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"History is a set of lies agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Truth
never damages a cause that is just." - Mahatma
Gandhi
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| February 06/07, 2014 |
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Taliban
Talks:
What
is Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai
Really Up To?
By Pepe
Escobar
Whatever one's
judgment of sartorially immaculate
crypto-American puppet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, he's not a fool.
Misread
Telexes Led Analysts to See Iran
Nuclear Arms Programme
By
Gareth Porter
The
interpretation of the intercepted telexes on
which later assessments were based turned out to have been a fundamental error.
Warlords of
Tripoli:
Video
The war in
Syria is dragging neighbouring
Lebanon to the edge of the abyss, and nowhere is the growing chaos more stark than in the second city of Tripoli.
Archeology Shows
Bible Written Late,
Full of Errors
By Juan
Cole
A new paper by
Israeli archeologies Lidar
Sapir-Hen and Erez Ben-Yosef, is bad news for biblical literalists and far right wing Israeli nationalists who use the Bible for support.
Despite
Escalating Government
Intimidation Greenwald Will "Force The Issue" And Visit U.S.
By
Brian Beutler
Months after
the first insinuations that he
risks arrest if he visits the US, Greenwald is more concerned than ever.
Turn
Every E-mail Into a Stand
Against Mass Surveillance
By
Jesselyn Radack
In one simple
step, you can turn every e-mail
you send into a warning and protest against the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance programs.
The
"Nation" as a Device To
Create a Psychological Crowd
By
Michael S. Rozeff
The leader uses
events to short-circuit rational
thought and regress people to their unconscious and ancient fears, drives and instincts.
A Bill
To Return Power To The People
By
Richard Long
The bill,
dubbed the "Government by the
People" Act, would work to reduce the power of special interests and big money, and restore the power to the people.
Should
The Minimum Wage Be Raised?
By Paul
Craig Roberts
If the working
poor made enough to live on,
the social welfare budget could be cut.
Mr.
President, My America Is Now
Life in an RV Park With No Running Water and Not Much Heat
By
Paula Bray
My masters
degree did nothing to save
me from being unemployed and destitute.
F--k
George Zimmerman and the
Culture He Rode In On
By
Mychal Denzel Smith
He has to also
become a celebrity, built
on his "career" of killing black children and abusing women.
Russell
Brand: Philip Seymour Hoffman is
Another Victim of Extremely Stupid Drug Laws
By
Russell Brand
Would Hoffman
have died if we weren't invited
to believe that people who suffer from addiction deserve to suffer? |
| Hard
News
23
killed, 77 injured in spate of
Baghdad blasts:
At least 23
people were killed and 77 others
injured in a series of car bombings that rocked Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday.
Good
News: Deal reached to evacuate
civilians trapped in Syrian city of Homs:
The accord
would also allow the delivery of
"humanitarian assistance and supplies to the civilians who would choose to stay inside the city," according to the official Syrian Arab News Agency.
Rebels
launch counteroffensive in Aleppo:
Amateur videos
from Aleppo appears to show
Syrian rebels launching a counteroffensive to regain ground. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
Palestinian
Activists Are Reclaiming
Their Stolen Land:
It's the first
step in a series of actions opposing
Israel's growing colonisation of the Jordan Valley and the illegal occupation of Palestinian land at large.
US
Jewish leader criticizes Israel boycott
drive:
Executive vice
chairman of Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations calls on Western governments to combat campaign to boycott Israel over its settlement activities, citing 'politically correct' form of anti-Semitism
Report:
Irans president gives $400,000 to Tehran's
Jewish hospital:
This is not the
first time that such a donation has been
reported. In 2006, Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad also donated money to the hospital, according to the BBC.
Turkey:
CHP leader: Erdogan collected $630 mln
from businesspeople to buy out media outlet:
The leader of
the main opposition Republican People's
Party (CHP) has said that a total of $630 million was collected from eight businesspeople, upon instructions by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to buy Sabah media group, a pro-government media outlet that owns dailies and television stations.
Turkey
pushes through new raft of 'draconian'
internet restrictions:
New law
requiring ISPs to make web user data
available to authorities seen as threat to democracy, says opposition party
Youth
killed in sectarian violence in
Algeria:
A Berber died
of his wounds Thursday in Algeria's
desert city of Ghardaia, bringing to five the number killed during weeks of violence between two rival communities, local sources said.
France
likely to prolong military mission in
Central African Republic: GRAPHIC CONTENT -
France's
defense minister says the military is likely
to extend its mission in Central African Republic, a day after local soldiers turned on a man in their ranks and stabbed and stomped him to death.
Bomb
blast wounds Libyan activist in
Benghazi:
A Libyan
political activist was critically
wounded when a bomb exploded under his car as he drove through the eastern city of Benghazi on Thursday, security sources and his relatives said.
Gunmen
try to storm Libya army
command in Tripoli - official: -
Unidentified
gunmen attacked and tried
to storm the Libyan army command headquarters in Tripoli on Thursday, clashing with soldiers there, an army spokesman said
Gunmen
attack TV studios in Libya's
Benghazi:
Channels
targeted were Doha-based Libya
Al Ahrar and Cairo-based Libya Al Oula
Seven
people drown, 1,000 rescued trying
to reach a better life in Europe:
Hundreds of
African migrants regularly attempt
to swim along the coast or climb the fence that separates the Spanish territory from Morocco.
