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The gift of Love. The gift of Peace. The gift of Joy. May all these be yours at Christmas and throughout this year. Tom Feeley
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"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Assessing the Conflict in Syria and
Egypt
By Ramzy
Baroud
'Dirty politics' doesn't even begin to
describe what has befallen
Egypt.
Israel has Become Zionism's Worst
Enemy
By Zeev
Smilansky
Israel has become an apartheid state, where
our children carry out war crimes on our behalf; where (in a sickening twist of history) the Jews have become a master race - the Palestinian - has no rights, no identity.
Noam
Chomsky: The Race War of Drug Prohibition
Video
Interview
Noam Chomsky speaks about the race war of drug
prohibition, the prison-industrial complex, the erosion of civil liberties under Barack Obama, moral inconsistencies within government.
The
Cult of the Uniform
By
Laurence M. Vance
A terrorist is
anyone who detonates a bomb-unless
he is wearing a U.S. military uniform.
Four
Horsemen
How the
World Really Works
Video
Feature Documentary
23
international thinkers, government advisors and
Wall Street money-men break their silence and explain how to establish a moral and just society. |
| Hard
News
Dozens
of bodies recovered after violence in
C.African Republic:
Red Cross
workers have recovered 44 bodies from
the streets of Central African Republic's capital Bangui, they said on Thursday after inter-religious fighting in the last two days.
At
least 40 civilians killed in attack in east DR
Congo:
At least 40
civilians have been killed in an attack on
a village in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a non-governmental organisation said on Thursday.
CAR
unrest kills six Chad peacekeepers in Bangui:
At least six
peacekeepers from Chad have been killed
in clashes in the Central African Republic, the African Union (AU) force there says. It said they were attacked by a Christian militia known as anti-balaka in the capital Bangui on Wednesday.
Libyan
army officer killed in drive-by shooting in
Benghazi:
Officials said
Lieutenant Col. Ahmed Sweiry was i
nstantly killed Thursday when unidentified assailants opened fire on him in al-Birkah district in Benghazi. Sweiry was working in the military's data department.
Libyan
gunmen block entrance to central bank,
Tripoli port:
Dozens of
Libyan militiamen blocked the entrance to
the central bank and port in the capital Tripoli on Thursday, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, a witness said.
Egypt :
Five injured in Cairo bus bomb blast:
The bomb was
planted on a pedestrian island and
exploded as the public bus passed by in the northern district of Nasr City, a security source said.
Egypt
widens crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood:
At least 23
supporters arrested on suspicion of belonging
to a terrorist organisation, day after group was blacklisted.
UN in
South Sudan denies report of mass grave:
The U.N.
mission in South Sudan said the erroneous
report was an inflation of a "skirmish" in which 15 people were killed. UNMISS said it is still deeply concerned about extrajudicial killings and is investigating those reports.
Bush-
Blair Legacy Continues As - 44 killed in Iraq
wave of bombings:
Attacks,
including bombs that exploded in a market near a
church in Baghdad, killed at least 44 people across Iraq on Thursday, officials said.
U.S.
Sends Arms to Aid Iraq Fight:
The United
States is quietly rushing dozens of Hellfire
missiles and low-tech surveillance drones to Iraq to help government forces combat an explosion of violence by a Qaeda-backed insurgency that is gaining territory in both western Iraq and neighboring Syria.
25
Islamist rebel groups unite under Al Qaeda
command in Al Qalamoun battles:
More than 25
Islamist fighting groups in Al Qalamoun,
northeast Damascus, have founded a joint command room to lead the ongoing battles near the Lebanese border.
Galloway:
President Putin is my man of the year:
Vladimir Putin,
in the words of George Galloway,
"played a blinder" and prevented a cataclysm for the entire world an accomplishment more than worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Turkish
PM replaces 10 ministers amid
graft inquiry:
Turkey's Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdogan said
he replaced ten cabinet ministers, half of his total roster, after three ministers resigned over a high-level graft inquiry on Wednesday.
400
more police officers in Istanbul removed
from duty:
Four hundred
police officers at the Istanbul Police
Department have been removed from duty and are being transferred in the midst of an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption and bribery, sources say.
U.N.
experts urge U.S., Yemen to explain
erroneous drone strikes:
United Nations
human rights experts told the
United States and Yemen on Thursday to say whether they were complicit in drone attacks that mistakenly killed civilians in wedding processions this month.
