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"You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches, and then pull it out six inches, and say you're making progress." -- Malcolm X =
"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt =
"All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein =
"Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened" - Madame de Stael (French woman of letters, political propagandist, 1766-1817) =
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." - Martin Luther King US Invades Syria: Kills 8 Civillians 2 Minute Video Report === U.S. Threatens to Halt "Services to Iraq" Without Troop Accord By Roy Gutman and Leila Fadel The U.S. military has warned Iraq that it will shut down military operations and other vital services throughout the country on Jan. 1 if the Iraqi government doesn't agree to a new agreement on the status of U.S. forces or a renewed United Nations mandate for the American mission in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21095.htm === US-Iraq "Security" Agreement Includes `Some Secret Provisions` By Press TV Based on those provisions, the US would be granted the permission to build military bases, camps and prisons inside Iraq. The scope of the immunity from legal prosecution for the US forces--the most controversial provision of SOFA-- would also be extended to include all US security, military and civilian firms as well as the US army's contractors.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21097.htm === The Diplomacy Of Lying By John Pilger No presidential candidate, least of all a Democrat awash with money from America's "banksters", as Franklin Roosevelt called them, can or will challenge a militarised system that controls and rewards him. Obama's job is to present a benign, even progressive face that will revive America's democratic pretensions, internationally and domestically, while ensuring nothing of substance changes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21093.htm === The Torturer's Tale By Jolyon Jenkins === "Chickenhawks and the Horrors of War": Interview with Anthony Teolis, Veterans For Peace
By Mike Whitney Our leaders are using their power to invoke fear. They are operating secret prisons and torturing people. They are deploying paramilitary forces that not answerable to congress and spying on the American people. Our representative form of government has become corrupt, ineffective and unresponsive to its citizens.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21099.htm === Remind Me Again - Who Won The Cold War? By David Michael Green So who won the Cold War, then? The capitalists? Yeah, maybe. In the same way that Britain won World War II, that is - only simultaneously to lose power, prosperity and a global empire in the bargain. If you call that winning, then okay.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21098.htm === Under The Cover Of Racist Myth, A New Land Grab In Australia By John Pilger What is unique about Australia is not its sun-baked, derivative society, clinging to the sea, but its first people, the oldest on earth, whose skill and courage in surviving invasion, of which the current onslaught is merely the latest, deserves humanity's support.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21094.htm === Chomsky, Zinn, and Obama By Mickey Z. === War or Peace? The World After the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: By Richard C. Cook Those with eyes to see knew the present crisis was coming long ago. That vision now has spread to more people. What is increasingly clear is that positive change, as opposed to the change that is just a drift to disaster, will only happen when people who love freedom demand it, work for it, and sacrifice for it. Will the next president of the United States facilitate such change or stand in its way?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21101.htm === "October Surprise": Preparing for "Something Unexpected"? By Dr. Judith H. Young In adding my voice to the widespread speculation about the spate of warnings of coming crises, I again proffer the hypothesis of a staged terrorist attack as an imminent October surprise going into the final weekend of the current campaign.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21102.htm === Pakistan: 30 die in clash with Taliban: Taliban fighters, thwarted in their attempt to kidnap a tribal militia leader, beheaded one of the man's rescuers in front of a gathered crowd, then fought a running battle with tribesmen yesterday that left as many as 30 people dead, police said.
http://tinyurl.com/5f6qpw ==== 20, including militant leader, killed in U.S. attack in Pakistan: A missile attack carried out by a suspected U.S. drone in the tribal regions of north-west Pakistan has killed 20 persons, reports quoting officials and witnesses said.
http://tinyurl.com/6clqjp === Pakistan Taliban 'commander killed': === U.S. Strikes in Pakistan Help Terrorists, Gilani Says: ``Such acts are counterproductive and help terrorists to strengthen their position,'' Gilani told reporters yesterday after returning from a summit in China, where he said no nation has the right to attack Pakistan
http://tinyurl.com/5v468n === Two people killed in Quetta bomb blast: === Pakistan troops 'kill nine Taliban militants': - Pakistan troops Sunday killed nine Taliban militants in separate clashes in a troubled tribal region bordering Afghanistan, security officials said.
http://tinyurl.com/6ovzl9 === US training Pakistani forces to fight Taleban: === Islamabad in quandary over IMF bailout deal: ===
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Afghans check killing of 20 in U.S. air strike: === Afghan Clashes Force Down Helicopter, Kill 2 Troops, U.S. Says: A coalition helicopter in Afghanistan was forced down by small-arms fire and two soldiers were killed in separate incidents as U.S.-led forces battled militants across the country.
http://tinyurl.com/58yr4x === U.S. troops say Afghan security guards attacked them: - U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they had launched an air strike that killed a number of private Afghan security guards only after coming under fire from that position.
