Chris Hedges: Libya - Here We Go Again
• TruthDig.comAnd to do it Obama blithely shredded the Constitution and bypassed Congress in violation of the War Powers Resolution. Not that the rule of law matters much in Washington.
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The Lew Rockwell Show - 220. Against War and Empire
• www.lewrockwell.comThe Lew Rockwell Show - Covering the US government's economic depredations, police state enactments, and wars of aggression.
WikiLeaks cable: U.S. troops handcuffed, shot Iraqi children in raid
• www.rawstory.comAccording to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70's and five children ages five and under.
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head
• www.thestar.comA U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks suggests that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 i
American Taxpayers Subsidize Israel’s Prosperity
• original.antiwar.comIsrael’s Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel “The New Golden Country” for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and “a lower unemployment rate th
Let's have a budget war on war budgets
• www.startribune.comThe return on investment is poor -- and that's just the acknowledged costs.
Gadhafi vows no surrender in Libya
• http://hosted.ap.org/TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Moammar Gadhafi warned from hiding Thursday that tribes loyal to him were well-armed and preparing for battle, hours after rebels hoping for a peaceful surrender extended the deadline for loyalist forces to give up in the longt
WikiLeaks cable: U.S. troops handcuffed, shot Iraqi children in raid
• RawstoryAccording to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70's and five children ages five and under. M
Deadly car bomb hits Pakistan's Quetta city
• english.aljazeera.netPakistani police say ten people were killed after a car bomb exploded outside a mosque following Eid prayers.
America has wasted $60bn fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq through poor planning and fraud
• Associated PressAs much as $60billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in the past decade of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has been claimed. The billions have been lost through lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and payoffs to warlor
Russian Firm Got No-Bid Pentagon Contract After Selling Arms to Iran
• By Sharon Weinberger, Wired.comFor 2 years, the US regarded Rosoboronexport, Russia’s official weapons exporter, as an international pariah for selling arms to Iran and Syria. Then, the US suddenly lifted sanctions against it. Now the Pentagon has awarded the company a no-bid cont
How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli
• .Because the story of how an al-Qaeda asset turned out to be the top Libyan military commander in still war-torn Tripoli is bound to shatter - once again - that wilderness of mirrors that is the "war on terror", as well as deeply compromising the care
Big oil companies may have to give up Iraq gas
• ReutersMany of the world's biggest energy companies may have to surrender most of the gas from Iraq's vast southern oilfields to a processing and export project led by Shell, a final draft contract between Baghdad and Europe's biggest company, obtained by R
Rebels settle scores in Libyan capital
• The IndependentThe killings were pitiless. They had taken place at a makeshift hospital, in a tent marked clearly with the symbols of the Islamic Crescent. Some of the dead were on stretchers, attached to intravenous drips. Some were on the back of an ambulance
Libya Truth (DnB Soundtrack)
• YouTube"Qaddafi since the brutal, illegal invasion of Libya by Rothschild owned NATO forces."
Bomber of Baghdad mosque disguised self as beggar
• www.google.comThe suicide bomber who killed 29 people at Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque disguised himself as an injured beggar and attended prayers there for nearly a week, a senior religious figure said Monday.
Syria moves to halt spread of unrest into central Damascus
• www.latimes.comSyrian security forces step up checkpoints and patrols in Damascus, a stronghold for President Bashar Assad. Iran, Syria's closest ally, presses Assad to heed 'legitimate' public demands.
Will the Libyan War Now Truly End?
• news.antiwar.comThe atmosphere in the Libyan capital is frighteningly uncertain a week after the sudden collapse of Gaddafi’s forces.
Afghan Suicide Attacks on the Rise, Along With Civilian Casualties
• news.antiwar.comThe end of Ramadan has caused a sharp spike in violence, effecting mostly civilians
Dozens killed in Iraq mosque attack
• http://english.aljazeera.netMP among at least 29 killed as suicide bomber detonates explosives inside Sunni mosque in Baghdad.
BBC Responds Over False Tripoli Footage
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Congressional tourists avoid apartheid in Israel
• www.salon.comAs a Palestinian member of the Knesset, I know American lawmakers aren't being shown the reality of life here
What And Why In Libya
• Rense.comThe Libyan Central Bank was state owned and unlike ALL banks in the west was not owned by Rothschilds and issued Debt Free money.
Syrian unrest raises fears about chemical arsenal
• Washington PostIn 2008, a secret State Department cable warned of a growing chemical weapons threat from a Middle Eastern country whose autocratic leader had a long history of stirring up trouble in the region. The leader, noted for his “support for terrorist organ
Lockerbie bomber "at death's door" in Libya: report
• ReutersThe Libyan convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland has been found in Tripoli and appears "at death's door," CNN reported on Sunday. CNN correspondent Nic Robertson said he found Abdel Baset al-Megrahi
Media Blackout: US in Yet Another Illegal War ... in Yemen
• www.thedailybell.comAirstrike Kills 8 Suspected Militants in Yemen ... Officials in Yemen say an airstrike has killed eight militants in the country's south.
SAS troops dressed in Arab clothes join hunt for Gaddafi
• Daily MailSAS troops are on the ground in Libya helping rebels to scour buildings and entrances to tunnels in the hunt for runaway leader Colonel Gaddafi. The crack squad of elite soldiers are dressed in Arab clothes and carrying the same AK47s and Kalashni
CIA and Libya: Rep. Kucinich and the Elephant in the Room
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/In addition to calling for war crime prosecutions against NATO for killing Libyan civilians, Rep. Dennis Kucinich wants to know if the CIA had a hand in the effort to overthrow Gaddafi and install al-Qaeda.
Evidence of 'mass execution' in Tripoli
• http://english.aljazeera.net/Al Jazeera correspondent finds bodies of men reportedly killed by Gaddafi forces just as rebels closed in on capital.
Syria faces more sanctions amid crackdown
• http://english.aljazeera.net/EU and UN consider tightening sanctions on Assad's regime, as his violent crackdown on protesters continues.
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