News Who is Ben Rhodes?
06-17-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
How did a 24-year old aspiring fiction-writer in 2002 suddenly become one of the drafters of the 9/11 Commission report but also the Iraq Study Group Report? Then Deputy National Security Advisor, from which he announced the US war on Syria
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News Greenwald: "Bob Schieffer, Ron Paul and journalistic objectivity"
06-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by LapHog
Recently (and predictably), Bob Schieffer said some foul stuff about Edward Snowden.
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News Karzai: American Foreign Policy Caused 9/11
06-11-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
President Hamid Karzai is at it again. This time he's calling out the U.S. for its fight against the Soviets in the 80s.
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News Iraq Collapse Shows Bankruptcy of Interventionism
06-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
May was Iraq's deadliest month in nearly five years, with more than 1,000 dead – both civilians and security personnel – in a rash of bombings, shootings and other violence.
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News Did Senator McCain Violate NDAA by Hanging Out with Syrian Rebels?
06-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In case you missed it, Senator John McCain took the opportunity this Memorial Day to cross the Turkey-Syria border and hang out with Syrian rebels. These are the same rebels with ties to Al Qaeda. These are the same rebels cutting out and eating the
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Chris Menke
News Rand Paul Blasts John McCain: Hard To Vet Syrian Forces When He’s Taking Pictures With Kidnappers
06-02-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took a shot at fellow Republican Senator John McCain‘s controversial trip to Syria, in which the elder legislator posed for a photo with men who may have been involved in the kidnapping of eleven Lebanese Shiites. (McCain’s
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Chris Menke
News Putin Warns Obama on Monsanto
05-29-2013
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arclein
tate John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most cer
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News Stupid
05-27-2013
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weeklystandard.com
You’re stupid,” is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. But on Friday morning I picked up the Wall Street Journal and learned that the president had given a speech about the war on terror saying,.....
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News The Real Meaning of President Obama’s National Security Speeches
05-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This past Thursday and Friday, President Obama delivered two speeches designed to outline his new thinking on national security and counter-terrorism. While much was made in the media of the president’s statements at the National Defense University a
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Chris Menke
News Petraeus’s role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions
05-21-2013
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Washington Post
A close reading of recently released government e-mails sent during the editing process, and interviews with senior officials from several government agencies, reveal Petraeus’s early role and ambitions in going well beyond the committee’s request,
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News The Terror Cartel Strikes in Idaho
05-20-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, William Norman Grigg
During a May 15 visit to Stockholm, Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad that if he doesn’t begin preparations to abdicate his office, "the opposition will be receiving additional support … and unfortunately the violence
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News US tax dollars promote GM crops overseas
05-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for overseas lobbying that promotes controversial biotech crops developed by U.S.-based Monsanto Co and other seed makers, a report issued on Tuesday said.
A review of 926 diplomatic cables of correspondence to
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Chris Menke
News Syria Not Worth a Crisis With Russia
05-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The vicious Syrian civil war has put the world’s two biggest nuclear powers on a collision course over a small Levantine nation of no strategic interest to Washington. This cannot be allowed to go on.
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News Scientific Journals Must Not Touch Anything Related to Iran
05-11-2013
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antiwar.com
Must Keep Americans From Touching Anything Related to Iran
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News Robert Fisk: The truth is that after Israel’s air strikes, we are involved
05-07-2013
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independent.co.uk
If the EU and US say nothing about these attacks, approval is granted
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News Israel 'Opting to Contain' Nuclear Iran?
05-05-2013
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israelnationalnews.com
Report in Sunday Times says U.S. is brokering a deal between Israel, Saudis, Jordan, Turkey and UAE.
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News Why Beijing Could Win the Great China-America Showdown of 2030
05-04-2013
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Wired.com
Over the next 15-20 years, the U.S. and China are headed for a confrontation in the western Pacific, with Japan caught in the middle
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News Bolivia, angered by Kerry, says it is ejecting U.S. aid agency
05-02-2013
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Los Angeles Times
Bolivian President Evo Morales was expelling the US Agency for International Development from the country, accusing the aid agency of conspiring against his government. “Surely to think that you can still manipulate us economically, politically
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News Michael Scheuer: The Idea That They're Attacking Us Because Of Our Culture And Freedom Is Insane
04-26-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, eduardo89
"We should have went to Afghanistan and won the war.
