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Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China

Webster Tarpley-Obama the warmonger VS Cindy Sheehan & the anti-war movement

Posted by smeddum on August 31, 2009

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Cindy Sheehan: America needs to wake up

Posted by smeddum on August 31, 2009

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Wizards and wives drive Afghan election

Posted by seumasach on August 31, 2009

M K Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

1st September, 2009

Dr Abdullah Abdullah, the “modern face” of Afghanistan, is a rare finished product to emerge out of the jihad of the 1980s – a handsome, nattily attired, English-speaking mujahideen spokesman who could evocatively bring to the Western drawing rooms the danger and the thrill of the Hindu Kush.

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“Moving AMD from Eastern Europe to South logical”

Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2009

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US has put Afghan civilians ‘in greater danger’

Posted by smeddum on August 29, 2009

US has put Afghan civilians ‘in greater danger’

Friday 28 August 2009

Morning Star

Afghan civilians are less secure now than at any time since the Taliban regime was toppled by a US-led invasion and Western-backed warlords in 2001, Amnesty has warned. Read the rest of this entry »

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Obama on vacation- wars rage on

Posted by smeddum on August 29, 2009

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Poland Without Missile Defence

Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009

Gazeta Wyborcza

27th August, 2009

The signals that the generals in the Pentagon are sending are absolutely clear: as far as missile defence is concerned, the current US administration is searching for other solutions than the previously bases in Poland ad the Czech Republic,’ Riki Ellison, chairman of the Missile Defence Advocacy Alliance, a Washington-based lobby group.

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The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening

Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009

Cindy Sheehan’s Lonely Vigil in Obamaland

John V. Walsh

Counterpunch

26th August, 2009

Cindy Sheehan will be at Martha’s Vineyard beginning August 25 a short way from Obama’s vacation paradise of the celebrity elite but very far from the Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq where the body bags and cemeteries fill up each day as Obama’s wars rage on.    She will remain there from August 25 through August 29 and has issued a call for all peace activists to join her there.  For those of us close by in the New England states and in New York City, there would seem to be a special obligation to get to Martha’s Vineyard as soon as we can.

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Planted News Stories Show New Bid by West to Say Iran Seeks Nuclear Weapons

Posted by smeddum on August 27, 2009

Planted News Stories Show New Bid by West to Say Iran Seeks Nuclear Weapons

The Leaking Game

By GARETH PORTER

Counterpunch

26th August 2009

Western officials are leaking stories to the Associated Press and Reuters aimed at pressuring the outgoing chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, to include a summary of intelligence alleging that Iran has been actively pursuing work on nuclear weapons in the IAEA report due out this week. Read the rest of this entry »

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Argentina, bombs, Iran.

Posted by smeddum on August 27, 2009

Argentina, bombs, Iran.

by Brewerstroupe | August 23, 2009 – 1:54am

AIMA Bombing.
The 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires provides an example of how disinformation can become fixed in the public’s mind despite subsequent evidence that contradicts every aspect of it. The incident is repeatedly referenced in articles designed to discredit the Iranian Government. Read the rest of this entry »

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GRITtv: Right-Wing Mad Scientist & his Murderous Drones

Posted by smeddum on August 27, 2009

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