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Richard Eskow, Truthout: In the short term, Democrats need to negotiate. But in the longer term, we urgently need a real debate about the role of government in this country, a debate which highlights the ever widening gulf in values between the Republican Party, as reflected in its budgets, and the American people.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19630-time-to-resist-the-republicans-war-on-government



Republicans, Unhinged

Beverly Bandler, Consortium News: The current crisis of American democracy centers on the craziness that has engulfed the Republican Party, once considered home of the responsible "adults" but now more like an island controlled by nasty and destructive adolescents.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19773-republicans-unhinged

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Is It Reported? Republicans Demand Social Security And Medicare Cuts

By Dave Johnson

I am sure their Tea Party "base" would be shocked if they understood this. So would most Americans. So is the media giving Americans the information they need in order to make informed decisions?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36653.htm



Why the Tea Party can?t govern

The American Conservative
by Daniel McCarthy

11/12/13

A populist spin can?t save purely negative principles...
http://tinyurl.com/k4mp4qv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Woods to Tea Partiers: Pledge of Allegiance is Anti-American
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/thomas-woods/the-pledge-of-allegiance-is-anti-american/



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Empire Under Obama

Andrew Gavin Marshall, The Hampton Institute: As Obama has sought to draw down the large-scale ground invasions of countries, he has escalated the world of 'covert warfare,' largely outside the oversight of Congress and the public.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19622-empire-under-obama-americas-secret-wars-in-over-100-countries-around-the-world



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In a country where we are not at war, however, drones become part of our foreign policy, dominating it altogether, to the detriment of both our security and political goals.

http://rt.com/usa/drone-strikes-create-militants-678/



Armed ground drones to take over battlefields in 5 years

The United States Army is one-step closer to deploying weaponized robots to the front lines of battlefields following a recent demonstration that s being largely considered a success.

http://rt.com/usa/robotics-rodeo-ground-drones-512/



Confessions of a Drone "Warrior"

By Matthew Power
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36647.htm



US defends drone strikes as 'necessary and just' in face of UN criticism

Brazil, China and Venezuela sharply critical of 'illegal' program but US says it has taken steps to introduce new guidelines.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/25/un-drones-us-policy-debate



Living Under Drones

Video

Since 2004, up to 884 innocent civilians, including at least 176 children, have died from US drone strikes in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan. A new report from the Stanford and New York University law schools finds drone use has caused widespread post-tramatic stress disorder and an overall breakdown of functional society in North Waziristan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yMOzvmgVhc



Consensus grows among UN states for greater transparency on drone civilian deaths

Key members of the United Nations,including some of Washington s closest allies, broke with a decade of tradition on Friday when they endorsed calls for greater transparency over drone civilian deaths.

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2013/10/26/consensus-grows-among-un-states-for-greater-transparency-on-drone-civilian-deaths/



Women and children murdered on the orders of President Obama

Barack Obama has personally ordered mass murder in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and beyond, in his policy of illegal and immoral assassination which far outstrips that of the George W Bush administration, and which has slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians, including many women and children.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeIkpr88H4E


From Information Clearing House

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US Diplomat: Each US Drone Attack Creates '40 to 60' New Enemies
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/24

Rafiq ur Rehman: Please Tell Me, Mr. President, Why a US Drone Assassinated My Mother
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/25-7

Congressional No-Show at 'Heart-Breaking' Drone Survivor Hearing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/29-3

'Wounds of Waziristan': Exclusive Broadcast of New Film on Pakistanis Haunted by U.S. Drone War
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/11/04-0

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Will Domestic Drone Privacy Bills Fall Short Because of ALEC, Defense Industry Influence?

Candice Bernd, Truthout: In a few years, commercialized domestic drone technology may be able to capture your private information and share it with law enforcement agencies. And ALEC and defense industry contractors may have a hand in shaping civilian drone privacy policy.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19594-will-domestic-drone-privacy-bills-fall-short-due-to-alec-defense-industry-influence



Drones: A New Death From Above

Staff, Making Contact National Radio Project: Unmanned military drones are wreaking havoc in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Making Contact brings you voices from families destroyed by drone strikes as well as interviews with Medea Benjamin and other activists who are working to build a global movement against this controversial military technology.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19641-drones-a-new-death-from-above



Drone Victims Tell Empty US House Their Story; Is America Listening?

