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05/09/13 - How the Drug Trade Becomes Legalized ... Quietly
Welcome to the contradictory-seeming economics of the nation's fast-changing marijuana laws. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have now rebelled against the federal ... |
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05/03/13 - Iraq Readies for Civil War?
'The civil war in Iraq has already begun': Politician claims conflict... will be 'worse than Syria' ... The Sunni rise again: Uprising in Syria emboldens Iraq's minority ... |
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04/29/13 - Liberty Was Also Attacked in Boston
Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be ... |
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04/26/13 - $2 Trillion US Underground Economy Is the Free Market Striking Back?
$2 Trillion Underground Economy May Be Recovery's Savior ... Estimates are that underground activity last year totaled as much as $2 trillion. The growing underground economy ... |
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04/17/13 - Does the US Need a Big New War?
America needs a new war or capitalism dies Commentary: Low defense spending is killing jobs ... America needs a new war? For the economy to survive? Job market to revive? ... |
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04/15/13 - Is Cobalt-60 Another Wild 'Net Rumor?
North Korea Capability-cobalt 60 weapon poisoning of world ... North Korea's ultimate defense! – Godlike Productions Dominant Social Theme: Nuclear war is just around the ... |
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03/22/13 - US Infrastructure's Disastrous Solution
Infrastructure, a time for renewal ... Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, lifts up a decayed wooden tube and waves it for emphasis. Many of the city's water pipes are ... |
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03/19/13 - Iraq After Ten Years
March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative ... |
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03/18/13 - The Debt Crisis Is a Dollar Reserve Crisis
GOP: We've been lying all along ... Boehner's admission that we don't really have a debt crisis reveals his party's ulterior, program-cutting motives ... I never thought I'd ... |
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02/25/13 - Private US Military Firms Spread to Switzerland: US$100 Billion Market Seen
Mercenary firms: a lucrative niche market ... Contractors of the US private security firm Blackwater secured the site of a roadside bomb attack near the Iranian embassy in ... |
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02/15/13 - Dorner Burned to Death? What a Collapsing Society Looks Like
Ex-LA cop hostage story renews manhunt questions ... The sheriff's department has refused to answer questions about how one of the largest manhunts in years could have missed ... |
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02/13/13 - Reuters Article Promotes Middle East Directed History, Warns off Qatar?
Rising power Qatar stirs unease among Back to top some Mideast neighbors ... In Egypt, Libya and Syria, where Qatar tried to play a role post-Arab Spring, it finds itself ... |
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02/11/13 - NASA Promotional Videos Don't Fit the Bill?
Stresses the testing of the Lunar Module, the spacecraft that will land men on the Moon. Featured are sequences of launch, successful rendezvous, EVA, and the Earth's terrain ... |
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02/06/13 - IMF Fantasy Report: Afghanistan Needs a VAT!
Afghan economy better than expected, says IMF ... In 2013, the economy will continue to grow and inflation is expected to be stable. An IMF report, released on Monday, noted ... |
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02/01/13 - US Military Drawdown to be Filled by Europe?
Global Leadership Vacuum: Europe Incapable, America Unwilling ... The Exhausted Nation ... US Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Germany this week in an effort to strengthen ... |
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01/31/13 - Are Wall Streeters War Criminals?
Billions In Blood Money Enjoyed by War Criminals' Families ... While you might not see them on Forbes' list of wealthy people, criminals and their beneficiaries are some of the ... |
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01/29/13 - US Action in Mali is Another Undeclared War
President Obama last week began his second term by promising that "a decade of war is now ending." As he spoke, the US military was rapidly working its way into another war, ... |
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01/24/13 - Hillary's Meme Falls Apart
Clinton Shouts: 'What Difference ... Does It Make?' ... Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about ascertaining whether the Benghazi terror attack was the result of a ... |
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01/22/13 - They Hate Us for Our Freedom
List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports. – Droneswatch.org Dominant Social Theme: ... |
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01/21/13 - Elites Now Building Professional European Army
Support wanes for conscript system in Europe ... Austrians vote on army conscription this weekend, an issue on which voters in Switzerland might also be polled this year. In ... |
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01/08/13 - Now UN Blames Lord's Resistance Army for Elephant Poaching
LRA poaching ivory as Kony hunt intensifies ... Lord's Resistance Army rebels are killing elephants for ivory to raise cash as an international hunt for their leader ... |
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01/03/13 - Vision of a Mutant Future
Military Must Prep Now for 'Mutant' Future, Researchers Warn ... The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what ... |
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12/24/12 - The NRA's Sorry Tale ...
