ICH: How the War Party Lost the Middle East

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January 01/02, 2019

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." Dresden James

"The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment": Simon Jenkins

"Information is the currency of democracy." - Thomas Jefferson.

"The most powerful tool in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." -- Stephen Biko

Op-Ed

US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in 2019 By Stephen Lendman
	Washington, under Republicans and undemocratic Dems, represent the greatest threat to world peace and humanity's survival . http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50861.htm

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C.I.A.'s Afghan Forces Leave a Trail of Abuse and Anger By Mujib Mashal
	Mr. Khan watched his home went up in flames. Within were the bodies of two of his brothers and of his sister-in-law, who was shot three times in the head.. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50856.htm

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Worse than Obsolete: NATO Creates Enemies By John Laforge
	NATO's and the US military's desecration of corpses, attacks on wedding parties, mosques, hospitals and market places - are a few of the alliance's more infamous outrages. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50859.htm

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How the War Party Lost the Middle East By Patrick Buchanan
	What have years of killing Yemenis, in which we have been collaborators, done to make Americans safer? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50858.htm

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The One Reason America Can't Police the World Anymore: Washington Is Broke By Doug Bandow
	Why then, is Washington spending $717 billion in fiscal year 2019 to maintain vast armies, fleets, and air armadas around the world? Not for defense, of America, anyway. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50857.htm

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The United States is First in War, But Trailing in Crucial Aspects of Modern Civilization By LawrenceS. Wittner
	More than 29 percent of American children live in impoverished circumstances, placing the United States 35th in childhood poverty among the 41 richest nations. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50860.htm

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This Lie Called Democracy By Philip A Farruggio
	As long as we continue to allow private money into electoral politics, there will never be the foundation for a true democracy... Period!. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50864.htm

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The World Known to Me Is Fading Away By Paul Craig Roberts
	The middle class itself is declining into poverty. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50863.htm

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The Problem with Border "Security" By Joseph Nevins
	"We learn violence by watching others, by seeing it enshrined in institutions. Then, - it becomes normal to us, it even becomes part of who we are." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50862.htm

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Justice for Julian Assange, Test of Western Democracy By Nozomi Hayase
	Assange's plight, his struggle for freedom revealed a dictatorship in the West. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50854.htm

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Brazil Is About To Show The World How A Modern Democracy Collapses By Travis Waldron
	Far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is a model for authoritarianism that leaders around the world will follow. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50855.htm