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Jim Hightower, OtherWords: ''Rather than find ways to cooperate with the natural world, America s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn t working, they are probably not using enough of it.... But Mother Nature, darn it, has rebelled. So much of Monsanto s poison was spread in the past decade that weeds naturally began to resist it.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9570-mother-nature-doesnt-quit



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http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul808.html

Syria s Insurrection Is Not America s War
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan244.html

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UN observer Robert Mood says foreign interests are fuelling conflict in Syria

Head of the UN Observer Mission in Syria Major General Robert Mood has said he believes foreign interests are fuelling the conflict in Syria by providing money and weapons.

http://is.gd/zU1A1r



''The desolation of Homs and the war of information''

The words of a greek-catholic Bishop: ''Peace in Syria could be saved if everyone told the truth. After a year of conflict, the reality on the ground is far from the picture that imposes disinformation in Western media'' says a testimony sent to Fides Agency by the French Bishop Philip Tournyol Clos, a greek-Catholic Melkite.

http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=31658&lan=eng



Brzezinski: Don t be emotional about Syria

''I don t think it's a foregone conclusion at this stage that the majority of Syrians don t want the [Bashar] Assad government to stay in power. I think it s much more complicated than that, In fact the evidence of a national uprising against Assad is relatively limited,'' Brzezinski said on MSNBC s Morning Joe program.

http://is.gd/4HG0Va


From Information Clearing House

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In Syria, Foreign Intervention Will Only Shed More Blood
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/06-5

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Stop Syria s death dealer
http://www.avaaz.org/en/us_and_india_stop_syrias_merchants_of_death/?cl=1846395654&v=14994



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Is This the End of the Ron Paul Campaign?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/06/08/282-is-this-the-end-of-the-ron-paul-campaign/

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Bias in Campaign Spending Makes Business Influence Look Smaller Than It Really Is

Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''Reporting campaign finance can be difficult because much of the action is obscured. Journalists have to rely on fairly unreliable government disclosure websites, many of which only report certain types of spending on an almost arbitrary schedule.... A vast portion of election spending, including big business-related efforts to encourage executives, employees, and others to vote for a particular candidate, is simply left off disclosures altogether.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9699-bias-in-campaign-spending-makes-business-influence-look-smaller-than-it-really-is



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Thinktank says UK might also face calls for referendum on EU membership if a Greek exit were to prompt full treaty change.

http://is.gd/BvW9Y4



Is the UK About to Engage in a Stealth Default?

If there was ever an article that should spark every British citizen to immediately shift their savings into physical gold this is it.

http://is.gd/meFRXu


From Information Clearing House

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The Greek *Success Story* of a Crushing Economy and a Failed State

C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: Contrary to the official story, Greece s economy is not recovering, and the continuation of the Troika s neoliberal austerity medicine assures the country a bleak economic and social future.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/21265-the-greek-success-story-of-a-crushing-economy-and-a-failed-state



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From Information Clearing House



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Three drone strikes in as many days on suspected militants have killed 27 people, Pakistani intelligence officials say. The foreign ministry called the attacks ''illegal'' and said they violated the South Asian country s sovereignty.

http://is.gd/zkwsAl



We are sleepwalking into the Drone Age, unaware of the consequences

Obama s policy of killing 'militants' in Pakistan may go down well in the US, but it is provoking an extremist backlash abroad.

http://is.gd/JvYINk



Obama Was 'Obsessed' With Killing The American Al-Awlaki

This certainly doesn t fit into the popular conservative image of a president that is diffident when it comes to the war on terror

http://is.gd/1TwbEy



From Dreams to Drones: Who Is The Real Barack Obama?

