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“Americans have many fine
qualities. A capacity to see ourselves as others see us is not high among
them.”
~ Patrick J. Buchanan
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Congress is about to pour lighter fluid on Iran
The
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis, MN, USA reports: ” The U.S. Congress may inadvertently
lay the foundations for war against Iran when it reconvenes in Washington
this month. Two essentially identical nonbinding resolutions call upon
President Bush to ‘immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political
and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear
enrichment activities…’ The methods for increased pressure differ slightly
in the two resolutions…Achieving either goal would require a naval blockade
-- a de facto act of war on the part of the United States, though
paradoxically both resolutions explicitly exclude authorization for
military action.”
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Reining in the Empire
By Ivan
Eland
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Mission Creep or Creepy Missions? An Interactive Map
of the Worldwide US Military Presence
Mother Jones
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September 10th, 2008, foreign correspondent for Canada’s Sun National Media and
author of the brand new American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving
the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World, discusses:
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the importance of
maintaining level-headed relations with Russia,
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the consequences of U.S.
support for Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia,
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Pakistan’s decreasing
stability and our increased interference,
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the beginning of the
“pipeline security wars,”
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the war party’s bogus
explanations of the causes of terrorism and
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the Arab world’s former admiration for America.
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Bush's Bitter Legacy
“In
order to pursue a ‘war’ against a group of terrorist criminals, the
administration flouted the US Constitution and the bill of rights,
dismissed the Geneva conventions, endorsed imprisonment without charge or
trial, created a system of show trials for terror suspects out of thin air,
granted themselves the right to spy on American citizens with impunity, and
invaded a sovereign country without justification.”
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ACLU challenges FISA update with first legal brief
"’The
FISA Amendments Act allows the mass acquisition of Americans' international
e-mails and telephone calls,’" said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the
ACLU National Security Project. ‘The administration has argued that the law
is necessary to address the threat of terrorism, but the truth is that the
law sweeps much more broadly and implicates all kinds of communications
that have nothing to do with terrorism or criminal activity of any kind.
The Fourth Amendment was meant to prohibit exactly the kinds of dragnet
surveillance that the new law permits.’
The organization claims the FISA Amendments Act gives President Bush's
administration unchecked power to spy on civilians without providing any
information about its actions or facing review from a
court.”
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Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New
Powers
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Judge Limits Searches Using Cellphone Data
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Congress Asks: Who Misled the Anthrax Investigation
by Pointing at Iraq?
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Recently
Declassified Documents Shed New Light on Ongoing AIPAC Espionage
Prosecution
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Israel Annexes More West Bank Land
The BBC
reports: “Israel has annexed thousands of hectares of West Bank land beside
the barrier it is building, according to an Israeli rights group. B'Tselem
says the land has been taken with the justification that it is needed to
protect Israeli settlements. The group says some settlements have seized up
to two and a half times more land than they have been designated by fencing
it off or through intimidation. Under international law the settlements in
the West Bank are illegal. This is disputed by Israel, which has settled
about 450,000 people in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”
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Gaza World’s largest concentration camp, says Blair
sister-in-law
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Preteen's Imprisonment: Latest Controversy in Restive
Naalin
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UN Chief urges Israel to pay Lebanon $1 billion for
environmental war damage
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Missile attack causes 2 explosions near US military
base in Japan
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Chavez Orders US Ambassador Expelled From Country
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US plans to expel Venezuelan envoy, official says
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US watching Russia-Venezuela military maneuvers
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China wins in US-Venezuela wrangling
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Russian strategic bombers in Venezuela for'
training', says Chavez
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Bolivian President Expels US Ambassador For Inciting
Violent Protests
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Brazil, Argentina drop US dollar for bilateral trade
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Former right-wing US backed President said behind
Paraguay coup plot
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Latin American leaders rally to new Paraguay
President as coup plot revealed
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Honduras postpones accrediting US ambassador
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Car Bomb in Iraq Kills at
Least 32, Wounds 43
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Afghan
Governor Dies in Suicide Blast
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US Firm Ambushed in Afghan South, 23 Dead
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US Attack Kills Several in Pakistan
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Pakistan
Could End Cooperation in War on Terror
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Pakistani Governor: NATO Working on Weakening
Pakistan
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Pakistan Army Chief Lashes Out At US Raids, Says
Country Will Be Defended 'At All Costs'
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Emir of Qatar says will not allow any country to turn
the Persian Gulf into a war zone
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Hurricane Ike strikes Cuban capital, toppling
buildings, flooding streets
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Lesson from Ike: Nobody does evacuations like Cuba
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Ike: Haiti death toll over 1,000
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CERN experiment: Machine switched on. No Big Bang. It
works
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