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Huge Explosions Rock Damascus, Syria! [RAW VIDEO]
Post Date: 2013-05-04 21:50:59 by RickyJ
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BREAKING: Syrian Air Defence has shot down an Israeli plane plane flying over #Damascus #Syria https://twitter.com/ana_cherine/status/330856852558598144
The Arab 'Che Guevera' Is Dead But His Ideas Live On
Post Date: 2013-05-04 08:03:08 by Ada
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Two years ago this week, US special forces shot and killed Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man. American TV is filled with chest-thumping and flag-waving about how bin Laden was hunted down and executed. For most Americans, bin Laden was the acme of evil and author of the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 people. Good riddance. Hunting "bad guys" is a venerable American tradition from the days of the Wild West and the Roaring 20’s: Billy the Kid, Pancho Villa, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger. The TV program "America’s Most Wanted" remains one of the nation’s most popular programs. Osama bin Laden was the ultimate most wanted. However, this ...
Report: U.S. Government and NATO Worked with Bin Laden and His Top Lieutenant 3 Months AFTER 9/11
Post Date: 2013-05-03 10:57:23 by Ada
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May 3, 2013 Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has been deemed credible by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General, several senators (free subscription required), and a coalition of prominent conservative and liberal groups. The ACLU described Edmonds as: The most gagged person in the history of the United States of America. And famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says that Edmonds possesses information “far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers”. Edmonds translated terror-related communications for the FBI right after 9/11. In that capacity, she read communications between terrorists and other radicals. Edmonds said last week that Bin Laden – ...
Tiptoeing Toward War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-05-02 02:51:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Tiptoeing Toward War on Syria by Stephen Lendman Events in Syria resemble the run-up to Obama's Libya war. Victims are called aggressors. Pretexts are created for intervention. Washington appears headed for more war. Lack of public support doesn't matter. A New York Times/CBS poll showed 62% of respondents don't believe America has a "responsibility" to intervene. A new Pew survey at best found lukewarm support. Asked how Washington should respond if Assad used chemical weapons, 45% supported intervention while 31% opposed. Another 25% had no opinion. Americans remain largely indifferent. Only 18% of Pew respondents said they follow Syrian events closely. The ...
Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Penumbra of Terror
Post Date: 2013-05-01 07:54:39 by Ada
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The Boston Marathon bombers had help The semi-official story coming out of Washington, and the Western media, is that the Tsarnaev brothers were “self-radicalized” loners, “losers,” as their uncle Ruslan put it, unconnected to any larger organization or terrorist network. The poor babies were so alienated by life in America – where they had been given refugee status, welfare payments, and, in Dzhokhar’s case, citizenship – that they suddenly decided to carry out a terrorist act in which three were killed and hundreds wounded. Move along, nothing to see here … There’s just one problem with this story: it’s unraveling. As we learn more ...
What's Ahead for Syria?
Post Date: 2013-05-01 03:09:31 by Stephen Lendman
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What's Ahead for Syria? by Stephen Lendman Syria's being systematically destroyed. Washington planned doing so years ago. Sovereign independence isn't tolerated. It's longstanding US policy. Numerous states learned the hard way. Syria is America's latest victim. It's falsely blamed for Washington's war. The pattern by now is familiar. Ravaging the world one country at a time or in multiples is policy. Terrorism is what they do, not us. Reasons for imperial wars are suppressed. Wealth, power, privileged and unchallenged dominance alone matter. Sacrificing human lives and freedoms are small prices to pay. Regime change is prioritized. False pretexts ...
American Medical Association Questions Force-Feeding as Gitmo Strike Officially
Post Date: 2013-04-30 08:19:06 by Ada
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Pentagon: More Medical Personnel Deployed to Gitmo The American Medical Association (AMA) has issued a statement expressing concerns about the ethical implications of force-feeding hunger striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay, as Pentagon officials finally admitted to at least 100 people being involved in the ongoing strike. The AMA letter reiterated its long-standing position that force-feeding mentally competent adults is unethical, but stopped short of calling on the Pentagon to stop their force-feedings of detainees, simply urging them to address the situation of asking doctors to violate their own ethical standards by participating. The Pentagon announced another 40 medical personnel ...