In its 141st year, the NRA has risen to become one of America's most powerful lobby groups. Now the NRA is responding to a massacre that has President Obama advocating for more ... |
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12/21/12 - Depleted Uranium Receives More Attention
Mystery in Iraq – Are US Munitions to Blame for Basra Birth Defects? ... The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently assembling a report on DU ammunition. It will ... |
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12/17/12 - Hillary Faints, Questions Linger
Hillary Clinton Faints, Sustains Concussion ... Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently fainted and sustained a concussion, her spokesman said Saturday, and will remain out ... |
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12/14/12 - Double Tap Drones: What Has Happened to the United States?
The NYU Student Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike Has Revealed A Disturbing Trend ... NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike since 2002, and ... |
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12/13/12 - A Dishonest Article about US Army Suicides
Congress can help prevent military suicides ... As troop commanders coming up through the Army ranks, we learned that taking care of our soldiers was a primary responsibility ... |
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12/12/12 - Satirist of Drones Arrested by NYPD
New York City police arrest artist who created drone satires ... Last week, The New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested Essam Attia, an artist who had designed and ... |
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12/11/12 - Kidnapped Doctor Rescue Was Probably Black Op After All
Covert Ops and Black Ops and Special Ops. And SEAL Team Six. And Homeland on TV, too! ... Guess what? Ops are in ... Ops even have their own trade show! But they are not ... |
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12/06/12 - Military Times Explains Why US Targets Afghan Children
Some Afghan kids aren't bystanders ... When Marines in Helmand province sized up shadowy figures that appeared to be emplacing an improvised explosive device, it looked like a ... |
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11/29/12 - Mind Control and Mass Murders ... the Truth Will Out?
Dark Knight gunman: 'Evil therapist programmed me to commit mass slaughter at Aurora cinema' The man accused of shooting dead 12 people during a screening of the latest Batman ... |
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11/26/12 - The Osama bin Laden Myth
The interview below with Osama bin Laden was conducted by the Karachi, Pakistan, daily newspaper, Ummat , and published on September 28, 2001, 17 days after the alleged, but ... |
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11/15/12 - US Military-Industrial Media Supports the Greater Good
US Military Behind Africa News Websites ... The website's headlines trumpet al-Shabab's imminent demise and describe an American jihadist fretting over insurgent infighting. At ... |
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11/07/12 - Democracy Won Today ... Truth Lost?
How Obama won re-election ... When looking for the keys to victory, one should not overlook the candidate himself. Obama, enjoying the advantages of incumbency, remained a ... |
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11/04/12 - Silent No More ... The Military Meme Expands
Navy Seals furious with Obama says Brad Nagel, 20 year Navy veteran and former SEAL. Newly released emails indicate that the Obama White House KNEW WITHIN 30 MINUTES of the ... |
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10/24/12 - In Amerika There Will Never be a Real Debate
God help them if Obama and Romney ever had to participate in a real debate about a real issue at the Oxford Union. They would be massacred. The "debates" revealed that not only ... |
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10/21/12 - Who Watches the Watchers?
Recently, an ill-planned SWAT team raid ended with a young child ending up in the emergency room. A 12-year-old girl was sent to the hospital with second-degree burns after an ... |
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10/16/12 - Toll of War Deformities Is Heavy Price to Pay in Iraq
Iraq records huge rise in birth defects. New study links increase with military action by Western forces ... It played unwilling host to one of the bloodiest battles of the ... |
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10/15/12 - Compelling Election or Last Gasp of US Representative Democracy?
As the U.S. prepares to vote, the world watches ... America's friends around the globe are watching the presidential elections with a mixture of horror and hope. They are ... |
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10/04/12 - Mitt Romney Wins Debate, But Not Larger Cultural War
Party like it's 1980! ... Bewildered and lost without his teleprompter, President Obama flailed all around the debate stage last night. He was stuttering, nervous and petulant. ... |
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10/03/12 - The Unsurprising Corruption of the VA
VA Employees turned Orlando conferences into taxpayer funded vacations .... Events costs taxpayers more than $6 million while federal workers took free massages, limo rides, ... |
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08/28/12 - The Deception at the Heart of the Upcoming US Presidential Election
Romney's moment: The Republicans' chosen battleground is the very shape and scope of US government ... Mitt Romney has been introduced to the American people in many guises: ... |
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08/27/12 - Why Everybody's Going To War in the Middle East
"Everybody's going to war but we don't know what we are fighting for." – Nerina Pallot, from " Everybody's Gone to War " Iran Wants War Although a peaceful nation ... |
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08/22/12 - Real Reason they Arrested Raub: Strip Him of His Right to Bear Arms
Attention U.S. Military: You are Being Demonized. This is an Extremely Important Article ... It's now becoming overt. The meme emanating rapidly from the mainstream media is ... |
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08/16/12 - Is Washington Deaf As Well as Criminal?
