Salman charged:
Sheikh Ali
Salman has been charged with
"incitement to religious hatred and spreading false news likely to harm national security", state media said. It comes after Mr Salman was detained for a day and questioned over a sermon he delivered on Friday.
Female
suicide bomber kills 15 in Russia's
Volgograd (VIDEO):
Another 34 were
injured, 8 of them more critically,
including a girl of 9. The child has been taken to a local hospital. Her mother died in the blast, according to the Committee.
7
Insurgents Killed, 2 Injured in Operations:
Seven
insurgents were killed and two were injured
during a series of coordinated operations over the past 24 hours carried out by the Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Sunday.
Time to
own up: who really killed UK army
captain Richard Holloway in Afghanistan?:
Who was it that
sent him and ten thousand other
British troops to fight a war which for years has clearly been both pointless and unwinnable.
Taliban
back in the saddle in Afghanistan by
2017 - leaked intel report:
Any success the
US and its allies have enjoyed in
Afghanistan in the past three years will be dramatically reduced by 2017, even if a US military presence remains in the country, according to a US intelligence report.
Protester killed
during clashes in Bangladesh:
Clashes erupt
between security forces and opposition
protesters calling for elections to be postponed.
United
Nations: 2 peacekeepers killed in attack
on convoy in Sudan's South Darfur:
A statement
Sunday on behalf of Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon said a Jordanian and a Senegalese peacekeeper were killed by "unidentified assailants" while in a convoy travelling near Greida, South Darfur. The statement said peacekeepers killed one of the assailants and wounded another.
Egypt:
student killed as police open fire on
protesters:
Buildings at
Al-Azhar University, the world's
most important Islamic school, were set on fire by students who have been protesting against the coup that ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood from government.
Egypt
security forces arrest suspect in
Sharqiya blast:
Egyptian
security forces have arrested a
suspect in Sunday's explosion targeting the Military Intelligence Headquarters in Egypt's Nile Delta Governorate of Sharqiya, the third attack on the country in under a week, a security official told state news agency MENA.
The
existential struggle for the heart of
political Egypt: Op-Ed:
The violence
itself is merely a symptom - and
only one of them - of a deepening divide cutting Egyptian society into at least two, if not more, hostile factions that view themselves as exclusively legitimate and the other as entirely illegitimate.
US army
personnel briefly detained in
Libya:
Four members of
the United States military
have been released after briefly being taken into custody by the government, US officials have said.
US
"embassy security" staff released
after arrest near Sabratha:
Some mystery
still surrounds the details
of the arrests. The men were said to have been travelling in two vehicles when they were stopped. One of these was reportedly later set ablaze.
http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/12/28/us-embassy-security-staff-released-after-arrest-near-sabratha/
Thousands protest
against Niger's
president:
At least 20,000
people march against
Mahamadou Issoufou's rule, accusing government of corruption and media censorship.
Judge
Says the NSA Can Look at
Your Phone Records Because They're Not Yours:
Pauley said, no
one has a Fourth
Amendment right to stop the government from examining his telephone records, which are not really even his:
Documents Reveal
Top NSA
Hacking Unit:
The NSA's TAO
hacking unit is
considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.
Glenn
Greenwald: 'A Lot'
More NSA Documents to Come:
"This is a
digital agent orange. It took
the leaves from the forest where we used to live and flourish," said Tim Pritlove, one of the annual event's organizers.
Military sex
assault reports jump
by 50 percent:
The number of
reported sexual assaults
across the military shot up by more than 50 percent this year, an increase that defense officials say may suggest that victims are becoming more willing to come forward after a tumultuous year of scandals that shined a spotlight on the crimes and put pressure on the military to take aggressive action.
Texas
Pastor John Hagee Tells Atheists
To Get On A Plane, 'Leave The Country' - Video -
John Hagee,
began by declaring that
America was founded as, and still remains, a Christian nation. As such, if atheists and humanists don't like being wished a "Merry Christmas" ... well, they can just get out of the country.
As
Federal Prison Population Spiked
790 Percent, Average Drug Sentences Doubled:
The prison
population explosion was not
driven primarily by a spike in crime, but by a change in punishment. Over a 25-year period, average drug sentences doubled from 38.5 months in 1984 to 74 months in 2011.
Police
Salaries and Pensions Push
California City to Brink:
Though few
elected officials in America
want to say it, police officers and other public-safety workers keep turning up at the center of the municipal bankruptcies and budget dramas plaguing many American cities - largely because their pensions tend to be significantly more costly than those of other city workers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/us/police-salaries-and-pensions-push-california-city-to-brink.html
High
Stakes for Families Losing
Jobless Benefits: 'We Could End Up Homeless':
The end of
unemployment checks for
more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.
'Embarrassed' to
use Facebook:
Teens shift to
other sites to 'unfriend' with
parents: 2013 marked the start of what looks likely to be "a sustained decline" of what had been "the most pervasive" of all social networking sites.
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"Let
us be peace and joy"
Tom
Feeley
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| Cost
Of War
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number
of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War
On Iraq: 4,883
Number
Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,409
Cost of War
in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,501,037,662,408
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