35 days ago by Issandr El Amrani

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Lessons from Lost Wars in 2012 | TomDispatch: After all, having seemingly moved much of the U.S. to Iraq, leaving was no small thing. When the U.S. military began stripping the 505 bases it had built there at the cost of unknown multibillions of taxpayer dollars, it sloughed off ...

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35 days ago by Tim King

Attack Persia… and We'll Break America in Two Tim King Salem-News.com The seemingly inevitable war with Iran that warmongers are calling for must be something we all deserve- as the human cretins who have ruined this planet with ways of war and violence and enslavement and trafficking. The recent wo ...

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35 days ago by Prophecy

A series of bombings in Baghdad left 24 dead and dozens wounded Thursday, intensifying fears of an increase in sectarian violence in the midst of a political crisis. A triple bombing in Baghdad's Sadr City area Thursday morning killed at least nine people and wounded 35 others, an official with Iraq ...

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35 days ago by AtisSun Solar

In a recent Huffington Post op-ed, Jeffrey Rubin, former chief economist for CIBC World Market, asked, “What do triple digit oil prices mean for growth?” According to Rubin, oil as the principal source of energy world-wide will continue to surge in cost as the global economy improves. These rising p ...

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35 days ago by persecution

ICC Note: “Over the past 9 years it’s estimated that over 900 Christians have been killed and 54 churches attacked, the God Discussion reports. 1/2/2011 Iraq ( God Discussion) – The number of Christians in Iraq has diminished more than half since Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003, according to UN f ...

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35 days ago by Bill

We lost. We lost five thousand American military dead. We lost thirty thousand American military wounded. There were also 150,000+ Iraqis killed? Some were military combatants and most were just unlucky. Did we destroy the Weapons of Mass Destruction? No, there were no WMDs. Did we kill Saddam Husse ...

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35 days ago by Ms Sparky

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Former Employee of Government Contractor Pleads Guilty in Oklahoma to Child Pornography Charge (DoJ) – WASHINGTON – January 4, 2011 – A former employee of a government contractor pleaded guilty today to a child exploitat ...

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35 days ago by Phil Arena

A longer list than usual, but it's been a while since I posted one of these. As you can see, I've been thinking a lot about Iran lately. I'll probably have more to say about that soon. For now, I'm still trying to sort out my thoughts. 1. The sanctions regime is starting to get serious. And more may ...

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35 days ago by Grant

This isn’t going to be a long post, just a short observation. Just before Christmas I read with great interest this piece in Time Last U.S. Troops Leave Iraq as War Ends about the final withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. I’ve been a long time opponent of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, which ...

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35 days ago by Antony Loewenstein

Michael Hastings is one of America’s finest young journalists, an outsider who penetrates the system he’s paid to investigate. Unlike most hacks who love to be close to power and befriend those they’re supposed to critique, Hastings has a history of listening and reporting the reality behind the cre ...

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