"There's only one party in America today, with two wings, the conservative wing, known as Democrats, and the reactionary wing, known as Republicans." - Gore Vidal

 

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"In the U. S. the Democrats have become what the Republicans used to be  and the Republicans have become lunatics."  -  Phil Gasper

 

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Gaddafi is challenging Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama to swith on their TV and watch the crowd.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28458.htm

 

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"The Libyan people are capable, one day, of taking the battle to Europe and the Mediterranean" region, Kadhafi said in the message, as thousands of supporters massed in the landmark square in the centre of the capital.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28449.htm

 

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If I could publicly ask our beloved president one question, it would be this: With all due respect: What is wrong with you?"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28453.htm

 

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The neighborhoods in Libya are preparing for a ground invasion and to confront directly the invaders with a plan that one imagines would not be unfamiliar to a General Giap of Vietnam or a Chinese General Lin Peio, being a massive peoples' defense.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28460.htm

 

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After first attempting to remove the government through support for the "rebels" in the east and west, the US and NATO are now adopting a more direct method.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28456.htm

 

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"These 24 members of a caucus that claims to be the "conscience of the Congress" will sign any check and authorize any amount of killings."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28457.htm

 

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The Pashtun Taliban and its allies are dedicated, undefeated warriors who fight where they live, and have all the time in the world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28461.htm

 

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A total legal whitewash for the Bush torture regime.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28459.htm

 

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The platform for these holocaust deniers is the Murdoch press, which has long run its own insidious campaign against the indigenous population.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28451.htm

 

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The plan to spoon-feed payments to Greece in 12 billion-euro bites while demanding "progress". This will ensure Greece is sucked dry (at fire sale prices) of any government assets worth owning by the time the "bailout" is over.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28455.htm

 

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When austerity-minded congressmen slash the deficits, the last thread keeping the economy in positive territory will be cut and deflationary pressures will reemerge.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28452.htm

 

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What does it mean to say we have freedom of speech? Many of us think free speech is a right enjoyed by everyone in our society. In fact, it does not exist as an abstract right.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28454.htm

 

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I pointed out the problems with the case against DSK. For informing people of the obvious, I was denounced by the right-wing and the left-wing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28450.htm

 

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Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded cities around Syria on Friday in one of the largest outpourings against the regime of President Bashar Assad since the uprisings began more than three months ago. At least 12 people were killed in various clashes, activists said.
http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=249208

 

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Blame Iran:
U.S. military sees Iran behind rising troop deaths in Iraq:

 

Three U.S. soldiers were killed this week in a rocket attack at a U.S. base near the Iranian border, the military said Thursday, bringing June's death toll to 15 and marking the bloodiest month for U.S. troops in Iraq in two years.
http://wapo.st/l9Rudl

 

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The U.N. report directly contradicts an emerging talking point in the U.S. military. Lt. Gen. John Allen, the incoming war commander, told a Senate panel on Tuesday that "violence is five percent lower so far this year in comparison to last year," (.pdf) Not only is violence not going down, if the U.N. is to believed, it's going way up
http://bit.ly/iu4hhT

 

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The Pakistan Army has said that a US pullback of troops from northeast Afghanistan over 20 months has let Islamic guerrillas establish bases in the area and carry out unusually huge attacks inside Pakistan in recent weeks.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-19413.html

 

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US personnel have neither left the Shamsi air base in Balochistan, nor there is any plan for them to do so, a US official familiar with the matter told a foreign news agency.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-18663.html

 

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Pakistan's information minister on Friday cast doubt on statements made by the defence minister that the United States had been asked to vacate an air base used to launch drone strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan.
http://bit.ly/jKU1ud

 

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All U.S. drone strikes in the past three months have been launched from Afghanistan, in the vicinity of Jalalabad, according to the officials
http://wapo.st/lSSBsx

 

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The Central Intelligence Agency is continuing to use a covert base inside Pakistan for drone strikes and other counterterrorism operations despite Islamabad's public insistence that the facility has been closed,
http://bit.ly/moQ2LR

 