The morons who rule the american sheeple are not only dumb and blind, they are deaf as well. The ears of the american "superpower" only work when the Israeli prime minister, ... |
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07/19/12 - Takeover of the Middle East
US 'building missile defense station in Qatar' ... The Pentagon is building a missile defense radar station at a covert location in Qatar, The Wall Street Journal reported ... |
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07/03/12 - The UN Is Back in the Gun Banning Business
The dying art of Pakistan's gun makers ... United Nations talks seeking to curb the global weapons market have been postponed until Tuesday over a dispute on the status of the ... |
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07/01/12 - Anti-War's Angela Keaton on Women, War and the Ethics of Empire
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Angela Keaton. Introduction: Angela Keaton is the Director of Operations at Antiwar.com. She is ... |
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06/26/12 - Condoleezza Rice's Authoritarian Fantasy and Her CBS Enablers
Rice spoke over the weekend at a Utah retreat of big Republican donors for Romney and her remarks were widely praised by attendees. "I talked about the need for American ... |
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06/19/12 - Unconstitutional Uses of Drones Must Stop
Last week I joined several of my colleagues in sending a letter to President Obama requesting clarification of his criteria for the lethal use of drones overseas. ... |
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06/13/12 - Rand Paul Answers Critics But the 'Big Question' Remains
Senator Rand Paul joins Daily Paul Radio with Kurt Wallace for 'Rand Paul Answers; The Daily Paul Interview' to discuss his endorsement of Mitt Romney and to answers the ... |
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06/05/12 - War Drums for Syria?
War drums are beating again in Washington. This time Syria is in the crosshairs after a massacre there last week left more than 100 dead. As might be expected from an ... |
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06/04/12 - Here Come the Car Robots ...
Robots will soon deliver pizza ... Self-driving cars are about to be legalized in California. That same technology will enable the robot revolution ... Futurists and science ... |
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05/27/12 - Mike Sparks on 'Why James Bond Is Real'
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Mike Sparks. Introduction: Mike Sparks is a former Infantry NCO and 1LT officer; he is the Director of the ... |
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05/21/12 - Unfolding Authoritarianism and the Afghan Setback
NATO to hand combat role to Afghans as it seeks way out of war... NATO will hand over the lead role in combat operations to Afghan forces across the country by mid-2013, ... |
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05/08/12 - Enduring Commitments Abroad
Last week President Obama made a surprise pre-dawn trip to Afghanistan to mark the one year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden and to sign a document further ... |
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05/01/12 - Building the Private Warfare State
Top FBI cyber-cop joins spy thwarting startup ... Veteran FBI cyber security expert Shawn Henry on Wednesday said he is fighting the enemy on a new front by joining a startup ... |
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05/01/12 - The Costs of War
This month Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced the addition of some 1,900 mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers to its ... |
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04/17/12 - Did US Expect Taliban Attacks?
Australian troops to leave Afghanistan a year earlier than planned, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said ... Australia expects to pull most of its troops out of Afghanistan nearly ... |
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04/15/12 - Colonel Douglas Macgregor on Two Failed Wars and Why He Supports Ron Paul for President
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Colonel (ret) Douglas Macgregor. Introduction: Colonel (ret) Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat ... |
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04/04/12 - Straight From Oz: Real Reason Elites Intend to Legalize Some Drugs?
Australia foreign minister calls for decriminalisation of low-level drug use ... Bob Carr, Australia's foreign minister, whose brother died after a heroin overdose, has urged ... |
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04/02/12 - Bin Laden Death Movie Mired in Controversy
After years on Australian television, actor Callan Mulvey is making a move into the American film market. The actor has come into his own over the last few years, starring in ... |
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03/27/12 - Stockholm Syndrome: Wall Street Execs Flog Themselves Hard
Wall Street Admits It's to Blame For Public Perception–Survey ... Wall Street firms finally may be ready to admit that the public perceptions do matter. They may even ... |
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03/13/12 - An Administration Gone Rogue
Have certain parts of the Constitution become irrelevant, as a former Republican leader once told me at a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing? At the time, I was told that ... |
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03/05/12 - Next Neocon War? 'Free-Balochistan' to Split Pakistan in Two
Recently, a resolution was passed in the US Congress to divide Pakistan and carve out an 'independent Balochistan'. With this, an old neocon dream was revived. This time the ... |
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03/01/12 - VIDEO: Obama's Letter Calms Afghanistan
President Obama: Koran Apology 'Calmed Things Down' ... President Obama said his formal apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the burning of Korans by U.S. troops last ... |
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02/21/12 - Overspending on National Security Threatens National Security
The administration recently released its 2013 budget proposal, and conservatives are correctly alarmed that it calls for unprecedented spending and continued annual deficits ... |
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02/03/12 - HSBC Laundering Billions?
