Two Marines in Afghanistan KILLED by Drone Piloted by Crew IN NEVADA!
• latimes via Rense.com...but this isn't considered WAR because our Troops 'aren't engaged'... RIGHT...
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Israeli Historian Shlomo Sand: 'What Is a Jew?'
• The Daily BellThis is an interesting book because it apparently proposes serious revisions to the history of the Jewish people. It is also an important book because as the new world order grows in magnitude and begins to become more real, people inevitably blame J
Panetta warns of retreat in Africa due to budget cuts
• Washington TimesDefense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Thursday warned Congress that automatic cuts in defense spending would force the Pentagon to reduce its presence in some trouble spots, including Africa, a hotbed of al Qaeda franchise groups. Mr. Panetta previ
Government-Generated Plots
• LewRockwell.com/Andrew NapolitanoDoes the government work for us or do we work for the government? Can the federal government take credit for saving us from a plot of its own creation?
Insiders voice doubts about CIA’s 9/11 story
• Salon.ComFormer FBI agents say the agency's bin Laden unit misled them about two hijackers
Will the Washington Bomb Plot Force Obama into War with Iran?
• TIME"If something happens, it's virtually assured that we won't get it right — that there will be miscalculation, which could be extremely dangerous in that part of the world."
Suicide of a Superpower, by Patrick J. Buchanan
• DrudgeBook warns of end. Will America survive to 2025? The last decade provided corroborating if not conclusive proof that we are in the Indian Summer of our civilization."
"Unusual" meeting between US, Iran over plot
• CBS NewsPresident Barack Obama said Thursday that officials at the "highest levels" of the Iranian government must be held accountable for a brazen and bizarre plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States on American soil, insisting leaders
The 'Very Scary' Iranian Terror Plot
• LewRockwell.comThe most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it.
Citizen for Life: Israel bars nuclear whistle-blower from emigrating
• AFPIsrael’s supreme court barred nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu from emigrating on the grounds he still poses a threat to state security, Israeli media reported. Vanunu, under orders to stay in Tel Aviv and not to speak to journalists, “has pro
Report: Assad threatens to attack Tel Aviv in case of NATO strike
• www.ynetnews.comIn meeting with Turkish FM, Syrian president discusses possibility of NATO strike, says 'I won't need more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets to Golan to fire at Tel Aviv'
Experts Urge US Not to Reject Iran Nuclear Deal
• news.antiwar.comUS Officials Shrug Off Proposal
7 Months After Revolution Ousted Mubarak, Egyptian Military Maintains Control, Suppressing Dissent
• www.democracynow.orgOver the weekend, Egyptian political parties dropped a threat to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections, the first multi-candidate vote since the ouster longtime president, Hosni Mubarak.
Obama Backs Occupation of Palestine
• www.fff.orgThe Obama administration’s hypocritical vow to block full UN membership for Palestine shames America.
Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran
• AntiWar.comYet the key factor in any Israeli decision to send its aircraft and missiles to Iran is the degree to which Netanyahu and other hard-line Likud leaders believe that President Obama is locked into giving blanket support to Israel — particularly as ele
Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Sales to Iran
• BloombergIn May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world's largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern
Israel’s Great Fear: Iran Might Act Like Them
• news.antiwar.comMilitary Officials Concerned Iran Might Try 'Nuclear Ambiguity'
Turkish warships harass Israeli freighters. Israeli missile boats off Cyprus
• www.debka.comIncreasingly assertive Turkey is setting the scene for clashes in the eastern Mediterranean.
Egyptians seek to ‘reclaim’ revolution
• Washington PostThousands of Egyptians turned out in the capital’s Tahrir Square on Friday to “reclaim the revolution,” about nine months after the winter uprising that ousted an autocrat and brought the country’s military leadership to power.
Secret U.S. memo sanctioned killing of Aulaqi
• Washington PostA second American killed in Friday’s attack was Samir Khan, a driving force behind Inspire, the English-language magazine produced by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Khan's presence near the target would not have stopped the attack.
Report: Israel scrambles IAF warplanes toward Turkish ship
• www.haaretz.comIsrael Defense Forces jet fighters were scrambled toward a Turkish seismic research ship in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish media reported on Friday, in what seemed to be a further escalation in the already fraying ties between the once longtime a
Ron Paul: US-born al-Qaida cleric 'assassinated'
• APRepublican presidential candidate Ron Paul is condemning the Obama administration for killing an American born al-Qaida operative without a trial.
Wiping Them Out One by One
• National JournalPresident Obama’s relentless program of wiping out top al-Qaida leaders around the world through unilateral covert strikes claimed another victim today, when Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born radical cleric identified as “chief of external operations”
Europe again steps back from brink in debt crisis
• Reuters.com(Reuters) - Following a now-familiar script, Europe again averted disaster in its debt crisis when German lawmakers rallied behind Chancellor Angela Merkel to approve a stronger euro zone bailout fund on Thursday.
Al-Qaida rejects Iran's 9/11 conspiracy theories
• The Associated PressAfter his speech at the U.N. in New York, Al-Qaida has sharply criticized Iran's president over his suggestions that the United States government was behind the Sept. 11 attacks and not al-Qaida, dismissing the comments as "ridiculous."
Greek Vote Approves a Despised Property Tax
• NY TimesThe Greek Parliament voted late Tuesday in Athens to back a hugely unpopular property tax, one of a series of new austerity measures. The vote could clear the way for a crucial injection of international financing meant to at least temporarily stave
Fearing Change, Many Christians in Syria Back Assad
• NY TimesAbu Elias sat beneath the towering stairs leading from the Convent of Our Lady of Saydnaya, a church high up in the mountains outside Damascus, where Christians have worshiped for 1,400 years. “We are all scared of what will come next,” he said, turn
Netanyahu proved Israel doesn't want peace
• www.haaretz.com By Gideon LevyNetanyahu needed thousands of years of history to obscure reality, but Abbas' sense of history proved to be much more developed: He had no need to call up distant memories to elicit sympathy; all he needed was to soberly depict current events in orde
Merkel Wants a "Strong Greece" in Euro Zone
• online.wsj.comGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her pledge to offer help as Greece tackled its debt woes, passing an unpopular new property tax.
Greek Parliament Approves Unpopular Property Tax
• www.cnbc.comGreek lawmakers approved an unpopular property tax law on Tuesday that is crucial to a new austerity campaign the government has proposed so it can meet the terms of its international bailout and continue receiving aid funds.
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