World-News

By Danny Schechter

Our latest ''hero'' in the making.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30528.htm



Drone Assaults on Civil Liberties

By Shahdabul Faraz
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30530.htm

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The Pentagon s lie machine

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

02/15/12

In Col. Leap s opinion, the goal of the Public Affairs officer in the service of the US military is not to defend the country, it s to safeguard the National Will. The will to do what? Why, whatever the Pentagon and the political leadership desires. These are the movers and shapers of the National Will: the rest of us, including the media, are mere instruments in their capable hands...

http://bit.ly/zFVrFU


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Who Benefits From the Organized Violence of War?

Ed Kinane, Truthout: ''Can t we see our complicity in our own oppression? Don t we contribute to militarism through the federal taxes we pay, about half of which goes to the Pentagon? The Pentagon, of course, then funnels much of this swag to its corporate cronies. Are we so caught up in personal debt, are our lifestyles too snared in addiction, distraction and co-optation, that we can t think straight? Are we so snared that our hearts have gone AWOL? Don t we give a damn that our children are inheriting an increasingly depleted and dangerous world?''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8174-who-benefits-from-the-organized-violence-of-war?



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