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" An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war." - Charles de Montesquieu
"In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." - Woodrow T. Wilson
"Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful." - John Perkins
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Op-Ed Articles
Congress Pushes for War with Iran By Stephen Zunes Syria: NATO Plans New Sykes-Picot, Middle East Chaos By M.D. Nalapat Let's Admit It: The US Is at War in Yemen, Too By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman "Indirect Rule"
The Imperial Agenda Of The US's 'Africa Command' Marches On By Dan Glazebrook The New Obama Doctrine, A Six-Point Plan for Global War By Nick Turse In Case You Missed it
Blueprint of the PNAC Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony By Bette Stockbauer A Third Intifada
The Warnings We Should Be Hearing By Amira Hass Sheldon Adelson's Pro-Romney Donations Will Be 'Limitless,' Could Top $100M By Steven Bertoni Imposing a President
Mexico's 30-day Lesson in Democracy By Marta Molina World Bank President Says President Hugo Chavez's "Days Are Numbered" By Paul Dobson In The Land Of No Opportunity
This Next Generation Will Be Left Behind By Salvatore Babones The United States has some of the lowest rates of entrepreneurship in the world. Even at the top of the boom in 2005-2007, only two countries (Belgium and Norway) had lower levels of new business formation than the United States. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31582.htm New York to Repeat Chicago's Parking Privatization Catastrophe By Matt Taibbi Tony Blair Avoids Attempted Citizen's Arrest in Hong Kong By Peter Walker
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| Hard News 72 killed in wave of Iraq bombings: - A wave of apparently coordinated bombings and shootings rocked Iraq during a major Shia commemoration on Wednesday, killing at least 72 people and wounding more than 250, many of them pilgrims. http://is.gd/i670A1 At least 16 killed in Yemen's Al-Qaeda clashes: A military official said six civilians, "three women, two children and one man, were killed in a Yemeni air raid on the town of Shuqra," one of the last remaining Al-Qaeda bastions in Abyan. http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/111942/ Fourteen killed in Libya militia clashes:
Rival Libyan militias armed with heavy weapons clashed for the third straight day on Wednesday in fighting that has killed 14 people, underscoring the country's volatility months after Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow. http://is.gd/UArnwq U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa: At the heart of the surveillance operations are small, unarmed turboprop aircraft disguised as private planes. Equipped with hidden sensors that can record full-motion video, track infrared heat patterns, and vacuum up radio and cellphone signals, the planes refuel on isolated airstrips favored by African bush pilots, extending their effective flight range by thousands of miles. http://is.gd/o6YmvI Egypt court orders to dissolve parliament, requiring new election: Egypt's highest court says recent election was unconstitutional; court also allows Mubarak's last prime minister Ahmed Shafik to run for presidency. http://is.gd/Wppvxk US attack kills 4 in Pakistan: : At least four people were killed Thursday in a US drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, media reports said. http://is.gd/92bzAY How Drones Help Al Qaeda: When a U.S. drone missile kills a child in Yemen, the father will go to war with you, guaranteed. Nothing to do with Al Qaeda," a Yemeni lawyer warned on Twitter last month. President Obama should keep this message in mind before ordering more drone strikes like Wednesday's, which local officials say killed 27 people, or the May 15 strike that killed at least eight Yemeni civilians. http://is.gd/PMBbL4 Lawmakers want legal justification for drone strikes: A group of more than two dozen anti-war lawmakers wants the White House to explain the legal justification for "signature" drone strikes, in which drone attacks can be launched when the identity of those killed is not known. http://is.gd/vIEPyA British occupation force soldier killed in grenade blast in Afghanistan; The soldier, who has not yet been named, was on a patrol to disrupt insurgent activity in the north of Nahr-e Saraj district in Helmand Province when he was caught in the blast from an enemy grenade yesterday. http://is.gd/r9XXTM Are U.S. military leaders lying about Afghanistan?: Senior military officials are lying to the American public about conditions on the ground in Afghanistan. http://is.gd/W4M3aT Car bomb damages major