A former employee of one of the world's largest international banks has provided WND with more than 1,000 pages of documents, including customer account ledgers for dozens of ... |
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01/31/12 - Review: 'The Poison Plum'
While I enjoyed Jesse Ventura's article about Plum Island, "Government's Island of Horror," published over the weekend on Lewrockwell.com, I know from a close friend that Jesse ... |
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01/25/12 - NHL Hockey Star Endorses Ron Paul?
Hockey is a game I know – rather well, actually. As a young person I excelled at the sport and even left home when I was 14 to live and play in a city that offered better ... |
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01/17/12 - Military Versus Defense: Ron Paul Smacks Down WSJ's Seib
"Congressman Paul, South Carolina has seven major military bases, but you want to make major cuts in defense spending, several hundred billion dollars in the coming years. What ... |
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01/12/12 - Panetta Admits Iran Has No Immediate Plan for Nuclear Weapons
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb and called for continued diplomatic and ... |
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01/06/12 - The Elite's Military Problem
US 'turns page on a decade of war' ... The United States is "turning the page on a decade of war", President Barack Obama said, as he unveiled a major strategic review that ... |
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12/06/11 - Obama Pondering National Police Force ... Again?
The United States is probably the only nation that does not have national police. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) was created to ... |
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11/27/11 - Rise of the Political Plumber ... From Joe the Plumber to Plumber Wade House and His True Democracy Party
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Wade D. House. Introduction: First there was Joe the Plumber who became a down-to-earth conservative analyst of ... |
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11/01/11 - Leaving Iraq?
It is not too often I am pleased by the foreign policy announcements from this administration, but last week's announcement that the war in Iraq was in its final stage and all ... |
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10/31/11 - As Predicted, Pentagon Turns to GCC to Retain Hold on Gulf
U.S. Plans Post-Iraq Troop Increase in Persian Gulf ... U.S. Planning Troop Buildup in Gulf After Exit From Iraq ... The Obama administration plans to bolster the American ... |
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10/26/11 - Hillary Clinton Celebrates Gaddafi's Death – More War to Come?
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, was on an ascendant curve in terms of her popularity and approval. But we wonder if this breath-taking video clip will have an ... |
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10/18/11 - Obama's Violent Wars Against Third-World Secularism
Obama sends military advisers to fight Africa rebels ...The first wave of U.S. Special Forces Green Berets arrived in Uganda this week to support the battle against a guerrilla ... |
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10/11/11 - A Dangerous Precedent
According to the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, Americans are never to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Constitution is not ... |
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10/07/11 - Afghanistan, a Promotion in Tatters
It's a fantasy to think we are winning the war in Afghanistan ... Ten years after the West intervened to overthrow the Taliban regime, our strategy is still fatally flawed, ... |
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09/13/11 - Military Industrial Complex on the Chopping Block?
Harsh new realities for the military industrial complex ... Congress has reconvened, which means lobbyists for the powerful defense industry will go into overdrive to stave off ... |
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09/07/11 - Europe, CNN Pressure US to Reveal Rendition Program
Council of Europe demands truth on CIA 'black sites.' ... The human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe urged countries that have hosted secret CIA prisons to come ... |
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08/26/11 - Media Blackout: US in Yet Another Illegal War ... in Yemen
Airstrike Kills 8 Suspected Militants in Yemen ... Officials in Yemen say an airstrike has killed eight militants in the country's south. The officials said Thursday's strike ... |
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07/25/11 - Pakistan Breaks Away
Pakistan: Fortifying Our Civilizational Heritage ... These are very challenging times for the Pakistani nation, blessed with national resilience, sense of honour and the ... |
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07/14/11 - Conspiracy's Longer Timeline
9/11 And The Rise of The World Wolf State ... It is an amazing fact of history that what passes for history in the West is factually untrue. The people get public mythologies ... |
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07/13/11 - Great Depression Comes Knocking
China's Economy Grows 9.5%, Exceeding Estimates ... China's economy and industrial production expanded more than analysts predicted, indicating the nation is maintaining ... |
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07/06/11 - Extortion, Private and Public: The Case of Chiquita Banana
Lefties have protested against Chiquita Banana for so long that most activists probably forget why they are supposed to hate the company. The company does have a spotty ... |
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06/14/11 - Afghanistan: Let the Finger-Pointing Begin
Lackluster U.S. Leaders Doom Afghan Mission ... In December 1941, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt assembled his top military advisors, he was surrounded by George ... |
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03/22/11 - US Kill Teams Target Afghan Civilians as Trophies
Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of "trophy" photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead ... |
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03/07/11 - Dhimmitude of General Petraeus
Strangely, He Didn't Mention Parents Intentionally Maiming Their Children This Time ... ISAF has decided, finally, to apologize for the civilian casualties they caused in ... |
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11/14/10 - Eric Garris on Anti-War Activism, Military Adventurism and the Future of Economic Liberty
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Eric Garris. Introduction: Eric Garris has been a political activist for over four decades. A former leftist, ... |
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