World-News

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/daniel-mcadams/we-love-you-as-you-kill-you/

Bring the Legions Home
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/eric-margolis/bring-the-legions-home/

The Madness of Crumbling Empires
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/jack-d-douglas/the-madness-of-crumbling-empires/

Inarticulate Republicans
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/thomas-sowell/ridiculous-republicans/

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Libya and Somalia: Foreign policy as political theater

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

10/07/13

The US government may be in 'shutdown' mode, but the American Empire is still operating at maximum capacity: this was underscored over the weekend by twin raids in North Africa, one that ended in the capture a high-profile Al Qaeda leader in Libya, wanted for the 1998 attacks on American embassies in East Africa, and the other failing to nab Ahmed Abdi Godane, a.k.a. Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr, purported leader of the shadowy Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda s Somalian affiliate. These raids are being touted by the President s partisans as a great double-headed victory, a triumph of Obamaism in the foreign policy realm, and a welcome diversion away from the budget standoff. As usual, these cheerleaders of the Royal Court not only exaggerate but also invert the real significance of the events...

http://tinyurl.com/lt963e6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Boehner, Obama and the Triple-Dog Dare

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: President Barack Obama s most significant achievement will be facing down these cretins, holding the line against any and all concessions on elemental pieces of legislation like the budget and the debt limit, and ending the vile and vicious cycle of hostage politics that has done so much damage already.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19312-william-rivers-pitt-boehner-obama-and-the-triple-dog-dare



Empire Under Obama: Political Language and the 'Mafia Principles' of International Relations

Andrew Gavin Marshall, The Hampton Institute: When it comes to US empire in the age of Obama, language is deceptive: it hides immoral, ruthless and destructive interests and actions behind a veil of empty words and make-believe 'values.'

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19296-empire-under-obama-part-1-political-language-and-the-mafia-principles-of-international-relations



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