http://tinyurl.com/5dkz8d === US chiefs plan troop surge in Afghanistan: === Dostum and Akbarbai make up : This despite Akberbai calling Dostum a "psycho" and a "criminal" at a press conference held shortly after the alleged raid. At a press conference in March, Akbarbai, the head of the Turkmen Tribal Council, threatened to leave the country unless the attorney-general held true to his promise and arrested Dostum.
http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1889&Itemid=48 === Syria slams deadly village raid as US 'war crime': "The American forces from Iraq committed cold-blooded murder," the government newspaper Tishrin wrote. "They committed a war crime in killing eight Syrian civilians in a quiet village."
http://tinyurl.com/62pre3 === Foreign Ministry Summons US Charge d' Affairs in Damascus: === Two Iraqi civilians killed, 7 injured by bomb attack in Baghdad: === Iraqi soldier killed, four injured in Iraqi blasts: An Iraqi soldier was killed Monday when a bomb went off inside his car in the northern Kurdish province of Salahaddin, while three civilians were killed and nine were wounded in separate blasts in Baghdad, police sources said.
http://tinyurl.com/5hwkfk === Iraq politicians warn raid could hurt U.S. pact: === Iraqi Cabinet cancels meeting on SOFA: === Major Iraqi ministers agree tentatively on "security" pact: ==== Iraq seeks alternatives for SOFA:newspaper: "The three scenarios would be a call for an extension of UN mandate, signing an alternative temporary agreement between Baghdad and Washington, or the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2009,"the paper quoted Muhammad Naji, a lawmaker from the ruling Shiite alliance, as saying.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6521526.html === Sunnis suspend contact with U.S.: === Powerful Iraqi party claims U.S. killed innocent man: === US raid in Syria spooks Iran: ===
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Chomsky: American people back Iran`s right to enrich uranium: === Israel: Polls show Livni edging past Netanyahu for PM, Labor headed for debacle: New polls on Monday showed Kadima leader Tzipi Livni pulling ahead of hawkish rival Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, a day after she steered the country toward early elections at the beginning of next year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031818.html ==== Shas chief brands Livni allies 'racist, phony, condescending': In an unprecedented attack on Kadima leader Tzipi Livni's team in coalition talks, Eli Yishai, chairman of the ultra-Orthodox Sephardi Shas party, Monday branded the members of the team "phony, racist and condescending."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031857.html === International experts slam Israel over Gaza blockade: === Somalia reaches a deal with a militia: Somalia's transitional leaders have made important concessions toward peace, agreeing to accept "insurgent" troops within their ranks and detailing a plan for a phased pullback of Ethiopian soldiers, currently the most powerful force in the country.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/27/africa/somalia.php === Ethiopian Occupation Troops To Pull Out Of Somalia By 09: Ethiopian Occupation troops are to pull out of Somalia by early next year under a deal signed Sunday in Djibouti by the Somali government and the Islamist opposition, a U.N. spokeswoman said here.
http://tinyurl.com/5jqztc ==== Former generals support accused combatant's case: === UK: Simon Jenkins : My farewell plea to MPs: defend liberty: === Nominees Have Like Views on Use of Force: === Republicans hire mercenaries for ground war against Barack Obama: Republicans have had to hire mercenaries for this ground war. And, if the experience outside the McCain headquarters was any guide, they may not all be shooting in the same direction.
http://tinyurl.com/5wcq7r === Black America may get a president before black Americans get to vote: The manipulation and intimidation that African-Americans must face in order to cast a vote will only get worse this year
http://tinyurl.com/6h9haz === Russian Central Bank to prevent wild swings in ruble - Shuvalov: === Europe on the brink of currency crisis meltdown: The financial crisis spreading like wildfire across the former Soviet bloc threatens to set off a second and more dangerous banking crisis in Western Europe, tipping the whole Continent into a fully-fledged economic slump.
http://tinyurl.com/5btrw5 === Britain may need 0% interest rate to avoid a depression, leading economist warns: The extraordinary claim from Charles Goodhart, a founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, came as Gordon Brown signalled that he wants to see further, aggressive cuts in the cost of borrowing.
http://tinyurl.com/5vop9f === The Predator State by James Galbraith on Bill Moyer's Journal: Video and transcript: This is the big one. I have been working on financial crises since the New York City rescue in 1975. And this is, by far and away, the biggest threat to the system as a whole that we've seen in my lifetime and I think the biggest threat since the late 1920s.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/watch2.html ==== US public pension funds face big losses: === Banks pull squeeze play on credit cards: === Farm-Credit Squeeze May Cut Crops, Spur Food Crisis: === George Monbiot: This Is What Denial Does: . ===
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U.S. Threatens to Halt "Services to Iraq" Without Troop Accord By Roy Gutman and Leila Fadel The U.S. military has warned Iraq that it will shut down military operations and other vital services throughout the country on Jan. 1 if the Iraqi government doesn't agree to a new agreement on the status of U.S. forces or a renewed United Nations mandate for the American mission in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21095.htm Nice extortion threat. --L.B. |
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