Shiite shrine in Syria: A suicide bomber detonated his van packed with explosives in a Damascus suburb on Thursday, wounding 14 people and damaging one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, according to Syria's state-run news agency and witnesses. http://is.gd/oApxI5 Syrian "Rebels" Now Using EFPs in Bombs, Bane of US in Iraq: "Rebels" in central Syria are constructing bigger and more effective bombs, and a steady flow of money from the militants' leadership in Turkey has allowed them to purchase sufficient amounts of small arms. http://is.gd/e7U4Ef How the U.S. Is Using Technology to Aid Syria's Rebels: Syria's regime may have overwhelming firepower, but the rebels are winning in another arena- with U.S. help http://is.gd/OLXkIK Israel may use military force 'to secure' Syria's alleged chemical arsenal: Israeli Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh, the country's deputy military chief, warned that Syria could pose a threat to Israel with its chemical weapons. He declared Syria has "the largest chemical warfare stockpiles in the world," http://is.gd/Y0h4np A closer look at Russian arms sales to Syria: Some Russian military analysts said the helicopters mentioned by Clinton could be some of the older Soviet-supplied ones that are being sent back to Syria after maintenance in Russia. http://is.gd/DS2YcI Iran arrests suspects over nuclear scientists' assassination: Iran intelligence ministry claims detained suspects are linked to assassinations of nuclear scientists and have ties with Israel http://is.gd/eklckF Japan to pass bill to insure Iran oil imports -report: Japan's lower house is set to pass a special bill on Friday to allow it to provide insurance for continuing Iranian crude imports, making it the first country to attempt to initiate sovereign cover once EU sanctions on Iran are expected to start in July, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Thursday. http://is.gd/NyuGMX Gaza water too contaminated to drink, say charities: The charities Save the Children and Medical Aid for Palestinians say the number of children being treated for diarrhoea has doubled in five years. They say Israel's five-year blockade of the territory is preventing crucial sanitation equipment from getting in. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18436602 Obama honors Israeli criminal with Medal of Freedom: US President Barack Obama has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Israeli President Shimon Peres, the man who has overseen the killing of Palestinian women and children by Israeli forces in the occupied territories for decades. http://is.gd/1Nvofc Israel's Dublin embassy planned to smear Palestine activists as sexual deviants and Mossad agents: Israel's deputy ambassador in Dublin proposed to her superiors a plan to personally smear Palestine solidarity activists - especially Israelis - to "humiliate and shame them" as suffering from psychological and sexual problems and imply that they work for Israel's spy agency Mossad. http://is.gd/Osjate Chavez says Venezuela has started making drones, assembling Kalashnikov rifles: Venezuela has spent billions of dollars for Russian arms and military aircraft since 2005, including 24 Sukhoi fighter jets, dozens of attack helicopters and 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles."We are a free and independent country," Chavez said. http://is.gd/DCDGMU World's Richest Man Calls For Increasing Retirement Age To 70: Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim, who is the world's richest manwith a fortune of $65 billion, believes that struggling countries need to raise their retirement age to 70 in order to help fix their finances: http://is.gd/gMWLWZ Greeks pull money from banks ahead of poll: People stocking up on non-perishable food amid fears Sunday's election result will see Greece ultimately exit the euro. http://is.gd/En5jTQ Obama scapegoats Euro for miserable US economy Video - Michael Hudson, economics professor for the University of Missouri, joins us with more. http://is.gd/xxCBoh Robert Reich: Why Taxes Have to Be Raised on the Rich : 2 minute video - Video http://is.gd/DawUhc Murder cases in Chicago hit record high at 228 murders in 6 months: The number of murders in the city is reportedly twice as many as the number of Americans lost on the battlefields of Afghanistan over the past six months. http://is.gd/SW4snk "Let us be peace and joy"
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| | | | Cost Of War
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,807
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,047
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,342,317,292,141
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