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They know we own their country. We own their airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need." : U.S. Brig. General William Looney Washington Post, August 30, 1999

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"We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment." :  Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech given at Riverside Church : April 4, 1967 

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"They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles." : Eugene Victor Debs

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"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that The State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." : Arthur Miller playwright 

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Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.?

Video - Parts 1- 4 FOX News Investigates

There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there are "tie-ins." But when asked for details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, "evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." 

These items have since been removed from the FOX News web site:

QuickTime video and transcript.
http://207.44.245.159/article7545.htm

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US soldier, civilians killed in Iraq clashes: 

A mosque in Baghdad has been hit by mortar shells, killing three civilians and wounding three others, a police source said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D61FDCB-74C8-466C-BFC6-F922BF67EE60.htm

http://snipurl.com/bkc2

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Three U.S. Marines Killed in Iraq: 

The spokesperson would not say where the three were killed, but the deaths were reported as U.S. troops fought insurgents in the city of Fallujah, which is in Anbar. F-18 fighter jets dropped several bombs in the city, sending up plumes of smoke, while tank and machine gun fire could be heard to the south.
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041223/API/412230748&cachetime=5

http://snipurl.com/bkc5

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Marines killed as fighting breaks out again in Fallujah
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2961145

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Military releases new casualty figures in Mosul attack : 

Officials say the blast at a mess hall killed 13 service members, five U-S civilians and three Iraqi National Guard members. The military command in Baghdad says a dead non-U-S citizen has yet to be identified.
http://www.wmtw.com/Global/story.asp?S=2724319

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Mosul Base Commanders Had Warning of an Attack: 

Three weeks before the deadly attack on a U.S. base in Mosul, commanders at the base had a warning that anti occupation forces were planning a "Beirut"-type attack on U.S. forces in northern Iraq
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=351870&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

http://snipurl.com/bkc8

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Sunni police chief quits: 

THE police chief in the volatile Anbar province of western Iraq has resigned two months into his job after gunmen tried to kill him, the province's governor said today.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,11773396^1702,00.html

http://snipurl.com/bkca

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Rumsfeld says Iraq election won't quell violence: 

The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, says it would be a mistake to think the deadly chaos in Iraq will subside after next month's "democratic" election.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1271126.htm

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Another guard unit decries training, equipment : 

The soldiers said in interviews, e-mails and official documents that they were sent to war earlier this year with chronic illness, broken guns and trucks with blown transmissions.
http://207.44.245.159/articler7547.htm

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A New Poverty Draft:

 Military Contractors Target Latin America For New Recruits: Halliburton and other private military contractors have begun advertising campaigns in El Salvador, Colombia and Nicaragua to recruit ex-soldiers to work in Iraq.
http://207.44.245.159/article7546.htm

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Pantries provide backup for some military families : 

Theresa Parrish tries to avoid the emergency food pantry. But with her husband serving in the National Guard in Iraq and two children at home, that isn't easy.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-12-23-pantries_x.htm

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Zarqawi's Group Says Not Behind Shi'ite Attacks: 

A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it did not carry out twin suicide car bombings in Iraq's main Shi'ite holy cities on Sunday, according to an Internet statement dated Thursday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7169389

http://snipurl.com/bkcd

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Chris Floyd: Poison Pen :

According to agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, President George W. Bush has signed a secret executive order approving the use of torture against prisoners captured in his "war on terror"
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/12/24/120.html

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Alberto Gonzales: Torture's Path

The paper trail is long, and it isn't pretty. But it's sure to produce some tough Senate questions for Alberto Gonzales
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6733213/site/newsweek/

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Aziz 'won't testify against Saddam'

FORMER Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz is unwilling to testify against Saddam Hussein at a future war crimes trial, his lawyer said after a four-hour meeting with his client today at a US base near the capital.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11775208%255E1702,00.html

http://snipurl.com/bkd3

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Us To Deploy New Missiles In S.Korea To Destroy WMD In N.Korea: 