Syria: Upping the Stakes
Post Date: 2013-04-30 03:08:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria: Upping the Stakes by Stephen Lendman Things appear heading closer toward full-scale US intervention. The fullness of time will have final say. On April 28, The New York Times headlined "Lawmakers Call for Stronger US Action in Syria," saying: Republicans "took President Obama to task Sunday for what they characterized as dangerous inaction in Syria…." Senators John McCain (R. AZ) and Lindsey Graham are Armed Services Committee members. They "warn(ed) that failure to intervene in Syria would embolden nations like Iran and North Korea." "If we keep this hands-off approach to Syria, this indecisive action toward Syria, kind of not knowing ...
Terrorism in Boston
Post Date: 2013-04-29 09:19:17 by Ada
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In recent years, I have seen terrorism denounced as a despicable crime. I wonder whether it shouldn’t be accepted frankly as a form of war. I am not sure why blowing up ten people in a restaurant in, say, London is more despicable than blowing up ten children in Afghanistan by a drone. (They are both despicable.) Some terrorists, such as the Unabomber, are merely freelance criminal psychopaths. Others, such as bin Laden, engage in terrorism for the same reason why militaries attack countries: to make the other side do what the attacker wants. From the point of view of cost and benefit, terrorism is a brilliantly effective form of warfare, especially against heavily armed countries of ...
US False Flag Pretext for War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-04-29 02:43:09 by Stephen Lendman
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US False Flag Pretext for War on Syria by Stephen Lendman Obama abhors peace. He prioritizes war. His appetite exceeds his predecessors and then some. It's insatiable. He's currently waging multiple direct and proxy wars. He plans more in Africa. He destroyed Libya. He's ravaging Syria. Full-scale intervention looms. He's creating a pretext to do it. Old news bears repeating. A no longer accessible January 29, 2013 UK Daily Mail headlined "US 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime,' " saying: "Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons ...
Authoritarianism Has Quietly Enveloped Every Part of American Life -- We Must Fight Back
Post Date: 2013-04-28 05:39:43 by Ada
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Privacy, not surveillance, is what must be justified now. We must make sure not to draw the wrong lessons from Boston. Observing the media frenzy that surrounded last week's Boston marathon bombing and the eventual capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one thing became immediately clear: the attack gave media elites an opportunity to fully embrace their generally latent authoritarianism. Finally, they could openly and unapologetically align themselves with law enforcement officials, sham “counter- terrorism experts,” and whoever else bravely suggested that total surveillance is good and inevitable. (See Tom Brokaw telling viewers that they must now submit to increasingly invasive ...
America's Addiction: Waging War on Humanity
Post Date: 2013-04-28 03:13:43 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Addiction: Waging War on Humanity by Stephen Lendman America's business is war. Permanent wars reflect official US policy. They're glorified in the name of peace. One nation after another is ravaged. Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel called it being "cold-blooded about the self-interests of your nation." Obama's the latest US warrior president. Imperial lawlessness defines his agenda. Out-of-control militarism rages. Humanity's survival is threatened. Syria is Obama's war. Direct intervention looms. Claims about Syria using chemical weapons don't wash. Syrian officials categorically deny them. On April 27, the Syrian Arab ...
Creating a Pretext for War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-04-27 03:06:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Creating a Pretext for War on Syria by Stephen Lendman What's ongoing now bears eerie resemblance to events preceding Bush's Iraq war. Obama's replicating a familiar scenario. Waging war requires a pretext to do so. When none exists, it's invented. It's easy. Lies substitute for truth. Claims about Syria using chemical weapons don't wash. Repetition gets people to believe them. We've seen it all before. Colin Power's infamous February 5, 2003 Security Council speech led to war. It was shameless deception. Later he admitted WMD claims were false. It was too late to matter. Plans were set. The die was cast. Weeks later, America bombed, invaded and occupied ...