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Pakistan may be kicking the CIA out of its premiere base for the drone war. Or it may not - who can tell with the Pakistanis anymore? What's for certain is that all their griping strengthens the U.S. resolve to keep bases in neighboring Afghanistan to launch drones into Pakistan unilaterally.
http://bit.ly/lS6kSl

 

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 U.S. military forces landed in Somalia to retrieve the bodies of dead or wounded militants after a U.S. drone strike targeted a group of insurgents, Somalia's defense minister told The Associated Press on Friday.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110701/API/1107010729

 

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"I think that now we are witnessing the preparation stage of a ground operation which NATO, or at least some of its members... are ready to begin," Rogozin said.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110701/164951748.html

 

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Libyan rebels who had advanced to within 80 km of Muammar Gaddafi's stronghold in the capital were forced to retreat Friday after coming under a barrage of rocket fire from government forces.
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE75O1ER20110701

 

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More than three month after Western countries launched military operations in Libya, NATO Secretary General Rasmussen said here Thursday that the main objective of the campaign remains unchanged: force Gaddafi to leave power.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-07/01/c_13959287.htm

 

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The NATO-led coalition violates the United Nations Resolution on Libya and thus deteriorates prospects of a peaceful settlement in the country, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko who heads the Russian delegation at the annual OSCE security conference.
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c32/177336.html

 

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The 53-nation African Union took a similar stance against an ICC warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in 2009 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
http://bit.ly/m9DHje

 

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Nato's intervention winning few friends among African leaders, judging by mood at Equatorial Guinea meeting.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/20117171321504965.html

 

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Tens of thousands of Yemenis turned Friday prayers into rallies for and against President Ali Abdullah Saleh who is recovering from injuries sustained in an assassination attempt earlier this month.
http://bit.ly/l5u0hE

 

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Greece stops Gaza-bound ships from leaving its ports: On Friday, the Greek government issued a ban on all ships in its ports sailing to the Palestinian strip on the southeast shores of the Mediterranean.
http://bit.ly/lxN3Kd

 

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Gaza flotilla organizers stated that Israel inflicted damage to another ship that was scheduled to participate the convoy in its journey to the besieged Gaza Strip.
http://bit.ly/iA8qQs

 

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Texas Governor Rick Perry is looking a little like a presidential campaigner, challenging Attorney General Eric Holder to enforce the law against US citizens who plan to participate in the Gaza Flotilla. Noting that their "naval expedition" specificallty violates the language of the law, he puts Holder on the spot.
http://bit.ly/jaEXUS

 

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 Department of Homeland Security says Israel one of 36 countries whose citizens might have terrorist ties; doesn't reflect gov't policy.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=227514

 

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The ethics of a sting operation to foment a terror plot are dubious enough, but its government-sponsored antisemitism is revolting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/30/fbi-terrorism

 

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They are encouraging men and women to volunteer for sterilisation, and in return are offering a car and other prizes for those who come forward.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13982031

 

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The text is a partial translation of Hugo Ch�vez's address to the nation. (TeleSur, 1 July 2011)
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/chavez010711.html

 

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Comedian Elon James White takes on America's failed forty-year war on drugs. :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UqDunp0JTE&feature=player_embedded

 

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This is how one of the darkest chapters in U.S. counterterrorism ends: with practically every instance of suspected CIA torture dodging criminal scrutiny. It's one of the greatest gifts the Justice Department could have given the CIA as David Petraeus takes over the agency.
http://bit.ly/iifaR5

 

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If you have to fly on a plane - you're screwed. The Electronic Privacy Information Center - EPIC - has revealed what we all knew was happening - the Michael Chertoff X-Ray porno scanners at the airport are giving people cancer
http://bit.ly/jIL8cv

 

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The majority of US states begin their new fiscal year July 1, with budgets that impose crippling reductions in public services, particularly health care and education, and destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jul2011/stat-j01.shtml

 

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The Maid's Prison Connection:

 

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser allegedly has a romantic relationship to a mysterious Arizona inmate with a reported penchant for fraud. No wonder her case is crumbling.
http://bit.ly/lrs9BA

 

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Tom Feeley