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News Sibel Edmonds on the Boston Bombing: The US roots of “Chechen” terrorism
04-26-2013
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corbettreport.com
FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost.com editor Sibel Edmonds joins us to discuss the recent Boston bombing hysteria and the potential geopolitical implications of the American public’s “discovery” of Chechen terror.
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News Iran: how the West missed a chance to make peace with Tehran
04-24-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
The new US defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, is due to make his first visit to Israel on Sunday amid fresh warnings from the country’s leaders that time is running out to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat.
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News What If the Tsarnaevs’ Motive Was Revenge for U.S. Foreign Policy?
04-24-2013
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The Future of Freedom Foundation
On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, President Obama stood in the White House briefing room and said, “We will find out who did this; we’ll find out why they did this.”
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News North Korea: End Sanctions and We’ll Talk
04-19-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Demands Halt to Military Drills, South Korea Rhetoric
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News RT: Ron Paul Interview on Institute for Peace and Prosperity
04-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
For the first time since leaving office, Ron Paul returned to the spotlight this week. The recently retired congressman launched a new foreign-policy educational effort from Washington on Wednesday called the Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
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News US Senate: Will back Israeli attack on Iran
04-17-2013
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http://www.ynetnews.com, Yitzhak Benhorin
Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate votes in favor of resolution stipulating that US will support Israel in case it was forced to take military action against Iran
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News The Boston Bombing Produces Familiar and Revealing Reactions
04-17-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Glenn Greenwald
As usual, the limits of selective empathy, the rush to blame Muslims, and the exploitation of fear all instantly emerge
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News Blowback at Boston?
04-17-2013
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
In my article last February entitled “Coming to a City Near You? Assassination and Sanction Blowback,” I wrote:
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News Story of American Diplomat's Death in Afghanistan Changes
04-12-2013
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The Weekly Standard
State Department employee Anne Smedinghoff was killed in Afghanistan last weekend. At first reports suggested the young diplomat was part of an armed convoy that was bombed, but new reports say that she was actually on foot. And that the group she wa
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News Switzerland's Offer to North Korea
04-10-2013
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http://www.slate.com
The country, where Kim Jong-un was reportedly educated as a child under a pseudonym, helps to monitor the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Switzerland has a long résumé of international moderation efforts
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Headlines: Switzerland's Offer to North Korea -- Story of American Diplomat's Death in Afghanistan Changes -- Blowback at Boston? -- The Boston Bombing Produces Familiar and Revealing Reactions -- US Senate: Will back Israeli attack on Iran -- US Sends More Troops to Jordan for Syrian War Planning
-- RT: Ron Paul Interview on Institute for Peace and Prosperity -- North Korea: End Sanctions and We’ll Talk -- What If the Tsarnaevs’ Motive Was Revenge for U.S. Foreign Policy? -- Iran: how the West missed a chance to make peace with Tehran -- Sibel Edmonds on the Boston Bombing: The US roots of “Chechen” terrorism -- Michael Scheuer: The Idea That They're Attacking Us Because Of Our Culture And Freedom Is Insane -- Bolivia, angered by Kerry, says it is ejecting U.S. aid agency -- Why Beijing Could Win the Great China-America Showdown of 2030 -- Israel 'Opting to Contain' Nuclear Iran? -- Robert Fisk: The truth is that after Israel’s air strikes, we are involved -- Scientific Journals Must Not Touch Anything Related to Iran
-- Syria Not Worth a Crisis With Russia -- US tax dollars promote GM crops overseas -- The Terror Cartel Strikes in Idaho -- Petraeus’s role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions -- The Real Meaning of President Obama’s National Security Speeches -- Stupid -- Putin Warns Obama on Monsanto -- Rand Paul Blasts John McCain: Hard To Vet Syrian Forces When He’s Taking Pictures With Kidnappers -- Did Senator McCain Violate NDAA by Hanging Out with Syrian Rebels? -- Iraq Collapse Shows Bankruptcy of Interventionism -- Karzai: American Foreign Policy Caused 9/11 -- Greenwald: "Bob Schieffer, Ron Paul and journalistic objectivity" -- Who is Ben Rhodes? --