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The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project ''Costs of War'' by Brown University s Watson Institute for International Studies. ( http://www.costsofwar.org )

http://is.gd/fXH9SD



U.S Lily-Pad Strategy

By David Vine

How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31885.htm



Silence Absolves Liars, Scoundrels And Hypocrites

By PA Farruggio

Imagine for one minute if all of the Americans who know deep inside that our nation has become a military industrial empire actually spoke up.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31975.htm



War and Empire Are and Always Have Been the American Way of Life

By Paul L. Atwood

As serious scholars know well, the real history of the nation is far removed from what James Loewen would call the ''disneyfied'' notions of American exceptionalism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32124.htm



Occupy Empire

Dr. Parenti at Ohlone College

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32105.htm


From Information Clearing House

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What the Last Roman Emperor Would Tell President Obama Today
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/fitz-gerald1.1.1.html

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Cut the Pentagon Budget, Not Social Security and Veterans' Benefits, Save 380,000 Jobs

Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''A December 2011 paper by Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier showed that domestic spending creates more jobs than military spending ... Cutting $145 billion from the Pentagon budget over ten years instead of changing the way inflation is calculated to cut Social Security and veterans' benefits would save about 380,000 jobs.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11252-cut-the-pentagon-budget-not-social-security-and-veterans-benefits-save-380000-jobs



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