Tribesmen seize
oil ministry building in
east Yemen:
Tribesmen
seized an oil ministry building in
Yemen's eastern Hadramout province on Thursday and exchanged gunfire with a pro-government t ribe seeking to regain control of the premises, tribal sources and ministry employees said.
Saudi
blogger sentenced to death for apostasy:
A Jeddah
criminal court found Badawi, who has
been in prison since June 2012, guilty of insulting Islam through his website and in television comments. His lawyer appealed the sentence, which also included 600 lashes.
Merry
Christmas: US Murders 4 People
In Pakistan:
Residents
surrounded the house after the
attack and pulled out the bodies, sources said, adding the bodies were charred beyond recognition.
America's 'client'
state: Is it time for
Pakistan to shift foreign policy?:
Here are few of
the highlights of Pakistan's
involvement in the US led war on terror that has dragged on for more than 12 years: Over 40,000 deaths, $80+ billion in losses, growing insecurity and mounting fear a mong its citizens.
Second
rocket strikes southern Israel;
IDF attacks Gaza targets:
Rocket alert
sounds in Hof Ashkelon Regional
Council; Quassam rocket lands in open territory, causing no injuries.
Netanyahu says
Hamas responsible for any
Gaza fire:
"We have
recently been subject to attacks
against us," he said at a pilots' graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim air force base in southern Israel. "Israel holds Hamas responsible for all the attacks launched on us. We will strike at those who attack us, and at those who support them," he said in remarks that were also broadcast on radio.
Brother
of Gaza Man Killed by Israeli
Sniper Speaks : Video -
Raddad Hamad
was collecting scrap with his brother
Odeh when Odeh was fatally shot by Israeli soldiers on December 20, 2013.
UN
condemns Christmas Eve demolitions of
Palestinian homes by Israel:
32 of those
displaced were children, "including a
five year old girl who is paralyzed from the waist down."
Former
UN envoy Dore Gold to serve as
Netanyahu's foreign policy adviser:
Gold, whose job
will focus on Israeli-U.S. relations,
has relatively hawkish views and has never expressed support for the two-state solution.
Yasser
Arafat died of natural causes - Russian
report:
Announcing its
conclusions on Thursday, the head
of Russia's Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA), Vladimir Uiba, said "Yasser Arafat died not from the effects of radiation but of natural causes".
Greenwald "Snarks"
at MSNBC: I Defend Snowden
Like You Defend Obama '24 Hours a Day':
Things got
heated when MSNBC anchor Kristen
Welker accused Greenwald of "crossing a line" in his defense of Snowden. "What do you say to your critics who say you've become more of a spokesman for Edward Snowden?" she asked
US
Military imposes blackout on Guantánamo
hunger-strike figures:
The Guantánamo
prison, whose motto is "safe, humane,
legal, transparent detention," announced Tuesday that it will no longer disclose daily hunger-strike figures - abandoning a practice that allowed the public to see the rise and fall of the captives' nearly year-long protest.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/03/3795285/guantanamo-ends-daily-hunger-strike.html#storylink=cpy
47k
migrants killed in Mexico in 6 years: Report:
Over 47,000
migrants have died while traveling through
Mexico in the past six years with an estimated 8,800 unidentified bodies, a report shows.
Dramatic decline
in industrial agriculture could
herald 'peak food':
Industrial
agriculture could be hitting fundamental
limits in its capacity to produce sufficient crops to feed an expanding global population according to new research published in Nature Communications.
Pope's
economic ideas rattle GOP:
Pope Francis
has dramatically shifted the
message and tone of the Vatican in the last nine months, and he's forcing Republicans in Washington to reassess their relationship with the Catholic church.
Swiss
Banks Are Now Agents for the IRS :
Bloomberg's
note on December 23 that Swiss
banks were having a hard time complying with the terms of an agreement between the Swiss government and the U.S. Department of Justice hardly caused a ripple of media concern, not to mention outrage. The time for such expressions is long past.
New
Revelation : AG Eric Holder Is Protecting
JPMorgan Chase NYC From Criminal Investigation:
The information
obtained might reveal that the
bank chose to financially benefit from criminal activity:
McDonald's to
employees: Avoid burgers and
fries - it's risky for your health:
McDonald's
employee resources website recommended
workers to avoid burgers and fries whenever possible due to health risks.
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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 : 3,407
Cost of War
in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,500,230,822,118
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