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"Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood."  - Mahatma Gandhi

 


"Let us form a new religion, that which would be called 'humanity', with 'peace' as its prophet."  - Nima Shirali

 

 

"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!" - Helen Keller

 

 
September 13, 2014
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Obama Declares War on Syria
Why the Real Target is Assad Not ISIS

 

By Mike Whitney

 

This is pure demagoguery, the likes of which we haven't heard since Bush's "The Axis of Evil" speech. 

 

 

Neocons Revive Syria 'Regime Change' Plan

 

By Robert Parry

 

President Obama plans to violate international law by launching airstrikes inside Syria without that government's consent, even though Syria might well give it.

 

 

The Forever War

 

By Patrick J. Buchanan

 

Obama wants Congress to appropriate $500 million to train and arm those doctors and pharmacists and send them into battle against an army of jihadist terrorists who just bit off one-third of Iraq.

 

 

Mickey Mouse and Genghis Khan
Here's Another Force of Evil to be 'Vanquished'

 

By Robert Fisk

 

One can see how difficult these lessons in Middle East history must be for the average American

 

 

News Organizations Finally Realize Obama's War Plan Is a Hot Mess

 

By Dan Froomkin

 

Rudderless and without a compass, the American ship of state continues to drift, guns blazing.

 

 

Will NATO Liberate Jihadistan?

 

By Pepe Escobar

 

The Caliph is not exactly quaking in his Made-in-USA desert boots.

 

 

NATO Loses Ukraine

 

By Margaret Kimberley

 

"Peace is the last thing that the Nobel Peace Prize winning president wants to see."

 

 

Say 'No' to War and Media Propaganda

 

By Mairead Maguire

 

We are at a dangerous point in our history of the human family and it would be the greatest of tragedies for ourselves and our children if we simply allowed the war profiteers to take us into a third world war.

 

 

Scotland: Vote Yes for World Peace

 

By Finian Cunningham

 

The breaking up of the United Kingdom would be an imminently good thing for the sake of world peace.

 

 

Our Terrorist In Chief

 

Video And Lyrics By David Rovics

 

It's September 11th and Obama gave a speech
On the War on Terror and its mighty reach
The arm of the law is long and victory will be ours
As long as we cooperate with certain powers.

 

 

The End of History?

 

By Noam Chomsky

 

The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to be drawing to a close.
 

Hard News    

80 Boko Haram fighters killed in Nigeria's Konduga?:
Some 80 Boko Haram fighters were reportedly killed on Friday in clashes with army troops in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Borno State, a top military source has said.

 

 

Syrian air raids 'kill 42 near Damascus':
Syrian government air raids on a rebel-held area near Damascus killed 42 people, including seven children, a monitoring group said Friday, giving an updated toll.

 

 

U.S. Bypasses Security Council on Impending Invasion of Syria: Analysis -
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC), the only international body empowered to declare war and peace, continues to remain a silent witness to the widespread devastation and killings worldwide, including in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Ukraine.

 

 

Syria airstrikes need boots on the ground, AF officer says:
U.S. special operations forces will be needed on the ground in Syria to make the expanded air war President Obama has ordered there more effective, a senior Air Force commander told USA TODAY.

 

 

Analysis: Ignore What You Preach? : US to Bomb Syria without Damascus' Approval : Video -
Syrian leaders say American strikes in their country will be considered an act of aggression. On Wednesday Barack Obama announced a broad US air assault on Islamic State jihadists inside both Syria and Iraq.

 

 

IS has 20,000-31,500 fighters in Iraq and Syria: CIA:
Among those in Syria are 15,000 foreign fighters including 2,000 Westerners, some of whom have joined IS, a US intelligence official told AFP.

 

 

Congress may finally vote to arm Syrian rebels:
"It is increasingly impossible to sort out the so-called vetted moderate rebels from the truly bad rebels," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations panel on Europe, said in a Sept. 11 floor speech.

 

 

Obama's New War on ISIS May Be Illegal:
Legal experts were shocked to learn Wednesday that the Obama administration wants to rely on that 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force against al Qaeda for the new ISIS war.

 

 

'Vetted Moderate' Free Syrian Army Commander Admits Alliance with ISIS:
The Daily Star in Lebanon quoted a FSA brigade commander saying that his forces were working with the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's official Syrian affiliate - both U.S.-designated terrorist organizations - near the Syrian/Lebanon border.

 

 

Why Turkey Is Sitting Out the ISIS War:
Ankara's position recalls its refusal in 2003 to allow the deployment of U.S. ground troops for the attack on Saddam Hussein's forces in Iraq. That reluctance later seemed prudent.

 

 

Obama speech evokes mixed reactions in Middle East:
A primetime presidential address aimed at uniting the American people in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) appears to have had the opposite effect in the Middle East.

 

 

US opposes Iran's presence at French-hosted conference on Iraq:
 Accusing Iran of being "a state sponsor of terror" and backing Syria's brutal regime, Kerry said it would be inappropriate for Iranian officials to join an Iraq conference in Paris on Monday to discuss how to curb a jihadist movement that has seized a third of both Iraq and Syria.