Unclaimed
Post Date: 2013-04-27 01:37:34 by john stadtmiller
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Many of our brave men and women in uniform carry a motto that they will not leave a man behind. Sadly, in many instances that happens and it’s not because that is what those men want to happen. Such is the story of Special Forces Green Beret Master Sgt. John Hartley Robertson, whose helicopter was shot down over Laos in 1968 on a classified mission. He was declared dead in that same year. A new movie by Emmy-winning Edmonton Filmmaker Michael Jorgensen titled Unclaimed is Robertson’s story Read more: freedomoutpost.com/2013/0...r-44-years/#ixzz2Rdgc7iIu Click for Full Text!
When Homeland Security Theater Goes Off-Script
Post Date: 2013-04-26 07:35:11 by Ada
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While police in Watertown, Massachusetts closed in on the boat in which 19-year- old terrorist suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had concealed himself, FBI investigators in Chicago were snapping handcuffs on 18-year-old Abdella Ahmed Tounisi as he attempted to board an airplane bound for Istanbul. He intended to travel to Syria to fight on behalf an Islamic rebel group that seeks to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad. There is reason to believe that the FBI had advance knowledge of the Boston Marathon bombing plot. On the other hand, we know that Tounisi was a pure product of the FBI's terrorist factory: He was the latest in a long procession of socially alienated teenage Muslim males ...
THE COPS' MILITARY TOYS AREN'T JUST FOR CATCHING TERRORISTS
Post Date: 2013-04-26 01:56:33 by Ada
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On April 19, a million Bostonians stayed locked down in their homes while 9,000 cops combed the metro area for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the marathon bombing. In Watertown, cops went door-to-door and removed homeowners at gunpoint before searching their houses. Tsarnaev was found in that town around 8 PM by the owner of the boat sitting in his backyard, where the 19-year-old suspected terrorist had chosen as his hiding place. The lockdown was something new. Not serial killers, not cop-killing cop Christopher Dorner’s LA rampage, not even 9/11 shut down a city like this. Still, Bostonians seemed fine with staying inside for the most part. Cops found their guy ...
Obama Heads Closer to War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-04-25 15:12:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Heads Closer Closer to War on Syria by Stephen Lendman Obama plans lots more death and destruction. Current multiple direct and proxy wars aren't enough. His appetite for more is insatiable. A previous article discussed spurious allegations of Syrian chemical weapons use. Obama calls using them a "game changer." He also said their use crosses a "red line." Syrian officials categorically deny using them. According to Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi: "Even if Syria does have chemical weapons, our leadership and our military will not use them either against Syrians or against Israelis, above all for moral reasons and secondarily on legal and ...
Were the Boston Bombings Acts of Terrorism?
Post Date: 2013-04-25 07:41:45 by Ada
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By now, most people would answer "of course it was terrorism." We now know about the older brother’s trip to Chechnya and his seeming conversion to jihad afterwards, and we have the younger brother’s mute "confession," although most of the important questions remain unanswered. But the establishment media were quick to label the bombings terrorism from the moment the two brothers’ photos were posted on TV, without any of this background known. Why the rush? Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian asks an important question: When can an act of mass violence be deemed "terrorism"? Our establishment media quickly defined the Boston bombings, in the ...
The Bush Legacy
Post Date: 2013-04-25 03:16:22 by Stephen Lendman
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The Bush Legacy Throughout his tenure, media scoundrels were largely supportive. They ignored his 2000 electoral theft. In 2004, they did so again. They backed his imperial wars. They turned a blind eye to police state injustice. They ignored torture on a global scale. They mischaracterized the measure of the man. Early on, The New York Times praised his "new gravitas." It was days after he attacked Afghanistan. It was premeditated lawless aggression. It was two weeks before he signed the Patriot Act. Times editors called him "confident" and "determined." He showed "statesmanship." "It was heartening to hear him say" America will fight ...