By Pankaj Mishra

As the latest US attacks kill 17 and threaten to destabilise Pakistan, the president could be the cruellest political hoax of our times.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31510.htm


From Information Clearing House

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About the Life-and-Death Decisions of Drone Warfare

Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''One poll shows that eight out of ten Americans support the use of lethal drones. That s because drones have been posed as a cheap alternative for killing our enemies that puts no American lives at risk and only hits the 'bad guys.' In reality, they are not all that cheap (especially since they are constantly crashing), they kill lots of innocent people, and while they don t put pilots at risk, they stir up anti-American sentiment and provoke new attacks against us.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9541-an-interview-with-medea-benjamin-about-the-life-and-death-decisions-of-drone-warfare



We Can Do Something About the Drone Strikes

Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''There s a conventional wisdom in Washington that there s nothing we can do politically to stop the US government from killing innocent civilians with drone strikes. But it ain t necessarily so. Speaking only for myself, I m willing to stipulate that killing 'high value terrorists,' who are known to be actively preparing to kill Americans is wildly popular, regardless of whether it is constitutional and legal. Here s what s not wildly popular: killing innocent civilians.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9572-yes-virginia-we-can-do-something-about-the-drone-strikes



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By Bill McKibben

Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes, But So Is the Planet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31498.htm

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On Climate Change, Money Trumps Common Sense

Michael Winship, Moyers & Co.: ''These days, it seems as if there s not a fact that can t be ignored, rejected or altered if you throw enough cash at it. Last week, the Associated Press reported 'a troubling new milestone.' In the Arctic, levels of the heat-trapping gas, carbon dioxide, a key factor in global warming, have hit 400 parts per million, a level scientists believe has not been reached in at least 800,000 years.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9594-on-climate-change-money-trumps-common-sense



Climate Crisis: The Silence Is Deafening

Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: ''Despite the wide-reaching civil rights implications of the president s...he remains weak on another issue, one which concerns the very survival of life (human and non-human) as we know it, where there is no margin for error and no time to waste, issues where the clock is not only ticking, but nearing the end of its prelude to catastrophe. I am talking, of course, about 'the climate crisis', what the conniving Republican strategist Frank Luntz convinced the media to start calling 'climate change' in 2003 because polling showed that it sounded less ominous than 'global warming.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9610-climate-crisis-the-silence-is-deafening



Merchant of Climate Doubt Hosts the Hottest Parties at the DNC

Steve Horn, Truthout: ''Fresh from the front lines of the Tampa RNC, lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry are alive and well and partying hard at the DNC in Charlotte, where climate change skeptics know no partisan bounds.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11362-merchant-of-climate-doubt-hosts-the-hottest-parties-at-the-dnc

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Time for Outrage on Behalf of the Planet
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/07-2

Earth Facing Imminent Environmental 'Tipping Point'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/07-3

Fiddling While Earth Burns
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/07-4

Rio+20: 'Meaninglessly Weak' Draft Threatens 'Total Collapse'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/08-7

Even Industry-Funded Climate Change Deniers Can t Ignore Planet s Warming
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/02-0

Stop This Culture of Paying Politicians for Denying Climate Change
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/03-3

In-Depth Investigation into the Climate Denial Industry
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/10/25-0

Donors Trust is the Secret ATM Machine for Climate Deniers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/15-13

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24 hours to vote for the planet
http://www.avaaz.org/en/vote_for_the_planet/?bMKidab&v=15169

Save Rio, Save the Planet
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_rio_save_the_planet/?bMKidab&v=15350



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By Chris Hedges

The streets of Montreal are clogged nightly with as many as 100,000 protesters banging pots and pans and demanding that the old systems of power be replaced.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31501.htm

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Quebec s Fight Is Our Fight

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''The mass student strike in Quebec ... has metamorphosed into what must swiftly build in the United States, a broad popular uprising.... The Canadian students have gathered widespread support because they linked their tuition protests to Quebec s call for higher fees for health care, the firing of public sector employees, the closure of factories, the corporate exploitation of natural resources, new restrictions on union organizing, and an announced increase in the retirement age.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9571-quebecs-fight-is-our-fight



In Montreal s Streets, the Movement Continues

Ethan Cox, Rabble: ''If there was any confusion over whether the suspension of strikes at most schools signaled an end to the broader social movement the strike generated, it was put to bed with an emphatic bang Wednesday in the streets of Montreal. The largest demonstration since the spring sent a strong message that this movement is here to stay.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11206-in-montreals-streets-the-movement-continues

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It s a Revolution in Quebec.
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/06/06-0



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