 

 

Syrian troops capture key central town:
By retaking the town of Helfaya in Hama province, troops will be better positioned to defend nearby Christian and Alawite communities that support President Bashar Assad.

 

 

17 killed in bomb blast attacks in Iraq:
Car bombs in three Shiite cities south of Baghdad and an explosion in the capital have killed 17 people.

 

 

Analysis: PA 'balking' at war crimes probe:
After a document obtained by Al Jazeera revealed the Palestinian Authority (PA) has stalled the launch of a formal investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza, Palestinian legal and human rights experts remain dubious that the PA ever truly intended to join the International Criminal Court (ICC).

 

 

Israeli soldiers from elite wire-tapping unit refuse to use 'extortion', 'blackmail' on Palestinians:
Soldiers from Israeli's elite wire-tapping unit are refusing to spy on Palestinians in a rebuke to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

 

 

Nine Taliban Insurgents Killed in Afghan Army's Operations:
 At least nine Taliban militants were killed and 13 others were injured during an operation led by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in Kohistanat district of Sar-e-Pul province, local officials said.

 

 

NATO Occupation Force Soldier Killed in Afghanistan:
The soldier identity is not clear yet, but during security patrolling lost his life in the south of the country.

 

 

Abdullah Abdullah threatens protests over disputed election:
A powerful backer of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah said on Thursday his supporters would launch street protests and occupy government buildings if they were unhappy with the outcome of a disputed election.

 

 

Pakistan: Blast leaves one dead 13 injured in Quetta:
 A man was killed and over dozen others injured in a blast apparently targeting a vehicle of a paramilitary force in Satellite Town area of the provincial capital on Saturday.

 

 

Russia slams the West over Ukraine sanctions:
Russian ruble sinks as Lavrov says Western sanctions hurt the chances of a lasting peace in eastern Ukraine.

 

 

Russia to appeal against US, EU sanctions to WTO:
Russia considers the latest round of Western sanctions illegal and is ready to appeal against them to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Russian Economy Minister Aleksey Ulyukaev told reporters on Friday.

 

 

Putin: West Makes Use of Ukrainian Crisis to Destabilize International Situation:
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the West uses the crisis in Ukraine to destabilize the international situation, while the country itself is of no interest to anyone.

 

 

First trucks of Russia's second Ukraine aid convoy cross border:
The first trucks had passed through Russia's 'Donetsk' checkpoint into the buffer zone shortly before midnight on Friday, local customs spokesman Rayan Farukshin told RIA Novosti.

 

 

End Of Empire - The 'De-Dollarization' Chart That China And Russia Are Banking On :
China's economy will overtake America's in purchasing power terms within the next few years. The US is now no longer the world's sole economic superpower and indeed its share of world output (on a PPP basis) has slipped below the 20% level which we have seen was a useful sign historically of a single dominant economic superpower.

 

 

China, Russia reported to build huge seaport in North Asia:
China and Russia are to build one of the largest ports in northeast Asia on Russia's Sea of Japan coast, Chinese media reports. It is the latest step by Beijing and Moscow to bring their economies closer, and diversify from Western influence.

 

 

James Foley's mother claims she was threatened with PROSECUTION if family paid ransom:
'As an American I'm embarrassed and appalled'

 

 

'National security' follow-up: Turkey's Erdogan signs law to have users' browsing history stored for 2 years:
The Turkish President has further tightened government control of the internet as he approved a law that lets the country's telecoms authority block sites as it deems necessary and forces hosting providers to store users' browsing history for two years.

 

 

Yahoo $250,000 daily fine over NSA data refusal was set to double 'every week':
The US government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it refused to hand over user data to the National Security Agency, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday.

 

 

'His hands were up!' New footage shows Ferguson witnesses reacting to teen's death
(VIDEO)

 

 

Living near fracking sites deteriorates health - study:
Those who live in close proximity to fracking sites exhibited a greater likelihood to suffer skin and respiratory problems than those who lived farther away from natural gas wells, according to a new study of Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale region.

 

 

Stock Ownership at 18-Year Low, Stocks at All-Time High. How?: Video -
The S&P 500 index is near a record high yet the U.S. has the lowest level of stock ownership since 1995. What explains the lofty market prices? See a chart that provides insight.

 

 

Marc Faber: McDonald's tells us why the market will collapse:
Marc Faber has long predicted that a collapse in U.S. stocks is coming. On Thursday he reiterated that call, saying there is fresh evidence that a bear market is ahead-courtesy of the Golden Arches.

 

 

More car owners fall behind on auto loan payments:
The auto loan delinquency rate - borrowers who are at least 60 days behind on their loans - rose to 0.95% in the second quarter, up more than 9% from 0.87% the same quarter a year ago, reports TransUnion, the big credit bureau.

 

 

America's Poor, Deeper in Debt Than Ever:
As of 2013, the debts of the quarter of families with the lowest net worth stood at about 156 percent of pretax income, according to the Fed data. That's more than in 2007, before the financial crisis hit. It's also more than any of the wealthier groups -- something that hadn't happened

 


 

 

"Let us be peace and joy"

  

Tom Feeley
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 : 3,469

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001      
 
 1,564,568,477,295

 

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