Rania Khalek, Truthout: With only five US Representatives in attendance, a Pakistani school teacher and his two children brought tears to the House this week describing the drone attack that killed his mother and injured and traumatized his children.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19751-drone-strike-victims-tell-their-story-but-is-america-listening



"These Drones Attack Us and the Whole World Is Silent": New Film Exposes Secret US War

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!: Democracy Now! airs extended clips from the new documentary, "Unmanned: America s Drone Wars," and speaks to filmmaker Robert Greenwald. The film looks at the impact of US drone strikes through more than 70 interviews with attack survivors in Pakistan, a former US drone operator and military officials.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19761-these-drones-attack-us-and-the-whole-world-is-silent-new-film-exposes-secret-us-war



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By Robert J. Burrowes

What is the measure of a human being? Is it their wealth? Their wisdom? Their spirituality? Is it something that can be measured from the outside? What if it is something else altogether?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36642.htm



An Angel Song for Peace and an End to Violence

By Finian Cunningham

"War violates every right of a child, the right to life, the right to be with family and community, the right to health, the right to the development of the personality and the right to be nurtured and protected."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36641.htm



For Intelligent Civilization on Earth

By Paul Street

Imagine that an advanced species capable of inter-galactic travel and research came upon the remains of human society on Earth in, say, the year 2500.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36818.htm

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Keep America at Peace: Keep the Pentagon Sequester

Robert Naiman, Truthout: If you would rather our leaders keep the planned Pentagon cuts that may constrain our future ability to bomb, invade and occupy other people s countries, rather than cut Social Security and raise taxes, tell Congress.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19896-keep-america-at-peace-keep-the-pentagon-sequester



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By Ramzy Baroud

It is an all-out war in the making, and there is no time for neutrality.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36634.htm



How the Sunni-Shia Schism is Dividing the World

By Robert Fisk

Kerry s insistence, wish to disarm Shia Iran, however notional its nuclear threat may be, would ensure that Sunni military power would dominate the Middle East from the Afghan border to the Mediterranean.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36637.htm



Why Washington Can t Stop

By Tom Engelhardt

The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36644.htm



The Tragic History of U.S. Military Supremacy

By Nicolas J.S. Davies

Killing people to save them from an oppressive government is an absurdity, and "regime change" is generally a euphemism for "regime destruction," with no ability to ensure that what comes after will be better.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36635.htm



Sheldon Adelson Says Obama Should Nuke Iran

Video

Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire supporter of Israel, said that the U.S. should fire a nuclear weapon at Iran rather than negotiate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36630.htm



Ten Explosive U.S. Government Secrets about Israel

By Grant F. Smith

The transfer of raw NSA intercepts on American citizens to Israel was authorized under a secret doctrine that "the survival of the state of Israel is a paramount goal of US Middle East policy."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36636.htm



Playing Hard to Get in the Middle East

By Stephen M. Walt

A balance of power (or if you prefer, balance of threat) approach to the Middle East also highlights the costs of America s "special relationships" with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36671.htm



Why Does Saudi Arabia Insist that the United States Fight its Battles?

By Ron Paul

It is an unhealthy relationship that should come to an end.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36677.htm



Pay No Attention to That Imperialist Behind the Curtain

By Robert Scheer

What John Kerry did this week in Egypt and Saudi Arabia is nothing short of despicable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36764.htm



Saudi Arabia s Shadow War

BY DAVID KENNER

The Kingdom is turning to Pakistan to train Syria s rebels.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36783.htm



As US clout wanes, Russia inks arms deal with Cairo

The head of Russia s state-controlled industrial holding company says Moscow has signed a deal to provide Egypt with air defense missile systems. Egypt also expressed interest in combat jets and helicopters.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13423



Sunni Monarchs Back YouTube Hate Preachers

By Patrick Cockburn

Anti-Shia propaganda threatens a sectarian civil war which will engulf the entire Muslim world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37261.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Neocons Push Israeli-Saudi Alliance
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/29-5

Ramblin' Man: John Kerry is a Figure of His Times (and That s Not a Good Thing)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/04

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Sectarian violence threatening to spin out out of control in Pakistan
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11802/



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Obama und Kerry sagen Mexiko Untersuchung zu. Brasiliens Präsidentin Rousseff plant Konferenz zu Fragen der Internet-Kontrolle.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/155200



Umfassende Überwachung raubt der Weltbevölkerung ihr Recht auf Privatheit

Fünf Augen und ein Blick ins Geschichtsbuch.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/40/40166/1.html

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Prism: US-Überwachungsaffäre und der NSA-Whistleblower

Kaum Hoffnung auf No-Spy-Abkommen: *Die Amerikaner haben uns belogen*. *Das geplante No-Spy-Abkommen der Bundesrepublik mit den USA droht zu scheitern. Bundesregierung und BND erwarten nicht mehr, dass die Vereinigten Staaten auf die Überwachung von Deutschen verzichten werden. Die Verbitterung ist groß?* Artikel von Hans Leyendecker und Georg Mascolo vom 13. Januar 2014 bei Süddeutsche online http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/kaum-hoffnung-auf-no-spy-abkommen-die-amerikaner-haben-uns-belogen-1.1862138

Siehe dazu: Das No-Spy-Abkommen war reine Kosmetik

*Das No-Spy-Abkommen mit den USA gilt als gescheitert. Besser so, es war von Anfang an ein schlechter Witz, ein Theaterstück der Bundesregierung, um Wähler zu beruhigen?* Ein Kommentar von Kai Biermann vom 14. Januar 2014 bei der Zeit online http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2014-01/no-spy-abkommen-ende


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Januar 2014



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