"A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights -- which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state." -- Gerry Spence Lawyer and author - Source: Give Me Liberty, 1998
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"The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society."-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic Source: quoted in New York Times Magazine, 9 August 1964
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"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." Theodore Roosevelt
World Faces "Total" Financial Meltdown: Bank of Spain Chief
By AFP
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With Economy in Shambles, Congress Gets a Raise
By Jordy Yager
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Bernard Madoff:
Wall Street Swindler Strikes Powerful Blows for Social Justice
By James Petras
In a few days, one individual, Bernard Madoff, has struck a bigger blow against global financial capital, Wall Street and the US Zionist Lobby/Israel-First Agenda than the entire US and European left combined over the past half century!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21507.htm
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Iraq: Some U.S. Combat Troops To Be Reclassified
By Staff
The U.S-Iraq agreement calls for the withdrawal of combat forces from Iraq cities by June, but officials say many will remain as reclassified personnel. Military planners acknowledge many will be renamed "trainers" and "advisers" in what officials told The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) are essentially combat roles. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21517.htm
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Deterring Torture Through the Law
By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
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Why Did Cheney Confess On National Television?
Michael Ratner
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Cheney: If President Does it During Wartime, it's Legal
By Andrew McLemore
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Remove The Blinkers and See the Truth
By Seth Freedman
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What Makes You Into A Jew?
By Gilad Atzmon
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The Pentagon is Muscling in Everywhere.
It's time to stop the mission creep.
By Thomas A. Schweich
We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian government. Our Constitution is at risk.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21519.htm
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Rice: Obama to Follow Bush Foreign Policy
By Daniel Dombey in Washington
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Charge the Political Criminals
By Timothy V. Gatto
I believe that the next two months will be the most telling period in American history when it comes to exposing the flaws in our system of government. There are two very important issues that face Obama, and the tenor of his Presidency will be decided by how he handles these issues. Obama has to hit the ground running, he has no choice.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21513.htm
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Obama v. Washington Mythmaking
By Robert Parry
Over the years, Washington has evolved into a city of deceptions where semantics cloud reality and where a hazy mix of lies, half-truths and mythology can combine to unleash the devastating military might of the United States for no good reason.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21512.htm
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US Attack Kills 8 In Pakistan:
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Militant violence leaves 15 dead in Pakistan:
At least 15 people were killed in a rocket attack, executions carried out by suspected Taliban militants, and bombardment by warplanes in north-west Pakistan, officials and media reports said on Sunday.
http://tinyurl.com/8t3fzn
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Pakistan military on 'red alert':
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Sunni group involved in attack: Pakistan:
Pakistan says the banned Sunni Muslim extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was involved in the deadly September bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, and announced two new arrests.
http://tinyurl.com/8snkju
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India says Pakistan shifting Mumbai blame:
India has accused Pakistan of trying to shift blame for the Mumbai attacks and demanded it do more to dismantle militant networks, while a top US commander landed in Islamabad for more talks.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4801569a12.html
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