America's War on Terror 2.0
Post Date: 2013-04-25 03:15:43 by Stephen Lendman
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America's War on Terror 2.0 by Stephen Lendman Post-Boston bombings, expect Obama and Congress to take full advantage. Perhaps more war is planned. Big lies launch them. Fear-mongering enlists public support. Anything ahead is possible. A previous article discussed dubious allegations of Syria's chemical weapons use. They resemble fabricated claims about Saddam's nonexistent WMDs. It's similar to false charges against all US enemies. Iran's repeatedly targeted. New baseless accusations followed earlier ones. More on that below. Earlier Iran was accused of a fabricated US Saudi ambassador assassination plot. It's falsely called the world's leading state ...
The Russians Warned Us – Why Didn’t We Listen?
Post Date: 2013-04-24 07:19:27 by Ada
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How did the FBI fail to keep track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev after the Russians warned us about him? This is a mystery our lawmakers are passionately interested in. The FBI blames the Russians for not providing more information after their own efforts failed to turn up anything they regarded as suspicious. Yet the Russians did indeed provide enough information to justify surveillance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to NBC News, when they informed the FBI he had met with a known terrorist leader no less than six times during his visit to Dagestan. : “A police official source in Makhachkala, Dagestan, told NBC News on Sunday that the Russian internal security service reached out to the FBI ...
Target Syria: Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use
Post Date: 2013-04-24 03:16:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Target Syria: Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use by Stephen Lendman New allegations claim Syrian chemical weapons use. We've heard similar ones before. Obama calls using them a "game changer." He also said their use crosses a "red line." Syrian officials are unequivocal. Weeks earlier, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad spoke for others saying: "Syria stresses again, for the 10th, the 100th time, that if we had such weapons, they would not be used against our people. We would not commit suicide." Alleging Syrian chemical weapons use resembles bogus claims about Saddam's nonexistent WMDs. It's similar to false charges against all US enemies. ...
Illegality of War Acknowledged in Congress
Post Date: 2013-04-24 02:36:37 by Tatarewicz
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A Congressman just stood up and acknowledged a long forgotten law that makes all war illegal. Here's what Congressman Keith Ellison said in the Congressional Record: warisacrime.org/content/i...dged-congressional-record He said this because his constituents have created a movement to honor their local son who created this law and won a Nobel Peace Prize for doing so. And they have done this because a book revived this forgotten history, this biggest news story of 1928, long buried and willfully unremembered. Ralph Nader puts this same book on a list of 11 books you should read. The book is called When the World Outlawed War: davidswanson.org/outlawry When the World Outlawed War ...
Targeting Iran
Post Date: 2013-04-23 03:26:09 by Stephen Lendman
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Targeting Iran by Stephen Lendman Hostile US/Israeli rhetoric is longstanding. Obama and Netanyahu consider Iran an existential threat. Claiming it turns truth on its head. AIPAC's no better. It calls Iran "the world’s leading state sponsor of terror and is racing toward a nuclear weapons capability." "Through its proxy armies of Hizballah in southern Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Iranian regime is supporting terrorists that have carried out attacks on American troops and Israeli civilians." Fact check: America and Israel are the world's most egregious human rights abusers and sponsors of state-sponsored terrorism. On March, the Foreign ...
Former U.S. Officials Urge Obama to Rethink Iran Policy
Post Date: 2013-04-22 03:22:29 by Big Meanie
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A panel of former U.S. government officials and outside experts has concluded in a new report that economic sanctions against Iran may be backfiring. The report, released April 17, urges President Obama to reconsider penalties that have created economic havoc for the Iranian people, leading to a devalued currency and soaring inflation, but have failed to slow the progress of the government's nuclear program. Rather, the sanctions have "contributed to an increase in repression and corruption within Iran" and "may be sowing the seeds of long-term alienation between the Iranian people and the United States," according to the report issued by the Iran Project. The ...
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