World-News

By The Daily Star

Recognizing that its interests in the region are in jeopardy, the U.S. has quickly abandoned any principles it once claimed to have, whether right or wrong.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36736.htm



When Will You Say "Enough is Enough"?

By Phillip Faruggio

We can make this a better country and a fairer, more rational nation to live in. All it takes if a little common sense, a little civic pride, and a newer understanding that we need not be a Military Industrial Empire anymore.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36734.htm



US Influence is in a Death Spiral: Losing Friends, Influencing No One, and Alienating the Middle East

By Bob Dreyfuss

Ironically, a U.S.-Iran détente is the one thing that could slow down or reverse the death spiral of American influence in the region.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36751.htm

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De-Americanizing the World

Noam Chomsky, Truthout: During the latest episode of the Washington farce that has astonished a bemused world, a Chinese commentator wrote that if the United States cannot be a responsible member of the world system, perhaps the world should become "de-Americanized."

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19825-noam-chomsky-de-americanizing-the-world

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America s going rogue

In These Times
by Noam Chomsky

11/06/13

[A] Chinese commentator wrote that if the United States cannot be a responsible member of the world system, perhaps the world should become 'de-Americanized', and separate itself from the rogue state that is the reigning military power but is losing credibility in other domains. ... In the past, the U.S. has sometimes been described sardonically as a 'one-party state': the business party, with two factions called Democrats and Republicans. That is no longer true. The U.S. is still a one-party state: the business party. But it only has one faction: moderate Republicans, now called New Democrats...

http://tinyurl.com/m2gzy9x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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