"How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. " : Henry David Thoreau

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The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.: Thomas Jefferson

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"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.": Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)

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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." --John Locke

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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,284,105"
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,209
http://icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$580,446,010,083
 
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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'I Was Still Holding my Grandson's Hand - The Rest Was Gone'

By Clancy Chassay

"We were walking, I was holding my grandson's hand, then there was a loud noise and everything went white. When I opened my eyes, everybody was screaming. I was lying metres from where I had been, I was still holding my grandson's hand but the rest of him was gone. I looked around and saw pieces of bodies everywhere. I couldn't make out which part was which."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21484.htm

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The American-Made Insurgency in Afghanistan

A Million McVeighs Now

By Chris Floyd

The "Good War" in Afghanistan - the Bush-launched war that Barack Obama tells us we must fight and win - continues to deteriorate before our eyes. Just like every other operation in the so-called "War on Terror" (another Bush-launched campaign that Obama has fully embraced as his own), the Afghan war, now in its seventh year, has proven entirely counter-productive to its stated aims.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21488.htm

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A Hypocrite as Our Diplomat in Chief

By John R. MacArthur

So far, the president-elect's Cabinet choices make a joke of the liberals who backed him in the hope that something fundamental might change in America's belligerent behavior abroad. As the neo-conservative Max Boot approvingly observed, the appointment of Gen. James Jones as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the retention of Robert Gates as defense secretary "could just as easily have come from a President McCain."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21492.htm

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Drunk George Tenet Lashed out at Bush's Neocons:

'The Jews' who tried to 'pin the Iraq WMD fiasco on him.'

By Think Progress

Former CIA director George Tenet "drunk on scotch, flailing about Prince Bandar's Riyadh pool, screaming about the Bush Administration officials who were just then trying to pin the Iraq WMD fiasco on him." Tyler reports that Tenet also "mocked the neoconservatives in the Bush administration" as "the Jews":
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21485.htm

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London Banker: "The market has failed, and officialdom is perpetuating that failure."

By Mike Whitney

It is now clear to me that policy makers in the West are determined to apply every available resource to underpinning failure, misallocation and executive excess. As this discourages the honest saver from parting with cash, policy makers are ensuring that deflation will wreak its havoc on the financial and real economies of the world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21486.htm

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The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff

By Chris Hedges

The multiple failures that beset the country, from our mismanaged economy to our shredded constitutional rights to our lack of universal health care to our imperial debacles in the Middle East, can be laid at the feet of our elite universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, along with most other elite schools, do a poor job educating students to think.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21487.htm

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At Last, A Date

By George Monbiot

For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it's not reassuring.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21490.htm

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Time To Wake Up And Smell the Economy

By Jon Ronnquist

For a time we were all kings, walking tall beneath the banner of imagined destiny. In the east the grateful poor toiled at our behest and sang songs of praise to their generous masters beyond the sea.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21489.htm

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Stand Up Against Bush's Giveaway of America's Redrock Wilderness

By Robert Redford

In three days, this Friday, 110,000 acres of majestic Utah wild lands go on the auction block, to be sold to the highest bidders in the oil and gas industry. It's a last-ditch effort by a corrupt administration to further enrich its friends in the dirty fuels business. If they succeed, they'll leave a wasteland behind them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21491.htm

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Baghdad blast kills 18:

At least 18 people have been killed and 53 injured in a double explosion in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on the day Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a surprise visit.
http://www.capitalradio.co.uk/news-travel/world/baghdad-blast-kills-18/

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Iraq wants all non-US troops out by July:

THE Iraqi cabinet has approved a bill calling for all foreign soldiers except for American forces to pull out of the country by the end of July, a top MP said.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24812712-5005961,00.html

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UK troops 'to leave Iraq by May':

British forces will wrap up their mission in Iraq in the first half of next year, Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has announced during a surprise visit to Baghdad.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/12/2008121710235457645.html

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