The United States will deploy missiles to South Korea in 2005 with the aim of destroying underground facilities for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in North Korea, a U.S. think tank said.
http://207.44.245.159/article7548.htm

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U.S. trying to produce fake nuclear documents implicating Iran: Intelligence minister :

 Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said here on Wednesday that Iran has arrested more than 10 nuclear spies who worked for the United States.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=12/23/2004&Cat=2&Num=010

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Nepal army kills 22 Maoists, rebel blockade begins:

Nepali soldiers killed 22 Maoist rebels in a fierce gun battle in the west of the country on Thursday, the army said, as a partial blockade of Kathmandu by the rebels reduced traffic to a trickle on two key highways. 
http://snipurl.com/bkcv

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Israeli hubris vs. the U.S.: 

The latest spy tale in Washington, D.C., involving Larry Franklin, an intelligence analyst at the Defense Department, and some of Israel's most important lobbyists in America, is becoming deeper by the week.
http://207.44.245.159/article7543.htm

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 Blair's peace talks take back seat : 

PM tones down efforts after warning not to interfere by US and Israelis shun plan
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1459042004

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Meanwhile, cycle of violence goes on in Gaza : 

Thirteen-year-old Yehiya Moharab got up at 5am, ate his breakfast of pitta bread with powdered thyme and olive oil, and prepared to go to school.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1379021,00.html

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Israel: Court erupts over expert's testimony on `Arab mentality' : 

The Arab mentality is made of "a sense of being a victim," "pathological anti-Semitism," and "a tendency to live in a world of illusions," said Prof. Rafi Israeli, a lecturer in Middle Eastern studies at Hebrew University
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518005.html

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Israel Lawmakers Sign Pledge for Illegal Squatters:

 A dozen Israeli lawmakers have signed a pledge to join Jewish squatters in resisting the dismantling of illegal squatter camps in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank - the latest sign that protests could be fierce.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ISRAEL_GAZA_PULLOUT?SITE=VTBUR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

http://snipurl.com/bkci

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Putin slams West over 'double standards' in Iraq and Ukraine: 

Putin again slammed US-led plans to press ahead with elections next month in Iraq and said it was the height of hypocrisy for Western governments to criticise Russia for pursuing its interests in neighbouring former Soviet republics.
http://snipurl.com/bkcj

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Local Muslim school taken aback by letter: 

A national Islamic organization has demanded an apology from a Texas-based private school association after claiming its director took an "alarmingly intolerant and hostile attitude toward Islam and Muslims."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2960589

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Ted Rall: Save Social Security With The Flat Tax: 

The same team that brought you "Iraq on $200 Million a Day" is pimping a preemptive strike on Social Security, seizing on Generation X doubts that the program will still be around when they retire.
http://snipurl.com/bkcn

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College students face cut in aid: 

College students in virtually every state will be required to shoulder more of the cost of their education under new federal rules for financial aid.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/204946_pell23.html

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Will The GOP Nuke The Constitution?: 

Salivating at the chance to radically remake the Supreme Court, the president and his loyal lapdogs in the World's Most Exclusive Club are plotting to obliterate over 200 years of Senate tradition by eliminating the use of filibusters against judicial nominees.
http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/column.php?id=750

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Dollar hits new record low against euro: 

The dollar hit an all-time low Thursday against the euro, which was worth $1.3483 after a mixed economic report from the U.S. Commerce Department.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2004-12-23-dollar-low_x.htm

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Battle scars: 

"When I saw the stumps, I thought, `Damn, both of them?' Then I looked at my leg and I was trying to figure how to put a tourniquet on it because I didn't have any hands."
http://207.44.245.159/article7533.htm

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The Exploitation of Soldiers: 

Those who defend warfare tend to see it only as an abstraction, a game pitting strategists from opposing collectives against one another in furtherance of contrived objectives. The ugly details of orchestrated butchery and torture are to be suppressed, lest persons of humane sensitivities become upset and demand a cessation of the game
http://207.44.245.159/article7534.htm

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Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan:

 - Warning - Pictures depict the reality and horror of war. 

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/wounded/gallery.htm

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