Pakistan holds
landmark talks with Taliban:
Negotiators for
Pakistan's government and the
Taliban met for more than three hours Thursday in the first round of talks aimed at ending the militants' bloody seven-year insurgency.
Aghan
Taliban reject secret peace talks
with Karzai:
Afghan Taliban
militants have rejected reports
which suggest that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is engaged in secret peace talks with the Taliban group. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement, "The New York Times published a false report recently suggesting that any secret talks took place and are ongoing
Senators seek vote
on US troops in
Afghanistan:
Sen. Jeff
Merkley said Thursday that automatic
renewal is fine for Netflix and gym memberships, but not for war. Sen. Mike Lee said after more than a decade of combat, the decision should not be left to the White House and Pentagon alone.
Demonizing
Snowden:
Lawmaker Says
Snowden Leaks Will
Cost Country 'Billions To Repair':
"Edward Snowden
isn't a whistle-blower; he
isn't a hero. He's a traitor and a criminal," McKeon said. Americans, he added, would be "shocked and outraged" to learn how much of the information he took had to do with defense issues.
US
ambassador admits tapping Angela
Merkel's phone was 'stupid':
"We have done
a number of stupid things,
Chancellor Markel's phone being one of them," Ambassador John Emerson told the VBKI trade association at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Berlin.
Fox
News hypes possibility that NSA journalists
will be criminally prosecuted:
Video
What
Your Smartphone Might Be Telling the
NSA About You:
They can reveal
a smartphone user's gender,
income, location, political leanings and even whether that person is a "swinger," according to secret British intelligence documents.
Turn
Every E-mail Into a Stand Against
Mass Surveillance:
In one simple
step, you can turn every e-mail
you send into a warning and protest against the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance programs.
New
surveillance technology can track everyone
in an area for several hours at a time: Video:
"I want them
to be worried that we're watching,"
Biehl said. "I want them to be worried that they never know when we're overhead." : Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl
U.S.
bans liquids, gels from flights to Russia:
The Homeland
Security Department has banned all
liquids, gels, powders and most aerosols in carry-ons for flights from the U.S. to Russia, following intelligence reports suggesting that terrorists may be trying to smuggle explosives inside toothpaste tubes.
Obama
official: 'F--k the EU':
President
Obama's top diplomat to Europe has been
caught on tape saying "F--k the EU." The conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was anonymously leaked on YouTube.
Texas
executes Suzanne Basso with lethal
injection:
The lethal
injection of Suzanne Basso, 59, made the
New York native only the 14th woman executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. Almost 1,400 men have been put to death during that time.
Cops
who shot innocent women during Dorner
manhunt to go back on the job:
The eight
Southern California police officers who
mistakenly fired more than 100 shots at a car being driven by two women during a manhunt for suspected cop-killer Christopher Dorner last year will return to the field, officials now say.
California cop
handcuffs and detains firefighter
helping crash victims:
A California
firefighter was recently placed in
handcuffs and detained by highway police while helping crash victims, all for refusing to move a fire truck after being told it was parked inappropriately in the midst of an emergency.
California
ranchers sell herds amid drought:
Shift in normal
weather patterns forces city dwellers
to conserve water and growers to think about tearing out orchards.
Good News:
Anglo
Irish Bank Execs Face Trial In
Dublin:
Three senior
executives from the bank at the
centre of Ireland's economic crash have gone on trial in Dublin. It is the first time Irish bankers have faced criminal charges for their alleged role in pushing the country's finances to the brink of collapse, prompting the bailout and austerity.
Media
Leave Viewers In The Dark About
Trans-Pacific Partnership:
Congress is
debating whether to give the
president the authority to fast-track a massive free trade agreement -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- between the U.S., Canada, and 10 nations from the Asia-Pacific region. The nations involved in the talks account for nearly 40 percent of the world's GDP and 26 percent of the world's trade, but weekday evening television news broadcasts have largely ignored the topic.
Republicans Block
Unemployment
Extension, Democrats Plan to Try Again (Updated):
Democratic
leaders came up a single
vote short of overcoming a GOP filibuster. The final tally was 58-40, short of the 60-vote threshold needed, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid switched his voted to preserve his right to reconsider the measure.
Consumer
Confidence in U.S. Dropped
Last Week to Two-Month Low:
The biggest
setback in stock prices since
June has shaken investors, sending sentiment for top-income earners to the lowest level in almost a year.
More
Men in Prime Working Ages Don't
Have Jobs:
In the early
1970s, just 6% of American men
ages 25 to 54 were without jobs. By late 2007, it was 13%. In 2009, during the worst of the recession, nearly 20% didn't have jobs
In
Congress's farm bill, the rich get
richer:
CONGRESS HAS
sent a $956 billion farm
bill larded with subsidies for agribusiness to President Obama, who issued a statement Tuesday praising it.
Bayer
CEO says cancer drug is for rich
people only :
Video
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Half
the nation's uninsured live in just
116 counties:
Half of those
under 65 without insurance
live in just 116 of the nation's 3,143 counties. And half of all 19-39 year olds without insurance - the most coveted demographic as health-care providers look to expand their risk pools - live in 108 counties.
"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 : 3,417
Cost of War
in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,511,589,051,126
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